I 528 15TH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103 TELEPHONE: 415/861-5019 VOL. XI NO. 17 AUGUST 13, 1981 SFPD Raid Hotel In the last several months close to two hundred people Guests and Staff in Uproar have paid $150 for the right to get, keep or look at the by Paul Lorch kicking down doors, physical¬ bodies which have become ly and verbally roughing up such a tourist attraction in the Residents of the Zee Hotel both staff and guests and Castro. This financial exercise were stilt reeling in shock this arresting over a dozen males was done at a gym formerly week over what they uniform¬ (although even at this point called “The Pump Room” on ly feel was a horror-filled vio¬ the Zee people still aren’t sure upper Market Street. lation of their lives. On Thurs¬ of exactly how many were day, August 6, shortly after booked, how many were sub¬ It seems the man who own¬ 5pm the Tenderloin hotel sequently released, or how ed the Pump Room decided to let the air out of the Pump “You have a building full of queers and crimi¬ Room and head South. This has left the owner of the nals and we 're going to get rid of them for you. ” building, through various legal procedures, with a really San Francisco Police Officer jazzy and well-equipped gym. at the Zee Hotel Thus, under the auspices of one Loran Lee there is now found itself awash in a sea of many are still in custody). The Bodyworks Gym where undercover police. According Said desk clerk Norma Lan- once sat The Pump Room. to witnesses from 7 to 9 plain¬ field, 34, “I have never seen That’s all fine and dandy un¬ clothes officers swarmed such brutality in my life.” less you have a membership through the 3-story hotel at in the Pump Room. You see, Eddy and Mason .— some Nobody saw any search if you have a Pump Room with guns drawn — rounding warrants, nobody saw any membership and there is more Pump Room, all you up and handcuffing residents. (Continued on Page 2) Rodeo Frolic Reno Throws A Weekend by Allen White Reno The first weekend of this month was the 6th Annual National Reno Gay Rodeo. The rodeo firmly establishes Reno, Nevada, as the “Gay Rodeo Capital of the World.” The weekend drew over 15,000 revelers to various events sponsored by the rodeo’s organizers, The^Com- stock Gay Rodeo Association. And Gay San Francisco those three days-seemed more like a Nevada ghost town. Though there had been (Continued on Page 28) IN THIS ISSUE A disquieting revelation in the Glass Eye Caper.p. 4 Some plusses for porn by Gary Pedler.p. 14 Dan Turner interviews play¬ wright C. D. Arnold and direc¬ tor]. Kevin Hanlon.p. 26 Two pages of Rodeo pictures and stories.pp. 28, 29 New Gay Olympics column by Tom Waddell, MD.p. 32 No, it’s not the billboard at Castro and Market; this time we crossed the state line. (Photo by GEH Associates) some police were “laughing ZEE HOTEL RAID and joking” throughout the operation. Others were insult¬ (Continued from Page 1) ing and abusive. One woman badges, in fact the Zee people her that the police had kicked reported that one policeman had little or no idea of who or him in the ribs. He had contu¬ said to her, “Yeah, bitch, what the police were looking sions around his kidneys and you’re going to jail.” When for. Lanfield was on the desk lower back. He was subse¬ she objected to him calling at the time. She said a white quently taken to the hospital. her a “bitch,” he said, “I male entered between 5 and Armando speaks little or no didn’t call you a ‘bitch,’ bitch. 6 pm and rushed past her sta¬ English. But when I do call you a tion. She called to him and bitch, you’ll know it.” asked him to stop and ^regis¬ Roxanne, a young mother ter. “He ignored me,” she with three children ages 6, 4, Another reported one offi¬ said, . I went around the and 2 was in the ground floor cer saying, after a small crowd desk to go after him. Another kitchen preparing a meal for had gathered outside the person said, ‘He’s a cop, her family. She and her child¬ hotel on the sidewalk, “If don’t mess with him.’ I went ren witnesses a Cuban being there’s anymore people back behind the desk.” With kicked in the ribs and around grouping around outside, we that 5 or 6 more came run¬ the head. “They kept throw¬ may have to shoot our way ning down the stairs chasing a ing him around. What a thing out.” Cuban. She had no idea how they got into the building. Other residents said that over the two previous days plain¬ clothes police had been in and out of the building, wan¬ dering through the halls. “If doors were open,” said one resident, “they’d enter them at will.” The' Zee Hotel has 95 rooms with approximately 70 occupied. According to owner Hank Wilson, who has already filed a complaint with the Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB), the hotel houses a di¬ verse population: Gay and Straight, Men and Women, Hair to Play With Black and White, with a siz¬ able number of Cuban refu¬ Hairliners produces the most authentic duplication of actual gees, the elderly and disabled growing hair available. Our non-surgical Add Hair Systems and even some families. He are engineered for the man who likes to play a lot, and be said the Zee, whose rents played with. range from $35 to $50 per YEARS AHEAD TECHNOLOGY week, is made up of predomi¬ nantly younger people. He Combining advanced technology and uncompromising quality, said it is 60% residential and Hairliners creates hair that looks real, feels real, even moves with 40% transient. To the outsid¬ the natural flow of hair. In short your hair appears alive and grow¬ er it could easily be labeled a ing. In the wind, in water, in bed. To the hand your hair is soft and flea bag, and a source of po¬ flowing. Any way you part your hair it seems to grow from your tential “trouble.” To others it scalp individually, as hair actually does._ is home. Said Wilson, “We have people on the way up FREEDOM TO LOOK AND FEEL GOOD and people on the way down If you are suffering with a hair loss problem or suffering with a hair¬ — we have our problems but Zee Hotel owner Hank Wilson (R) displays sign of room numbers whose doors were broken down. (Photo by Rink) piece which unfortunately appears or performs much like a hat, nothing that would call for this Hairliners can give you the freedom to look and feel as you would kind of abuse.” for my babies to see,” she Other residents recounted like. The freedom to cruise in the bars, the streets, or wherever. To said. scenes of people being slap¬ play at the baths or the beach. The time to act is now. Hundreds of This reporter listened to the stories of 11 residents, some ped, stepped on, and one our clients already have. Many have given us glowing reports. Ac¬ Eddie Hale, the 50’ish guests and some hotel em¬ white male who was being tually, the most satisfying aspect of our work are the grins on their General Manager of both the ployees. Their accounts of choked over the wooden arm faces, the sparkle in their eyes, and certainly the hair on their Zee and the Ambassador was what transpired in various of a sofa in the lobby. Adrian heads. equally outraged. Hale, a parts of the building were Daryl, 39, said that one offi¬ trained psycho-therapist with equally hoary — filled with cer said to him, “If you don’t Please send for your free detailed brochure. Representatives in an MA from SF State said, anger, frustration and confu¬ get out of the hall, I’ll stick my Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Houston, Atlanta and Los “What the police don’t under¬ sion. Carmen, 26, was in foot up your ass and take you Angeles. stand is that we’re all on the room 325. She is a part time to jail.” Still others reported same side . From a psy¬ desk clerk, a volunteer coun¬ lost or stolen property. chologist’s point of view,” he selor and a translator. On Angel, a non-English speak¬ added, “the thing that fright¬ hearing the commotion, she ing Cuban, had all his ID ened me was that they were came out of her room with taken, spent a day in jail (he haimnei§ getting off on it.” doesn’t know why) and now OF CALIFORNIA her baby in her arms. 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