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On The Cover: Outspoken (Editorial) 4 . Koch by Donna Binder Letters 6 Impact Visuals Sotormyor 6 Nightmare of the Week 7 Xeroxed 9 Sandor Katz 33 lookOut 42 Out Of My Hands (Ball) 44 KOCH'S FAll FROM GRACE Gossip Watch (Signorile) 45 Sandor Katz: The Decline Of The Ineffectual 'Heterosexual' Social Terrorism (Conrad) 46 Obituaries 59 Larry Kramer: Why I Think Koch Is A Pig 38 Community Directory 60 Classifieds 61 THE PROMISE OF DAVID Personals 64 David Kirby On Dinkins And You 40 Going Out Calendar (X) 72 Best Bets (X) 76 Crossword (Greco) 80 Hex Shex (Conrad) 82 "PEEK-A-BOO" IT Just When You Thought It Was Safe... 44

JOIN UP, SIGN UP, GET UP Kirby and Rotello Act Out The Up Factor 48 HOT PROSPECT IN THE PARK SORRY, I'VE GOT A HEADACHE Hattie Gossett Mona Feigenbaum's Ten Reasons Why She Can's Date You 49 See page 54 OutWeeJi

What's going on here?

On the one hand, we are presented with imperfect but growing evidence that new treatments exist to prevent the onset of full-blown AIDS in HIV infected people. AZT, DOl, aerosolized pentamidine and bactrim are touted as being break- through drugs, and that's great. But on the other hand, these· treatments are unavailable to the vast majority of those in need. Clinics that can monitor people's T-cell counts and begin time- ly preventative care are full and accepting no more patients. Aerosolized pentamidine programs are not set up in local hospitals and may not be for a year or more. AZf isn't paid for by Medicaid until a person's immune system (and bank account) is so depleted that the full preventative benefits can no longer be realized. T-cell testing is prohibitively expensive for most. It seems an almost deliberately cruel hoax that the govern- ,ment feels free to dangle the prize of health to the HIV-infected and then withhold that prize to most. It's especially bizarre con- sidering that the cost of prophylactic care, even given Burroughs-Wellcome's criminal price gouging for AZT, is still far less than the government's inevitable financial burden when it ends up caring for those who fall to the full onslaught of AIDS. So what's the deal? How can our "leaders" be so stupid? The answers are the same as they have been since the begin- ning of the epidemic: inertia, homophobia, racism, stupidity, cheapness, cowardice, passive genocide. The same responses that groups like ACT-UP have mounted against these horrors in the past must be escalated to new heights, because now with effective treatments in existence but unavailable, the battle is more than ever one of life and death. We stand at the verge of a huge potential disaster or a well-deserved salvation. While 100,000 have already been diag- nosed with AIDS, many, many times that number are fast approaching that bleak condition. Although the new therapies aren't perfect, although scientists show their contempt for us by ruling through press releases instead of published studies, although legitimate questions are unanswered and drug compa- nies continue their gouging, nevertheless a clear concensus is emerging: Pre-AIDS is becoming treatable and full-blown AIDS often preventable. To take advantage of this situation people must strive to take control of their lives and their health by getting tested or monitoring their T-cell counts. But testing and monitoring are useless, and can be psychological disastrous, without subse- quent access to treatment. If it takes a revolution to achieve such access for all, never was a revolution more justified. T

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TELEPHONE· HOME BUSINESS CHRISTOPHER, STREET FINANCIAL, INC. 80 WaU Street, New York, NY 10005 Member Securities Investor Protection Corporation Member National Association of Securities Dealers ------~ LETTERS .1he Real Deal ments placed by GMHC sug- The Gay Men's Health gested that people "think Crisis' decision to change about..: getting the HIV their policy on HIV antibody antibody test "because if testing has serious Implica- you test positive, now there Gulf In Tomchln'. Iy the stuff of leadership. How tions In regards to access to are choices.' Drugs such as Resolution? U"lattractive.Howfrightening. health care services for All and prophylaxis such as I riwa-tS read letters and Larry, right or wrong, at minorities, women, the unin- aerosolized pentamidine to articles by Larry Kramer least brings up serious,timely, sured, gay/bisexual men "prevent some AIDS-related because I coo alwa-tScount relevant Issues. If Tomchln's and adolescents. Illnesses' as well as monitor- on their anger, criticism and responseto him Is representa- In principle, there Is no Ing your immune system passion(as wei as ther word- tive of the GMHC board's attl- question that the HIV anti- using diagnostic testing, nessmd abrasJveness)-senti- tude, that's all the more body test Is a reliable and specifically T-cell subsets, ments I hope I shae with him. reason to give Larry'saitlcisms useful first step towards were given as the com- n you 4 September Issueyou careful consideration. assessinga person's need to pelling reasons to seriously print his newest attack on One of the rare times begin early treatments for consider taking the HIV anti- GMHC followed by GMHC Tomchln makes a concrete HIV disease. However, to body test. Although these Boad PresidentJ~ Tomc:hln's point n her letter Is something date there Is an extreme three areas are important, response(Xeroxed,Sept.4). I can personally respond to. shortage of primary care, they are expensive, not Idon't know if aUof Larry's She says, "...we often survey crucial for medical manage- readily available and repre- criticisms are valid, but I do the people we serve to find ment and monitoring of HIV- sent only one component of know that Ms. Tomchln out how we can do more.' Infected' people, and the total medical manage- responded with hot dr. Herlet- Oh, really? I've been a. severely limited access to ment of people who are HIV ter Is nothing but endless, GMHC client for four and a health care services for the seropositive. People with HIV bland and meaningless half years and haven't once majority of populations at risk Infection require compre- rhetoric,filed with se\f-congrat- been sllVeyed. for HIV/AIDS. hensive medical services uatlons ood gloatk"lg,and sklrt- Craig Rowland The advertisements and delivered by providers ng aI of LaIY'spohts. It'shad- Manhattm public service announce- expert In determining the

6 OUrYWEEK September 11, 1989 subtle changes In health sta- group that at the press con- It is unfortunate that Hetrick-Martin Institute tus due to HIV disease. There ference to announce the GMHC is perceived by the Rodger MacFarland are a variety of symptomatic policy Change, GMHC's media as the spokesperson Vice Chairman, Bd.of Dir. treatments available for encouragement of HIV anti- for the AIDSservice commu- AIDSResource Center many of the medical prob- body testing would be cou- nity, especially in light of the lems associated with HIV pled with a statement extraordinary response Getting Over Get Over It which often occur in the demanding that Mayor mounted by the lesbian and I thought that OufWeek early stages of infection. For Koch keep his promise to gay community at large in was a magazine for all of example, many HIV seroposi- make health care services regards to AIDS. If GMHC New York's lesbian and gay tive people have dermato- available to every New York- had strongly emphasized the communities. Yet your edito- logical conditions, fungal er who needs them. GMHC is lack of access to health rial "Get Over It" (OutSpo- infections, gastro-intestinal not an expert in the planning care services that people ken, August 21 issues) complications, other viral and implementation of need if they test HIVseropos- seemed to be written as if syndromes such as herpes health care delivery systems. itive then at least they would only the most privileged and cytomegalovirus and Even when funding is avail- have complete information among us were reading it. are susceptible to reactiva- able to enhance or expand to use in their decision-mak- "Get over it. Get tested: tion of syphilis and tuberculo- health care for HIV infected ing process. By not doing you wrote. And then what? sis.All of these conditions as people, the time lag this, GMHC has chosen to Wait months for a free T-cell well as managing All and between the allocation of minimize the real issue in the test, if you can get one at prophylaxis against pneumo- funding and implementation HIV/AIDS epidemic ...the lack all? Then quit your job, and cystic carinii pneumonia .. of these services is a mini- of accessible, appropriate empty your bank accounts, (PCP) require ongoing medi- mum of 12 months, and and affordable health care. so you can qualify for Medi- cal monitoring which problems due to site location Rona Affoumado caid? And then wait more includes timely follow-ups and critical shortages of Executive Director months to receive "care" at and diagnostic testing. health care providers some- Community Health Proj. a city hospital or clinic, if you At the same time that times cause indefinite delays A. Damien Martin, PhD can get it all? Or wait until GMHC announced its cam- in beginning operation. Executive Director you're sick enough to be paign to encourage people to take the HIV antibody test, Dr. Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, stated at a conference in Washington on HIV Infection CTld Minori- ties that the federal govern- ment would promote and fund expanded HIV anti- body testing but would not provide funds for the support services necessitated by such massive testing. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of NIAID admitted, at the same conference, that ado- lescents, even homeless youth who could be consid- ered independent minors, could not get access to pro- phylactic treatment pro- grams under their control. Two weeks before GMHC held their press con- CLOSE SHAVE FOR GOETZ ference, they met with rep- Macho man jailbird Bernie (Shoot First. Ask Questions Later) Goetz resentatives of other AIDS has once again managed to shoot off something (in this case, his mouth) service organizations. The before getting all the facts. Seems Bernie's slightlV uptight about being majority of these organiza- forced to shave with used razors, thinking they can give him AIDS. So tions raised strong objections nervous has he become that he's refusing to return his own razors to to GMHC's policy c;hange correction authorities, prompting them to sentence him to an additional because of their firsthand two weeks in the slammer. We say let him keep the razors, just throw knowledge of the lack of low cost, accessible health care away the key. Photo: Bill Biggart/lmpact Visuals for their service populations. In response GMHC told the

September 11, 1989 OUTTWEEK 7 taken to an emergency (OutWeek Sept 4)? Never. Treatment Digest, and off when nobody else was. room, where you can sit for The NAMES Project is com- teach-ins to be the most And Mark Conant and Matt a few days before being mitted to assembling and beneficial. Krieger and Bill Kraus and seen by doctors who may or displaying the Qqilt until the When I heard that T&D's Matilde Krim and I don't may not have heard of last person has died of AIDS. Mark Harrington would be know how many different aerosolized pentamidine, The display in Washington will writing the Political Science faces of AIDS.Yet. I do know who won't do the paper- be the last time the Quilt is column in OutWeek, I was that it isprobably one of the work for trimetrexate, and seen in its entirety only very pleased. ~ it turns out, I warmest. compassionate, who don't have access to because it will be too large think that Political Science is well-written books on this early-intervention All? subject that we'll ever read. Even for those few lucky Although it's not without enough to have either fault. it's a gre.at piece of health insurance or a large journalism as it chronicles fortune available to be the sad history of this dis- squandered on the medical ease. and pharmaceutical indus- As far as AIDS activists tries, the imperious tone of losing some sympathy at our your editorial was uncalled demonstrations-Shilts is for. As was the ridicule of right. We do! However (and those who doubt All, or the I'm sure Mark would agree) HIV theory, or are con- we get a lot more accom- cerned about the psycho- plished now upsetting peo- logical consequences of a for any known space. The one of OutWeek's best ple than we ever did from positive test. Serious and appoximately 11,CXXJpanels columns. It is well-written, being silent. Yet we should tragic medical and eco- coming to Washington are a informative, and concise; be fair in our reporting and nomic issues require more tragic representation of one however, I was a bit put off by more accepting of others' than oversimplified rhetoric. of every five people who Mark's attack on Randy Shilts criticisms. I expected more from have died of AIDS, and the in the August 28th issuewhere David Lopez OufWeek. Quilt will continue to tour in he unfairly compares Shiltsto Manhattan Steve Quester smaller sections to bring the the Native's Charles Ortleb. Manhattan reality of AIDS to communi- Mark says that in the Majority Reaction ties in the United States and book, And the Band Played Thisletter refers to your Getting Over Optimistic indeed the world. On display On, Shilts "would have us article, "Barriers, Solutions, When you wrote an edi- in Washington will be panels believe" Patient Zero "single- Creating Trust: The Minority torial about preventing "the from all 50 states, from Aus- handedly and knowingly AIDS Battle" (August 28) onset of AIDS indefinitely" by tralia, Canada, Uganda, spread HIV from coast to regarding the Washington using All in conjunction with Braziland Europe. The Quilt is coast." Yes! Shilts did report D.C. conference on AIDS in pentamidine (OutSpoken, a remarkable memorial, one that Gaetan Dugas (Patient racial and ethnic communi- Aug. 21) presumably you which remembers the dead Zero) purposely had unsafe ties. Although the article did were referring to the CDC in overwhelmingly human sex after he had been diag- cover the agenda of AIDS definition of AIDS that looks terms, but which also edu- nosed with AIDS without service workers, it neglected narrowly at PCP pneumonia cates the living in the informing his sexual partners the very issues the confer- and one or two other oppor- tragedies of AIDS. Our com- of his diagnosis. But Shilts ence grappled with during tunistic infections. mitment to the future honors never implied that Dugas the week of August 13 While it is true that PCP the past. "single-handedly" spread through 17. is largely preventable, it is Nancy Blanford this disease. A good reading Let us begin with a few currently untrue to say that Regional Representative of this book will reveal quite particulars. Firstly, the con- AIDS is largely preventable. The NAMESProject the opposite. ference was attended by at As for now the only sure way Patient Zero was there least 4,500 representatives to avoid AIDS isthrough safe Zero Credibility alright, but so was govern- of communities of color, not sex (and not sharing works). A year ago, I began ment complacency and the 1000 as you erroneously OutWeek has a respon- attending ACT UP meetings Reagan Administration ($) reported. Forfive days these sibility to its readers to bal- at the Gay and Lesbian neglect. And Koch's. So was 4,500 participants engaged ance optimism with Community Center on 13th the apathetic gay communi- in plenary ·sessions, work- accuracy. After all. when St. These meetings have pro- ty, which so many of us were shops, face-to-face sessions AIDS is preventable, safe sex vided me with an invaluable part of. So were the bath and caucuses. Disturbingly, will no longer be necessary. source of information on the house owners, the blood there was no mention of the Barry Canter HIV agenda; and, as a PWA banks, and (hisss)Dr. Robert critical issues discussed in Manhattan who's primarily concerned Gallo. And more than that. these sessions. These issues with treatment access to there were the early heroes included health care as a Quit Calling It experimental drugs, I find the of this epidemic like Larry right/nationalized health "Quilt Calls it Quits" Treatment and Data Com- Kramer and Selma Dritz who care, the crisis of homeless- The Quilt calls it quits mittee's weekly reports, were screaming their heads ness among PWAs,the inac-

8 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 cesslbility to drug trials for ing.· Most of the emphasis people of color, making wa. placed on the fact that XEROXED AIDS education culturally this "family' man could not sensitive, the continuum of be homosexual, than care, and numerous other defending the integrity of topics of vital importance to the lesbian and gay com- levi Fan on issuesconcerning GMHC, people of color. munity. As usual being gay Ms.Joy Tomchin,President Black and Latino advisory As members of ACT seems to be on the same Mr.TimSweeney, Acting CEO panels had been formed. The UP's Majority Actions Com- level as being a murderer. GMHC manner In which GMHC mittee and participants in Now about your maga- Dear Joy and Tim: chose to proceed In the the conference, we were zine: 1) There isno reason for I am writing to congratu- placement of ods concerning shocked at OufWeek's omis- anyone to state that they late you on your choice of HIV testlng- "Think About sions and disappointed at are gay or lesbian in the Per- Jeff Levi as liaison between It" -may Indicate that GMHC your insensitivity and your sonals. It is fairly obvious GMHC and the "parallel has little Interest with Black lack of journalistic thor- what the sexuality of the track" clinical trialsof NIHand and Latino advisory Input. The oughness. In the future, we readership is. This is almost FDA. Jeff has always shown decisionsmade asto the con- hope that when writing on as annoying as the use of Intelligence and strength and tent of some of the ads reflect issues concerning our com- the term straight always looksand soundslike a a bias based upon racism. munities, you consult with a acting/looking (sic). 2) The sane gay person. He Is one of Late Wednesday after- full spectrum of community Social Terrorism feature is the most knowledgeable per- noon, August 9th, I had representatives. fun, but why are the photos sonsI know about the Insand received a foxed copy of the We would also like to taken at only two or three outs of gays and AIDSpolitics. ads which were destined to bring to your attention that clubs? 3) In the 8/28 Night- Because of Dr. Anthony appear In Newsday, the VI/- the sole photograph and mare of the Week, you real- FaucI's sclentlflc background, lage VOice, the New York caption accompanying ly fucked up. Not only did It was not possibleto get alter- Times,fI Olario and the Ams- your article did not accu- you waste time by putting native testing techniques In terdam News. The faxed rately reflect the events at yourselves in that space place untilthe NIAIDwas con- copies also Included a mes- the conference. What is when there are so many vinced that people would not sage requiring a response by wrong with this picture? assholes to go after, but the be killed by non-traditional Thursdayafternoon (next day) Take a good look and you Coors logo appears faintly clinical trials.Jeff knew this.He because of a Friday morning will see that the photo aptly but prominently in the back- did not believe the delay Indi- deadline to place the ads. depicts the effacement of ground. What gives?! cated an anti-gay conspira- Although my responseInclud- people of color in the fight Over all thanks for a cy. There Is no question In my ed several comments, the first against AIDS. good magazine. And keep mind that Levi was instrumen- and most significant was con- Selwyn Garraway up the good work. tal In the formation of the cerning the ods' dissimilarities. Carl Strange ErikSmith "parallel track" program (as Theresponseread asfollows: Ron Medley Dan Hunter were Mathilde Krlm, Larry "The ad for fI O/arlo and Michael Wiggins Manhattan Kramer and ACT UP). With the Amsterdam News are dif- Wahn Voon Levi'sconnections and experi- ferent from the ad to be Dan Williams Coors Confusion ence It would be hard to placed In the Times, Lei Chou In your August 28th imagine a more effective liai- Newsday. Voice etc .... If the Sharon Tramutola "Nightmare of the Week: in son person to NIAIDand FDA. general feeling Is that state- Keith Cylar which the OutWeek editorial You are to be congratulated ments should be made In the Manhattan staff is chastised for printing for you choice. ad about those who are at the words "AIDS virus: I Bestwishes, risk,(HIV drug users,men who Yipes, More Gripes noticed what appears to be Herbert I. Cohen, M.D. have sex with men, sexual We have a few gripes a case of Coors beer in the Manhattan partners of either group) then we would like to share with background. I hope you why exclude this Information OutWeek readers and the guys aren't drinking the Risky Behavior from Newsday, the Voice, community. First of all, we stuff! GMHC Boardof Directors Times, OutWeek etc.? Why are sick and tired of what is Thomas F. Hickey Dear Joy Tomchin: should we assume that the termed "gay-baiting: as If Manhattan During the onset of the readers of THESEpapers are being gay or lesbian is bad. AIDScrisisGMHC has been a differently Informed than It seems that we have let Nightmares of the major force In disseminating those of EI OJaIo or the Ams- the conservative hetero Week of Aug. 28th Respond: information and providing ser- terdam NewS?If it's necessary world get away with using Perish the thought! In vices to the Goy Communi1y. Information to Include In one what we are as an effective fact. the object in question The record of achievement ad, then It should be Impor- slur. A fine example is that is a postcard, sent to us mis- during the years of Its exis- tant to Include In all of them." during the controversy with cheviously by columnist tence however has been Obviously non-minority House Speaker Foley, in Bradley Bal/, which we Use blemished by Incidents of groups ALSO AT RISKneed which it was implied that he as target practice when we racism. In what would appear this Information. Is It GMHC's wa. gay, Bush said that the run out of Jesse Helms or to be an effort to address a whole episode was "disgust- Dannemeyer pin-ups. people of color perspective SEE XEROXED on page 70

September 11, 1989 OUTTWEEK 9 News

Heading off demands for an Barney Frank's investigation by his opponents, a House ethics inquiry into Frank's con- duct will soon begin at Frank's own behest (see Sidebar). Such inquiries Home Used for may be launched on the grounds that any member of the House has done anything that could reflect poorly on the House. Paid Sex Service [Earlier this year, Frank co-signed a letter requesting an ethics inquiry into the actions of Rep. Gus Savage Male Prostitute Planning TV Movie (D-IL). Savage has been charged with making unwanted advances towards a female Peace Corps volunteer while on a mission to the African nation of Zaire.] As part of its summer-long series of front-page stories about male prosti- tutes and prominent Washingtonians (see Sidebar), the Washington Times reported Aug. 25 that Steven Gabie, a 33-year-old male prostitute and pimp, ran prostitution services out of Frank's Capitol Hill basement apartment for two years after Frank paid him for sex. "I regret it,· Frank told OutWeek. "I have damaged the community's standing and I have to make it clear to people that my personal weakness- es do not reflect on anybody else.·

Secret Sex Service Frank stated that in AUgust 1987, after his landlord complained for the second time about unusual activity in Frank's home, Frank discovered that Gabie was running the service out of the apartment, and then kicked him out. FRANK DISCLOSURES Photo: Jim Marks Gobie, however, maintains that Rsp. Barns, Frank Frank knew all along what was going on and was living Vicariously through by Cliff O'Neill nation. But fellow Democrats went on him, telling the Washington Post, "If WASHINGTON-Revelations that a record in support of Frank. Speaker of [Frank] had been 20 years younger, he gay prostitute used the Washington, the House Thomas Foley (D-WA) said, might be doing the same thing.· D.C. home of openly-gay Rep. Barney "There is no more able, articulate and "The notion that I knew what Frank (D-MA) as the headquarters for effective member of the House of was going on is crazy: Frank retort- gay and bisexual escort services have Representatives than Barney Frank," ed. "It was the perfect set. up. I hired spurred a host of mixed reactions according to the New York Times. him because I did feel sorry for him.· from other Washington politicians, In his home district, which re- Frank explained how Gobie could Frank's Massachusetts constituents, elected him by a landslide margin in have kept his illicit dealings secret. and the lesbian and gay community. 1987 after he publicly disclosed that "He knew a greaLdeal. He was the Republican congressmen lined up he is gay, opinions ran from strong one who drove me to the airport. He to denounce the sharp-tongued liberal support to unqualified condemnation, picked me up. He knew when I was Representative, and the Massachusetts according to an August 30 article in going. He knew when I was coming Republican party called for his resig- the Times. back. And he was also in charge of

10 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 housekeeping at my place." The Times reported that in 1985, Frank, then not public about his Out of the Closet and into the Fire homosexuality, answered Gobie's WASHINGTON-National gay and les- has addressed the issue. escort ad in the Washington Blade, a bian political activists across Washing- "I can't think of anything more local gay and lesbian weekly newspa- ton are supporting embattled Rep. he could be doing to bring this issue per. The ad read: "Exceptionally Barney Frank (D-MA) tftrough his out into the open and [have itl dis- good-looking, personable, muscular recent sex scandal involving his hiring posed of," stated National Gay and athlete is available. Hot bottom plus of a male prostitute as a personal aide. Lesbian Task Force Anti-Violence large endowment equals a great The consensus from activists is Project Director Kevin Berrill. time." that Frank will most likely survive the But Bray added, -Barney Prank Frank has acknowledged that on controversy, although not necessarily is a perfect example that when you April I, 1985 he paid Gobie $80 cash without damage to his credibility, live in the closet and you carry a big for sex. Afterwards, he said, a profes- based on the Massachusetts Demo- secret, you are susceptible to making sional relationship between the two crat's personality and his immense decisions that are against your better men developed. popularity in the House and in his judgment. " . Although the Times reported congressional district. "Being in the closet~specially that the men were "lovers" through- "If anyone can survive this when one is an important public fig- out their relationship, both men ordeal, it's congressman Barney ure-is enormously stressful and iso- state that the sexual relationship Frank," stated Robert Bray, communi- lating," Berrill added. tapered off after several months, cations director for the Human Rights "I don't think this would have after which Frank hired Gobie with Campaign Fund. happened after his haVing come out,· personal funds to be his chauffeur Frank scored high marks with he added. "And it's unfortunate that and housekeeper. Afterwards, Frank gay and lesbian leaders in the it's haunting him now." wrote several letters to Gobie's "forthright" manner in which Frank -

September 11. 1989 OU~WEEK· 11 TI his being gay. Prank added that he is now in a long-term relationship.

Support from Democrats Almost immediately after learning of the charges, Massachusetts Republi- cans called for Prank's resignation. Massachusetts Democratic Party chair- person, Rep. Chester Atkins said, "[Prank's) personal life has nothing to do with the way he performs his pub-

lic duties. H Privately, Democrats and gay and lesbian activists have stated that if any- one could survive such a controversy, Prank could. Similar reactions have come from polls held in Prank's dis- trict, where he is immensely popular. Gobie, meanwhile, has been reg- ularly speaking to the media, explain- ing that his motives in coming forward with his story were financial. Gobie told the Post that he got the idea to tell his tale while watching the television movie The Mayflower Madam, the true-life story of a high See BARNEY FRANK on page 58

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NEW YORK-It took more than a members like being harassed. Call gay community is to politicians, the decade of organizing, lobbying and them, write them, ask questions at more likely they will go beyond just civil disobedience to get the New forums. One council member (and a voting, and actively advocate for our York City Council to pass legislation community ally at that) told OutWeek community. protecting the rights of lesbians and that she had already answered "your If you don't know what council gay men. The Council, though not the organization's questionnaire," which district you are in, FAIRPAChas pro- most highly-respected legislative body had been sent by FAIRPAC.Sheseemed vided the Gay and Lesbian Switch- in the world, has considerable power to think that "gay" was a single orga- board with directories and guides to over our lives. And it will have even nized entity. Another, also a community the candidates' stands on important more, particularly in relation to the supporter, referred to "AIDS victims· issues. Call the switchboard at (212) city's $27 billion budget, under the and the "Gay Men's Health Club." m-1800 for more information. new City Charter. The more visible the lesbian and -sandor Katz Here are just a few of the things which the City Counc.U could do in the coming years, which would impact directly on our lives: • Dismantle or strengthen existing legal protection for gays and lesbians. • Extend or veto full spousal benefits to the domestic partners of city employees. • Shift the city's budget priorities to fund AIDS services. There are primary contests in only one-third of the council districts. Two of the races-in Manhattan's third and fourth council districts- include openly gay candidates. Three of the races include pro-gay candi- dates challenging council members who opposed the gay rights bill when it passed in 1986. A number of council members and candidates do not fully compre- hend the idea of domestic partner- ship, are not sure how they feel about it, or support it only in its most limit- ed application for bereavement leave. These individuals are marked by "r in the domestic partnership column. One candidate-Ray Cline, running in Manhattan'S fourth district-merited a "?" for insisting that he supports domestic partnership benefits, but opposes "gay marriage.· Questions about AIDS funding were posed to candidates in a general way. Candidates are inclined to say what. they think they must in order to win. Nothing can drive these issues home to these candidates and council

14 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 , ~ by Sandor Katz stands the City's complex budget ·The Book of Ruth NEW YORK-Although Manhattan process, and has used her insider has seven council members, ask Man- position as a tireless advocate for hattan residents who represents them increased funding for AIDS services in the council, and chances are they'll and other city social service pro- say Ruth Messinger. Or rather, Ruth, grams. In June, during a break in the since half the city seems to be on a final hours of budget negotiations, first-name basis with this ubiquitous she took a few minutes to march Upper West Side figure. with ACT UP, which was demon- Messinger is the Council member strating outside City Hall, demanding who-appropri- increased fund- ately-had the ing for AIDS honor of casting CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT services. Sud- the deciding vote denly, she when the gay rights bill passed in 1986. looked at her watch and excused She backed the bill from her earliest herself, for fear of what programs days in the Council and worked closely might be cut in her absence. with lesbian and gay activists to get it With her tiny staff and a small passed. army of volunteers, Messinger has SETTING THE STANDARD She is universally acknowledged to been the most conSistently visible Ruth Messinger Photo:Lee Snider be the Councilmember who best under- progressive opposition to the Koch administration. Her council col- leagues are in awe of her: Year after year when the Daily News surveys council members, Messinger is rated "most intelli- 1~:'~r,;;@J~s~F4i~a gent" and "most effective." This 14BX Jerry Crisl year she's trading in her Council lan;lesKe seat for the more visible platform Waiierwattt; and bigger staff of the Manhattan Sheldqn LefilE;f' Borough Presidency. The seat she Archie Spigner is vacating is the most hotly-con- Morton~ov'l'a5 tested council race of the year, Julia Hairison with eight contenders (including Frank Steele openly-gay Dave Taylor). Mes- ~eterVallone.:., ..•.... Singer's only opposition in her Bor- Walter McCafft~y ough President race is the New Arthur Katzman Alliance Party's Barbara Taylor. Herbert Be.rm.an Beyond supporting the lesbian PriscHIa Wooten and gay community for purely Susan~lter political reasons, as is the case Chris OWens with many elected offiCials, James P. Sullivan Messinger actually works and inter- Enoch Williams No acts with gay men and lesbians on Victor Robles Yes Yes a daily basis, Her campaign man- Ada I. Vasquez (New Alliance Party) Yesn ager, David Fleischer, is gay, as are Mary Pinkett., Yes Yes:·{· several other campaign staffers. Abraham Gerges Yes 'Yes In contrast with the defensive Jim Ryan Yes posture of the Koch administration Stephen DiBrienza Yes Yes with regard to AIDS services, Sal Albanese Yes Yes Messinger has already set up a task NoachOear No force comprised of community- David Eichenrhal Yes based AIDS service organizations Robe.rt Evans Yes to help devise sound city AIDS Samuel Horwitz Yes Yes programs, to set the agenda rather Adele Cohen than react to it. 340· Joseph Lisa Messinger proVides a role model which other elected officials 35 SltSK Jerome X. O'OOnovan No would do well to emulate. T

September 11. 1989 OUTTWEEK 15 News IRS Monkey Wrench for Domestic Partner Laws New Tax Regulations May Derail Health Benefits

by Keith Clark April ruled that the existing Seattle and state governments-prove their SEATTLE-When the Seattle city fair-employment law prohibits dis- benefits packages extend only to council recently enacted a limited crimination against gay or straight workers' spouses and legal depen- domestic partner ordinance that unwed cohabitants and that all city dents. Failure to meet this new IRS would extend emergency leave bene- employers would be required to requirement brings not only a penalty fits to city employees for illness or extend medical, dental or other bene- federal tax on the benefits of the indi- death of a partner or in a partner's fits packages equally. vidual worker, but also on the family, a more sweeping set of bene- The ruling stunned even this rather employer'S entire tax-exempt pro- fits-health care privileges that would liberal city and sent shock-waves through gram. A so-called "doomsday clause" cover not only city workers but also the business oommunity which saw it in in the new tax code would require bottom-line terms of tens of thousands of that health insurance benefits apply to dollars in added payroll expenses. It individuals who qualify by IRS defini- NEWS FOCUS would have been the fll'St time that any tions of spouse or dependent. If ben- municipality required private sector busi- efits are extended to others, like employees in the private sector-was nesses to extend health insurance benefItS domestic partners, the employer's temporarily put on hold over a feder- to employees' domestic partners. entire benefits package for all al income tax issue that may threaten But before the city council could employees could be taxed. the future of similar legislation from determine whether to uphold the rul- An IRS official in washingtop, San Francisco to New York. ing or not, a bigger monkey wrench D.C., said, "I don't think anyone Before the city council here was thrown into the entire domestic thought about domestic partners began hearings in late June on bill partner works nationwide by the when Congress passed the law. It 107342 which would give unmarried Internal Revenue Service. means hundreds of thousands, per- same-sex and opposite-sex couples The unexpected twist came from haps millions, of dollars in taxable the same sick- and funeral-leave part of the 1986 congressional over- income that IRS wouid collect from rights as married city employees, the haul of the federal tax code that is employees. No one knows how much Seattle human rights department in scheduled to go into effect on Octo- fleXibility we might have on domestic ber 1. One section of partners benefits."· the revised IRS code Businesses---and now cities with requires that employ- domestic partners laws either in effect er health and benefit or in the works-have joined in plans apply equally protesting the complexities and to workers at all lev- expense of complying with the proof els, and was intended of relationship requirement in the to prevent companies new code. San Francisco IRS from giving special, spokesman Larry Wright said, "It's non-taxable benefits going to be an enforcement problem. that are not available The IRS will have to police every to other workers to employee to make sure every depen- executives. dent is a legal dependent." Seattle city benefits manager Sally IRS & Doomsday Fox was even more blunt. "It's all a But part of this big mess," she said. "It's an entirely revised code also impossible part of the [newl tax regu- requires that employ- PLEADING FOR PARTNERSHIP lations." West Hollywood personnel Openly gay Washington State Rep Cal Anderson ers-including analyst Kevin Fridlington agrees. municipal, county "We've got our fingers crossed that Photo: Seattle Gay News

16 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 There's no substitute for the real thing- Elect a Gay Activist to City Hall.

II As President of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, I've come to see first-hand the importance of having Lesbians and Gays in office representing our community. No matter how committed others are to Lesbian and Gay rights, -there's no substitute for the real thing. I urge all of you to vote for Dave Taylor for City Council in the Democratic Primary Tuesday, September 12. ff HARRY BRITT Openly Gay President of San Franciscds Board of Supervisors

DAVE TAYLOR FOR CITY COUNCIL Dave Taylor is an openly gay candidate in the 4th Council District, which includes Clinton and the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

For more information or to get involved, drop by our office, 2095 Broadway (72nd), #505, NYC 10023, or call 212-721-0064. lesbian and gay part- planner David Amorena estimates that ners-has accelerat- the self-insurance plan has not only ed, so too have enabled the city to proVide more flex- unmarried gay and ible coverage including domestic part- non-gay workers ners, but has also saved West looked at the short HolIY'Y0od an estimated $65,000 in end of the benefits insurance premiums during its first six stick that they see months of operation. themselves holding. The recently enacted San Francis- Even so, many co domestic partner law has been employers have forced onto the November ballot fol- been rather reluctant lowing a repeal move by fundamen- to undertake such talists and does not, in itself, extend extended benefits health insurance benefits to partners. programs. Concerns But a set of companion resolu- about the costs as tions passed unanimously by the city's well as reluctance board of supervisors establishes a task among insurance force to make recommendations companies, which about extending such health benefits maintain that there to city workers, and another to exam- TANGUNG WITH THE TAX MAN Photo: Rink isn't enough actuari- ine corporate benefits in the private Robert. Achtenberg of the S.n F"ncisco M.yor's Office al data available to sector. Already faced with stiff politi- we just won't have to deal with it." evaluate the insurance risks that cal opposition from religious funda- West Hollywood is one of a dozen or determine premiums, have made mentalists, some lesbian/gay rights so U.S. cities that either already have employers squeamish. "It's the big activists fear the ambiguities in the or are considering various forms of unknowns that make insurance com- new IRS tax code may sharply shift domestic partner laws. panies uneasy,· said a spokesperson the balance of support for the new for the Health Insurance Association law in November. Private Sector Interest of America. Lesbian/gay-rights advo- Roberta Achtenberg, who heads Aside from legislation, an increas- cates claim insurance industry reluc- the San Francisco mayoral task force ing number of businesses have also tance comes more from its own studying health benefits for fomestic begun showing interest in adding biases against homosexuals who partners, however, believes the city's health insurance benefits for unmar- might enroll, and out of cost concerns plans may not come under the new ried employees during the past few surrounding AIDS. IRS code's domain because city work- years. Hewitt Associates of lin- As a result, municipal govern- ers, rather than the city itself, would colnshire, Illinois, recently reported ment, more responsive to political pay for the added coverage. that 10 to 20 percent of the some realities than to profit motives, have "They [the IRS] don't know what 2,500 firms it advises on employee been in the forefront of the domestic they're talking about. They will have benefits and compensation packages partners push. But with an estimated to deal with what all these issues are currently considering various part- 2.5 million employees in the U.S. on mean within the new tax code. What ner benefits programs. Five years ago city government payrolls, the threat we need to do is be there to influence almost none were. posed by the new IRS code require- how all these new regulations are But the reason for such recent ments could severely limit domestic interpreted by IRS,"she told autWeek interest in the private sector isn't nec- partners legislation in many budget- But IRS officials disagree, and say essarily a liberalizing trend in corpo- conscious cities around the country. the new regulations apply regardless rate America. According to Hewitt of who pays for the benefits. Associates, about 40 percent of the City Partners Plans And in Seattle, no one is even average employee's total compensa- West Hollywood, which has the willing to guess what it all means tion currently comes in the form of most extensive domestic partner legis- either to the recently-established non-payroll benefits while 15 years lation on the books at this point, had domestic partner benefits, or to the ago that figure was only about 35 per- to resort to self-insurance for its part- city's human rights department's rul- cent. And for the last 20 years or so, ners health benefits beginning January ing. If the current reading of the new American employers have increasing- 1 of this year. All 16 insurance com- IRS code is accurate, some political ly looked to non-payroll benefits panies it approached refused to observers believe it likely that the city packages as a major way of attracting underwrite the city's benefits package, council may also back-pedal and at and keeping good workers. And as claiming they had no way of deter- least partly disembowel the fair- the general trend toward live-in, mining costs for the program. employment law as well. unmarried relationshipS-including Ironically, West Hollywood city See IRS on page 58

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BROOKLYN- Among the many demonstrators marching "Go home" and "Our streets" were chanted over and over through the streets of Bensonhurst on Sunday, August 27, were by residents who stood on the sidewalks and leaned out of the a large contingent of lesbians and gay men, including a group windows of the two-story houses that line the street from ACTUP.The marchers came to Bensonhurst to protest the "I'm with them," said one man as he walked on the side- slaying of Yusuf Hawkins, a young Black man gunned down walk, alongside the demonstration, referring to the civil rights earlier in the week by a group of whites on 20th Avenue, and marchers in the street. "I think the ones from Bensonhurst "to affirm the rights of all Blacks to free passage everywhere should get out," he said through a distinct Italian accent. in New York," according to one ofthe protest organizers. "What difference does it make what nationality you are? It's Crowds of local residents (above) poured out of their the same thing in the gay life. What you do behind closed homes to meet the marchers with racial taunts. Shouts of "This doors is your own business," he told OutWeek. The man, who is not Howard Beach," and "Free the boys from Bensonhurst, " is gay and a resident of nearby Kensington, did not want to be echoed through the streets. "If a white guy kills a Black guy, identified. it's called racism. But if Black guy kills a white guy it's called Other Bensonhurst residents who said they supported the drugs," said Paul Cassidy, a young white man who said he demonstration also refused to give their names. lived nearby. Police felt the potential for a riot to be so great that they "They got streets named after Black people: One way," positioned sharpshooters on the rooftops along 20th Avenue shouted another. and demonstrators, including several prominent Black The residents, who had to be restrained with police barri- ministers from across the city, (above right) were escorted cades, also discovered the gay men and lesbians in their back to the nearby subway station by over 50 motorcycle cops, midst. "Come over and give me a kiss, you fucking faggots," where they were met by a legion of transit police. one shouted. - Andrew Miller

20 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 ENDORSED BY AU THREE LESBIAN AND GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUBS Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats Lambda Independent Democrats StonewaU Democratic Club In the Democratic Primary on Sept. 12th LIZ HOLTZMAN For COMPTROLLER ':As Comptroller I will fight to safeguard the civil rights of lesbians and gays~ As chief fiscal officer for New York,I will fight to see that every tax dollar appropriated for AIDS education, research and treatment reaches those in need, and that the city's anti-discrimination programs are effectively implemented. "

il Comptroller Lesbians and Gays Can Count On • sponsored the first federal lesbian and gay civil • instituted bereavement leave for lesbians and gays in rights bill. the District Attorney's office and hired openly gay • testified and lobbied for New York City's first gay staff. rights legislation. • supports domestic partnership rights. • was the only District Attorney in the country to urge • supports parental rights for lesbians and gays in the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade in adoption and foster care. the Webster case. • developed a training program for Assistant District • opposes all mandatory HIV antibody testing. Attorneys on anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence. • will fight for housing for people with AIDS. • sponsored laws in Congress which extended the ratification deadline of the Equal Rights Amendment and protected the privacy of rape victims.

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tory party, which will be on Election speech was delivered by Gloria TiDIes for Day, Tuesday, September 12, after the Rodriguez, an AIDS project director polls colse at 9 pm. It will be held at for the New Jersey state health TODl Francisco's, a restaurant on West 23rd department. St. between 6th and 7th Streets. All Moving from his experiences in NEW YORK - The New York are welcome. -Andrew MiUer dealing with AIDS as New York City's Times endorsed Tom Duane in his health commissioner to the availability race against incumbent City Council- of new treatment options, the text of woman Carol Greitzer in a Friday, Joseph's remarks called for an September 1 editorial. It was the first increase in funding for health care time in history that the Times Deja vu? services, including treatments. endorsed an openly gay candidate, It continued, "Medically confi- according to Duane campaign manag- WASHINGTON-In a speech pre- dential pre- and post-test counseling er Lisa Parrish. pared for the Conference on AIDS in and testing should continue as the Puerto Rico and Among the Puerto cornerstone of AIDS policy, but Rican Population on the Mainland on should become routine in high preva- August 28, New York City Health lence areas in every clinical setting so Commissioner Stephen Joseph once that HIV-infected people can be iden- again set forth his personal prefer- tified and their treatment begun as ences for eliminating anonymous HIV early as possible. Anonymous coun- testing in New York City, and requir- seling and testing should be pre- ing the names of people who are HIV served as an option for those who positive to be reported to the munici- will not accept testing any other way. pal government. "Within a confidential public Earlier this summer, a similar health framework, I personally announcement by Joseph at the Fifth believe we should also see mandatory International Conference on AIDS in reporting of people who are infected Montreal brought instant denounce- with HIV. Doctors should be reqUired ments from nearly every AIDS organi- to report the names of their HIV- zation in New York City, and forced infected patients to their local public Mayor Edward Koch to convene a health authority, as is required with special meeting of AIDS advocates at tuberculosis." -Andrew Miller Tom Duane Photo: Jerry Casciano Gracie Mansion, at which Joseph "Carol Greitzer has made many backed down from his plan. contributions in 20 years on the En route to the recent conference Council, but lately her effectiveness in Washington, Joseph was detained has been limited. Tom Duane could by an office emergency, and the "A cure for bring the district more energetic lead- ership, and we support him," said the AIDS" editorial, which described Duane as "a stockbroker and a leader in the gay BROOKLYN - Residents of the community. " Midwood section of Brooklyn have Duane is running for city council encountered homophobia in a new in Manhattan's Third District, which form this summer. Leaflets entitled "A includes the Village and Chelsea, as Cure for AIDS" have been placed well as Gramercy Park and other East under the windshield wipers of cars Side neighborhoods. along Ocean Avenue near Avenues M "I'm thrilled to be the first opely and N, and elsewhere in the neigh- gay candidate to be endorsed by The borhood. New York Times," Duane told Out- The leaflets state that "AIDS is Week. Duane said that he was quite caused by gays and gays alone. By surprised. "Everyone's reaction has encouraging or protecting the gays been, 'Congratualations. I'm we are committing suicide. Gay rights shocked,'" he said. and gay parades will cause the death Parrish used the opportunity to toll to rise. There is no cure other optimistically announce Duane's vic-· Dr. Stephen Joseph Photo:IL. litt than to stop the gays. Homosexuality

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September 11, 1989 OU~WEEK 23 Out Takes

Amsterdam. To Schotigen, the INS' northern region district director, said Bonsma was detained because she entered the country as an "intended immigrant." According to Schotigen, INS officials discovered documents in Bosnma's possession which indicated that she was seeking employment in the U.S. Bonsma was traveling on a visitor's visa, which prohibits employment- related activity. The search which revealed the allegedly incriminating documents was initiated because Bonsma's return ticket date was open-ended, and not Rev. lynn Griffis because of her destination, according Photo: Barbara J. Maggiani to INS officials. Both Bonsma and Pat Parker Photo: Marilyn Humphries APLN spokesperson Julie Portraz Two weeks before the alleged assault, declined to make any statement. director of the Oakland Women's Fem- Griffis had reported an earlier assault "Flying between Amsterdam and inist Health Center, one of the coun- in her home. Minneapolis for gay people is proba- try's first women's abortion clinics. When police and community bly not a good idea," said one Capitol The reading will include area leaders confronted Griffis with "incon- Hill insider conversant with immigra- poets, friends and literary peers read- sistencies" in her account of the sec- tion policy. ing and giving a chronology of her ond assault, she changed her story But Ann DeGroot, director of the life. Featured speakers will include and claimed she had also been raped Minneapolis-based Gay and Lesbian Nancy Bereano, Elizabeth D'Alessio, during the abduction. Police, howev- Community Action Council said she Essex Hemphill and Ivy Young. er, found her revised account also was deeply disturbed by the INS' Parker died of cancer June 17th inconsistent with the evidence, and detention of Bonsma, who is the in Oakland, California. She was 45. said the medical examiner's report fourth gay Dutch national in six -Andrew MiUer indicated the cuts to her chest may months to be detained by the Min- have been self-inflicted. neapolis INS. Griffis abruptly resigned from MCC INS's "intended immigrant" provi- and left town to retum to her parents' sion is the most common reason travel- home in Nebraska. Later she contacted ers are not permitted to enter the U.S. Shit police and asked that her complaint be - DavidAnger withdrawn. -Keith Clark happens

NEW YORK - The U.S. Secret Service paid a visit to ACT UP's INS: Get out Pat Parker workspace at 2:15 Wednesday, August 30, looking for the person or persons and stay out remembered repsonsible for mailing a box of human excrement to.the White House. WASHINGTON-To honor the Special Agent Greg A. Dickey MINNEAPOLIS - Yong Sook life and work of Black lesbian poet along with a partner, told Lei Chou Bonsma, a Korean lesbian from the Pat Parker, Black Women Together and Garance Franke-Ruta, two ACT Netherlands, was detained by the will sponsor a memorial poetry read- UP members who were at the Immigration and Naturalization Ser- ing on September 10th at 4 p.m. at workspace at the time, that a package vice (INS) here on Monday, August Howard University's Blackburn Cen- had been sent to President George 28. Bonsma was en route to the Asian ter, 6th St. and Howard Place NW, Bush by a man named Steven Hsu Pacific Lesbian Network's (APLN) first Washington DC. from "AIDS of America Ltd." The national retreat at the University of Parker, author of numerous books agent was looking for the organiza- California at Santa Cruz. Rather than of poetry, including Jonestown and tion at 349 West 15th St., an address face an INS hearing, she returned to Other Madness, was also the former that does not exist, but that would be

24 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 IT'S TIME. It's time to turn the tide on indifference and neglect. It's time to elect a new Mayor who will fight our community. It's time for David Dinkins to be in City Hall-a caring, compassionate leader who will work with us to end discrimination, injustice and undue suffer- - --; "1:li#IarJwtkmt ing for people with AIDS.

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on the same block as the workspace, The complaint charges that the The Sheriff's Department said which is located at 76 9th Avenue, at women j;liled if) t.hese facilities suffer that their surveillance of ACT UP the corner of West 15th St. Dickey from inadequate medical and psychi- members was part of its investigation would not say what was in the pack- atric care, inhuman conditions of con- into the AIDS graffiti vandalism on age, but Ruta said that a form Dickey finement, discrimination, and county property last Spring. was carrying said "a box of human unlawful exclusion from programs In July, three men, all members excrement. " and services within the prison. of ACT UP, were charged with spray According to Ruta, Dickey asked Rebecca Jurado, an ACLU attor- painting slogans on county buildings, "Don't you think that it's a coinci- ney, said the lawsuit would "set a including the health department head~ dence that there are two AIDS organi- human and constitutional standard for quarters. All three entered not guilty zations on the same block?" He the treatment of people with HIV pleas; their cases are still pending. reportedly questioned Ruta for less infection throughout society." The ACLUs Davidson said that the . than ten minutes before leaving. Nei- The AIDS Isolation Unit has 16 sheer volume of the records released ther Ruta nor Chou have ever heard beds in four double-celled rooms and a indicated that the Sheriff's Department of Steven Hsu or AIDS of America dormitory with four double bunk beds. "put a lot of time and energy into this." Ltd. "It sounds like something the FBI The women have access to one toilet, The documents will be scrutinized to would do to try to incriminate ACT one shower and one tub. There is no determine whether there are legal UP," Ruta said. dining area, and the women are forced grounds for a suit against the Sheriff's Reached at the New York City to eat their meals while sitting on their Office. - Sandy Dwyer office of the U.S. Secret Service, Dick- beds. In the summer, temperatures in ey told Out Week that his interest in the unit regularly reach 100 degrees. ACT UP was only a spontaneous At least one inmate said that she coincidence. "There's no investigation was unable to obtain a refill for pre- into ACT UP whatsoever. I wouldn't scription medicine for ten days after Burb Up have known that the organization she ran out. -Sandy Dwyer ) even existed if I hadn't gone upstairs. WESTBURY, New York - Artsy We're not out hassle them. We're movies regularly open in New York looking for one particular indvidual." City's suburbs six months after they While he would not confirm the play in Manhattan, and it takes a contents of the box, he described. Give it up while for the latest East Village hair- them as "not very pleasant." The dos and don'ts to filter out to points investigation is still open and ongo- LOSANGELES- At the request of further east than Avenue C. ing, according to Dickey. Jon Davidson, staff attorney for the So when Long Island ACT UP -Andrew Miller American CivilLiberties Union of South- was born five weeks ago in a base- ern California, the Los Angeles County ment apartment in Nassau County, it Counsel's office has agreed to make was not only a welcome addition to available certain record of the Sheriffs the world of AIDS activism, but a AIDS Department relating to ACT'UP/LA and more or less timely one as well. individuals known to be members or The twenty-member group, supporters of the organization. which is meeting in a Westbury store- behind bars The documents being released front while it looks for more perma- include: five video tapes, 135 black nent digs, is off and running, spray LOS ANGELES - Alleging dis- and white photographs, 302 color painting now-familiar logos at the crimination against women with photographs, a 168 page file with a intersection of Glen Cove Road and AIDS, the American Civil Liberties two page index and other documents. Jericho Turnpike, and planning its Union of Southern California filed suit The records had been formally first demo, at an abandoned hospital in U.S. District Court August 29 requested by the ACLU on July 26 in Freeport, to alert officials that against the California Department of under the California Public Records "there is a place for people with Corrections (CDC) and the California Act. the request was the result of alle- AIDS, if Nassau County would get off Institution for Women (CIW). gations made by ACT UP members its ass," according to Ted Oneto, the The lawsuit was brought on behalf that the Sheriff's Department was group's spokesperson. of six women inmates at OW who are harassing them and the organization The protest, planned for 1 pm on HIV positive. They are being segregat- in an attempt to intimidate and September 16 at Lydia Hall on West ed in an AIDS Isolation Unit which is silence them. ACT UP has recently Merrick Road, will attempt to drama- maintained exclusively for inmates who been critical of the Board of Supervi- tize the unnecessary lack of non-acute are HIV positive or have AIDS. sors' response to the AIDS crisis. care facilities in Nassau for Long

26 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Island's over 1,000 people with AIDS, Dr. Charles Franchino according to Long Island ACT UP. For more information, Oneto can 30 Fifth Avenue be contacted at 516-338-4662, or write P.O. Box 514, Westbury, NY 11590. New York, New York 10011 - Andrew Miller 212.673.4331

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whatsoever to the allegations of quo- than Madonna. More foreign than the becomes a major issues, discrimina- tas and that sort of thing,· Pohn said. Big Mac. tion will increase.· "We are here for the whole communi- The Parliament will be zapped by France's four television AIDS ty. We even get straight people." the brand-new ACT UP/Paris. education campaigns, including one Across the street, however, at "All the TV crews and newspa- targeting gay men, have been criti- Rick's Retreat, Black men observing pers will be there," promised ACT cized as ineffectual. the protest said they, too, had been UP/Paris founder Didier Lestrade. Condom sales increased for carded at Christopher Street. "We'll do civil disobedience in front about two months following each TV Their protest ended peacefully, of Parliament. That has never been blitz but then returned to pre-cam- and there were no reported arrests. done before. Gay people and the left- paign levels, according to Lestrade. "It - Rex Wockner wing community in general here just shows that people aren't having safe don't go into the streets." sex all the time," Lestrade said. The French government's funda- ACT UP members also intend ·to mental sin, according to Lestrade, is a fight for AIDS education in France'S Silence=Mort failure to provide education on pre- African and Arab communities. "We venting HIV transmission. need campaigns in their languages; "We have the highest percentage but nobody has even talked about PARIS-When the French Parlia- of AIDS cases and HIV-positives in this," Lestrade said. "Soon, like in ment begins its new session October Europe, but the lowest-key education America, AIDS is going to become a 4, members of parliament will experi- programs," Lestrade said. "It comes racial problem." ence yet another bizarre American from a government that is more con- ACT UP's first action was a brief importation into French culture. cerned with preventing discrimination die-in during the June 24 gay pride Weirder than Pac Man. Stranger against gays. It believes that if AIDS parade. -Rex Wockner

28 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Oh no you WE WORK WITH don't QUEENS and Brooklyn, Manhattan, and even Boston! SAN FRANCISCO - Superior WE DON'Ttake listings overthe telephone, give out "pre-printed" lists, or distribute Court Judge Ira Brown dismissed outdated information. without comment August 18 a petition filed by lesbian couple Cindy Bologna WE DO use computers to pre-screen your listings for you, update listings daily, and Sydney Erskine that sought to personally meet each and every applicant, and give referrals to both people seek- legally halt a repeal vote aimed at the ing shared housing and people with housing to share. city's recently passed domestic part- If you've been disappointed in other gay referral agencies, give us a call or stop by. ners law. We think you'll be pleased. The Brown rejection of the peti- tion did not surprise legal experts, who generally agree that California courts prefer to place such contested legislation before the voters, rather THEROOMMATE than embroil the courts in lengthy legal fights over question of what can ~ or cannot be on the ballot. The Nation's Largest Referral Network

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September 11. 1989 OUTTWEEK 29 \/IHII'T oon KOCH P~ANTO 00 UOl,lf AIDS? 'H\I~$T IN MAlilltl. AND GRAMln. \I

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NEW YORK- Openly gay City Council candidate Dave Taylor has been pounding the I ""M.;'" ....,.... 'i .. «""",;, ,.: I pavement of his West Side district for the past few months. lending a personal touch to the tough. eight-way primary race he faces next Tuesday. "1 think rm the first and only candidate in the district to go door-to-door with my campaign and its message: Taylor told jskdjkj. adding that he had knocked on some 2,000 doors in the area. "1 don't just do subway stops and supermarkets. I want to meet the people in this district and discuss the issues with them personally. The reaction has been fabulous." he said, noting that he had not "encountered even one incidence of homophobia" while on the trail. Taylor's formula for victory includes attempting to unite the large lesbian and gay presence on the Upper West Side and in Clinton and Heirs Kitchen with the equally large number of Black and Latino voters. "I speak to the issues of both lesbians and gays, and Blacks and Hispanics: AIDS. drug abuse. housing, and discrimination: Taylor said. He will have "a couple of hundred volunteers" on the street on Primary Day. September 12, but said that he faces a hard fight and would welcome more help. To volunteer, call the Dave Taylor Headquarters at (212) 721-0064. Taylor is running Man- hattan's fourth council district for the seat being vacated by Councilwoman Ruth atiori for last we Messinger. The district runs from West 100th Street to West 29th Street, from the Hud- ~ji~ock 89;j~·tie'i~l) son River east to Central Park West and Eighth Avenue. - David Kirby by Tom Stempfley.·

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by Mark Harrington identical in appearance and mode over the body. One of the most se- of administration to the drug being rious infections, CMV colitis, occurs tested-aren't always bad. If you in the intestine, causing wasting and "/ believe the great fantasy is wanted to test a new headache diarrhea. DHPG is administered in- the idea of a social body consti- . drug, "Z," it might be easier to com- travenously, so it goes all over the tuted by the universality of pare "Z" to a placebo than to as- body. But if you have CMV colitis, wills. The phenomenon of the pirin. If "Z" were active against you can only get the drug paid for social body is the effect not of a headaches, it would be easier to by insurance or Medicaid if you consensus but of the materiali- measure its difference versus place- have it in your eye. A separate, ty of power operating on the bo than to measure its equivalence placebo-controlled trial will be con- very bodies of individuals. ,. to aspirin. No one would die if they ducted in people with CMVcolitis. -Michel Foucault, were on the placebo arm and got a Dr. Margaret Fischl of the "Body/Power," 1975 headache. University of Miami is the doyenne With life-threatening diseases, of placebo-controlled studies in ome of America's most it's a different story. Treatments do AIDS. She co-authored the Phase II renowned university hospi- not reach Phase II efficacy study of AZT in which 19 placebo S tals are bastions of human trials-when placebo1i. are first takers died, vs. only one on AZT. sacrifice. Each day, your tax dollars used-without showing substan~ial Some physicians feel this was be- fund Principal Investigators (PIs) safety and strong indications of ac- cause doctors knew which patients who function as priests were getting AZT and in a medical orthodoxy gave them better treat- that sanctions the killing ment. of hundreds of humans More recently, Dr. every year in an arcane, Fischl published a study anachronistic ritual of Bactrim for PCP pro- known as the "placebo- phylaxis. Bactrim controlled clinical trial." (trime tho prim -s u 1- Before FDA high famethoxazole, priests of this cruel reli- TMP/SMX or Septra) is gion can sanctify a new an approved antibiotic. It treatment as "effective," is an inexpensive pill, they must be placated easy to take. Since it is with a ritual offering-a pile of bod- tivity. The new drug has already sulfa-based, about half of PWAs de- ies cremated into a mass of data. The been tested in the lab, in animals, velop allergic rashes and stop tak- bodies are those of placebo receivers and in Phase I trials in humans. If ing it. Papers from as long ago as who died in clinical trials because there is no approved treatment for 1977 document Bactrim's ability to they didn't get a drug which could the condition in question, it is more prevent PCP in immunosuppressed have saved their lives. ethical to give people with the dis- children. The index study was con- Dogma holds that a few must ease an experimental treatment ducted by pediatrician Walter T. die now to prove a drug works, rather than no treatment. Hughes at St. jude's Hospital in saving many more in the future. The medical establishment has Memphis. He gave Bactrim to chil- Thousands are sacrificed for the a mania for testing the same drug dren with leukemia who were im- sake of that vague, collective entity on different populations, even after mu nosu ppressed because of called "posterity." People who have it's known to be effective in one chemotherapy. Bactrim was 100 a disease now are worth less than group. For example, the FDA re- percent effective in preventing PCP those who don't, This mad logic cently approved DHPG to treat cy- in these children. continues to disfigure American tomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis-a Many AIDS doctors refused to AIDS research. viral infection in the eyes. Yet, in heed these results. The drug had Placebos-inert substances AIDS, CMV can be disseminated all See HUMAN SACRIFICE, page 70

32 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Sandor Katz Commentary GMHC: Undermining Its Own Credibility

ay Men's Health Crisis get tested, what then? Since GMHC's the two HIV primary care centers can't (GMHC) recently announced announcement, the number of calls handle more than 4,000 such visits." G an ad campaign to encourage . to the bepartment of Health hotline, These numbers are staggering. HIV antibody testing, and many AIDS which makes appointments for the How can GMHC recognize so clearly service providers and activists are upset city's HIV testing sites, has skyrock- the vast gulf between the existing about it. The controversy ultimately has eted. The day it hit the news, only demand for treatment and what is very little to do with the pros and cons three staffers were on the phones. I available, and still use its resources of HIV testing. The real issue is priori- know it took me many days to get to put out a call for testing to feed ties, and how an organization like through when I tried to schedule an people into treatment services, GMHC is using its credibility. appointment several months ago. which it knows aren't there? GMHC's The stated rationale for the This is the first barrier of many. ads only perpetuate the myth that GMHC pro-testing ad campaign, ac- The bigger question, of course, is the health care system is functional, cording to the press release, is to what happens after people test posi- and reinforce the government's one- "bring people at risk of HIV infection tive? From what I hear GMHC itself is sided AIDS agenda. into the health care system." backlogged in its client services. And The same week as the GMHC But so far as I can tell, that treatment? There is already such a HIV testing press conference, the U.S. "health care system" is in such bad shortage of primary medical care that Secretary of Health and Human shape that it can't han- Services, Louis Sullivan, dle existing demands, announced that the fed- never mind a deluge eral government would of newly-identified be funding widespread HIV-infected individu- HlV antibody testing, als seeking care. The but not treatment pro- "health care crisis" in grams. And of course New York is not a the coverage of GMHC's rhetorical excess on testing position gave the part of AIDS ac- city Health Com- tivists. The crisis is that - missioner Stephen despite the fact that Joseph an opportunity AIDS is becoming an to advance his danger- increasingly treatable ous agenda of contact- condition, treatment is tracing. largely inaccessible. Is GMHC's job real- Two health care professionals I the city says it is setting up T-cell test- ly to echo the ass-backwards ap- know did an informal study last ing and pentamidine centers to han- proach to AIDS which the govern- week. They called the GMHC hotline dle the most universal HIV monitor- ment has taken? To use its credibility for testing advice. They said they ing and treatment needs. "But what to promote HIV antibody testing in wanted treatment information before are they going to say when someone such a public way and then limit its they made the decision to get tested. walks in with chronic diarrhea?" asks attacks on the lack of treatment ac- A number of different counselors Rona Affoumado, who runs the cess to behind-the-scenes lobbying is told them not to worry about treat- Community Health Project. Anyone irresponsible. ment until after they were tested. who tests HIV antibody positive This is not an anti-testing dia- One man identified himself as some- needs to have regular access to medi- tribe. Of course any HIV-infected in- one with no Insurance but a job, and cal care and not just to stopgap treat- dividual is better-equipped to make hence not eligible for Medicaid. He ment for the most common problems. health care decisions knowing his or was told, "Maybe you're one of those GMHC recognizes this. In a June her HIV status. We can only hope people who falls through the 20, 1989 letter, GMHC pointed out to that as more people test HIV anti- cracks," and was advised to get test- Mayor Koch: "1oe New York City AIDS body positive, they loudly demand ed anyway. Task Force says 900,000 HIV-related access to health care. And perhaps If many more people decide to physician visits are needed this year, but See GMHC on page 70

September 11, 1989 OUTTWEEK 33 Koch's Fall from Grace

The Erosion of A Mayor's Lesbian and Gay Support

by Sandor Katz

These days, whenever Ed Koch ty among lesbians and gays has eroded 500,000. "People have been really appears at public events with predomi- since those early, hopeful days of his stunned at the lack of response from nantly lesbian and gay spectators, he administration. Today, a large segment the city," observes David Fleisher, a gets booed and heckled. His planned of our community considers Koch an gay political organizer who is running speech was drowned out-and he was enemy. Ruth Messinger's campaign for Bor- driven from the stage-at last june's Koch is now running for an ough President. The history of Ed ceremony dedicating Stonewall Place. unprecedented fourth term as mayor. Koch's relationship with the lesbian He was jeered as he marched in this Most visible lesbian and gay activists and gay community, inseparable at this year's Gay Pride Parade. At a candi- are oposing Koch in favor of David point from his handling of the AIDS dates' forum at the Lesbian and Gay Dinkins. As the election approaches, crisis, proVides a prism for examining Community Center, a woman rose and the question arises: Why have so many our evolving political culture and the told him he should be ashamed of of us turned against him? relationship of our community to elec- himself; she was backed by raucous "For many of the same reasons toral politics. applause. Koch didn't even bother that his popularity has decreased in showing up for the Gay Men's Health general," says openly gay City Council ***** Crisis candidates' forum on AIDS issues candidate Tom Duane, echoing the In 1977 there was no legal recogni- a few weeks later. sentiments of many of those inter- tion of lesbians and gays in New York Of course the current climate was viewed. But our community's disillu- City. Harvey Milk was campaigning for not always the case. Koch enjoyed the sionment with the mayor has been San Francisco Supervisor. Anita Bryant strong support of our community when vastly intensified by the AIDS crisis. was crusading against us. And the New he was first elected mayor in 1977. And Our fair city is the center of the epi- York Times was still calling us "avowed he made headlines on his first day in demic, with more than 25,000 cases homosexuals." But we were gaining office by banning anti-gay discrimina- diagnosed to date, and an HIV infec- recognition as a political force here, and tion by city agencies. But his populari- tion rate estimated at 200,000 to our votes were being actively courted.

34 OUT'YWEEK September 11, 1989 In that year's Democratic primary information' purporting to portray Mr. of the years since. And as AIDS entered for mayor, incumbent Abe Beame Koch as a homosexual. 'Aside from all of our lives, the toll of his neglect faced six challengers. Bella Abzug was everything else, I knew it could back- grew more and more tragic. Regarding the top vote getter in the neighbor- fire and wind up hurting me. It looks the erosion of Koch's support in our hoods which have the greatest visible as though that's what's happened.''' community, openly gay City Council concentrations of lesbians and gays. In the run-off between Koch and candidate Dave Taylor remarks, "It's However, Koch received the most Cuomo, Koch won by the greatest mar- surprising that it took so long." votes city-wide, with Mario Cuomo gins in the same gay neighborhoods There is virtual consensus among trailing close behind. A Koch-Cuomo where Abzug had. Gays and lesbians lesbian and gay political activists that runoff ensued. are widely credited with having helped Ed Koch has lost the support of the The Gay Activist Alliance (GAA) to elect Ed Koch. vast majority of our community. He accused Cuomo of gay-baiting Koch Koch reciprocated with an retains some vestigial support, of (who during the campaign paraded announcement on his first day in course. The New York Native continues about town with Bess Myerson on his office that he would issue an execu- to rave about him, and the Stonewall arm, and hinted of post-election matri- tive order prohibiting city agencies Democratic Club (affectionately known mony). It was said that Cuomo cam- from discriminating on the basis of as "The Koch Club") has endorsed him. paign sound trucks were driving sexual orientation. We were off to a Jan Carl Park, the assistant director of around certain neighborhoods blaring promising start. Koch's Office for the Lesbian and Gay chants like "Vote for Cuomo, not the Cut to 1989. Koch has issued Community, inSists, "There is still lots homo," and that Cuomo's television another groundbreaking executive of support for the mayor." advertising stressed the now-familiar order, this one providing bereavement But most visible politically active "family" theme to accentuate the con- leave to the non-spousal domestic part- lesbians and gays disagree. David trast between him and the "bachelor" ners of city employees. "He could have Rothenberg, a former City Human candidate. Cuomo responded angrily, done that 12 years ago," says Duane. Rights Commissioner appointed by reporting to the New York Times that Many activists believe Koch did more Koch who has since broken with the "he and his staff had 'rejected any for gay civil rights in the first day of his mayor, says, "I want to find a gay per- effort to get us involved in digging up administration than he has done in all son who's supporting Koch who's not

TOMBSTONE-WALL PLACE Photo: Ellen B. Neipris ACTUP at last Junes ceremony naming Stonewall Place

September 11, 1989 OUT't"WEEK 35 on the payroll." Virginia Apuzzo, a we are systematically oppressed and a meeting of the commissioners of all longtime lesbian activist with strong ties must pursue a broad progressive agen- the city agencies, led by then Deputy to Governor CUomo, believes that sup- da in coalition with other oppressed Mayor Robert Wagner, Jr. (who is now port for the mayor in our community is groups. President of the Board of Education). It limited to those with "a single issue Koch alienated progressives from was just months into the new adminis- perspective totally focused on lesbian the earliest days of his administration. tration, spring 1978, and the commis- and gay civil rights issues in the strictest Rothenberg declined to support Koch's sioners were preparing budgets in the sense. n They are people like Jason reelection in 1981 not because of any midst of the fiscal crisis. Wagner Worth, a Koch supporter employed by issues specific to the lesbian and gay described a deliberate strategy for fiscal Civil Court Judge Richard S. Lowe, who community, but because the mayor "recovery": cutback on needed services recalls, "Under his tenure we got the "was insensitive to people who had the in poor areas-like health care, police, gay community center," and with greatest needs in this city." Koch's tax fire and sanitation-to the point where regard to AIDS laments, "there is always giveaways to corporations and devel- "people would go back to the South more that could be done. n Or the Koch opers and his anti-union stands made and to Puerto Rico." By the 1981 cam- appointee a friend of mine recently him a hero in the city's recovery from paign, most labor unions and progres- met, who boasted that "the mayor has near fiscal collapse, but his policies sive organiZations, including many done more for gay people than any were devastating to the city's poor. lesbian and gay groups, supported other individual since 5,000 B.C." A former Koch-appointed commis- Koch's opponent, Brooklyn Assembly- Park describes "a whole dimension sioner of a city social service agency, man Frank Barbaro. of people who remember that the who prefers not to be identified, recalls There was also growing frustration mayor was the first over Koch's seeming stag- mayor to march in a nation on gay civil rights gay pride march," that issues. "Gay rights were he issued the executive not number one or in the orders, supported gay top five or ten issues out rights legislation and of a list of 100," says appointed open gays. David Fleischer. "They But it is only through were more like number such an appeal to nos- 99.n Prom the start Koch talgia, to the pre-AIDS had supported a pro- context, that Park even posed City Council gay tries to defend his boss. human rights bill. As a "Many view his work candidate, he had told on AIDS as not being lesbian and gay groups enough. I think that's that any mayor who understandable. " made it a priority could Appuzzo's refer- pass such a bill within six ence to the "single months. issue perspective" The majority leader dredges .up a long- of the council, Tom Cuite, standing tension in les- opposed the bill and year bian and gay politics. after year used his influ- Some view us as an ence to kill it. Yet when "interest group" with a . the 1981 elections rolled limited legislative polit- around, Koch backed ical agenda, something CUite's re-election. Not on a par with the until 1986, Just two National Rifle Associa- months after Cu ite's tion, whose needs can retirement, did gay rights be met by supporting . legislation reach the floor choice pieces of legis- of the City Council and lation. In other words, pass. The threat of Koch Koch deserves our sup- campaigning against him port if he supports X, Y and other council homo- and Z, regardless of phobes might well have whatever else he does defanged Cuite and guar- or doesn't do. Others anteed our rights years have taken a broader earlier. Instead, recalls "Iiberationist" SETTING THINGS STRAIGHT Photo: lL. Litt Democratic Party district approach, arguing that ACT UP's March '89 City Hal/attended by over 3,000 people. leader candidate Philip 36 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Reed, "He IKochl passed up every and weren't spent. The money is sim- funds to his campaign. Sawyer is a real opportunity to make a substantive con- ply being carried over in a classic estate investor, and saw Koch primarily tribution to our community, and in fact smoke and mirrors act. as a friend to real estate and a sound he was playing politics as usual." GMHC's diplomatic Robert Peter- political investment. His lover's death While Ed Koch and Prank Barbaro son says, "It's like trying to put out a from AIDS in 1986 woke Sawyer up to were battling it out, AIDS made its raging fire with a water pistol." ACT UP the political realities of AIDS in New debut. At that time it was impossible to is more direct when it chants, "murder- York City and "the lack of leadership foresee the degree to which it would er" in confrontations with the mayor. on the mayor's part." Sawyer now change all of our lives. But as more Park believes lesbian and gay vot- spends his time investigating the lack and more gay men were struck and as ers will "keep AIDS in perspective." of city AIDS services. our community was forced into action, But for most of us, AIDS has superced- His story is not uncommon. One Koch ignored our crisis. Larry Kramer ed other issues and creates the per- effect which AIDS has had on us, as a recalls a telling story about his first and spective from which the rest of the group, politically, is to demonstrate last encounter with the mayor. It was Koch record, whether in the area of without a doubt what many of us-at in 1982 at a farewell party for depart- human rights or jn the area of social least what many of us gay, white ing Cultural Affairs Commissioner services, is viewed. In 1985, Carol Bel- men-had previously failed to com- Henry Geldzahler, held at the restau- lamy challenged Koch in the mayoral prehend: we are an expendable pop- rant Odeon. Kramer asked to be intro- race, and lost big. The single group ulation, as much so as those that duced to the mayor, which he was. with whom she did better than Koch, Robert Wagner, Jr. had suggested "I began my spiel-I was much according to a Daily News exit poll, might have to be driven out. And the calmer tl1en--and as soon as I uttered was lesbian and gay voters. The ero- result of this rude awakening is that the word-I don't even remember if it sion of Koch's support in our commu- our community is increasingly taking was called AIDS yet-his lackeys nity was evident then, and has only a liberationist approach to politics. escorted me away and told me the continued. Lesbian activist Vivian Dave Taylor credits ACT UP with a mayor did not wish to discuss that." Shapiro, a former board member of the large part of this transformation, and Many a leveler head than Kramer has Human Rights Campaign Fund, voted notes, "Progressives are dominating come to his conclusion that the for Koch even in 1985. "I will not sup- the political scene now." mayor's head is stuck in the sand. port him now," she says. "There's a The Dinkins campaign sees gay and From the earliest days, Koch refused part of him that would like our com- lesbian votes as potentially pivotal. to even meet with the Gay Men's Health munity to disappear." According to Dinkins field organizer Crisis. When he finally did, he agreed to Likewise, Eric Sawyer not only Leslie Cagan, a lesbian, "We think that only the non-fJSCalAIDSrequests. To this voted for Koch in 1985, but contributed the lesbian and gay vote can make a sig- day Koch has refused to nificant difference." Philip commit the kinds of dollars Reed makes the more general which his own advisors say it observation that "no minority will take to provide basic ser- mayor of a major city has won vices to the growing popula- without the support of the les- tion fighting for their lives. bian and gay community." Jan Carl Park protests But the story of Ed Koch that "if you look at the fig- over the past 12 years leaves ures, it's a good picture." us with an important lesson. But the Committee on AIDS Many in our community Funding, comprised of stayed loyal to Koch until AIDS Service Organizations, 1981, until 1985, and some put forth a budget request even until now, because he of $41 million-a paltry says he supports us. Let's call sum out of the city's $27 this the Koch Rule: As les- billion annual budget. They bians and gays, our loyalty arrived at their request not to candidates and elected by creating a "wish list," officials must be completely but by conservatively pric- secondary to our imperative ing the services outlined in to survive and gain visibility the city's own strategic plan and empowerment. Finally, it for AIDS. Less than half of seems that our group per- their request was funded. ception of Ed Koch has In addition, most of the caught up with the bleak city's touted AIDS fund reality of his record. Koch's increase this year actually once-solid base of support consists of funds which among us has dwindled to were budgeted last year almost nothing. T

September 11, 1989 OUT .... WEEK 37 by Larry Kramer

In 1981 I helped to start Gay Men's Health Crisis. In 1981, I made my first telephone call for help to the mayor of the city my many friends were dying in. In 1981, I made my second and third and fourth and fiftieth phone calls for help to the mayor of the city my many friends were dying in. For you see, I never-not in 1981 or 1982 or 1983--got 1 the mayor and I n'ever got the mayor's Liaison to the. Gay Community, Mr. Herb Rickman, and I never got the mayor's Commissioner of Health, Dr. David Sencer, and I never got anyone. And I started to become the furiously angry man I am now known to be. I hate and loathe Ed Koch with every fiber of my being and every ounce of energy I have. And so should every single gay man and lesbian in New York City. And so should every person touched by AIDS in New York City-gay, straight, white, black, hispan- ic, man, woman, child. When the man I loved died in 1984 (and GMHC still had not received support from the mayor of the city our many friends are dying in) I vowed on his death bed that I would do everything in my power to discredit Ed Koch-to shout at every possible minute what a monster Ed Koch is, what a lethal hypocrite Ed Koch is, what a murderer of my many dying friends Ed Koch is. I don't know why people think I am exaggerating when I say that Ed Koch is the one person in America most responsible for letting the AIDS epidemic get out of control. I don't know why people don't believe Dr. Mathilde Krim when she says that AIDS is an epidemic that could have been contained. And that everything that happened was predictable from the very first moment. When someone in a family gets sick, doesn't the parent try to make him better? This parent certainly doesn't let the sick kid get worse and worse. But that's what Ed Koch did. When a transmissible virus starts sweeping through the

38 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 city streets like a plague, doesn't the highest elected official of that city have an obligation to educate his citizens to get out of the way? This highest elected official certainly doesn't see to it that all attempts at education are forbidden completely. But that's what Ed Koch did. When an epidemic gets so bad that tens of thousands of people are dying and there are no hospital beds and insufficient amounts of medicine and bodies are piling up in doorways, shouldn't the mayor of the city-finally-try and save his citizens? This mayor certainly shouldn't lie to his people and tell them there is $40 million coming to them at last when in fact there is already a $2 billion deficit and there is about as much chance as a poor Black kid becoming president that any of this $40 million is going to see the light of truth. But that's what Ed Koch did. It is astounding what a flagrant liar he is and what an inept official he is and what a crooked politician he is (189 of his staff have been indicted) and how everyone knows all this and still he has not been turned out of office and indeed stands a good chance to win again. It is almost as if people in New York really believe you have to be crooked and ruth- less to succeed in New York. That's probably why people are not going to vote for David Dinkins, who, by all rights, should be Mayor, and everyone knows should be Mayor. How much worse must everything be before we give someone new a chance? Each year has been worse than the year before. More lies and more corruption and more gov- ernment by press conferences and more smarmy acts of contrition and more announced programs that never materi- alize and more deaths from AIDS. More lies and more deaths and fewer friends in this city my many friends are dying in. How can every rational, sane, compassionate human being not hate and loathe Ed Koch with every fiber of your being and every ounce of energy you have? T

September 11, 1989 OUTYWEEK 39 Whyis David Dinkins Our Candidate? poorer, sicker, more addicted to drugs they joys and pains of a community by David Kirby and far more dangerous. struggling to earn the respect and Yes, we are angry. We are disgust- power it rightly deserves. David Dink- It's no secret: Living in New York ed at the way the poor are largely left to ins has always spoken out-from the is becoming more difficult every year.. fend for themselves. We are frightened heart-against gigotry and hatred, Our city is caught in a nightmarish web to walk down drug-infested streets. We raci1;m, seXism, anti-Semitism and of interrelated crises-their crude reali- are sick and tired of being sad, of homophobia. ty slaps us in the face daily, as if we watching our friends and lovers waste "I am so proud of you," he often needed further reminding that City Hall away with disease-often without prop- says with a warm smile after address- has failed us miserably. er health care, housing, nutrition. ing lesbian and gay groups. "The les- You can try to ignore the prob- But this year, 1989, we can end bian and gay community is a vital part lems, but they will catch up with you. the dark days of neglect and indiffer- of my efforts to unite this city." Open a paper, turn on the news, walk ence. We can begin speaking of hope, He means it. Dinkins has tradition- down the street: Crisis and catastrophe renewal, healing. We can vote for ally hired large numbers of lesbians and await you. We have the homeless crisis David Dinkins and get this city back on gay men to fill key poSitions at the Man- and its parent, the housing crisis. The track. As lesbians and gay men-and as hattan Borough President's Office and, crisis in education has aggravated the New Yorkers-we have an obligation before that, at the Office of the City drug crisis, which in turn is fanning the to make certain that Dinkins is our next Clerk. He has endorsed and worked fires of the AIDS crisis. In the mean- Mayor. We owe it to ourselves, and to with gay candidates, and appointed time, people are being beaten or mur- the poor, the sick, the drug-addicted, openly gay and lesbian members to dered in the streets because someone the young, the disabled, and everyone Manhattan's 12 community boards. else didn't like their skin color, or their else who needs someone fight for "When it comes to lesbian and gay sex, or their sexual orientation. them-and not against them-at the issues, David Dinkins is light years Call it the hate crisis. pinnacle of municipal power. ahead of the other candidates," says Sound alarmist? Perhaps, but think David Dinkins' long ascent to Alan Fleischman of the Gay and Lesbian how the city will look four years from empowerment in many ways mirrors Independent Democrats (GLID). "David now, if we don't throw out the folks that of our own community. In the late has been the leader in the fight for our who allowed this situation to simmer 60s and early 70s, he was on the streets community. But he never had to be and fester over the last 12 years. While very much like our own. David Dinkins pressured to do it, he knew it was right." Ed Koch partied and his underlings pil- knows what it's like to suffer discrimi- And in a few days a bilingual, tabloid- fered, our city-our city-became nation and bigotry. He has lived with sized piece of literature will be mailed to

40 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 hundreds of thousands of Vito Russo: understand that discrimi- voters. Its second page is nation is an unnecessary devoted to "David Dinkins' ··1certainly trust him more than evil. Dinkins supports Agenda for Change"-an the anti-bias bill in the eight point list of the most anyone else. He puts himself in state legislature, which pressing issues in the city: touch with the PWA community:· would set stiff penalties "Crime, drugs, education, for those convicted of housing, economic develop- hate crimes-including ment, environment, reproductive rights ins said at the AIDS forum. "What r lesbian and gay bashing. "I will make and lesbian and gay rights." want is to get people off drugs, period. my pOSition clear to the leaders in Dinkins has taken time to educate We should spend our time on things Albany: Homophobia maims and kills. himself about AIDS, and as Borough like treatment-on-demand, which is so Stop the violence. Pass the bill," he President, has fought for more city limited in New York." said recently. funding of AIDS-related programs. Still, support for Dinkins is strong He also supports including gay and Over the last three years, Dinkins and among AIDS activists and PWAs. "r cer- lesbian history and culture in public his competent staff negotiated over tainly trust him more than anybody school courses. "We don't have to love $1.7 million into the city budget for else in the field," says Vito Russo, a each other, but we ought to learn to AIDS education and services and his writer, AIDS activist and PWA. "He understand each other," Dinkins likes to office provided the seed money for the occasionally drops by the PWA Coali- say. "We can help young people tran- first city-wide mass media AIDS educa- tion to visit. But it's never a planned scend the fear and ignorance that lead tion campaign. event, there's no one from the media, to homophobia, racism and sexism." "Public AIDS education must be as if he Were campaigning. I appreciate On the issue of domestic partner- explicit, and it must be culturally and it because he puts himself in touch ship, few leaders have gone as far as linguistically appropriate to the com- with the PWA community more than Dinkins. He was the first city offiCial to munities at risk," Dinkins said at a July anyone, and thus he understands the recognize domestic partnership among mayoral AIDS forum sponsored by the issue more than anyone." his staff, and supports the right of Gay Men's Health Crisis. Dinkins has spoken out as much unmarried partners to inherit leases in Dinkins' work on AIDS concerns on women's issues as he has on lesbian rent-controlled, rent-stabilized and city- goes way beyond education. He sup- and gay issues. He supports full repro- owned buildings. Dinkins also believes ports scatter-site housing for homeless ductive rights, equal pay for equal work that domestic partners of city employees persons with AIDS (PWAs) and has and the ERA. He has helped fund pro- should be entitled to spousal benefits. promised to reserve two units of every grams for prenatal care, day care and Of course there are issues on renovated City-owned building for battered women and children. He sup- which Dinkins has had disagreements housing PWAs. He has also sought ports community-based women's health with some in the lesbian and gay com- more funds to provide services for projects. As such, Dinkins has been munity. In addition to the aforemen- HIV-affected, including health and endorsed by NOW-New York and the tioned controversial needle exchange mental health services, outpatient treat- New York Women's Political Caucus. programs, Dinkins has disappointed ment centers and other support ser- "Dinkins is sensitive to women's some gay and lesbian leaders on the vices. He pledges to seek more issuesj he has come a long way," says issue of legalized gay marriages. funding for groups such as GMHC, the Joyce Hunter, a lesbian activist. "I still Though he supports our right to adopt AIDS Resource Center, People with think he could do better on women's children or give them foster care, Dink- AIDS Coalition, God's Love, We Deliver issues, but he's far above the others." ins does not back formal, legal mar- and the Community Resource Initiative He has appointed women to many riage for lesbians and gays. Dozens - which was formed to rapidly test key positions, including his current have met with him on this issue, yet he experimental drugs inside the HIV chief of staff and community services remains steadfast. "I'm simply not community. Dinkins has also expressed director, and his former deputy bor- ready to change- my mind on gay mar- concern on numerous occasions about ough preSident and press secretary. riages, but I am open to keep talking AIDS among women and children. He Nobody had to tell Dinkins that the about it," he recently told a small recognizes that most cases in New lesbian and gay rights bill (which the group during a meeting. York are now among I.V. drug users City Council finally passed in 1986) was But in general, most lesbian and and their sexual partners. a critical piece of legislation. Year after gay activists believe Dinkins is the most But IV drug use and AIDS has cost year, Dinkins would trudge down to representative of our issues of all the Dinkins some support among certain City Hall with the rest of us for the candidates-that he will fight for our activists. He does not endorse needle annual ritual of haVing the bill rejected. civil rights. Says Vito Russo: "I'd like to exchange programs, and even opposes But Dinkins, like us, refused to give up. turn the tide in this city, to transform it the distribution of bleach kits for drug By coincidence, the bill was passed just from a barracuda pit to a place where users to clean their works. three months after Dinkins took office. people listen to each other. David, who "To me, free needles is the same Now, he has turned his energy to is intelligent and articulate, can do that. as free drugs. I can't accept that we legislation in Albany and Washington, I can't think of any reason not to vote should surrender on this issue,· Dink- vowing to fight until lawmakers there ~h~· T

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Obviously Dixie Foam Bedding has decided there's a huge mattress-buy- ing lesbian market out there just waiting to be tapped. -M.S. Photo: IL. Litt

42 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 • . ., ......

We're so happy to see that The Cubby Hole, the most popular dyke bar in town, has a "sand- wich-of-the-month" named after it at the Store 24 at Green- wich and Sixth Ave. We figure Bonnie must be a sister. -M.S. Photo: lL. Litt

September 11, 1989 OUTTWEEK 43 UT OF o MV HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL

Dear Brad: 1988 and that's just the way it is. you possibly say to me, given the lim- I thought I liked him but I was itations of this forum, that would never sure how he felt about me and Dear Brad: make a difference, assuming you'd so I just waited for something to hap- It's about 3:00 am on a particular- even bother to print my letter and pen. But nothing ever did and when ly evil and terrifying night and every- even if you did that's quite a while to finally I said something he said he'd body I know hung up on me when I walt and whatever Ineffable comfort I never really given it any thought one tried to call them and I honestly don't think it is I need, I need right this way or the other and would have to know where else to turn or what it is very minute. Besides, what if what get back to me. Somehow I know that I think I want somebody to tell me they say is true and all these letters when and if he does I'm not going to that I haven't already said to myself in are made up? If that's the case then so come out so well. I used to have reli- one way or another. Maybe all I want is this letter which makes this dread able instincts about these things but is some kind of comfort, quick or completely imaginary or else it means now I'm no longer sure. Frankly, I cold ·or otherwise, which Is not the that I'm you or you're me and if I don't know if I could stand to go sort of thing one can simply demand can't help myself then you can't help through all of this again with one or even purchase at this or any time me or yourself or whoever either one more person. What noW? of night and, of course, there Is no of us may be. ...square One easy comfort. There Is only endurance -lost In tbe Stars but right now at this unendurable Dear Square: moment I cannot even believe in, let Dear Lost: To be quite honest, all of the good alone hope for that and ... oh, but I felt exactly the same way one things came to an abrupt end early in what's the use? What on earth could night in Montreal. at the Chateau Champlain when room service was closed and the pay-per-vlew channel "Peek-A-Boo" IT was shOWing Frantic for the hun- dredth time and I'd pretty well cleaned out the mini-bar In the room Mary Martin Sir John Gielgud (a course of action I was later to regret when presented with my room Claudette Colbert Oregon Senator Mark, Hattfleld charges). Fortunately I always travel Steven Jobs UlyTomlin with a copy of Jean Anouilh's Meti4e Deli Arnez Jr. Jane Wagner close at hand and turned to this famil- Prince ~Ibert of Monaco Dolly Parton iar passage: "Beasts of this night! I Richard Chamberlain Sandy Gallen utter with you your obscure scream. I Maryland Senator Barbara Milkulski Walt Disney head Michael Ellner accept like you, without wanting to understand any more, the black com- Maryland Congressman Ron Dyson 20th Century fox head Barry Diller mand ...I put out the little light. I give Maryland Gov:WiUiam Schaeffer Geffe.nRecords hea~ David Geffen the shameful signal. I take upon Fran Leibowitz .. Republican N.af!; Committee myself, I assume, I claim. All that is Johnny Mathis Chair Lee Atwater hunting and killing tonight is Medea'" . Julie Andrews Alexis Smith Who can help but feel strangely Blake Edwards David Cassidy uplifted by these words? I found the Diane Sawyer Marlene Dietrich momentary solace that I need but, of course, that work is now out of print Mike Nichols Kristie McNichol so you'll just have to come up with Suzanne Pleshette Fannie Aagg your own solution.

-compiled by the OutWeek ,f,H Confidential to Sally P.: and various contributors You should wear. green. You wore green the last time, the time you were happy. Y

44 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 TI things in her twisted attempt to ana- fret over. The economy is in its sev- lyze culture: "AIDS effectively put the enth year of growth. There aren't sig- quietous onto the fun of camp. But nificant foreign troubles to speak of. somehow Busch has managed to rise But just let the economy slip into mild above the times." Sorry, Liz, but if recession, and the national worry over you woke up and actually got out of drugs will vanish." Nothing better to that ivory tower you'd know that fret over? MY COMMUNITYIS BEING "camp" (your word for fags in drag) is MURDERED!!! A MILLION PEOPLE at an all-time high - probably direct- ARE INFECTED WITH A VIRUSTHAT ly due to the oppression and homo- HAS KILLED 100,000, YOU ASS- phobia surrounding AIDS. Lypsinka, HOLES!!! By: Michelangelo Signorlle Jeffrey Essman, Everett Quinton, Ethyl ••• • Eichelberger, Bruce Hopkins, About the butter mentioned in paragraph one. On Page Six (New York Post), Richard Johnson reports on 'd like to meet this maniac Donal an event in which yours truly attended Henehan who wrote the Music a party and "shoved a plateful of but- IView column in last Sunday's ter on [artist Mark Kostabi'sl face." New York Times so that I could smear Not true! It was a big tub of half-melt- his face with some sweet, creamery ed butter and it wasn't shoved but butter (I'll explain this tactic later). In rather "squished." And I'm not sure an obsessive column in which he dis- what we should do to Johnson for cusses an article titled Franz Schubert writing, "Signorile is an editor at and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini Out Week, a magaZine that caters to (written by Maynard Solomon and homosexuals." Maybe we should all appearing in the spring issue of 19th Wigstock have all recently garnered cater his next party? (When I spoke Century Music), Henahan's homopho- huge doses of "mainstream press," to him afterwards he chuckled that he bia rages out of control. The article, of much of it within your own newspa- thought I said "a lesbian and gay course, speaks of Schubert as a gay per. Do you read Liz? Or is it per- nude magaZine, rather than news man. But before even reading about haps that "AIDS has put a quietous" magaZine. Ha. Ha. Ha.) it we immediately see the hatred of not on the the occurrence of "camp," Kostabi deserved much mor,e the Times' headline writers who came but rather on your reporting of it? humiliation than that for ihe violence up with these ditties: The Dark Side After all, there are more important and death he has courted and perpetu- of Schubert and (on the jump page) things to write about like how won- ated since he made those horrible, Some Disturbing Things About derful Gayfryd Steinberg and her mil- homophobic, AlDSphobic remarks in Schubert. Then we get to the column lion dollar birthday parties are, right? Vanity Fair a few months ago. On and learn that Henehan, who seems Page Six he says of me: "A man who to think that visibility is unimportant, • ••• resorts to violence is a man who has doesn't feel the public should be told Perhaps more insidious, though, run out of ideas." Without getting into a that any great artists were gays or les- are some remarks from The New debate about what is "violent" and what bians. But he does acknowledge that RepubliC'S Fred Barnes which Liz isn't (and whether or not dairy products people are being brought out of the Smith includes in the same column. fall into this category), I would like to closet anyway and that it might be In a highly irresponsible manner, she point out that this man who says I've "reasonable in this case since the quotes Barnes' dangerous rantings that run out of ideas is the very same artist composer was "an enthusiastic homo- drug abuse is not a major problem in who hires people .to think for him. sexual [whosel sexuality could have America today without making any But back to the action. Everyone had something to do with his feverish- critical comment other than that these should begin coming up with strate- ly prolific output, his drastic swings of are "unusual ideas." And though she gies for "Hotel Bar Zaps." They're mood and his tragic death by syphilis sits on the fence, it's obvious that Liz immensely effective. You attend social at age 31." Eat shit! agrees with Barnes but is afraid to say events where these monsters will be. so. According to Barnes, as quoted by Tell all of the paparaZZi and the gossip ••• • Liz.Smith, all the hype about drug use columnists what you plan to do. And After two months, Liz Smith is "the result of a relentless media then, presto! The embarrassed idiot (Daily News) has finally discovered emphaSiS ...Politicians have followed sits there with goop on his or her Charles Busch and The Lady in the press in talking nonstop about face, while flashbulbs are popping Question (or rather his publicist has drugs. It's also the result of some- and reporters are jotting down notes. finally gotten Liz to nibble on an thing else - GOOD TIMES. You quickly exit. The next morning item). But, once again Liz says some "People worry about drugs you fax all of the media your state- stupid, incorrect and embarrassing because there isn't something better to ments and demands. T

! I I .. ' September 11, 1989 OUT..-WEEK 45 Social Terrorism Photos by Erich Conrad

WHATDYA MEAN YOU CAN'T READ MY SHIRT? ChemeatMK NOntlNG UP MY SLEEVE David La Chappelle

SWEET SMEll OF SUCCESS Pop ralts Fenton, Charlie and Randy at the Cat Club 000001 WHAT A LOVELYBREEZE Poet Barbara Patterson Lloyd at Mars

WHArs GOING ON DOWN THERE? DON'T EVEN TRY IT Filmmaker Charles Atlas at the My Comrade party Reno Dakota at the My Comrade party

GEE.ntAT FEAntER TICKLES Doris of FA.D. Magazine at Cat Club WOULD YOU UKE TO SEE MY ETCHINGS? TommySaeli

BLOW IN MY REAR AND I'll FOllOW YOU ANYWHERE Barbara Streisand at Love Machine

WISHFUL THINKING? FATAL DISC-TRACTION Scott Lifschits at the My Comrade party OJ Oany at the My Comrade party

NO NATASHA, ACT FRIENDLY! THE NECKLACE IS GONE Finnbar and Simon at MK Pheobe and Mark at MK

September 11, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 47 by David Kirby and Gabriel Rotella

We hear through the gay grapevine that many new groups are following in the activist footsteps, or march-steps, of that pioneering organization, ACT-UP.Maybe you haven't heard of them yet, but they're out there, getting ready to piss-off your straight friends by "going too far," and possibly disturb- ing the peace in your very own neighborhOod. Just to keep you from getting too confused at this pro- liferation of pissed-off pansies and livid lesbians, here's a handy guide to the new groups.

Drag queens are kissing off the opposition in: Drag Reigns In Every Social Situa- tion, or DRESS-UP. Psychophants in the fashion industry are snubbing old friends at meetings for: Someone Unimportant Calvin Knows, or SUCK-UP. Nonpolitical, anti-ACf-UP fags are throwing beach parties in Provincetown for: Stop Homos from Upsetting Teadances, or SHUf-UP. Faaaabulous models are learning to vogue for their rights in: Posing Is Nirvana, or PIN-UP. Radical anti-breeders are asking that pertinent question: Why Are Kids Everywhere?, or WAKE-UP. Sex workers and their 'paying companions' have finally organized: Prostitution And You, or PAY-UP. Compulsively clean roommates who've had it up to here are fighting back with: PeQple Into Clean Kitchens, or PICK-UP. Busy queer yuppies who just don't have a minute for anybody else's problems are finally getting together: Time Is Everything, Dear, or TIED-UP. Gay and lesbian overeaters have formed: Food Equals Death, or FED-UP. Stingy decorators are self-empowering in: Furniture Is Extra, or FIX-UP. Inexperienced lesbian mothers with uncooperative turkey-baster babies are fighting back with: Single Parents In Trouble, or SPIT-UP. And finally, everybody with some kind of neurotic problem - which is almost everybody we know - seems to be joining: Let Overwhelming Obsessions Sud- denly End Now, or LOOSEN-UP.

OutWeek wishes the best of luck to all the above organizations, and invites them to list in our community directory . ••"111'~'"'"''''...... ,~ ••

48 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Ten Reasons Why I Can't Date You by Mona Feigenbaum

My friends tell me that I'm way too picky, that I should lower my standards and I'd be getting some all the time. But it's not really a question of standards, or that I'm such a gift (well, you could do worse ...), but there ~re certain physical things, call them uh-uh-elements of style if you will that turn me off at face value. Nothing to do with looks per say.-believe me, this girl Mona could always use some self- improvement-rather it's tone and intention that often make me run the other way. I guess you could say they are little things that say a lot. And while beauty is only skin deep (yeah, yeah, yeah), clothes often do make the (wo)man. In other words, here are ten highly superficial reasons why I can't date you

1.Leather pants-especially when you shouldn't, and most People shouldn't.

2.Boots over your pants, particularly over your leather pants. Further penalty points if those boots (or that leather) is of some unnatural color, such as red.

3.Acid-washed jeans-wear them and I won't even talk to you.

4.An outfit too conspicuously "Gap."

5 .Attitude for no apparent reason-unless of course, you're still in high school, and in that case you can have lots of attitude and wear red leather boots over acid-washed jeans ...you've got me.

6.It is way too obvious that you're a power lifter.

7."But I'm mature for 23" is a phrase in your vocabulary.

8.You tell me you're "nutty."

9.You're 5' 8", and 5' 2" without your hair.

10 .You ask me out to dinner and suggest that we go to Caramba's and drink "Blue Whales." SUBSCRIBENOm

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he vision of British playwright Peter Nichols is bitter and T bleak, but there is joy and a kind of wholeness in it, too. By com- bining conventional, even melodra- matic, stories with musical hall jokes and songs, and pastiches of Hollywood production numbers, Nichols produces deep and resonant emotional experiences. They take us directly to the heart of the dramatic matter-a heart Which almost always alternates with breath-taking speed between unbearable loss and unbreakable hilarity. Nichols doesn't use pronounce- ments to make his opinions clear. He is both too humble and realistic to feel superior, and God forbid he take refuge in the last resort of hypocrites and fools, the moral high ground. Rather, he unleashes his characters in extravagant situations, and lets them behave, sing and dance as they will. The New York premiere of Nichols' 1977 Privates on Parade (a title which can be taken in anyone of several ways) admirably reflects the play's humanity. Larry Carpenter, the director, sees to it that each character is a human being, not a cartoon. For all its music hall humor, there isn't a cheap moment: every laugh is earned-and so, too, is the anger. The story is a rite of passage: in time of war, a soldier grows from cal- low youth to man. British Private Stephen Flowers Qim Fyfe) arrives in PRIDE PARADE Photo: Martha Swope the Malayan Peninsula in 1948, during Simon Jones and Jim Dale

September 11, 1989 OUTTWEEK 51 Film The Cookie Crumbles

imagination on fire recently, this plot about it until the next mortgage pay- Cookie, directed by Susan line isn't surprising. What could Ital- ment was due on her fabulous house. Seidelman. Distributed by Warner ians be doing in New York anyway Bros. Thus, in place of true humor, tired except eating pasta, yelling at each ethnic stereotypes are trotted out to other and oiling the wheels of that try and bolster an obViously unfunny by Maria Maggenti macho Mafia machine day in and day and often confusing script. This is out? Perhaps co-writer Nora Ephron one of those movies where the sheer developed the script while taking the sound of an Italian name is supposed train out to Easthampton one week- to make a person guffaw. twasonly a few years ago when end in between her many Hollywood Peter Falk plays an aging Italian Susan Seidelman managed to writing gigs and promptly forgot gangster with all the finesse and pol- Ibreak into the ish of a true ensemble Hollywood mainstream actor. However, his sense with films that portrayed of comic timing and his women as sassy, sexy, feeling for understate- centered and sometimes ment are continually chal- even a bit subversive. lenged by the crowded Sh~ seemed so full of voices of Vacarro, Wiest promise; a young female and Lloyd who are director with an Irrever- reduced to a trio of ent point of view and an squawking, bitchy, gum- original visual style. chomping wenches. This However, the my-dlck- is a particular disappoint- Is-blgge r-than-yours ment In the case of Emily school of filmmaking Lloyd, the young British seems to have sent actress whose film debut Seidelman careening off two years ago in Wish course In her latest ven- You Were Here displayed ture, the ill-conceived a kind 'of irrepressible and often sloppy new originality, wit and defi- release Cookie. ance rarely seen by The plot Is simple women in film. Instead of and not particularly setting her loose, engaging-Mafia dad Seidelman lassoes Lloyd's (Peter Falk) Is let out natural buoyancy by of the slammer and has making the character to deal with his feisty Cookie into an ersatz ver- illegitimate daughter sion of Madonnna in Cookie (Emily Lloyd), Desperately Seeking his still passionate and Susan. What is it with long-suffering mistress oversized, overdecorated (Dianne Wiest), his black leather jackets any- brassy wife (Brenda way that are supposed to Vaccaro) and a pletho- make us understand a ra of Mafia mobsters, girl's character? Unfor- as he struggles to get tunately, aside from some out of the underworld loud chomping of chew- and "go straight." See- ing gum and a few barely ing as how Italian- audible sentences by Am~ricans seem to be COTTON CANDY CRIER Lloyd in a tough Queens setting Hollywood's 0' IIII' accent, we get nary a IBnnen/est

52 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 ERZAlZ MADONNA fmilyUoyd glimpse of exactly who this grumpy, cries constantly and yet is really the development of the characters or the suggestive young woman is supposed only sympathetic character in the plot nor is there a climax. Every scene to be in relation to the wobbly plot. Is whole film. She is also the only one just sails along clumsily bumping into it something about being a girl, some- who can elicit laughter without com- the next. Before you know it, Dad is thing about being the daughter of a promising one's sense of compassion. free and Cookie has shorn her black former Mafia bigwig, something about But who can help old Papa out of the leather jacket for black stockings, a not fitting in with the rest of the gals mess he's in? Certainly not his rebel- boyfriend and who knows? Maybe a in the neighborhood, something about lious ne'er-do-well daughter Cookie. life of love and crime. wearing a black leather jacket every But what a surprise! A couple of car Thus, it seems that the point of day of your life? chases and costume changes later, it the picture is to have dad and While Cookie attempts to "go looks .like the little Cookie is really daughter somehow build a bridge straight" by working as her dad's just a chip off the old block. Cookie, over their troubled waters and learn chauffeur, her dad is navigating the with her fifth grade vocabulary and to love and respect each other murky waters of friendship and rivalry Jayne Mansfield figure, is the only one (though Dad hasn't helped out once created during his years in the slam- who can save her dad's life. And save in Cookie's whole life and Cookie is mer. Enter the driven, ambitious dis- it she does in a series of film mostly an immature reprobate who trict attorney, loosely modeled after sequences that are so sloppy and likes Saturday morning cartoons and Rudy Giuliani, who is also trying to poorly shot that it made me wonder if driving the limo onto the sidewalk). capture Falk in a web of deceit. Seidelman had ever considered using But what are such small details in a However, it seems that Falk is ready that high technology cinema tech- film about those passionate, crazy to throw all that crazy stuff away and nique called storyboarding. Despite folk we call Italians? Nothing except start over with the love of his life the feeble attempt at comic scenarios that once again Hollywood creates an Dianne Weist (his mistress, Cookie's and the omnipresent "Italian" music abyss where before there was nothing mom), a cotton candy blonde who that greases the action, there is no but teeming reality. T

September 11, 1989 OUT~WEEK 53 Music Prospecting the Park

does little for inter-neighborhood rela- I may have short hair, but I ain't no dyke tions, a criticism which holds true for the entire series, despite the producers' by Victoria Starr "women's music" or not (some of the attempt to cover all the bases. And weekend's acts could fall into that cat- while no law says that the series must Women, music. Women in music. egory, while many of the others abso- embroil itself in the local political Women's music. No matter how these lutely could not), the weekend was scene, a whole dialog could be drawn two words are associated, the images just one more example of the inherent .around the concept of publicly funded that come to mind seem to have a sort contradictions in trying to define a cultural activities, not to mention the of knee-jerk narrowness to them. Let's woman's space in musical perfor- questions around how to best use our see, there's the woman with the guitar mance. limited public green spaces. who sings touchy-feely, earthy songs. The first thing I noticed was how Enough said about the produc- There's the sexy disco diva, and the surprisingly segregated the weekend tion of Celebrate Brooklyn, which is, skimpily clad rock bitch. There's the seemed to be. While I can surely above all, exciting. Less exciting, back up singers, and the sixties style appreciate that some musical styles.nat- however, were Friday night's acts, as "girl group" (or eighties style if it's the urally compliment each other, it was the evening's artistS helped to drive Roches). And that just about sums it glaring that Friday night featured all lesbian visibility back a· good decade up. Which is why it is with great white performers, while Saturday night or two. Again, this was not "women's curiOSitythat I watch the various ways featured all black performers. (I am music (which has it's.own very limit- in which people in the music industry neither familiar with the bands who ing focus at times), so there was no deal with the concept of women mak- performed Sunday, nor did I attend the reason to expect to find anything les- . ing music. Last weekend was no show). This type of concert production bian about the show. There is; never- exception. The scene is Prospect Park, home of the greatly appreciated Celebrate Brooklyn performing arts series, which boasts as being "the longest running outdoor performing arts festival in New York City." A series of free per- formances that draw from the wide variety of cultural backgrounds, this series is, overall, a fine opportunity.to see a range of performers who may not fit so easily into the larger, more commercial mUSic/dance/performance art scene. The method is to have each weekend represent a different style of performance art, with themes ranging from a "Pop Music" weekend to Shakespeare, from" African-Caribbean" to classical. This year's series included Native American VISions,and a vague- ly titled Women's Festival. Starting to get the picture? Notice the weekend was not called Women's Music, as I had origi- nally misread it to say. Not that it mat- tered, since I attended the show with the security of knowing that with a title like Women's Festival, nearly half of the Park Slope dyke population would show up anyway. But ·STOP COMBING YOUR HAIR!- Photo: Ana De Orbegoso Hattie Gossett

54 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 ~ the less, the simple fact that Park Bad Attitudes, simply chose to ignore women who have been upper Slope has largest lesbian community us, singing a parody about the class housewives for too long. In on the East coast, a fact which made sodomy laws as if they only affected keeping with the music/comedy these woefully heterosexual (or gay men. On the other hand, the vein, I would have much preferred extremely closeted) women very ner- band should have been named Bad the sexually ambiguous trio Betty, vous. So much so, in fact, that the Taste, since nearly all of their humor or the hysterically feminist duo usually charming and ever-so-witty was just that. Which means that by Cathy and Moe. But hey, I didn't Christine Lavin felt compelled to being ignored, we faired better than produce the show. Besides, I reaffirm her involvement with men the ethnic groups they chose to por- knew that Sister Carol and Hattie no less than three times during her tray. Add to this their macabre urge Gossett, with her special guests set, and that's not even counting the to tell violent children's stories, and Edwina Lee Tyler and Jacque lyrics to her songs. The second act, a it becomes frighteningly apparent Dupree, would more than make comedy act inappropriately named what can happen to the minds of up for it on Saturday. T Pricked up Ears and Dancin' Feet by Andetrie Smith

Usually when black folks perform it means moving, dancing bodies. Racism has denied that it also means herstory/history: ourstory. As East German playwright Heiner Mueller said years ago that the reason he always read Black American literature was because it was the only American literature with a sense of history. The sec- ond night of Celebrate Brooklyn's "Women's Festival" (8/26/89) was herstory and irrations, with poet Hattie Gossett performing works from her newly-published Presenting Sister No Blues, and Reggae DJ Sister Carol, skanking the audience into ceremonial oneness. Before Ms. Gossett performed, she elaborated on the herstory of dreadlocks, explaining that they were an international phenomenon worn variously by the indige- nous peoples of the Amazon rain forest, of the West Indies, of New Zealand, as well as the Rastas. She then launched Dreadlock Office Temp/Labor Relations #5 with its roots woman heroine who puts the ignorant, more bourgeois blacks, like those in the play The Colored Museum, to shame. "Just stop combing your hair she tell them." Echoing the character ten or eleven times loudly, we suspect that most of Hattie's spokeswimmin are herself. In the second poem, Bruddah the Dreadlocks Don't Belong to You, she quickly slides from hair freedom to wimmin freedom: "No, da wimmins don't belong to you." I remember hearing a Rasta broth- er sing: "First come woman then come man. H Some peo- ple know their herstory. Gossett's chanting was inauspiciously backed up by musical greats: renowned African percussionist Edwina Lee Tyler, Jacqui Dupree of the womanist duo Casselberry Dupree, drummer David Pleasant, and Craig Rivers on sax. With Lee on the balofone, Dupree sang synchopated echoes to Gossett's lead. The set, which was produced by J Casselberry, was tight and polished, showing in Gossett's work both technical virtuosity and a command of black oral presentation. And we were even treated to Gossett's highly renowned rendition of the late Pat Parker's Movement in Black ROCKIN' BROOKLYN Photo: Ana De Orbegoso See PROSPECT on page 78 Reggae OJ Sister Carol

September 11, 1989 OUT~WEEK 55 Books Getting Off

bondage, SIM, boys or roles so we the poetry is traditional (yes there is a settle (although a little rough play- feeling of women running through ing in Jewelle's White Flower does the lavender fields nude), while there whet the appetite). The Collective is an instructional piece on how to gives us the opportunity to read seduce your lover into using a by Jacquie Bishop European lesbian writers unfamiliar cucumber when you've forgotten to this reader. I've learned that See GETTING OFF on page 74 wanking is bopping "When tbey pick up one of tbe (as per Cyndy Lau- .lavender dlldoes and ask me wbat per), and that size tbey sbould get, 1turn to anonymous sex is tbem look tbem directly In tbe eye great whether it's and ask tbem 'well, bow many fin- happening in the gers doyou like Inside of you"''' Duchess 2 or in a -former manager ofEve's Garden rainstorm in an unfinished garden in the middle of a Lon- don Dormitory Com- ood lesbian erotica is plex. I was relieved almost non-existent when to read that no mat- G compared to the amount of ter where you live bad lesbian erotica published on a not everyone is get- regular basis. ting some and we Good lesbian erotica is like a are all taking drastic crush on a woman: it makes you measures. In Ber- squirm, it makes you wet, distracts you nadette Halprin's throughout the day while giving you Box S217, the pro- fantasies to masturbate over at night. tagonist does what Sheba Feminist Publisher's new many of us are book, Serious pleasure: lesbian erotic forced to do· after stories and poetry, provides women months of not with some of the best vanilla "jack-off "dOing it": check out material" since the first three copies the personals, reject of On Our Backs appeared in New the personals, read York in 1986. The Sheba Collective them again, realize gives its readers a roller-coaster ride there is no one that offast and furious fingers in our cunts you're interested in (sorry girls no one makes a fist), "i but there might be remember how she'd fucklme like a someone interested train/inexorably on & on/like the can- in you so you send a nonball run ..." [Storme Webber: Like personal. a Train} and slow brazen seduction: a The characters visiting college lecturer by a twentyish are Black, white, tall, year old student: ''I'll seduce first then short, just a little you can seduce next, just to keep it plump and quite ath- egalitarian" Uewelle Gomez: Water letic; some have With the Wine/. accents, others have We have freeze frame images s.traight hair, nappy of fingers, tongues, legs, hair and hair, green, blue and STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Photo: n.Litt breasts intertwined. We do not have brown eyes. Some of 510rme Webber

56 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Books Schoolboy Dreams

... "Fuckr A great word needs to be yelled. by Gabriel RoteUo But sexual freedom is less his point than sexual con- flict, particularly the conflict between his objectivization of t a recent demo in Provincetown, a marcher carried young men's bodies versus his unrestrained romanticism, a a sign that read: "Legalize Butt Fucking." This romanticism that's as capable of hopeless crushes as a A prompted a stinging backlash from local lesbians teenage girl's. He's ambiguous about the sexual excess of and gays, during which a leader of the gay business guild the 70s, saying of boys at the baths: told the press that what enraged him most about the sign was the fact that it spoke of legalizing anal intercourse ... Westink without also mentioning condoms. to the lowest heavens, talk like dime-novels, That exchange bespoke much about the state of the and we eatfrom each other like cannibals, erotic these days, where even the most basic political affir- piss snob cannibals who'll only eat caviar. mation of sexuality is often couched in hesitancy or fear or both; where desire becomes a political act, and we are Yet he celebrates sex like a punk bacchante, and a asked to calculate the natural impulses that define us as sense of humor infects even his most self-absorbed mUSings. gay men. Idols is a lyrical, musical, provocative book of verse. In It's therefore even more than usually refreshing to open an Author'S Preface, Cooper writes that he penned these Idols, Dennis Cooper's raucous, real, joyously raunchy and poems between the ages of 16 and 25, and that he's now unapologetic paean to ageless teenage queerlust. Cooper "far away" from the feelings they express. Let's hope that if speaks as directly to erotic gay sensibilities as Cavafy, but that's true, there are other young poets who will be his references are less Byzantine and more David Bowie. inspired by his poems to respond with honest, unre- Read these poems and be reminded of hot high school strained voices of their own. We need them. T nights and that straight classmate you pined for at the prom:

Cocks didn't matter then. MY TYPE It was ass we dreamed of, smooth as our ideas. 'for Mike Robarts

Cooper is clear about his tastes as they existed when Looking through some headed guys each time. these poems were written, sometime between childhood photos tonight, over And when I haven't and the age of AIDS. He transforms his personal assort- five years of partners, seen a resemblance ment of teenage idols, hustlers and high school heros into H'seea long string of I've held love the essences of a suburban erotic elite, and brings us will- Mikes, ruddy and sane. at arm's length, I" .- ingly into his fantasies. Liking a certain direct style in his men: ~'i!ih~ylookHke his' my skin tattooed there ...heiio spoken straight 15rothetsot C()usins. with a cold warning, to a kiss, handshakes right to the en M.~e mofed ~way its mind-as set as body. fle"rgil to London, . Danger's, says, Dennis Ifo116wedhim plus Mike forever. he disdains restraint, saying of a sexually picky comrade: Dennis Coo, ..My friend can wait if he wants to. I'm hungry and I'Jieat.

Cooper's voice would have none of Provincetown's decorum. At one point he virtually interrupts a poem to exclaim:

September 11, 1989 OUT"-WEEK 57 TI BARNEY FRANK from page 12 IRS continued from page1. tenkowski (D-IL), who chairs the class madam, with several women he Ultimately the federal tax code committee, said, "It's very controver- employed as bisexual prostitutes. issue, and with it perhaps the fate of sial and unsettled. Anyone trying to "The girls turned to me and said, domestic partner legislation in this predict what's going to happen with 'You're just like her,'" Gobie told the country, must be decided in Washing- the new tax code is just making a Post. "That's when I realized I was in ton DC. The House Ways and Means wild guess at this point. There are the middle of a developing story that Committee is now examining several lots of political pressures on both could be worth something someday. I proposals to change or delete por- sides ofthe issue." told them, 'Don't be surprised if you tions of the new tax code that have a In the meantime, the new Octo- see me on TV.'" profound impact on how domestic ber 1 tax code regulations may have Both of Washington's major partner legislation and private sector proVided fundamentalist and conserva- dailies have reported that Gobie first benefits may fare. But no one is spec- tive opponents of domestic partner approached the Times with the story ulating about what the outcome in the laws with their most potent fiscal argu- and then went to the Post and WUSA- committee is likely to be. ment yet against such legislation.T TV with the story, seeking to start "a An aide to Rep. Dan Ros- -filed from San Francisco bidding war" for "a better offer." Both 11------

OUTTAKES from page 29 Sandfield said gay Jews experi- 11th International Conference of Gay ence significant emotional overlap and Lesbian Jews. Many conference between their being lesbian or gay participants belong to congregations and being Jewish. "Beatings, hatred, affiliated with the World Congress of misunderstanding, the Holocaust, dis- Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations. crimination-ali of those issues you Acceptance of homosexual ity could substitute the word 'gay' or 'les- varies widely within the various bian' without changing any of the rest branches of Judaism, organizers said. of the language," he said. Orthodox Jews are currently consid- Although religion plays a signifi- ered "unapproachable" on the issue, cant role in the lives of many who while conservative, reform and recon- attend the annual conference, orga- structionist congregations exhibit nizers acknowledged that for many varying degrees of acceptance of gay gay/lesbian Jews, the primary identifi- and lesbian people. cation with their Jewishness is on a The reconstructionist and reform socio-cultural level. movements have ordained openly gay Among those providing entertain- rabbis, according to conference co- ment during the conference was Jewish chair Norman Sandfield of Chicago's leather-

58 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 ~ Obituaries Eric Bemisderfer,

is a hard pill to Artist swallow. But we've Eric Bemisderfer, an artist who made a commit- worked as preparator on numerous ment to be there for museum exhibitions, died June 26 in people with AIDS his apartment in Brooklyn of AIDS- and I'm proud that related complications. He was 29. GMHC will be here Bemisderfer had been an art for anyone who preparator at the Solomon R. Guggen- needs it, now and heim Museum. In 1983 he was in the future," he appointed assistant registrar and said upon its open- proparator at the New Museum of ing. Contemporary Art, and installed the "Nathan epito- American Pavilion for the 1984 Venice mized the very best Biennale. He had also installed the qualities that Jasper Johns exhibition at the last humankind ca·n Venice Beiennale. offer," said GMHC's During the past decade he had Board President, shown his work at the Now Gallery, Joy Tomchin. "His dedication, selfless- Public Image Gallery, the Wall ness and understanding were inspira- Gallery, the Emerging Collector and, Nathan Ko!odner, tional to all who worked with him. most recently, at the E.M. Donohue Past President GMHC We needed a hero and he was ours." Gallery. The Fusion Arts folio, to [Mr. Kolodner's career of volun- which he contributed, was acquired Nathan K. Kolodner, a volunteer, teerism and good works began early Board member and past President of in his life. As a student at the Balti- the Board of Directors of the Gay more Friends School he was awarded Men's Health Crisis, died of AIDS- the Forbrush Award for Humanitarian- related causes at his home on Mon- ism. He went on to graduate magna day, August 28, 1989. He was 38 cum -laude form Brandeis in 1972 with years-old. departmental honors in sociology, and Starting as a volunteer at GMHC did graduate work at New York Uni- in 1983, Mr. Kolodner became a tire- versity in 1974 in sociology and fine less advocate for people with AIDS. arts.] He began work at the Andre He used his experience as a leading Emmerich Gallery 15 years ago and art dealer and Director of the Andre for the past 10 years has served as the Emmerich Gallery to organize an art gallery'S director, representing such auction at Sotheby's, an event that artists as David Hockney, AI Held and was the world's first million dollar Helen Frankenthaler, among others. AIDS fundraiser. Mr. Kolodner was also a member In 1986, Mr. Kolodner became of the Board of PS 1 (The Institute of by the Museum of Modern Art, the President of GMHC's Board, and Art and Urban Design). He received Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, helped to oversee the growth and numerous awards, among them the and the Whitney Museum of Ameri- diversification of the agency's pro- National AIDS Network "Americans can Art. He is survived by his parents grams. He focused political efforts on Who Care" award in 1987, presented Robert and Alice Bemisderfer, broth- building a coalition of AIDS organiza- at the French Embassy in Washington, ers Tim and Kurt and sisters Evelyn tions. "We must stand strongly united D.C.; and the Samuel and May Rudin and Jennifer. as one force so that public officials can Community Service Award in New A memorial service called "A Cel- understand the strength of the whole York City in June 1989. ebration of Life" will be held Thurs- AIDScommunity," he once said. He is survived by his lover, Rene day, Sept 14, 7 p.m. at Friends Mr. Kolodner also presided over Amrein, his mother, Ferne, his broth- Meeting House in Manhattan, 219 E. an expansion plan that culminated in ers, Kirk and Kenneth, and his grand- 15th St. and Rutherford Place. Video- the agency's purchase, renovation and mother, Rose Kandel. tapes of the artist will be shown, and move into its present six-story head- Memorial contributions can be refreshments will be served. quarters. "We've had to accept what made to the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Contributions in his name may we could not accept early on-that A memorial service will be held next be made to HEAL,P.O. Box 1103, Old AIDS is here for a while. The building month in New York. T Chelsea Station, N.Y, NY 10113, T

September 11, 1989 OUTTWEEK 59 COMMUNITY DIRECTORY For information on listing your non-profit organization, call Tom Eubanks at 685-5277.

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Best Bets (for finding other gays and lesbians to dance with) MEN & WOMEN I WOMEN MONDAY Private Eyes 12 W 21 St 206-7nO(preppie; male Sltippers, 2-4-1 till midnight) TUESDAY 'Love Machine Broadway at 17 St. 254-4005 (at the Underground) Tracks 531 W 19 St 627-2333 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens 718/261-8484 Club Lafayette 428 Lafayette St. (Scott Currie & R. Couri Hay) Private Eyes 12 W 21 St 206-mo (Dallas and Sanker's CLUBBAD) WEDNESDAY Spectrom 802 64 St. Brooklyn 718/238-8213(free admission all night) Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, 11516/486-9516 THURSDAY THURSDAY 'Boybar 15112 St Marks PI 674-7959(has a new wave drag show) . Bedrock 121 Woodfield Road, West Hempstead, U 516/486-9516 'COpacabana 10 E 60 St 755-0610 OastThu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 'Pyramid 101 Ave A 420-1590(Queer-Amid) FRIDAY Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (free admission all night) Bedrock (West Hempstead, U) Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Rd. Island Park, U 516-431-5700 FRIDAY Octagon 555 W 33 St 947-0400(Shescape, 645-6479) 'Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959 Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333 Oast Friday of month) COlumbia Dances Earl Hall, 116 St & B'way 854-3574 (1st Friday of VIsions 56-01 Queens Blvd. Woodside 7181846-7131 every month) Funk, Inc. 428 Lafayette St. SATURDAY Private Eyes 12 W 21 st. 206-mo (preppies and young professionals) Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead 516-486-9516 Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 7181238-8213 (m/f strippers) Silver Unlng 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Pk, U 516/354-9641 (a.k.a Tracks 531 W 19 St. 627-2333 "The Lining") Stan 836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, L.I. 516/242-3857 SATURDAY 'Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI. 674-7959 SUNDAY The Center 208 W 13 St. 620-7310 (2nd and 4th Saturdays) resuming Bedrock (West Hempstead, U) 9/23 Private Eyes 12W 21 St. 206-mo (Club Chicago for Men, preppies) EVERYNIGHT Sound Factory 530 W. 27 St. 643-0728(non-alcohol, House music) CUbby Hole. 438 Hudson Street 243-9079 Spectrom 802 64 St Brooklyn 718/238-8213 (guest performer night) Duchess n, Sheridan Square 242-1408

SUNDAY All Phone numbers are area code 212 unless otherwise indicated. 'Mars Westside Highway at 13 St. 691-6262 (Chip Duckett's "Mars Needs Men" night) 'Pyramid 101 Ave A 420-1590 (Hapi Phace and Drag + VarietyShow) Spectrom 802 64 St. 7181238-8213 (show; free admission) EVERY NIGHT Monster 80 Grove St. at Sheridan Square 924-3557

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76 OUTTWEEK September11, 1989 'I" "t.- • 1\\tf~"1~CA'il'''i. .. ;' , ~f.' TI PROSPECTcontinued from page 55 my father, want their daughters and have for all people-especially If the blues has been a music of sons to survive the death that the sys- oppressed peoples-we your past and oppression, Reggae is thought to be a tem has cut out for dem, but the dif- people of all colors together are our music of liberation. And so following ference is that they are hearin' about future. And as she says, "People are dreadlockled African mother H. how they, too, have contributed to looking for who is going to be the Gossett came Sister Carol, also in long this down pression. I see the men's next Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, dreads, with a red, green and gold eyes, they look at the wimmin in a Bob Marley. I think this time they outfit, highlighting her black, green new way. have to look out for a woman." and gold liberation sneakers. The Folk: And Sister Carol says drugs Her album is Black Cinderella, black, pink, brown, yellow- Asians (I destroy your rhythms, you no reach and so is she. But she needs no glass saw them)- Africans, Europeans, your vital consciousness with cocaine. slippers. Along with us we're dancing wimmin, men, children, gay people, "No cocaine, no LSD, no speed, no our way out of the white house, back straight people (but not too straight). slackness please." Sister Carol is a to self. When the head and the feet Some of us were straining to under- singer-educator. She sings of South meet, the circle shall be complete. T stand the patois of this great toaster, Africa, having us chanting, call and but knowing that her words have sig- response. Moreover, she does old-style nificance our bodies gyrate. I & I get reggae covers, which she updates and up from our seats, I & I skank in the changes, subtle differences making for aisles under the night sky. new interpretations. I don't always Brooklyn is rockin' cause Sister agree with her, but I know truth is not Carol is one of our own, like so many in the individual but in the dialogue, transplanted West Indies folk, proud in the listen in' betwix and amongst of her roots. She's our Black wimmin, that shall create us. Cinderella, and children run up on the One of the most important things stage to touch her. But it's not wor- about Rasta-Reggae for lesbian/gay ship, you understand. It's communica- people is its emphasis on history, tion with how she know dem and is which when taken back always one with demo I see men holding their becomes herstory-more truth, more daughters in a new way. They, like freedom. That's what black people

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7. Auntie 8. 1__ Camera 9. Bronte's Jane and kin 10. Country switcher 11. She __ Him Wrong 12. Mr. Coward 13. Some 19. __ ofaMurder 21. By means of 23. Early Lesbian pub., The __ 24. Musical direction 25. Desert__ 27. High __ 29. Yoko 31. "I can't satisfaction" 33. Jewish mo. or car co. 34. We__ Drifting 35. Lesbian blues great Alberta 37. Georgia city 38. Andress film 40. Farm tool 43. Lesbian pub. 44. Vigor 49. Detestation 51. Link 54. __ Elg 56. Mollusk 57. Bonheur's The __ Fair SOLUTION IN NEXT WEEK'S OUTWEEK ON SALE TUESDAY 59. Femur, e.g. 60. Soprano Berger ACROSS 48. __ grass 61. Castrate

1. Plato dubbed her the tenth muse 50. "But __ for Me" 62. ----4 Babylon 7. Lesbian novelist Rita __ Brown 52. Actor Michael 63.0nthe __ 10. Bisexual poet Millay 53. Prefix with body 64. Anais 14. She wrote Other Women 55. Suffix with girl 66. Recede 15. Lesbian poet Lowell 58. Saul's uncle 67. Prefix: new 16. Waiting For '!be __ 59. __ St. John 68. Alphabet letters 17. As You__ Me 61. City or salami 18. Lesbian blues great 63. Playwright Hansberry SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE 20. Go 65. Francis or Dahl 22. MTM's Georgette 69. __ of the Thousand Days ISSUE II 11 23. -di-dah 70. Naught 26. __ Amin 71. Miller who wrote 73 across 27. Catherine the Great 72. Margaret __ 28. Mars: comb. form 73. Patience __ Sarah 30.· of consent 74. Home of 1 Across 32. The Victim 36. Frederics and a Roman goddess DOWN 39. Reverberation 1. Weepy 41. Promissory note 2. Beer 42. Bisexual journalist 3. Barnum's 45. Approx. 4. Rock's Collins 46. __ Ames 5. "__ go again ..." 47. "Ma, he's making __ me ..." 6. Hill nymph

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82 OUTTWEEK September 11, 1989 Thursdays Pride & Progress September 7 10:30 pm • Gay Week in Review Election Round-Up • Act-Up • GCN Close-Up with Andy Humm, • Sports David Dinkins, Ed • Lavender Health Koch, Tom Duane, and Dave Taylor 11:00 pm The Right Stuff

• Razor Sharp From Chicago: • Naming Names Rudy Dannamore, • All About Women From L.A.: • Media Watch • Staying Out Mr. Superman Contest • Around the Country

Sundays Men & Films September 10 11:30 pm Reviews of male erotica along with Jack Laufton Shows Us A Big interviews behind the scenes with film stars One-Plus Clips from Texas Tales and Joined (The Siamese Twins).

Mondays Be My Guest September 11 10:00 pm Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel game Sybil Bruncheon Meets Josephine Baker show with surprise guests. , Frankie Loves Johnny An original gay soap opera. Episode #13 Trouble in Paradise

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