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GABRIEL ROTELLO
NEWS EDITOR ANDREW MILLER
. SARAH PETTIT
ARTS EDITOR
.Sharon Kowalski's . .'
FEAlURES EDITOR
STAFF REPORTER
VICTORIA STARR
NINA REYES
Long Road .Home DESIGN
EDITOR AT LARGE
MARIA C. PEREZ
MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE
~en Thompson's legal struggle to obtain the right to care CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
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disabled lover, Sharon Kowalski, was'dealt a serious blow AIDS, PAUL RYKOFF COLEMAN; POETRY, DAVID TRINIDAD;
·lastv.:-eek when a Minnesota judge awarded Kowalski's\guardian- USTINGS, DALE PECK r .
shfpto a third pIDty. In so doing, the judge cited the supposed CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS
. "best inter,ests~ of the paralyzed former gym teacher. But the Jana Astor del Valle, Laura Briggs, VlCIDria A. BrownworUt, Mark Chesoot, Joe
CIiuk, LoweI B.1lenrtj III, ScottliarrM, ArtIu S.l.eomrd, Avril McDonakI,
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· interestS he was really serving were those of homophobes, lesbo- Karen Ocamb, DIIlCaIl Osborne, Rachel Pepper, Dell Ri:hards, Raymond Rogers,
phobes, sexists and ableists. Maer R08han, James Waller, Allen WhIB, carrie Wolford
, . The' judge cited two primary reasons for not appointing NEWS WIRE SERVICES
Thompson guardianship, despite what he admitted were her Cliff O'Neill, Rex Wookner. John Zeh
"demonstrated commitment and devotion." The first was ·the fact CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
that Thompson has a new lover. The second was that, by press- Bradley Hal, Mib Barr, Greg 1Iay8ane, JI1f BIotcher, PeIBr Bowen, Max Cavtdl, Salah
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Chim, Anne-duislile d'Idesky, Susie 1Rf, Kathleen Joan DeBold, Risa Denenberg. .
ing the case in public, Thompson had, in effect, outed Kowalski. . John IJonalu. Monica IJorankamp, Dawn ~ IJavij Feim«g, Jin Fourall, BeaIrix
Both excuses are insulting, degrading and potentially damaging Gales, Bruc.MidDeI Gelbert, Mi:haeI Goff, JeweIe GoIl18Z, Jon Graemerg,
to every person involved in a non-traditional relationship and to NoeIe Hanrahan, Ernest Ha-ctt, Mark Harrington, Joe E. Jeflraya,l.arry Kramer, Gerard
Macby, Maria Maggenti, Jm Marb, Mi:haeI Paler, SyOOey Polmny, John PresIon,
every gay man, lesbian and disabled person. The decision consti- Jim Prowmaoo, Kilt B. ReIey, Allen Roskoff, Anne Ruberllllllil, SOl Schdman,
tutes a serious setback for the rights of us all, and it must be Ira SMrberg, Kart SoeIJnIein, James 5t James. Wdde Slamps, Bruce C. Steele,
Otis Stuart, Uz Tra:ey, Jom Wasser, John WIIg, Madam X.
reversed. • Eva YaaAsartswaa, Li1da Yabbneblya
The legal fiction that, because Thompson has a new lover,
ILLUSTRATORS AND CARTOONISTS
she is somehow inCapable of caring for Kowalski is sadly familiar Alison Bechdel, Mark Burdett. JennWerCamper, Tom Kalin,
to every lesbian-indeed every woman-who has ever been Krill Kovick, Andrea Natalie, Daniel Sotomayor, Zanne
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denied custcx;ly of her children on similar grounds. The strange CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
.notion that participation in an adult relationship is proof of self- BillllytBura,Greg CIaR, Desi Del Valle, Lisa Ebrigh~ Cha!1ee Fowler, Marc Gener,
ishness and disqualifies one as a potential care-giver is worse Efrain J. Gonzalez. Morgan Gwenwald, Marilyn Humphries, Andrew Lichtenstein,
lL Lilt, Palay Lynch, Jim MarIas, Tom McGovern. Tom McKiltericlc, Myrna Morales,
than perverse. It's a precise reversal of the truth, which is that Scott Morgan, Bien B. Nsipris, Rink, Lisa Romerein, Lee Snider/Photo Images,·
the capacity to love and partake in a relationship is a strong Ben Thombeny, Theresa C. Thadan~ Michael Wakefield, C.l Wemple
argument In favor of emotiohai health and the capacity to give
PRODUCTION MANAGER DIANA OSIERFELD
· selflessly. The fact that such excuses are frequently leveled PRODUCTION EDITOR JAMES CONRAD
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,against gays and, particularly, leSbians, shows how little society COPY CHIEF WALTER ARMSTRONG
· still respects our way' of love. GRAPHIC ARTISTS YVETTE ROBINSON
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PAUL LEONE
.The outing argument is even more bizarre. The judge main- CAMERA TECHNICIAN SALVADOR MENDEZ, JR.
tains that because Thompson went public concerning the out- INTERNS Justine Barda. Robert Campbell, Ann •
rage of her forced separation' from Kowalski, she thus outed Conner, PaIricia Lohr, Sara Simmons
'Kowalski and violated her privacy. In a bizarre, catch-22 appli-
PUBLISHER STEVEN POLAKOFF
cation of the anti-outing argument, the judge, in effect, proposes
ASSOCIATE PUBUSHER GABRIEL ROTELLO
that if you come out of the closet to claim your rights, you will SALES DIRECTOR BART CHURCH
be punished. ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES
Despite the absurdity and offensiveness of the court's posi- VEllA CORNELIUS, JACK HOFFMANN, EVA LEONARD, COLLEEN, •
tion, it carries the full force of law. And despite the case's sym- MANGAN, TROY MASTERS, ARMANDA C. SaUADRILLI, DOROTHY
DERINGER; (CALIFORNIA) MICHAEL CROSS, (415)861-3142; .
bolism and its value as a rallying point and cause celebre, real (NEW ENGLAND) RICHARD DRINKWATER (617)389-5076
lives are again damaged, real people are hurt. Thompson, who CLASSIAED SALES' ROGELIO A. PARRIS
has bravelytnaintained this lonely fight for five long years, can- RAYMOND P. LEWIS
ADVERTISING COORDINATOR MATTHEW DAVIS
not yet rest. And' Kowalski, who has aready suffered a grevious CIRCULATION DIRECTOR GRANT LUKENBILL
and permanent loss, still cannot come home. The importance of GENERAL COUNSEL MICHAEL CARVER
what they are doing for"us all is probably small comfort in the mEASURER LAWRENCE BASILE
face of such tragedy and indifference. . COMPTROLLER AJIT PHILLIPS
SYSTEMS DIRECTOR VON DORA CORZEN
It's .thus incumbent on everyone, particularly those gay men CREDIT MANAGER KATRINA SIMPSON
PUBLISHER'S ASSISTANT DARLA FJELD
who sometimes, regrettably, miss the connection, to understand ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT JAY BYRD
that this struggle is the struggle of all queers and all disabled OFFICE ASSISTANT MISAEL MALDONADO
people, that the arguments which oppress Thompson' and PRESIDENT KENDALL MORRISON
Kowalski oppress us all and that there, but for the grace of the ,
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GOLDWYN'S CHOICE once mentions Paul Regina, who also be noted that Paul Regina programs with as much integrity
While I agree with Bruce played Cliff on the program. Mr. played a gay pOlice officer , in an as Brothers, which was well writ-
Steele's thesis [no.96, May 1] Regina's character was just as episode of Trapper John, MD. ten, acted and produced. Perhaps
that playing queer presents no important to the show because For those actors who claim there is another story in this.
career stigma for actors, he got his character was just "coming to have been typecast after play- . Brian Hochberg
carried away when he cast out of the closer and coming to ing gay: characters, it should be . Manhattan
doubt on Tony Goldwyn's moti- terms with his sexuality. Although noted that the two Brothers
vations for acting the queer role the two characters were extreme- actors" ,who played their charac- Bruce Steele responds: I appre-
in The Sum of Us a job he ly different from each other, it led ters for five years, have continued ciate the update on Paul Regina; I
signed to undertake Off-Broad- to many interesting moments on to succeed in their careers. It was unaware of his recent work.
way after Ghost was a hit--con- In discussing Brothers, I focused
trary to the article's assertion. on Philip Charles Mackenzie
Anyone who knows Tony srONEWAll RIOtS BY ANDREA NATALIE because his character, unlike .
will tell you that he selects roles Regina's, was a flaming faggot It
without regard to the charac- seemed al/ the more remarkable
ter's sexual orientation. He has to me that Donald was portrayed
nothing to prove, but if he did, as the sympathetic soul of the
he might point out that before show and that Mackenzie was
The Sum of Us he played the never typecast thereafter. Mr.
role of a .gay man dying of AIDS I ,1'" ~ Hochberg's letter also gives me
on Designing Women. the opportunity tr:? clear up some-
We shouldn't lionize a het- thing th;lt was intentionally mud-
erosexual actor for portraying died in the article: I did speak with
queer roles, nor should we Mackenzie, and he was articulate
wash him away with the rhetori- and charmin{}-6l1d the next day
cal tide just to prove an other- THAT's FI/NII''; he demanded, through his man-
wise valid thesis. LATELY I'vr ager and his lawyers, that the
Spence Halperin. BEE /I' .,vOlICINt; interview lJe suppressed, saying,
Manhattan You NAVE SOI1£ "I don't want my name associat-
LOv£l. r SOFT
OVAL/TIES, ed" with OutWeek. Even though I
AFTER THE TYPECAST clearly identified myself and the
I thoroughly enjoyed Bruce ~g&dneatthe~meofthemte~
C. Steele's article regarding actors - view, Mackeniie says he thought
who play gay characters in the he was talking to ,Adweek. Thus,
May 1 issue [no. 96]. Although he as I wrote, he refused ''to cooper-
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mentions many actors. who have •
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played gay characters, he refers article. I regret that this sad tale
, to one program's gay character was not included as part of the
when there were two. original story.
I am referring to Showtime's the show. would have been great if Bruce
Brothers series that starred both As with Philip Charles could have interviewed one of the OPENLY GAY-
Philip Charles Mackenzie and Mackenzie who was able to two actors to get their reactioh to NAME WITHHELD
Paul Regina. To anyone who break the typecasting of playing this or possibly speak to the I am an openly gay theatri-
watched this program, Brothers only a gay character, Paul Regi- show's producer, Gary Nardino, cal agent in New York. While
was a TV breakthrough. It was na has broken this barrier too. about this. your article on actors taking on
the first TV program to show In the last three years, Mr. Regi- It is even more annoying to gay roles [no. 96, May 1] had
gays in a positive light I am sorry na has made four appearances know that Brothers, which is now many salient points, I take
that Mr. Mackenzie, who played playing the same lawyer on available in syndication, is not exception to many.
uncloseted Donald on the series, NBC's LA Law program, one of being shown in many media mar- When Paul Fouquet cast
did not grant OutWeef( magazine the recipients of the 1991 kets, including New York. It is Fifth of July, no one knew who
an interview, but Bruce never GLAAD Media Awards. It should about time television shows more Jennifer Grey was. I tend to
doubt that many people know knows me knows who wrote city has to offer and women who
who Bill Faggerbakke is today, this. (I don't represent any of are wooong on all fronts in coali-
let alone many years ago. Nei- the named actors.)' ' tion with our gay brothers in the
ther of these actors was a Name Withheld continuous struggle for our sexual
"name" then, so, Bruce, there Manhattan liberation and want to relax in a
goes your whole theory. In addi- clit-oriented joint and have a- beer,
tion, I am curious, Bruce, what NO WONDER the Clit Club is for you.
you meant when you said it was The F-22 Fighter plane will Jocelyn Taylor
fashionable before AIDS hit for cost $95 billion. PWAs are Julie Talentino
actors to play gay roles? I think I dying in the streets. Signorile Promoters of the Clit Club
missed that fa$hion. writes about Hollywood. No , Manhattan
Randy Carrig ;:said it wonder I feel like a sociopath !!I PS. Our appreciation goes out to
best-he had good -material. Bill Weaver our gay brothers who understand
Why did so many actors pass on Manhattan the need for a space where
Longtime Companion? Could it "women can be women." Your
be a'mediocre screenplay for YO! understanding and support make
very little money with an inexpe- Yo OutWeek! us love you even more. After all,
rienced director and an ,inexperi- Michael Goff gives a whole the Spike is a lot of fun too. Right?
enced writer?- Call me crazy, but paragraph (in parentheses even)
I think that had a lot to do with it. to the tactoid that Madonna was SICK DEGREES _
All actors have the right to spotted reading OutWeek [May 8, OF HOMOPHOBIA
construct their owrt' image. If they no. 97]. Que pasa, dudes? Is this I'm wondering why no one
do not choose to portray gay supposed to encourage meta not at this publication has pointed the
characters on their journey to buy OutWeek, to listen to Madon- middle finger at Six Degrees of
stardom, that is their right. It does na, to buy OutWeek or to never Separation. I was first made
not make them homophobic, it listen to Madonna. Anyway y'all uncomfortable by the play's
. just shows the climate of our sure got a lot of mileage out of undertone of classism. The pri-
country. There is no doubt that that middle-of-the-road mag. mary characters are 'all so rich
homophobia exists in Hollywood Confidential to OutWeek and any and willing to define themselves
and New York. But lefs look.for it celebrity that is reading: Why not as such. Then the play's central
where it really is and not constant- give us an important outing with character appears: a young, _~Iack
~y-inventhomophobic reason,sfor the support of the outee. Why inte~oper whose charm, wit and,
every refusal or lost part. " drag the ones out that we don't foremost, assumed identity as the
.'. Peter Frechette probably want to acknowledge anyway. son of Sidney Poitier wins him
- doesn't have time for interviews: Ooohhl Roy, Merv, Malcolm ... much good favor amo~gst the
Heis in rehearsal for a new Now that I know about you guys, aforementioned elitists. At this
Broadway play. OutWeek of my life is better" and maybe now point I read the subliminal mes-
. course jumps to its usual conclu- my fantasy life will be realized. sage to be that this good-looking,
sion: homophobia!! I Frechette Rob Cates able, young man of color could
has played gay characters repeat- . Jersey City only be happy b~ insinuating him-
edly-from LA Law to thir- , self in the lifestyle of upper-class
tysomething to Eastern Standard WHOTHECLIT white people (a point which was
to Law and Order. He has also CLUB IS FOR later substantiated in the text).
repeatedly played straight char- In response to a letter to '. Soon, the young ma'n of
acters. Let's lynch him because OutWeek titled "Clit Quota," the color is discovered by his hosts
he won't give an interview. promoters of the Clit Club in flagrante in a bedroom of their
There are plenty of actors would like to take time out to apartment with another man (a
working in Hollywood who have clarify a few things. white, handsome , hustler). This
no trouble playing both gay and Women who love women, was the audience's turn to be
straight characters. Perhaps if women who are looking for a shocked. You could have heard a
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actors like Jack Coleman would space where they can comfortably pin drop in that theater. Of
realize their own personal limi- experience, explore and celebrate course, the director played the
tations and talents (or lack their sexuality with other women, shock value for all it was worth by
thereof), they would not be so women who are just coming out having the hustler parade around
quick to blame their gay charac- and want to "breathe free" and in the nude, while he taunted the
.... ter portrayals on. their lack of have fun in a lesbian-identified, horrified "good people of the
career. But of course then Out- sex-positive club, women who manor." How shocking! How hor-
Week wouldn't have an article. have been out for a while and want rifying! Anyway, the playwright,
Obviously, I have to remain to see, hear,~mell, touch and taste John Guare (Is he black? Is he
anonymous. But anyone who more of th~ delicious fruits this gay?), did conscientiously refer to
safer-sex practices. Hooray for 1. Write about people who ;' 3: Expose closeted gay peo- checking sources for facts, .
him. In the midst of all the hate gays and lesbians., Be sure pie. Say that openly gay people statistics, intervi~ws (or other
SAME, OLD RACIST,HOMOPHO- and focus exclusively on how have internalized homophobia, superfluous information), and
BIC STEREOTYPING, I was not they are killing us. Make gay peo- but never admit to your own or use words like "fag," "dyke," •
mollified. And the worst was yet pie seem like helpless martyrs. explore the social factors which "queer" and "fucking" to prove
to come... 2. Write about sensitive het- have created it. you're hip and radical ',
Eventually the Black, homo- erosexual pop Stars. Talk about ' 4. Accept theeditQrs' defini- , 6. Call lots of people-L'fas-
sexual, homeless intruder (Pity how' much they have done for tion of gay pop cultur,e as the cists ," "racists" and '''sexists'' to -
the boy his circumstances- gay people, and be sure to, final word on the subject (Le., prove you're an angel ofth~ cult
arghl) is back on the street, or, exclude any mentiOn of innova- assume that Oiva worship and of politicalcorre~ess, but don't
should I say, Central Park. There tive gay musicians unless they've AIDS activism go"hand in hand). invest any energy in exploring
he meets,the pe'Hect picture of hit the mainstreamhetero charts . "6. Write exactly like the possible solutions to problems of
- innocence and naivete in a young, or are in the closet 'If 'mainstream press, only avoid hatred within the lesbian and gay
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community. selected for publications com- Boyajain cites an Overlooked getting riCher, most of us will .
7. By all means, don't ever pares, as he says, "AIr pills to Opinions survey which ,seems to keep getting poorer. She's right
confront or admit to any signs of flower petals." NeIther does he ' contradict this, saying that To say so is in no way to "val-
racism and,sexism in yourself I
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have access to my student ros- (according to Marketing Week(Y, orize poverty." Maggenti hates it,
8. Be, beautiful, and sleep telS. If he did, however, he would' whose figures differ slightly form I hate it, Minkowitz probably
with the editors. . know that only one of the many Boyajain's) lesbian couples earn hates it too. ,
9. Be best friends with the .poets we'Ve published has taken $39,000 per year median, com~ Anne Rubenstein
editors. any of my workshops. His other pared to $42,000 for gay men and . Brooklyn
(These last two items are charges are equally ridiculous. I $30,000 for all American house-
particularly: critical if you wish to question Bapst's m.otive in attack- holds. There are two problems THE RIGHT TO STINK
have your writing read for con- ing me so pelSonal/y,as I have with this.' first, Overlooked Opin- OK, OK, so maybe it really
sideration in the first place.) twice rejec;ted his Poems due to ions won't gy how they found the is in the best interests of the
10. Write a letter to the edi- thepoorquaJityofhiswork. ' 12,000 queers (43 percent Community Center to back out
. tor, and accept his righteous , . women) they interviewed, but of its participation in fund-rais-
response as the final word on , RICH REDUX ,
they probably used. mailing lists ing· events around the Miss
your relationship to the rest of This is in. response to the from gay organizations and busi- Saigon musical, and maybe it is
the queer community. letters generated by Maria nesses. People on these lists have very much in the interests of the
Special tip for poets: If you Maggenti's article on rich ciykes . relatively high. incomes: That's gay community to discuss the
are attempting to submit poetry to [no. 91, March 27] and to her why direct mailers hit them up for . racism and sexism displayed in
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this sho~. but I'm getting the
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OutWeek, you might consjder testy reply 'to one of them [no. money. Second, although the
romanticizing AIDS with lots of 94, April 17]. ' report's wording is unclear, it feeling not only tliat is it an act
weepy, trite· metaphors. (See back . Two ,unanswered questions seems Overlooked Opinions was of treason to get to see the
issues for poems comparing AZr float through the debate. First; are surveying gay couples, whereas show but that I' am also blowing
pills to flower petals.) Also, take women in the United States poor- the US median household income it by not getting all pissed off at
David Trinidad's course at the er than men? Minkowitz says we includes many households com- the simple fact that it exists.
YMCA, and tell him how much you earn two-thirds of what ,men do; prised .of a'.single adult unit. The Look, I get as offended as
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like his po.etry. Eventually, he'll Maggenti accuses her of "fabri- comparabl~figure .for straights is the next queer when I encounter
select yom shortest, simplest cat[ing] economic facts." Bureau median family income, which is, something abusive. But just li~e '
poem for publication as a reward of the Census Jigures for 1988 usuatly, $5,000 higher. The survey when I supported 2-Live Crew's
for stroking his ego (helping to reveal.that the median wage for was intended to entice adverti$ers right to perfo~m and sell sexist,
transform him into the queen of women with full-time jobs \Vas to gay publication$-":a npble racist garbage and so-called gay
the royalqiJeer poetry family). just undef63 percent of the' rriedi-aim~so no wOllder it tends to .Republieans'right to a~empt rep-
Your poem should create the illu- an male, full-time wage, and the ,exaggerate our incomes. But it resentation of the gay communi-
sion of "direct," ~honesf' speech gap had been growing since· adds little1otl:1e debate at hand. In ty, I can't understand any efforts
and end with a self-pitying cry. 1978. Furthermore,women were sum, women in the United States to do anything other than support
Don't let it do anything but confess more likely to be 'unemployed or ' do indeed earn much less than the First Amendment and artistic
'the most basic feeling (sadness is , woriQng.Part-time~than men were. 'men, ~9 our sexual orientations rights of,the people involved in
a favorite). Or just make it sexy. The average American woman probably make very 'little differ- the Miss Saigon production. It
Poems about the overwhelming may earn less than half the wages ence in our pa9Checks: Most les- comes down to one argument If
odds against lesbians and gays of the averageAmerican man. . ' bians are poor. you don't like it, change the chan-
are encouraged, but avoid ones in Anna Boyajain's letter [no. "Census figures also tell us nel baby, but don't tell me what I
which lesbians and gays respond 94, April 17] raises a second that nearly everyone in the Unit- can say or do.
effectively an'd victoriously to ,their question: Do queers earn moreed States has been getting poor- If you don't like the alleged
hostile environments. than hets? As Boyajain com- er since themid-'60s, when sexism or racism in the script or
DonBapst ments~some of us are/free from income (adjusted for inflation) the fact that an ar;tor is attempt-
• Manhattan childbearh'lg's burden of 'unpaid went into decline. Since 1980, ing to cross ethnic lines in his
, labl)r, and dykes may.be more' the gap between the richest and performance, then don't go see
Editors respond: Damn, we've self-sufficient and aggr:essivethan poorest citizens has widened, the damn show, and ,if you hap-
been found out. The only ques- ' straight women,qualities some~' t~e number of wealthy people pen to hal(e some power at a
tion arises regarding point no. 8. times rewarded by the job ina~ ,~.has shrunk, and the number of community group, don't let the
Obviously, if we were getting laid, (though not in pink-collar jobs). people who live below the pbver- group lend its support.' Fine, go
we'd be a much happier bunch However, a homophobic sbciety , ty line has grown. As Maggenti ahead, and express your constitu-
and probably wouldn't have to narrows some job options and says, our "capitalist society" is tional rights. Knock yourself out
resort to the tactics mentioned in doesn't provide the kinds of eeo- indeed "sick." However, I dis- with your First Amendment..but
the rest of your letter. nomic protections (alimony, agree that giving "everyone an while you're at it, fight fair.
mostly) that straight women get equal...chance to make it" will Miss Saigon has every
David Trinidad responds: Obvi~ My guess, then, is that the net ,solve anything: Whafgood is an right to be whatever it wants-
ous/y, Mr. 8apst does not read effect of sexual orientation on equal share of a shrinking pie? even if it wants to be garbage.
the poetry in OutWeek very care- average income is nil, or perhaps Minkowitz implies that because a Gregory Duon-Nguyen Phan
fully. Not one of the poems I've slightly negative. few good people are rich and Honolulu
/ TWO bISCON- years ago. After that time, " utter wlgarity has reached new such as Madame Savary over
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"sand spits" migrated south and vertiginious altitudes, and it, the image of two WASPy mod-
(OR AR,E THEY?) and west to form the Province- is this that impels me to write: els faking passion is unspeak-
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, . DonnaJ. Keith takes lands. Sand also migrated The completely fascist intentions ably grotesque.
exception to the "Mad Queen"' south toward Wellfleet,on the of his aesthetic are already too To all the queers who have
["Letters," no. 95, April 24]. bay side connecting th,e Obvious. He is all open to paro- not yet connected their politics
" I must say, James "archipelago" we now call Great dy. But wouldn't Hemingwayand to their pocketbook, I say this:
"Trudy" St. James, is not you~ Island. Irs safe to say the Pil- Flaubert
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be flipping in their
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Boycott Calvin Klein. Seeing
run-of-the~mill award-winning grims landed on a "sand spit" graves by now if they knew that those briefs on the ass of your
journalist. However, 'she does I'd like to thank Susan for Calvin Klein was' using their next twirl should be the ulti-
live a life we mere mortals can her efforts and congratulate prose as literary Muzak for his mate turnoff, not to mention a
only dream about The sex and her for writing about activities Pllrfume commercials? clue to his or her cheesiness.
drugs are a facet of ,a true dia- . other than shopping, sun- Isn't Calvin Klein a faggot Don't eroticize a name that only
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, In Susan McDonough's town has much more to offer thought he was just hypocritical exclude you from'the world of
"Come Up and See Me" [no. ' than Commercial Street and and talentless; with an evident power, health and beauty.
~6, May 1], Susan sighted the , Herring Cove. ' distaste for anything without Dwain''Nagel
pilgrims touching, down on an John Kelly w~ite skin, muscles or straight, San Francisco
archipelago. Not .true. Lowell, Mass.
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Wisconsin Sfage, 'leaving a I'in disgusted by the Amer- tural div~rsity): Yet it seems that Weekin responseto Denenberg's
"spine." peninsula' and an' ican media's use of sexual desire he even lacks the appreciation article 'Women, AIDS, Lesbians
archipelago of bordering to sell me things. The worst ot (e~pect for anything written and Politics" [no. 93, April 10] an
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ended at High Head in North famous 'homosexualwho contin- and,American authors.•
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pass a gay rights bill? For the fliSt time "Due to Glick's presence, Philip since s~ar legislation was first intro-
since 1985, a statewide gay rights bill is Healey, a Nassau COunty Republican, duced 21 years ago.
up for vote and expected to pass the who voiced opposition to, the bill, voted "He saw the train was taking, oil,
New York State Assembly, although for itt Dadey said. "' , and he wanted to be on board," Dadey
opposition is anticipated from the 'The growing pressure throughout said of Cuomo's bill, although' most
Republican-controlled Senate. the country to grant gays and lesbians agree that Cuomo's support will give the " ,
w~<;ks, leaving New York trailing far legislation the push it needs to get
behind. Massachusetts and Wisconsin through the Assembly this year. ..'('
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stronger hand in pushing this bill, and I
recently went down in narrow defeats. . hope that it has another positiVe efted. iii.
DemOCratic State Assemblyman Steve pushing for the bias bill," Dadey said.
Sanders
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whose Omnibus Assemblyman Sanders added that the
Civil Rights bill was approved by the governor's plan sends out a "powerful
Assembly Committee on Governmental message. It sets a moral tone, it sOrt of
~ons last week by a 7-t0-2 vote and
is now pending a May vote in the full
legitimizes the need for this legislation."
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of gettiQg behind progressive legislation, , , crimination ill housing, employm~nt, if
but sadly, we've overlooked this and are YOUR WOMAN IN ALBANY public accommodations, educational
now rea11y a& states all over Assemblywoman Oeboraq Glick facilities, insufance and credit. ., .
the country are passing these bills." . But even if the bill does paSs the
. ~lators say that they are hopeful their civil rights has alSo had astrbng . Assembly, chances are that' it may not
but not optimistic that the legislation effect on New York stat¢ legislatox:s.And . even come up for a vote ill the Sefiate,
could pass this year in a state that cannot Gov. Mario Cuomo iqtrodu<;ed 1$ own and if it does, its chanceS of passage 'are
even settle on anti-bias legislation that gay rights bill just list.' we,ek, the day slim, according to legislators .
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tcµed categories. , ~committee, proclaimirig,; "For everything Dale Volker, an Erie County Republican,
" The advances made this year have to there is a seasOIl, ancHor .thisgfeat pro- said, "We'll take a look at it,~" but
do with a changing political cBmate, gressive state it is already late in, the ~- declined to comment further. ,
accOrding to Dick Dadey, executive direc- son to acknowledge, clearly .,
and as a "The single laIgest stumbling l:>lock i,$
tor of the Empire State Pride Agenda, a matter of statutory law, the simple truth
I the Republican party," Sanders said of the
gay rights lobbying group .. Dadey cited and fairness represented by this bill." troulXesgetting gay-related legislation plSSed
the election of Deborah Glick, the first His statement adds momenfum to • .,. ALBANY on p-a- 8 ...
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diversity was not successfully met-the . lously rigid "politically correct" confer-
by Carrie Wofford lesbians of color caucus attracted only ence upon hearing of its "fragrance-
ATLANTA-Diversity. Solidarity. 90 women out of 1;000 on the first day, freen' requirements. Other activists
Empowerment. That was the stated and not many more on subsequent chose,not to attend because their work-
theme for last week's National Lesbian days when attendance reached shops were never scheduled, as in the
Conference, the first national political 2,400-many lesbians of color did case of the Lesbian Herstory Archives,
gathering for lesbians since 1973. express optimism. The numbers of visi- or because they had fonnerly sexved as
For many, unfortunately, the con- bly disabled lesbians (perhaps 25) and steering committee members and want-
ference failed on all counts: Diversity older lesbians were drastically higher
was lacking, ftstfights took the place of compared to those of other events, but
solidarity, and many lesbians left feel- not even close to organizers' goals.'
ing excluded from the process, dis- Class diversity was limited by the costs
gusted with the process or simply of attending a hotel-based conference. ed no part of the bick~ring.
"processed to death." And diversity of opinion was virtu- "We're all lesbians, but beyond
Although the conference's steering ally nil. A radical, heavily socialist agen- that what do we have to say to each
committee had operated under a strict da was unofficially put forth as the other?" asked Farar Elliot, a member'
"parity" fonnula (50 percent lesbians of agenda of the Lesbian Nation. While of the feminist journal Off Our BackS ,
color, 20 percent disabled lesbians and some fourid it a noble agenda, it. was . collective.
5 percent older lesbians), the confer- hardly representative of the Lesbian "I'm just sad that there are so many
ence itself drew an overwhelmingly Nation's diversity. Similarly, many les- people who felt there were too many
white, middle-aged, middle-class, able- bian activists (from ACf UP to main- battles [here, thatl sometimes things got.
bodied, feminist crowd. stream lobbyists) chose not to attend too mean or hard," offered Robin Kane,
While the goal of racial and ethnic what they predicted would be a ridicu- a program assistant with the National ,
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into the courtroom last week, when the judge in from 1985 until 1989, Thompson was denied
the Sharon Kowalski case denied guardianship any contact with Kowalski, following Thomp-
I rights to Kowalski's lover, Karen Thompson, in son's revelation to Kowalski's parents of their 4-
part because he felt Thompson had wrongfully year relationship while Kowalski kept their
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Campbell of the st. Louis County District Court in eral courts claiming Kowalski's level of care was
Duluth, Minn., placed Sharon Kowalski with a unacceptable. And in May 1990, Mr. Kowalski
"neutral third party," Karen TOlI)berlin, a friend of gave up his guardianship, citing ill health, and
the Kowalski family, although he acknowledged Thompson applied to become guardian.
Thompson as "better able" than anyone else to KAREN tHOMPSON The judge selected Tomberlin because the
, care for Sharon. , Kowalskis said that they would not visit their daugh-
The I,egal tug-of-war for Kowalski's guardianship has ter if she lived with Thompson. Judge Campbell blamed Thomp-
become a cause celebre in the fight for lesbian and disabled son's lack of understanding and respect for the Kowalski's "cultur-
rights since a 1983 auto accident left Kowalski severely injured al background" in informing them of their daughter's lesbianism.
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disorganization that plagued the pro- Conference-organizers admitted statement of apology.
cedings and that impacted heavily on responsibility for the disorganization But two other conference-organiz~
lesbians of color. The Latina Caucus but continually told participants. that ers were saddened by the persecutory
was dropped from the conference
schedule; some Native Americans were
never informed when they were sup-
posed to speak at a plenary or perform
in a workshop, and the conference pro-
gramers lesbians of color-who had
finisbed the schedule a month early,
found that other staff had changed it
without informing them. .
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so great that many questioned what
had been done with the three years of
planning time and nearly one-half of a
million dollars that went into the
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tence that [the apology] be signed by hope this [conference] serves as a
. specific people [misses the pointl," launching pad for anti-oppression work
exclaimed Luvenia Pinson. "It's blaming for the entire women's movement"
an individual person as. opposed to And for some participants, there
blaming a culture of racism." was humor in a conference they saw as
An atmosphere, carefully planned, a "parody" of lesbian politics: Weeks
if,haphazardly structured, as "safe" and before, lobbyists from the NGLTF and
"inclusive" rapidly turned sour and took the Human Rights Campaign Fund sug-
its toll on many participants: Some gested in jest to conference-staffers that
women left early, and others left feeling their workshop be called· "Lobbying
, burnt out or burned by each other. "We With Crystals." They arrived to' find that
have demonstrated at this conference
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noted a frustrated Urvashi Vaid, execu- l~.between spirituality and back-room
tive director of the National Gay and pOliticking showed up in force. And l
Lesbian Task Force, or NGLTF, during when an animal rights activist, during a ~
her keynote plenary address. • memorial service for women who had ~
'"1 did not spend $600 to see recently died, shared her sadness about ~
women, treat each other this way!" "the lesbian dogs killed in laboratories," ~
screamed an exasperated African-Amer- more than a few lesbians giggled. 6':.
ican woman during the final fistfight Nearly three-quarters of the partici- ~
over lesbians in the military. ,
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darity and just a plain good time were the marketplace of more than 100
achieved jn'small doses. "It's empower- explained Mary Frances Platt, the con- booths of lesbian-deSigned crafts,
, ing and overwhelming that'250 women ference's disabled-access ,coordinator. books, clothing and sex toys, went to
" were trained this week in anti-ableism," "In spite of the problems," suggested the numerous dances and concerts and
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everything lesbians think and do. " ,
More than 200 lesbians shared their
experiences in Queer Nation groups
across the country, while 500 women
att~nded one of the most popular work-
HE shops: female ejaculation.
KNOWS WHAT'S
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INSIDE AND masturbated in front of each other dur-
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of the facilitator for a discussion on "Fat
Oppression" who showed up naked
from the waist down in order to eroti- I
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More than 2,000 lesbians packed
into the civic center to hear lesbian'
folksiriger Alix Dobkin, a fixture on the
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"'The movement is big enough for all of
WESTSIDE DERMATOLOGY us, and some of us are loony!" ,
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Treatment of all skin & scalp conditions. And Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin,
• warts • moles • acne • hair loss the grandmothers of the lesbian
• psoriasis & seborrhea • skin cancer movement, who founded Daughters
Collagen treatment of wrinkles of Bilitis and organized the first les-
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Diagnosis & treatment of all skin conditions asso~iated with ARC, bian conference in 1960, agreed:
. AIDS, HIV INFECTION & SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES "Even if it's a gripe, we would like to
140 West 79th Street hear it. We need to keep listening to
(between Columbus & Amsterdam) each other, so we don't keep making
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sponsor Rep. Morris,K. Udall on April 19, four' of the state's 14-member, House del-
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bill until a special election is held to illl the measure for the first tiffie in his 11
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of the federal gay and lesbian civil rights Task Force lobbyist. "And we're going to . tact through constituent mail programs.
J bill in late April picked up two new c0- get them." New Jersey activists are pressing
sponsors, a Democrat and Congress' only The Senate and House measure, S. Democratic Sens. Bill Bradley and Frank
Socialist member, bringing the total num- 574 and H.R. 1430, respectively, would Lautenberg of New Jersey, who both
ber of backers of the measure to a new amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, mak- ,have pro-gay voting records, to co-spon-
record high. ing . .on on the basis of sexual sor the Senate measure.
Coming on the House measure the orientation in employment, housing, pub- Sanders, who on his election to the
week of April ,12 were six-term lic accommpdations and federally assisted House last November became the first
. Democratic Rep. Bernara J. Dwyer of' programs illegal. The bill:;; have been Socialist in Congress in many decades,
. ,New:Jersey and freshman indetJendent introduced to every Congress since 1975. during the fall campaign had pledged to
Rep. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, cany- One important note, bill activists. co-sponsor, the gay rights bill. '
ing the total number ()f sponsors and c0- .point out, is that the addition of Dwyers To date, Hawaii, which recently ,
sponsors of-the House proposal to 86. name to the tally, which brin~ th<: num- passed a gay and lesbian rights bill of its
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, . gloom of ni~nt can keep Manliattan Borough President Ruth at Bailey House, a residence for people with AIDS, took a walking
MeSSinger ~romthe S\Yiftcompletion of her elected rounds. tour of the West Village and ended up at the Lesbian and Gay
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MeSSinger pounded the pavement in Chinatown and Little Italy Community Center in time to speak at one of its regular orientations .
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for the US Senate, lashed out at femi- Calling the feminist movement "the women who demonstrated against Miss
Former City Council hopeful the city's Gay and Lesbian Pride march, for a chance to speak at ,
Tom Duane has quit his job in this year's ,"Here Without Fear" rally in Union Square on June 29.
C!)mptroller , Elizabeth Entry,fORns are available at the Community Center, and the lucky,
, Holtzman's office to make randomly chos~n Winners can stand before their brothers and sis-
room in his ~chedule for ters ,andtalk about anything they damn well please.' For more info
another run, even though the on the lottery, or any of HOP's plans, call (212) 691-1774.
new district lines are still far . .
from finalized. "Whatever dis- TROUBLE, IS A QUEER: In San FranCiSCO,two men were
trict has Chelsea in it, that'sarrested after a domestic ,dispute over rearranging the furniture
, where I'm going to run," ended when one allegedly pushed a couch into the fireplace of
by ANDREW MILLER
promised Duane. "I'm getting their apartment in the Haight, according to the Sentinel, a local
, ready, and several fund-raising, gay weekly. The ensuing April 18 blaze reportedly caused
events are in the pipeline." $120,000 in damage and forced six people from their apartments.
Check your mailboxes, get out your checkbooks, and stay tuned. . In Los Angeles" a lesbian is planning a lawsuit after her attempt
to have a T-shirt reading "See Spot Dick Jane" removed from a
QUEERS TO QUEER-BASHERS: DROP DEAD: "Fed vendor's booth at a local gay rodeo ended in a scuffle in which
up with being intimidated, harassed and beaten on the streets of she was allegedly injured, according to the Vanguard, a local gay
New York?" queries yet another Queer National press advisory. newspaper. "If she would have been lady enough or man.enough,
Well, then,plan on being at what organizers hope will be the city's whichever she would like, we could have worked this out," com-
, largest-ever lesbian and gay "Take Back the Night" march, on . mented an official from the Los Angeles Chapter of the Golden .
saturday, June 22, at 10 pm. Call the QN hoUine at (212) 368-2089 State Gay Rodeo Association. And in Milwaukee, 30 police offi-
for details. ' cers in 13 squad cars raided a gay bar, interruptiog its "Best
, B.uns" contest and citing six contestants for "certain perfor-
QUEER HERE WITHOUT FEAR: And if you want to raise manc~ or' costumes prohibited," a misdemeanor carrying a $799
your voice in a slightly less peripatetic manner, why not enter the maximum fine, according to Outlines News Service .
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who is being recognized for her long- said Kerry Williams, their director of
time support of the lesbian, gay and programs.
AIDS community. Grace Shohet added that "how
TWENTY-5IX BUSTED -Avril McDonald much money will be available is a bud-,
getary matter. This settlement 40es not
AT MOVIE SET
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FEDSMUSTF money for people with AIDS and ARC.
SAN FRANCISCO-Protests
against Basic Instinct, a movie whose
AIDS HOUSING But whatever money is made available,
they will be able to take advantage of." '
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to 26 arrests, when Queer Nation symptomatic AIDS or ARC are consid-
members disrupted filming on the set ered disabled for pwposes of obtaining
here, and producer Alan Marshall fin- federal housing subsidies, an out-of-
, CAN NYC EVER
, gered each individually and had them
busted. Tune in next week for details.
court settlement, reached in California
recently, decided.
HOUSEPWAs?
, Under the terms of the settlement, NEW YORK-Manhattari Borough
made in the case of Moreau and President Ruth Messinger and other city
Housingfor I: People v. Kemp politicians have joined with ACf UP les-
.Saigon and the Irish Lesbian and Gay and the USDepartment of Housing and bian and gay groups and supportive
Organization, or ILGO, are among a Urban Development, or HUD, persons hOUSing providers in calling on Mayor
handful of groups and individuals chosen with "sporadic" or "intermittent" symp- David Dinkins to authorize emergency
to be honored by the Gay and Lesbian toms of HIV infection are deemed to be measures to speed contract negotiations
Independent Democrats, or GLID. "functionally limited" and so eligible for for Human Resources Administration
At its annual award dinner on May housing subsidies under the 1959 housing for people with AIDS.
16, GUO will present a plaque to the Housing Act. In a letter to the mayor, Messinger
coalition of Asian gay groups that organ- A subsection of that act provides pleaded with him to rescue housing
ized the protest against the uSe as a fund- grants to sponsors wishing to establish programs for PWAs from the bureau-
raiser of the Broadway musical, Miss housing program; for these populations. cratic mish-mash in which they have
Saigon, by Iambda Defense Legal ~. The housing advocates had applied to become embroiled. She asked him, to
GUO's President, John Magisano, HUD in 1989 for a grant of $999,000 to , invoke accelerated procurement proce-
'told Out.Week that "we wanted, to rec- build 24 units for people with AIDS and dures for H.RAcontracts for scattered
ognize the accomplishments of Gay. ARC. The casa de Los Amigos housmg site apartments for PWAs. Due to a
and 'Pacific Islander Men of New York project was to be built here in San Jose. series of bureaucratic snags these- have
and Asian Lesbians of the East Coast in HUD denied the application, claim- held up, even though the' administra-
raising the visibility of the Asian gay ing that PWA did not qualify as handi- tion made! a court approv~d commit-
conununity tenfold." capped, because their illness was not ment to have 500 units on line by june
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honored because of its courage." ILGO indefinite duration. "I believe that this whole process
recently took on the Ancient Order of According to Grace Shohet, an attor- has been delayed long enough," wrote
Hibernians, or AOH, organizers of the St. ney with Heller, Ehrman, White and Messinger. "The provider groups and
Patrick's Day parade, when its application McAuliffe,who negotiated the settlement their clients cannot wait any longer; and
to march inthe parade was turned down. on behalf of the plaintiff's, "they claimed the city could face a possible court
After much wrangling, and with the that you had to have a condition which mandated deadline for these units ....OUr
help of David Dinkins himself, iLGO affected your ability to live indepen- responsibility to homeless people with
joined in the parade as guests of a .dently would be improved by hOUSing. AIDS requires that the city act now to
Manhattan chapter of the AOH, albeit With HIV, they said, you were either too expedite the securing of appropriate
without its own banner. sick or .not sick enough. Also, you were housing."
Anne Macguire, a member of ILGO not expected to live long." She contin- A letter to similar effect was sent by
who was heavily involved in the negotia- ued, "It is a victory in the fight for basic New York City Council President Andrew
tions surrounding the fight for inclusion housing rights because HIV is now rec- Stein to HRA Commissioner Barbara
in the parade, told OutWeek that she was ognized as a disability." Sabol, in which he called •
on her to
"absolutely delighted. It's good to have Housing for Independent People "expedite immediately the pending con-
some recognition from people who was awarded $1.1 million under theset- tracts of Housing Works, Jewish Board of
appreciate what happened" t1ement which will be used to build Casa Family and Children's Services, Minority
Also up for honors by GUO are de Los Amigas. Task Force on AIDS and the Voluntee~
Pamela Green of the Sojouner Truth HIP is currently planning another of America.
Democratic Club; Tom Duane, the housing project for PWAs in Orange Meanwhile, City Councilman
openly gay, former City Council candi- County and is in the process of putting Ronnie EldriClge has also requested
date, and future hopeful for that title together an application. "We hope that that Sabol, City Comptroller Elizabeth
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: SWiTZERLAND--Gay men, lesbians and artists are outraged that the govem- ': the 10,000 homeless New Yorkers with
I men~ wants. to put the work of ~e late gay a~st, Keitt) Haring, onth.e ~cia! T-shirt ~Ie- ,I HIV-related illness have little hope of "
I bratlng SWitzerland's 700th birthday. Hanng was a regular participant In the SWISS' I liviIig iIi the less than 300 existing sup-
I Montreaux Jazz Festival, according to the German gay magazine, Magnus. The angry . I portive housing units,' . ,
I gro.ups say that it i~ wrong for a homophobic gov~rrimentto mak~ use of the work O!a I -Avril McDonald
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I . CZECHOSLOVAKIA-The push to legalize gay and lesbian marriage is I
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:. year after theforei~n minister visite.d Denma~k and the reporters who ~ccompanied : .NOT TO FUND
. numerous reports In Denmark's unique marriage law. When all was said and done,
: " . many Czech MP~ and ordinary citi~ns alike ,,:,er~ left with the notion that full equality ': :WASHINGTON-Two of the nation's
I .' for h9mosexuals ISsynonymous with Westernization, democra~ and the 1990s. I leadmg ad;ocates for AIDS care and
, . . research testified here before a key Senate
I. .', ' EUROPE-ACT UP is proving to be one of America's most successful gay I . appropriations sulxommittee on April 16,
.: ~xports in the :80s. N~w chapters have formed in Dublin and Vienna, joining estab-: pleadiIlg for, a drastic increase in f~eral
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, Ihshe~ groups In Belgium, E~gl~nd, France, Germany, ?weden and elsew~~re. ACT I AIDS spending over what the president·
UPNlenna formed because "it stinks that the needs and Interests of HIV-positives and and the USHouse have already targeted.
I persons with AIDS are ignored," an organizer told Lambda Nachrichten. "Whoever I . Speaking before the Labor, Health
:" wants to join ACT UP mus~ be willing to. take risks and have cour~µe," the woup ~ and Human S~rvices, Edu~ation and
,warned. To contact them, write ACT UPIWeln, Novaragasse 40, 1020 Wlen, Austna Related AgenCies Subcommltte,e of the
I '. ,ACT UP/Dublinformed ''to agitate for change in public poli~ on AIDS prevention .. I Senate Appropriations Committee, the
: ".and care," a~cor~ing to' Du~lin'sGay Community News. Immediate p~ojectsi~clu~e .: panel of AIDS and public health advo-
I protests 'against poor hospital care and the absence of useful AIDS mformatlon In :I cates pled their case for additional fund-
I " schools. To contact them, writeACT UP, rio 82 the Coombe, Dublin 8, Ireland, or phone I ing bey?~d~e White, House's 'r~uest for
. them at 011 353 1 530803. $1.95 billion In spending for public health
I ,ACT UPIParis celebrated its first birthday in February by descending en masse on' J AIDS programs in the 1992 fiscal year.
, : the .Ministry of Health, already the site of routine w~ekly picke!s. Three protest~rs: . Mobilized under the coalition ~er
. chaIned themselves to the front door where guards kicked and hit them before police of the National Organizations Responding
: inte~ened. After len~y neg?~iations, three demonst~tors were escortedinsi~e for a \: to AIDS, 150 national groups, ct:aired by
.' meeting. ACT UP PreSident Didier Lestrade warned offiCials, "If you do not see fit to pay the AIDS Action Council, are asking that a
: more attention to AlpS, ACT UP W!" feel obligated to ra~icalize its methods of action." : full $3 billion be ~nt on the ~~ pro-
I To contact them, write ACT UPIPans, BP 231, 75382 Pans Cedex 17, France; or phone I ~ of the Public Health Service I!l the
them at 011 33 42 63 44 78. next fiscal year.
I, I ,Selling the plan to the committee
: ITALY-Babilonia reports that passers-by are scandalized by Agenore Fabbri's ~. this year, though, is expected to be
I new sculpture outside the Gioa subway station in Milan. The work depicts a nude man I tougher than previous forays with the
, with what Babilonia termed "rather enlarged family jewels." ,money process, as the congressional
I ' Rome Gay News has suspended publication to protest Mayor Franco Carraro's. I bu<;igetcommittees will be limited by laSt
I refuliCil to say yes or no to funding a gay and lesbian community center. In 1970, Gay I fall's Budget Enforcement Act which ties
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I House.Ompo was booted out of p~b!ic buildi~g ~~ the ~~cuse tha! ,renovation.swere . :i~cf~ases, in dom~~tic spending to the
.: to begin, but 13 years later the building remalOs 10 its onglOal condition, and City HaJl ,';-j; j,~ :~,th~ .~~ of hVlng.
. I. has made no attemptto offer replacement space. " , '. I '..'.S~eklUg to maneuver around the
I .' I hrmtatlons"of last year's budget agree-
. . ment, the US House approved its version
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executive directors. AIDS Project thai he was fired beciuse he is Bay. ' Voltz brings "the best mentoring
Worcester, the GMHC of Central ~The enthusiasm evidenced by the anyone could ask for,· from MC
Massachusetts, has just hired itS third board and the community in general is Executive Director La.ny Kessler, who is
executive director in just over a year. Jim proof of the tremendous confidence ...we the country's longest-serving director of
Voltz, formerly the special assistant to have [in Voltz],· asserted a jubilant an AIDS group, with nine years in the
,the director of Massachusetts' AIDS Macey Goldman, the president of AIDS top job at AAe. Voltz is known!n Boston
Action Committee, the t4ird-Iargest Project Worcester's Board of Directors. I for his community leadership. He also
AIDS-service group in the countty, took Voltz will take over an agency hosts the Gay Boston cable 1V program.
the helm last month. which serves the second-largest city in Goldman, who is anxious to put
The unanimous board decision has New En~land (larger than both New· behind him the "trying" past, has consis-
been celebrated with a fluny of press con· Haven, Conn., and Providence, R.I.) tendy claimed that Sakowicz was termi-
ferences, parties and a champagne con- and which faces more than 35;OOOmv- nated for "improprieties of management"
tract signing-well understood for a group infected people in the state--but which Js
and "refusal to follow board policy... he
which worked for 10 months without a also has a volunteer base which dwin- f!f!Y?It's the first I know that he ever said
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attentiori last June at the termination of its reportedly lost funding during -Came Wofford
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Action and Mobilizationl, Susan Shaw got up before she activist means doing thi~gs you don't want to do at 6
usually goes to sleep last week to speak about women's o'clock inthe moming." Uke being an activist news photog-
health issues on WBAI's Moming Show, hosted by Laura ,rapher, maybe?
Sydell every Tuesdayfrom 6 am to 8 am.
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WITHA VOICE& PI~ APPEARANCE ' 'you feel you can't control some
BY DIAMANDA GALAS AT MIDNIGHT , sexual situations? Being safe
PLUSCONCERf FOOTAGE AND PROJE(:TIONS I I every time you have sex isn't
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ddI doctors even recommend taking keto- into Abbott's April 12 shareholders'
ACT UP/New I l conazole with Coke (or the soft drink or meeting after having individually lobbied
York has sent a let- acidic fruit juice of your choice). Abbott board members and. encouraged
ter to the FDA call- New York City and CUNY pension-fund
ing for a 30~day Azithromycin officers to dump Abbott shares from
turnaround time on Pfizer promises to set up a compas- their portfolios.
= the ddl new-drug sionate-use protocol for azithromycin "sal- The group's spokesperson, Michael
. :: application, or vage" therapy against the tuberculosis-' Becker, wound up on the meeting's
t:-: NDA, filed with the related infection mycobacterium avium agenda and commended the Abbott
~ FDA early last complex, or MAC,by July, which will run board for its decision to institute a com-
month, and has"",,, concurrently with the phase-IT triaIs of the passionate-use program for treatment of
promised a platoon of angry activists if its drug. "Salvage" protocols make unap- MAC but noted that the announcement
r request is not honored. seemed to have been made only when it
AZf holds the record for the FDA became clear that the shareholder's meet-
turnaround tirlle: Data on that drug were ing would be disrupted. "We hope that
reviewed, the antiviral advisory committee The buffer Abbott and other pharmaceutical compa-
hearing convened and the drug approved nies will now design phase-IT triaIs to be
all within three and one-half months. in the ddI formula as aIl~inclusiveas possible and will have
in place, at the commencement of phase-
Foscarnet neutralizes the very II trials, meaningful e:lfpanded~access
The FDA has set June 12 for the long- programs for those who cannotPartici-
awaited approval hearing on foocarnet stomach acid needed for pate in the phase-II trial," Becker
explained to a receptive audience.
When not to Mix Meds
proper absorption of .
A letter from Jacobus Pharmaceuti- Imuthiol
cals (makers of Dapsone) warns that the
many medications
, A recent article in the Journal of the
buffer in the ddI formula neutralizes the common to people with American Medical Association showed
very stomach acid needed for proper Jmuthiol to be safe and to reduce the
'absorption of many.medicatiqns common HIV and AIDS. . incidence of opportunistic infections, or
to the weekly. drug regimens of people OIs, in people with HIV by 30 percent to
with HIV and AIDS,including Dapsone, 40 percent. The fourth clinical study of
Bactrim/Septra (though only the trimetho- the drug (the first in the US) showed that
, prim component), ketoconazole, itracona- proved drugs available to patients who 21 of 196 people receiving placebo
zole and pyrimethamine, .have not responded, or are intolerant, to developed Ols, while only ten of 191
In a chart review at St. Luke's Hospi- the standard approved therapy. receiving Imuthiol did.
tal, 11 of 28 patients on DapsOne prophy- Meanwhile, Pfizer's azithromycin But since nine of the ten Ols in the
laxis who were also taking ddI experi- "salvage" protocol for toxoplasmic placebo ann were PCP (which presum-
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enced PCP "breakthroughs" within encephalitis putters along, though the ably could have been avoided if the trial
10-to-13Odays after switching to ddI. consensus seems to be that it hasn't been participants had been offered prophylax-
The relatively Simple solution: If you terribly successful--either in attracting is), it's not entirely clear how to interpret
are taking ddI and any of these other patients or in helping them. In the past the study results. There were one case of
r drugs, drink the ddI mixture at least two several weeks, two area physicians have . thrush in the treatment arm and nine
hours after taking the other pills. That will reported azithromycin "failures" in their non-PCP Ols in the placebo group. T4-
, allow enough time for these acid-loving practices. What's the "salvage" therapy . cell counts increased slightly in the treat-
drugs to be properly absorbed. Some for these unlucky souls with toxo who ment arm and remained stable in the
fail on the "salvage" therapy? One patient control group.
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!lei ('/()j)/}/{'I/Isjr,r jWlljJ/e wil!> lin' ({ill/ Clarithromycin The long-awaited phase-IT trials of
,·W J.\. hir «()PIC'S()(lbL, ({Itlcle, (jllesl1mls In a masterfully coordinated push Peptide-T were recently agreed upon at a
I/rji,rl!>er II//iJ/"}II(i/i()I/, IITile I{) ,1/1/.>(' for access to Abbott Labs' new antibiotic meeting between government
f)iI!"rl{) ()U(\\lTk. cIarithromycin, treatment activists from
New York and Chicago wiled their way
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Remember? is present. Jeff Soref, who takes over as GLAAD perfonns a vital role in our
Remember the president of GMHC next month, lent his community, but it needs funds to con-
so<alled leadership support and came with an entourage.' tinue its work. The dinner accounts for
breakfasts that hap:- Evan Wolfson, staff attorney' at lambda a sizable perentage of its annual bud- .
pened periodically Legal Defense and member. of the· get, but GLAADsurVives and thrives on
in Manhattan? Every GLAAD board of directorS, also attend- individual contributions. Consider mak-
gay policial to the ed. Wolfson was just made'an adjunct . ing a donation to GLAAD. Just call
right of center professor at Columbia University and (212) 966-1700 to make your pledge.
attended, and a few will teach the' course ~Sexuality and the
. Law," a new addition to the Columbia Meanwhile in Albany ...
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curriculum. Jim Holobaugh, Who was On April 23, our governor fmally
last' 'breakfast gave an audience to' discharged from the, ROTC for being introduced a gay rights bill into the
Rudolph Giuliani in his bid to defeat state Legislature. The bill would prohib-
Mayor Dinkins. It was picketed by pro- " it discrilnination in employment, hous-
gressive gay activists. There was a fol- ing, education and access to public
, low-up Diqkins breakfast. Inquiring We hear that gay accommodations based on sexual orien-
minds wonder, What happened to those tation. It's certainly good of Cuomo to
"leadership breakfasts"? introduce the legislation-we've been
literature is no longer' asking him to do it since he took office:
GLAADDines in 1983.
, GLAAD had its second annual
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awards dinner on Sunday, April 21, at York State Assembly's Governmental.
" Operations Committee passed its own
the Windows on the World Ballroom Complex gym. Some
to pr.es¢nt ,its 1991 media "awards~
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(Fo.~nded in, 1985.,:GLAAD :challeng~s Assemblyman Steve Sanders and
defamation, ,prQn'lote~_understanding straight people have, Downtown Assemblywoman Deborah'
and seeks to overcome homophobia •
Glick, among others, by a 7-to-l vote
in the media.) The evening waSp,ar:: complained about ihe (one absent). The bill next goes to the'
heavily Democratic Codes Committee,
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where it is expected to pass, and from
co-chairs Paula Pressley and J~hn
gym acquiring a "gay there goes before the full Assembly.
Gra~es for putting together. . a spieQdid- The Assembly previously defeated this,
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year's attendance. '. . ,'.., ~. our representatives in Albany today are
. Assemblywoman Debor~h Glick . ,
more enlightened. There's no doubt
tame, down from Albariy for the that, after the vote, we'll know who,
e.vent..:...at't:er
, . all, the folks from GLAAD gay, and Joe Steffan, who w¥ ousted ~ur real friends are. Expect the vote to
Were nice enough to hold ~t in her very from the US Naval Academy for the be close.
own cUstrict. City Council hopef'µl'Tom same reason,.also ate the politically cor-
Puane was there shaking hands, giving rect veal (derived, we're told, from free- Pumping Iron
hugs and-:-inadvertently, just by his roaming calves). Reports from the Athletic Complex
presence reminding the crowd that he Ruth Messigner announced the· gym at 3 Park Ave. are disturbing. We
is our best hope for a voice on the City local awards, and when she presented hear that gay invites and literature are
Council. Rochester's openly gay Council" the Outstanding Local Lesbian and , no longer welcome there. Seems as
~ Tim Maines appropriately satat'the Gay Media Award to Out WeeMs Nina though some straight people have
same table with Dick Dadey, the execu- Reyes,she referred to OutWeek as the complained about the gym acquiring a
tive director of the Empire State. Pride nation's most-talkerl-about gay publi- "gay image." Acquiring? You should
Agenda, aqd Michael Katovitz, one of cation and a "must-read." Outstanding note .that the politically correct John
Pride Agenda's vice-chairs; The insuffer- Local Newspaper Coverage went to Blair is no longer associated with the
able Councilwoman Carol Greitzer did New York Newsday, and Outstanding gym. Blair can now be found hosting
not .attend. , Local Correspondent went to a<i:tivist Saturday nights at the hot club Parallel,
, You, know you're at the right place journalist Donna Minkowitz from the at 229 W. 28 St., where they're proud
wneri Vivian Shapiro and Mary , Neaton Village Voice. of their gay image. :...
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mig Dean and state's Constitution (or state statutes) is stein of the AQ.U about DC being a bad
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- Patrick Gill not subject to review by, the US Supreme place to bring this case.
filed suit against the Court or other federal courts. Although The Dean/Gill suit caused particular
District of Columbia judges are appointed by governors in concern because it was based entirely on
on Nov. 26 demand- many states, some states have elected interpretation of DC local ordinances and
ing a marriage, judges whose selection may have more because any student of statutory interpre-
license. The story bit to do with local political forces than ideo- tation and past legal decisions on gay
the national media logical direction from the executive marriage would likely conclude that the
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ing : statements long shot that investment of Significant
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legal groups. Why were our community's be ,objectively justified.
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Dean; a lawyer, drafted his own because courts have persisted in holding
legal,
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constitutional arguments that would hold that "marriage" "marriage," it intends to indicate the legal
expose any victory: to review by the union of a man and woman; the dictio-
increasingly conserv:¢ve Supr!o!!lleCourt. indicates the union of a ~ is cited as persuasive authority to
Instead, Dean adopts a, two-part theolY this effect.
based on loCal DC lay{: First, ~use the man an'dwomaiz;the ' Of course, one might argue that the
~iage law doe,s.netspe¢,ifically Say concept of "marriage" is not obviOUsly ,
that only a rpaIl arid a ",qrruih can many, dictionary is cited as self-defining; it is SOCially constructed,
each other; the. citY's refusal to issue a and it should be posSible to "reconstruct"
license violates its own law; s~cond, persuasive authority to the tenn to encompass same-sex unions.
denying licenses to same-seX couples A similar argument regarding the concept
unlawfully discriminates on the basis of
this effect. of "fumily" has beeri successfully litigated
sex,and sexual orientation under pc law, in New York, and the same sort of argu-
which forbids such discrimination in ment over the meaning of "parent" is
empl~yment, housing, public accommo- that judicial ideology'varies from place to now being advanced in courts in five dif-
dations and public services .. place much more than in the federal ferent $tes. But the likelihood of suc-
. The District has a peculiar govern- courts, where ten years of conservative cess seems slim, despite the 1989
mental, structure, that creates special diffi- administrations have sharply reduced " Braschi ruling in New York, precisely
. culties.,
It..'does. not have its own Consti- diversity and openness to social change. . ,because the concept of "family" has been
tution, and its legislative, authority is These differences, are amo~g the,sO, Olangeable and amorphous' oVer the
totally' derived from Congress. Congress factors that lead gay legal organizations' y~rs, while the concept of "~ge"
am veto laws passed by the City Council to prefer challenging marriage ,laws, if at ,has long been sharply circumsaibed.
I and pass laws modifying or repealing all, in a carefully selected State court sys-' '., The argument that the DC Human
existing District laWs. Although the Dis- tem, after thorough analysis of the state's. 'Rights· Law prohibits the District from
trict has its own court system, judges are Constitution, the reputatiOn of its judiCia- . refusing a license to a same-sex couple is
appointed by the pc_esident, which ry for irmovation and openness to social even more tenuous. The law prohibits
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Bush have appointed all the judges over plaintiffs who will bring the challenge. anq public accommodations and ser-
the, past ten years. , 1his sort of analysis lies behind the, com-,~ces. While it includes rhetoric about a
By contrast, each state has its own ments attributed to Tom Stoddard of' -
Constitution,_ and interpretation of a Lambda Legal Defense and Bill Ruben- , IS- - 0 U T LA -- «».,. p - 9 _ .:z
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by many in the lesbian and gay how to sign to tell him. The song in the middie is about ,a
community. On April 23, she man who makes his 'li$g by impersonating famous stars, • ' 0'1-. ,
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typIcaOy electrifying show. ered that the most important events of her life have hap-
Afew days before the show, Matthew Davis met with Liza pened after dark. '
to discuSs her relationship to the lesbian andgay community.
Wbile she was happy to be given the chance to speak to Out- MD: How do you identify with the song flbout the impersonator?
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many in the contemporary queer scene. She declined to dis- color of person or male or female it's just loneliness. Every-
cuss any 'of the gay men in her life and was eqU(ll/y disinter- body understands that Everybody's afraid of abandonment or
ested in the outing controversy. Perhaps more surprtstng was feeling, different. And I think everybody at one point in their
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the entertainment industry ~e doing
tremendous things to fight AIDS. I~
was the first group to mobilize, and
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going. The worst that can happen to you is tbat you shut 1M: I wonder! I think the night we succeed, 13 women will
doWn from grief, and then it's like you get color blind, and ' get up there. I mean, I'm waiting for that. That would be
'you 19se all sense of textures and smells and taste. And then quite funny actually. .
one day, for sOme reason, it lifts, and all th~ color comes
back into your life. If you just have faith a bit, that'll happen. MD: Is this a woman's show? •
Maybe not today, but it'll happen. It'll be all right. And there
are. other people new. friends to make. Whoever is gone, Liza: Yes! It's women's attitudes, and it's about friendship
whoever has died, doesn't want you to be shut down. They between women-the kind of friendship that men always ,
weren't your friends so that, you know, you'd be a wreck think they have an exclusive on. I have so many wonderful
when they left. They were your friends so they could give
,
friends who are women ,
and just great gals-you know, good
you something, share something with you and keep you buddies. And you need that. You need support from your'
going. I don't know. It's terribly hard, and I have no absolute •friends. But men always think that friendship between men is
answer. It's'just that we've got to stick together, or we're not
different than friendship between women. That's a kind of
going to make it. . wive's tale, I think. It's funny, but when you look at the
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. movie Stepping Out (Liza's new movie scheduled for release
ThephtlDsophy of friends bonding to support each other is this September),?Dd the way that the women react to each
a theme Ltza has woven into her show. During the second act, - other, and then you look back at the '305 and '405 and you
rpomen from the audience star( standing ,!-p and irzststtng see 71:Je,Women, where they were all at each other's throats. I
that they be able to join her. , think that's the attitude that we were brought up with-that
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women are catty with each other vicious and everything
1M: They come up from the audience. I keep complaining else. So we thought we'd change that. We'd try our one little,
about being alone up there [onstage), and then one women
,
loving'step toward feminism.
stands up and interrupts me in a song and says: "You keep
talking about being alone up there. You don't have to be Directed by Fred Ebb, choreographed by Susan Soyamay-
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alone." And she gets up on the stage, and eventually there er and Lisa Mordente (Chua Rivera~ daughter),Ltza, wbo bas
are 12 women up there with me. won tbree Tony awards for her Broadway musical perfor- ,
• mances, is working with just about every major orchestrator
MD: Aren't you afraid that the whole audience will come up? and arranger in the city of New York. Anyone she has ever
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sbe has been able to,
bring in to do some-
thingfor tbistbree-week
engagement.
There is a very per-
sonal reason why Ltza is
pouring so much of her-
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self into this concert at
Radio City Mt(Stc Hall:
Before be went off to
Hollywood, Vincent
Minnelll worked here,
designing sets, costumes
and lighting. He direct-
ed, designed and pro-
,duced shows every week
for four years. When she
arrlved,at Radio City,
Liza went through all
the arcbives and found tons of materla~ including all of bis mean.life ....You know. go out, get a nc;w dress. go to ~
sketcbes and all of his designs. It was meaningful to ber both party. get the award. say. "Thank: you. I thibk this is terrific." -
personally and bistorically, And I like alI that stuff. I'm not cynical about it.,Maybe it's
not fair. but life isn't fair. so you might as well enjoy it while
MD: You said once. and I believe you were talking about it's there because it does go away. Groove on it while you've
TbeSterile Cuckoo. that you loved pl;tying characters whose got it. '
pieces fall apart. and they have to piCk up the pieces and
start allover again. , MD: What does "stepping out" m.ean to you?
, have the nerve. or you didn't have the guts. or you didn't
have the confidence .
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MD: You mention in your articles that you don't drink. I also
don't drink. I'm jn my sixth year of sobriety .
.
MD: Every time "rve heard you talking about sobriety. it's an,
..;. ,'.,.-,-'.'-'
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inspiration to ,me and my friends. You used to sing that Song , ,
"Nothing's Impossible." And sometimes. if t had a day I was
scared of. I'd put on the tape of you singing that song.
,
MD: How does sobriety affect your life today? ' ". "
Liza take. her flra! dlmCe .tepa (lett) and a ... ot from ,"
the Pet Shop Boy. video V.. 'ble R•• ". (o'ppoaHe page)
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MD:Howso? •
MD: Your career takes you allover the world, to all kinds of
parties. You work all kinds of rigorous hours. How do you
maintain your sobriety?
1M: Well, you're doing fine, and then you meet somebody
who gives you something else. I believe that God comes
through people. And music.
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cerns at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York:, or CUNY, reads,. "but,
of the Oosets, into the Oassrooms." After this month, the banner shottld read, "Out of
the Oosets, Take over the Oassrooms." For more than a week, the office was "liberat-
ed" in an occupation of the Graduate Center by a group of CUNY students, radical
dykes and fags among them. The liberation was just one of the building takeovers by
students that has occurred on 18 of the 21 campuses' in the CUNY system over the past
four weeks. Six of the campuses were completely closed; labor unions have participat-
ed in the struggle; and students have organized maSsive rallies and plenty of civi1 dis-
obedienre. Since the re-opening of occupied buildings on all but the City College and
Hunter College campuses following the smashing of $rodent strikes by groups of 300
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to 700 New York City police who stonned onto campuses throughout the system last weekend, the
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movement has been diversifying its tactics. The campus occupations galvanized concern and faculty
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and staff support on the most apoliticized of CUNY campuses,' opened up media access and fostered
public awareness and provided the bases from which to develop our solidarity and expand our
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38 OUTWIEIEK May 1IIS,11_11
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Maxine Wolfe and Jim Fouratt facilitate a
forum on queer activism and the academy.
and that the trustees have informed CLAGS that it will not be CUNY-from clogging the governor's phones and fax machines
allowed to develop a gay and lesbian curriculum because of the with angry messages to bolder actions like guenilla banner-hang-
fear that students will be taught to be queer, the ClAGS board ing and uninvited visits to legislative offices are direct lessons
was acting out of self-preservation. After all, the Graduate Center learned by those of us in ACf UP. Particularly with our large num-
is overseen by homophobes. ber of undergraduate student strikers, who are ripe with energy
But for the dyke and fag activists among the student strik- and slightly green on experience, the activist roots of the queers
•
ers, theinddent epitomized our feelings that CLAGS just won't among us are vital to the shaping of the movement. At the board
fly because its wings no longer flap together. As one of the two of trustees meeting this past week, the most righteous and respect-
student representatives to the CLAGSboard put it, "While CLAGS ed of women among the CUNY-wide group of students there '
can study activist movements, it cannot take an activist stance." asked me how we were going to disrupt the board's attempts at
Such a po5ition seems a1most a parody of academic alienation. business as usual. I said that we'd shout pointed questions, chant,
And it contradicts the spirit with which Duberman began give statistics. She understood my reference, "You mean, like ACf
, ClAGS, since pushing for a gay and lesbian research institute is UP?" As striking cultura1 studies student Liz Dalton noted, "Without
necessarily to be intellectual and activist at once. Without this ACf UP experience, a lot would not be happening."
integration, radical gay and lesbian students believe, we run the Indeed, the CUNY student strikes prove the effectiveness for
risk of fossilizing our subject. As philosophy student Jonathan radical movements of alliances with predominantly gay activist
lang asserted .in the forum eventually led by environmental psy- groups. ACf UP/NY has aided ip the struggle by sending mem-
chology professor and ACf UP member Maxine Wolfe, long- bers to CUNY campuses to train students in dvil disobedience
time gay activist Jim Fouratt and New York University professor and by partidpating in a CUNY-wide student rally at the gover-
Rena Green, "If we're not radical in our classrooms, if we don't nor's World Trade Center offices. The activists, latinas/os Contra
let people be free in our classrooms, then we're not doing our el SIDA of ACf UP!NY, acknowledged the close relationship
job as educators." between AIDS activism and student activism in an endorsement of
As part of the radical takeovers, students throughout the the strike, which read, in part: "We understand that the cuts in
CUNY system organized alternative educational and cultural education parallel those in health care and constitute an open
forums in our hunger for an academia more reflective of our attack on the working class and the minorities of the United States
experiences and actions. The fact that the very first forum to be and specifically of New Yolk."
held at the Graduate Center was on the topic of gay and lesbian The statement also points to the way in which queer stu-
activism is a clear acknowledgement of dyke and fag leadership dents inform the Graduate Center's strike on a philosophical level.
in our buildings' occupations. For us; it is an essential show of Girol, a political science student, suggested that the "sutprising"
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number of gays and lesbians m.volved in the strike is due to the
fact that "we in the gay and lesbian movement have beeri out-
spoken about basic civil rights issues." Straight student striker •
Joanne Vrilakas noted that she is "often struck that, [among] gays
and lesbians, there's a general compassion expressed in political
tenris-a call for very human treatment." In other words,
although Wolfe warns queer activists not to become "compart-
mentalized" in others' issues, lesbians and gay men, as members "="""',w ..-...
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oppressions. When this happens, it allows us to unite with oth-' . "
strike because we've trained ourselves to think and act political- Centertakeover.' . '
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ly. We've had to to sUlvive." . public speech. In contrast, the queers at the Gradu;.te C~nter
The student body of the CUNY-wide system is predomi- would not have felt comfortable with the macho hierarchies
nantly poor, female and African-American or Latina. The ,
Gradu-
,
that students created at some of the other occupied earnpuSeS.
ate Center student body is, in comparison, wealthier, more male ,As organized as City College is; for example, their Struggle -Was
and more white. When undergraduate students began to shut paid for with the. sweat, of the participating women whq h$!ld
down their catIlpuses, they didn't entertain thoughts of Graduate little power and had lots offood and phones to tate for" Of ()ur
Center solidarity, according to a City College strike committee haphazard egalitarianism at the Graduate Center, strHdrig
statement, "because of the 'cQmplexion of the Graduate Center anthropology student Marta Rodriguez said, "I particularly Want
student body. " The undergrads hadn't counted on a coalition of to recognize the participation of lesbians who have demonstrat-
graduate students with diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, ed in solidarity with other students and 'minorities' and with
varying class statuses and different genders and sexual orienta- much more awareness of the diversity of participants." In other
tionS to take over our own building. Queer solidarity with stu- s __ SCHOOL"S OUT on pag_ &2
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music too, but, as it has name for himself working
been said before, the Pet for all the best-known and
Shop Boys are two big, most fashionable publica-
creepy, greedy, hopeless tions. He's been an aquain-
pieces of shit. We must tance of mine for years. We
sadly face the fact that went to journalism school
even 'the hip, trendy and together (though I don't
glamorous pop stars, really remember hitrt back
whom we so much want then), and we share a mutu-
to excuse from all of this stuff (and has come out recently and even though al friend, a gay man with whom we're
whose coyness we sometimes rational- that is probably the biggest topic of party both very close and who is also an
ize as "~g"), are as equally harm- conversation regarding Geffen these activist. Pete and I have always enjoyed a
ful as any closeted queer Hollywood daYs. cordial relationship, and he's expressed
mogul or Washington windbag. Says Pet Then there's the story about Monk, his empathy for a lot of the work that I
Shop Boys' Neil Tennant in this month's the wacky travel magazine published by do. He also seems to get a kick out of it
RoBing Stone: "Axl [Rose) thought [our two boys who cavort around the coun- - It was thus with great sadness-Md
concettl was gorgeous. He was extreme- tIy. RoBing Stone wrote all about it, but a heaping of anger-that I picked up
ly charming and knew our music quite somehow forgot to tell us that the guys' that same issue of Rolling Stone and
well . .J think Guns 'n' Roses are very and the magazine which I read reli- read Wilkinson's interview with 'Alek
good songwriters. ~ giously-are wonderfully queer. Keshishian, the director of Madonna's
," Oh, really, Neil? Gee, which lyrics . Do you think we'd ever see a big upcoming film, Truth or Dare. Alek, yo,u
. of Guns 'n' Roses do you like best? piece on gay-bashing in Rolling Ston&. see, is a major sister, who can be found
HQw aµout that song about the disease- How about gays on campus or the les- at •the Copa, prancing. about with the
spreading, "faggots"? It's a real. zinger, bian music scene? It's amazing, but sadly queens, or in any queer IA club. He
huh? Let me offer some advice to you even came on to a friend of mine one
guys: This public smooch-fest with night-a night in which he came on to
, Guns 'n' Roses is quite silly. And it's some other guys too. It was all in fun; of
making you both look like fools. WHY Rollina S1'one~ course, and that is something that Alek
DON'T YOU SELF-LOATHING PIG seems to thrive on.
In light of the fact that Madonna has
JUST OFFER AXL A BLOW JOB AND
GET IT OVERWI1H? '
it's your turn! just identified h~ as the patron saint
I tell you, a quick read of Rolling of all queers, and since most of the film
Stone canfll3ke you sick. RoBing Stone
Editor and Publi$her Jann Wenner is a
(212) 758·3800 revolves around homosexuality, I think
that Keshishian's sexual orientation has a
freak who obviOusly lets his own fears great bearing on this particular work, .. and
~g exposure' of his "private life" I think it's certainly something that
oppress an entire community and push predictable, that WHAT WASONCE 1HE should be discussed in an interview. But
, d.<>wna new generation of queers. And, VOICE OF A GENERATION OF RADI- Wtlkinson's piece goes out of it's way not
though he probably doesn't realize it, CALS IS NOW AN OUT-OF-TOUCH only to avoid the issue-both in the film
soon enough, if he doesn't make some COFFEE-TABLECATALOGUE. and in Keshishian's own life but to also
changes fast, it's all going to blow up in I'm exasperated. imply that Keshishian is heterosexual. By
his crusty face. . You see, it's not only the greedy, telling us, more than once, about some
RoBing Stone reeks of homophobia, frightened closet cases or the maniacal sort of flirtation between Alek and
as mOst magazines do. But it's the invis- Right-wingers who are fucking us over. Madonna (even though he assures us
iUtlfly of lesbians and gays in Rolltng It's everyone. Even all of the fashionably that nothing happened) and then telling
Stone that is truly frighteDing. If it's not. liberal straight assholes who befriend you us that ~ is now "living the sin-
'the closeted pop stars trying to keep and think you're fabulous because you're gIe life," Wtlkinson gives us the impres-
themselves undercover, it's the editors making a commotion. Even the people. sion that the director is a straight boy
and writers who tIy to 'mask the sexual who, on a sort of intellectual level, think (after all, unless you're told someone's a
orientation of those few people on the what you're doing makes sense to them queer, society dictates that of course he's
mag's pages who might actually be out AS LONG AS 1HEY DON'T HAVE TO straight) who, now that he's less busy,
This month, in a small piece about LIFf A DAMNEDFlNGERTO HELP. "wants to get laid"--1ust like all wann-
David Geffen, they list some of the most I'm beginning to see through these blooded macho dudes do, of course.
important facts to know about him people. And I'm starting to detest them And yet, Wilkinson, through our
when ,dropping bis name socially. something fierce, girlfriends., mutual activist friend, had heard the
According to RoBing Stone, it is impor- Peter Wtlkinson is a writer, a straight rumors that Keshishian is gay, and
tant to know that he once dated • •• Keshishian I'm told even men-
Oler.
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But they don't mention that IC I IIII I I IIrI I tioned during the ~te1View that
he read Musto's Madonna cover
he's queer~en though the guy
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story in OutWeek (enough of a hint, and publisher of RoOtng Stone, and that other duties are regarding this community. And
certainly a lead for Wdkinson to follow oddity, Us magazine at (212) 758-3800. ,teU him that you want to see some •
up with by asking the question). Leave a message if you can't get through. changes NOW.
This, quite frankly, ENRAGES ME. Tell him what his responsibilities and And start reading Spin instead ....
. Wilkinson regularly reads this column,
and !mows the issues. HE KNOWS All j
,~
that is the slightest bit uncomfortable--and
everyone is hiding behind somethfng. '~i,\i,
'f.:~:'::;Z:'::,:.
Which brings us back to Jana Wen-
ner. As the person at the top of RoOtng
Stone, all still faIls in his lap. He could
assign the stories we need, and he could
demand that certain issues be raised. He c:
can also put an end to the homophobia -
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aitical nature of his own personal life. I .~
do think, dear readers, that it is time to
give a calI to Mr. Wenner, editor and -
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thing among gay militants is the repudia-
tiori of the' word 'gay.' The new term of
choice is no kiddinlr'"'queer.' There's
even a new group across the country
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called Queer Nation" (emphasis added). ..• When they were taping Geraldo for the May 7 show, Little Richard
like Outweek, they reviewed The
Silence oftbe Lambs (their film critic is said of Paul Hipp who plays Buddy Holly in ,Buddy on Broadway, "Oh
John Simon, the resident theater critic
at New York) He says that Buffalo Bill Lord, he looked so good he could make me scream like a white lady."
is, "a homosexual whose transvestism is,
literally, skin-deep." So much for the Who knows if it will make the cut? ... Phillip Gefter, a gay man who
argument that the killer clearly isn't a
queer. If this is the cream of the Right- had a long-term affair with a woman, has turned in a story to Self on
wing crop, what is the average yellow-
ribboned American saying?
the differences between sleeping with men and women. It is slated for
Most interesting is a piece titled sometime this summer, and it is se~ ... On Monday, the Wall Street
"Sodom and Begorrah: Reflections on
Homosexuality." The writer, Ernest van . Joumal did a story about corporations which are expanding nondis-
dan Haag, asks the oh-so-relevant ques
tion for straight people: "How should crimination clauses with an emphasis on sexual orientation. The New
we deal with homosexuals?" .
Of course, you expect the worst, Yolf( Times business section did the same great story on Sunday with
. but van dan Haag works a false sense of
sanity for most of the article. He argues the headline "Gay Rights, Issue of the '90s."
that ~a homosexual minority is known to
, have ,existed in all societies throughout -M.G.
history" and that there was never any ,
ju$tification for listing it as a diseaSe. He
says that states which prohibit sodomy
'are "silly," notes that "AIDS is not a spe-
cific homosexual disease" and calls on
the president or Congress to change laws
regarding queers and military service.
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I burning question is less "Are there queer Deadheads?" than wouldn't go for any Pigpen [dissipated and deceased Dead mem-
"What does it matter?" Sure, there are lesbians and gays among ber] imitator-it would be especially nice if this person seemed
the tie-dyed nomads who renounce earthly ties to follow their un-self-conscious about that."
gurus across the globe. But blissed-out fans chafe if you make a Drew, 28, a gangly Queer Nation activist, fIrst saw the Dead
sexual distinction between them and the cool cat whirling next to in 1981 at West Virginia University. In a sea of psychedelic skirts
them at the concert, buzzing along to "China Cat Sunflower" or and "Mars Hotel" T-shirts, he wore khakis and a button-down
"Sugar Magnolia." The sole credo in the , blue striped shirt. One hundred shows
Book of the Dead is: Do your own later, he has senior status among his
thing, just don't hurt anybody. peers. When he came out in 1982, there
Bisexual? Heterosexual? Homosex- was major housecleaning. Still, he stuck
ual? like, label jars, man, not people. with his Deadhead pals. "The Deadheads
Kathy Otter says, that Deadheads knew I was gay, though they were
are the most accepting people in the straight, and it didn't bother them. I felt
world. She's the ideal litmus test. In her comfortable as a gay person but not
24 years, 'Kathy has been a straight hanging out with gay people." When he
Harley biker and a gay man; Now he is started seeing a fellow fanatic named
a she, a self-identified lesbian transsexu- Sam--now together four years-the con-
al. A, veteran of 20 concerts, Kathy cert-tour family offered congratulations.
attends shows with lesbian mends and Farver says that there's no contradic- 'C
her biker lover, Alice, 44. One mend fol- tion to being a queer Deadhead; gays ~
lows the band .in her SlO <11evy Blazer, inhabit territory beyond disco and leather. -!
with queer decals on the windows and Anyone, he says, can find acceptance in a ~
a huge pink triangle painted on the Dead show or even see, themselves in a ~
hood. No' hassles:. ,
"Being a serious hetero-themed Dead song. "It's great to :E
Deadhead is being an outalSt. To some find a gay person in an unexpected place; ~ ,
degree, we're all misfits. Serious Dead- it's almost like having sex in an unexpect- ~
heads don't bother each other about ed place. [If II cruised someone at a Grate-
sexuality. " .ful Dead concert, that would be a real accomplishment."
Kathy's mend Gina, 21, is a fonner Marine and now a secu- "Fred" is a gay man who's hung out with the band and
rity guard. Since 1,985, she's attended 160 shows. Even before worked with one member on solo musical projects. He knowS
coming out, she was following the boys with her fIrst lover. several bisexuals who follow the Dead He says that sexuality,
"When 1 did· come out, 1 had no problems," het or othelWise, is no problem for the band.
she says. "I felt safe [atconcertsl." Even better, He recaIls that when one of the Dead invited
'. her closet-smashing gave mends something to a friend out for a night of boozing and
think about. "After a lot of straight friends broads. The guy explained his tastes extend-
found out we had come out, they were more .,' ed to boozing and boys. It was no problem.
open to the possibility of being gay or bisexu- "Perhaps if they haven't spoken openly on
al." Now, Gina trails the Dead with her current the issue", "Fred" says , "it's because no one's
lover Ann, 7:7, a diesel truck driver. asked them."
For queer Deadheads, concerts offer some Dennis McNally is the Grateful Dead's
frustration. I.egions of angelic boys, with hand- press agent. (His predecessor, Zohn [sic] Art-
kerchiefs on their heads and acid-scorched man, who was gay, was a casualty of AIDS.) .
eyes, dance in a daze, swirling in a Sufi. ritual, Exuberantly cool, with a voice that echoes
But loin-lust is the last thing on their foggy lazy summers on California beaches, he, dis-
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minds. Datty News music-maven Jim Farber misses the idea that queer Deadheads stand
acknowledges the elusive appeal: "There is an separate from their comrades. Sexuality is not
aesthetic of ...unconscious beauty. That is very a factor at shows, he says. People are stuck in
rare among gay t;nen, to fmd someone who is y a n er a musical trance or on a pharmaceutical
unaware of their attractiveness. So theoretically, liII Ce»ntinued e»n page 84
There are times,when even lunch the other day when David
the most logical of minds canrwt Hampton! happened to stop by.
find any rbyme or reason to the Liz: Was he looking for lunch
events that occur in life. Search in all the wrong places? ,
as you may for the one thread Sydney: Not exactly. He just
that you believe links aO of these stopped by to threaten another
scenes into one meaningful .,
columnist who recently dished him
drama-your life defies cohe- • in print. Something along the lines
stan. You drop in exhaustion, of: "He better hope he never meets
finally understanding that the me in a dark alley, because I will rip
quest for meaning is fruitless, his face off."
and that it is easter to plod along, Liz: I bet Sidney Poitier's not
knowing that an unexamined to happy with his "~n."
life is rwt worth living, but that Sydney: I just don't under-
an examined one will drive you , stand why people are so obsessed
to your grave. with him.
Liz: You know what I don't
LIZ: I need to dye my understand-is it true that Kitty Kel- ~
hair, but before I do, do you ley hints that Nancy Reagan had a &
think blonds have more fun? lesbian liaison with a college mend? ,~ (0
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Queer-Bashing Finds an Audience
by Victoria A. Brownworth to insinuate his ,characters' gayness. should know better are defending this
Just when you thought it was safe to These two queer men are "after" the new wave of literary bashing, as if to do
go into a movie theater or a bookstore ... female/lesbian detective. Lambs therefore otherwise would invoke the Gulag. .
The controversy over The Silence of gives us a total inverse of reality: gay The betrayal and abandonment of
the Lambs is just abating and the debate male serial killers stalking a lesbian vic-
over Basic Instincts is just beginning. tim. Instinct has a lesbian serial killer
Instincts'set has already been disrupted who kills men and women, plus two
by members of San Francisco's Queer other women who may be lesbians who
Nation, who contend that the in-produc- also like to kill. Comfort has a closet case
'tion film is damagingly homophobic. And who has to kill pretty, young men to be
then there's The Comfort ofStrangers. The able to have sex with his wife. Loop has a
media is still masturbating over Bret East- , serial killer who kills women, but, like
on Ellis' An American Psycho but remains Buffalo Bill in Lambs, serial killing leads
mum over Paul Theroux's Chicago Loop. him to want to dress like a woman; he
Serial killers-cinematic or novelis- tums into a transvestite and yearns to be
tic-ilre all the rage these days. In real a transsexual. American Psycho has
life, more than 80 percent of all serial everything: a little mayhem for every-
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killers are white; middle-class, hetero- body. But its most gruesome killing by
sexual men. In real life, more than 85 far is that of two white women having
percent of their victims are women (pri- sex with each other. And the psycho of
marily white, but with African-American the tale has definite problems with
women murdered out of proportion to queers-he's always calling waiters "fags"
their 11 percent of the population). and imagining their deaths (and since 90
But box-office hits and best sellers percent of the book takes place in restau-
aren't predicated on reality so much as rants, this is a commonplace). He calls
on popular mythology. And just as the his business colleagues "fags." He obsess-
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es on watching two women "doing it."
,
Jews spread their matzoh with the blood In the East and West Villages,
of Christian babies, so does middle where queer. visibility is at an all-time
America believe that today's serial killers high, queer-bashing is also at an all-time
are queers; high. Uptown, it takes a different fonn:
Lambs has two queer serial killers Like a scene out of American Psycho, ....,.
and a detective who may or may not be queers are being skewered like so many
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a lesbian (like the actre$ who portrays martini olives at the cocktail parties of
her). One has killed a male lover, which, the liberal literati, where people who
as much as makes him gay in ,:,.,.. ."
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'80s over alleged missing children. In e ue 'es aI •
another tactic guaranteed to inspire AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton Ellis. Vintage. $11 pb. 399 pp.
queer fear and violent homophobia, a
new myth about missing children was by Liz Tracey and nauseating detail, while the rest are
createQ: They were being spirited away Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho mentioned merely jn passing. By nature
from loving parents by queers who, generated so much pre-publication pub- amoral, Bateman illustrates less the
vampire-like, had no other means of licity, comment and aiticism that many seductiveness of evil than its banality.
acquiring new blood for the queer . periodicals have seen fit not to review it: If we take Ellis at his word, the
legion. But the reality (then and now) of They pre-review it. (Note: The Village book is an "anti-greed tract" that exposes
missing children in the us is that they Voice's Mim Udovitch wrote a truly the dangers of compulsive consumerism
are abducted by parents in custody excellent review.) Much of the comment and an identity founded in possessions.
fights or worse, murdered by their own focused on the, graphic violence,' prac- (Amencan Psycho lends a whole new
parents and claimed as missing. Fewer ticed with such indifference, on women, meaning to the phrase "business as
than 40 children have been abducted by homeless people, a child, a cab driver usual.") Senseless violence against
strangers in any year since 1974 (when and, twice, actually upon members of women is certainly no stranger to Ellis'
statistics were first kept by the FBO. protagonist Patrick work-Less Than Zero
Serial killings are on the rise in the Bateman's "social cir- trots out snuff movies,
US, and the victims are women. Almost de." There are roughly forcible rape of minors
23 murders by this and a macabre mur-
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST-Comfort~Colin count, some of which der-but in the past he
(left) and Lambs' Jame Gumb (above) are described in great has managed to place it
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in a context, ,which is less clinically gory but of h. 'tY, but the 'aQorting of al protagonists and made little, if any,
arid still managed to convey a sense. that a subsequent murder, only .setVes to com- distinction between peoples squal ori-
something is very wrong in this world. plicate Bateman's Sexual proflle. wpen entationS, except, of course, in the case
American Psycbo uses so many of these another Wall Streeter whom he plans to of lesbians-they are never seen except
',self-conscious devices interminable murdedn'a bathroom (Bateman is sleep- as something to get away from. Sex is
lists of brand names, an omniscient nar- ing with the man's girlfriend and thinks it recreation, as are drugs, alcohol, dubs
rator who is sometimes wrong, charac- easier if he is out of the way), mistaking and music. American Psycbo takes Ellis
ters unable to distinguish among, them- the grip. on his throat as a sign of lust, into a repressed territory where safer-
selves--that any straightforward "moral" confesses his love to Patrick and asks him sex becomes rage-inducing (of course,
tale he has set out to tell falls beneath to do the same, Ellis offers his protagonist you only practice it with "good" girls)
the weight of the tools used to build it a rather different reaction. Considering and AIDS is discussed as something
In at least two cases, a sort of jeal- that, pages before, he had murdered a which is the fault of a certain "other."
ousy seems to motivate his murders, but, gay man and his dog simply for stopping Whether Ellis is retreating from an
of course, we never really know why he and chatting, we expect this offer to elicit earlier laissez-faire attitude about sexual-
has killed anyone-and therein lies the an especially grisly and maniacal ity, his characters having now "grown
horror. Where psychological or horror response from our killer-yet he does up" and submitted to the heterosexual
thrillers at least present you with a case nothing. Two. scenes later, Patrick runs nonn, or expressing his own unresolved
history that would seemingly generate a into him shopping, and there are threats sexual tensions now in the shape of
murderer, Ellis has omitted any case his- of violence made, but no action taken. Bateman's savagery, remains unan-
tory. Bateman is without motive and Asking why may only bring you to the swered. But as part of a generation he
without a past. And thus Ellis seems to conclusion that this man is just too much has descriped as "wizened yet dUeless,"
be reaching for that generation-:defining like Bateman to be killed. Ellis may want to begiri getting a due
gesture he tried in previous work-that Ellis' earlier works, Less Than Zero about himself and those with whom he
the twentysomethings
, of this country , feel
,
and The Rules of Attraction, had bisexu- may potentially share demographics ....
nothIDg except empty and will go to any
lengths to fill the void. This would be
an achievement , if it succeeded. . ave eeve
In Patrick Bateman, Elljs)'1as creat-
ed the "straight, white male under HALFWAY HOME by Paul Monette. Crown. $19.95 cl. 262 pp.
fire"-a character who loathes that
which is different from himself and, per- by James Waller angry and aggrieved to be sentimental.
haps, if just given the opportunity, will Halfway Home is Paul Monette's This raw, unforgiving vision is
perfonn horrendous acts of cruelty to fourth book about AIDS in as· many increasingly blurred in Mone~te's two
reassert his power. This is nothing new years. His first-Love Alone, a poem-cyde novels about AIDS-Afterlife, published
to anyone who does not ~hare in that of 18 elegies, and Borrowed Time, an last year, and this new one. Make no mis-
power-bias violence, rape, domestic autobiographical work disguised as a take, Monette is a clever writer. He is
violence are constant reiterations of this memoir-reconstruct the horror of the ill- master of. a certain kind of set-
dynamiC. Every ad: of violence is com- ness and death of Monette's lover of ten piece-like the Thanksgiving dinner
mitted against someone who is not years, Roger Horwitz. Although I don't scene that setVes as the dimax of Afler-
Patrick Bateman-women, a gay man, care much for Monette's hyperactively life-m which he invents a situation and
people of color or those simply unable enjambed poetic style and haven't a great then, with a great deal of relish, throws
to speak English are all dispatched in a deal of intrinsic tolerance for the gilded his characters into it to see what they'll
sudden blaze of blood and gore which particulars-"high-toned" take-out food, do. These carefully made works are,
would probably excite many \readers in Jaguars, autumn vacances in Tuscany- despite their subject matter, often fun to
the Aryan nation or the White House. that decorate the lifestyles of the upper- read This, however, is just their problem:
Bateman's division of women into a middle-class gay men who inhabit the their well-lmitted-ness won't abide any
vilgin-whore dichotomy is so dear as to Hollywood Hills, I found both these loose threads, and their fabric is too tight-
be trite. The only person who ever books fearful, which is to say, worth- ly woven to let us see dearly the suffer-
'notices him becoming unglued is his girl- while, reading. Their gape-eyed attention ing body beneath.
friend; the only women he can have sex ~o the hellish minutiae that dominate a A tale of three "AIDS widows" and
without murdering (or vice versa) are household invaded by the plague and how they come to grips (or don't) with
those of his dass. The rest are, quite liter- mad awareness of the dread that can . the losses that have stunted their lives,
ally, "whores" --in the course of the novel come completely to occupy a life that Afterlife is written in the omniscient third
he mUrders at least eight call girls, whom has been touched by AIDS are chilling person, demanding that the author get -.....
he hires to have sex with each other and and, finally, illuminating. inside his several charac-
then joins only to kill for his pleasure. They are ragged and . ters' quite different
The fascination of straight men with les- unpretty works, and, no minds. Monette does so
bian sex may only make sense when matter how many senti- .brilliantly in the case of
viewed as a reinforcement of the superi- mental yearnings they the character Sonny, a
ority not only of the male sexual organ . may express, they are too blond pumped-up hus-
DO YOU EAT OYSTERS? .. Jn an unchar- meccas' if the journal is going to have a truly
acteristic move toward authenticity, if not anti- national focus." Submissions, accompanied' bya
,
censorship, the just-released Spartacus, star- selfJ4ddressed, stamped envelope, sould be sent to
ring Kirk Douglas in frighteningly epic scale, Other Countries Journal, PO Box 3142,Church
now contains a full ten minutes of footage not St Stn., New York, NY 10008. '
included in the original, theatrical version. The REMIX ...Whilfsome have expressed queasi-
restoration doeS, believe it or not, bring back ness about laTour's hit "People Are Still Having
a steamy homo hot-tub scene. The last re- Sex," those with the facts came forward to pro-
vamp that occasioned such queer additions vide a bit of relief. Marvin Gleicher, president of
was Lawrence of Arabia. Can't wait until they Smash Records, replied hastily to the bit of "lip
give us the real Ten Commandments . service" the song, received in OutWeek issue no. 92. Countering
.BORDER qROSSING ••.other Countries, New YOlk's organiza- that the song's clumsy lyrics made its treatment of AIDS tasteless,
tion of writers and artists of Afiican descent, is turning up the fire Gleicher explained, "Any reference to AIDS in the song is merely
uhder their second anthology of writings. Taking AIDS as its focus, an observation and. not meant in any way to make light of such a
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the volume hopes to include the wOO<:c:i' both novice and estab- serious issu,e." He then revealed that a percentage of the single's
lished writers and to sample a diverse range of writings from poetIy profits are to be donated to the 1J Martell Foundation for AIDS
to interviews, short stories and essays. Artwork in the fann c:i graph- Research. laTour added his own serious words on sex in the
ics arid other illustr:¢ons are also sought. The editors hope to retain ' '90s: "It's the number-one reason to live and becoming the num-
their emplms on "diversity" and are thus also extending their dead-, ber-one way to die." It'seems that, although laTour'S pen may
line until June' 15 in the hopes that Work may flow in from parts of ~ot glide across the lyric sheet with grace and aplomb, his head,
the countIy not ~ represented. Managing Fditor Robert Reid-Pharr his heart and his wallet are ,dancing 'up the charts with all the
"We need to solicit works from outside the 'Black, gay right moves. ' -compfJed by Sara.b Pettit, Patricia Lobr'
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tIer whose self-concept is constructed of 'Up at. Tom's doorstep. Something-we harder, darker truths our, lives utter;
blocks of New Age dreck that he has fit- don't ftnd out what till later---has gone Because Afterlife is told in the third
ted together as meticulously as the terriPly wrong with his married, moneyed, person, its characters'. interiors aren't
stones in the Great Pyramid. Sonny's suburban, Irish-Catholic,perfect life, and forced to match their ftgures as others
self-aggrandizing, myth-y interior life is he has come, in as penitent a way as his perceive them, and much of the novel's
, presented without apology or (too machismo will allow, to try to repair the interest lives in this discrepancy. In
much) psychoanalysis, thereby allowing breach between them. The rest of the Halfway Home, the reverse is true. Mon-
him to escape the fonnulaic tragic and novel is the unfolding of the drama that ettehas made a mistake, I think, by
bittersweet destinies that respectively will lead to their eventual reconciliation. .
,
choosing to tell this story in the-first per-
await Dell and Steyen, the novel's other Now, I was about to write that this _ son, because he's fmally never able' to
main characters. "unfolding" proceeds with all the saccha- give the character of Tom Shaheen the
There isn't anything like Sonny in rin inevitability c:i a Hallmark card, but to·· measure' of coherence that would enable
Halfway Home, which is pure fonnula, do so would be inaccurate. It wouldn't one to forgive the plot's various implau-
and nothing and no one escapes the net communicate, for example, just how,oom- sibilities. The way Tom acts is often raff-
strung by its plot or its too-reasonable plicated the plot of this book quickly ish, bitchy, immature, impulsive, and I
narrative voice. In essence, the stOly line becomes nor the suavity with which was never able to accept that this charac-
is simple: A young man, Tom Shaheen, Monette manages each· of the plot's twists, ter~ attractive and unnattractive as, by
the C()o()wner of a performance-arts th~ despite the frequent implausibility. Som~ turns, he is-would have the ever-articu-
ater and himself the perfonner of a noto- thing of a thriller, Halfway Homes barrel- late, reasoned, but fmally prating and
rious, sacreligious drag routine he calls ful of orchestrated surprises are, however, somehow middle-aged" interior voice
himself Miss Jesus is sick with AIDS ultimately deadening, since no one ends with which the author has supplied him.
and is spending the winter resting in a up wondering what in the wodd this In a piece that appeared in a recent
cottage on the California coast. Like entertainment has to do with the story issue of the Advocate, Monette spoke of
everyone, Tom has a past heaVy with Monette seems to want to tell. It's anxiety- his desire, given his own HIV-infected
unresolved conflict-which, in Tom's provoking in the same way as certain status, and acknowledgment of the fact
case, centers on his elder brother, Brian, made-for-1V movi~, which.must som~ that his days may be numbered, to
who dominated his childhood. When the how wrest a feel-good ending even out of devote himself to doing things, writing
novel opens, Tom hasn't seen his brother the bleakest catalogue of woes. The net things, that are "positive." I wonder,
for eight years-not since a violent impression, once the tears jerked at though, whether that's really a business ,
encounter between them at their father's appropriate _moments have dried, is that that a novelist should set himself to. To
funeral, when Brian let Tom know in QO there's something dishonest about the pic- stirtwith such an agenda might make -'I
uricertain terms that the family circle had ture of the world
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that's being itlvoked. It's
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writing a kind of fill-in-the-blanks; thera-
no room for his "little fag" of a brother. as if Monette were using his writer's tools peutic exercise, and even a talented writ-
, By the end of Halfway Homes first as weapons to fend off his intelligence er might then produce a book as white- ,
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chapter, Brian has unexpectedly shown or his fears" concerning some of the bread-pat as this one.'"
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BEYOND THE
BEYOND by ?-
the Weather-
men (Mute)
Imagine the Pet
Shop Boys with chops
and a taste for prilnks,
and you've got the
Weathermen, who,
after three albums,
show no sign of slow-
ing down. Though
they're often dumped
into the "industrial" cat-
egory, their sound is
much more listener-
friendly and fun:
Chuck B and Jimmy
Joe Snark III aren't
afraid of a bad pun (a
song is tided "Uzi Does -
It") and whip out some
pretty catchy numbers.
Deee-lite is fun, don't
read me wrong, but if
you get tired of their
INVASION OFntE MAntEMAnCIAN$-Lydia Tomkiw and Don Hedeker are Algebra Suicide happy-go-lucky optimism, the Weather-
I men, these cynical, little devils, are wait-
m~ntal landscapes, but fucked-up ones. FREEDOM AND RAIN by ing for you right around the comer.
Main singer Kristin Hersh's cries have ..JuneTabor and the Oys-
quieted, but it doesn't mean that her ter Band (Rykodisc) PEEL SESSIONS by
inner demons have disappeared: She just June Tabor is a legend on the Slouxsle and the Ban-
learned to channel them, instead of let- English folk circuit. She became famous shees (Dutch East India)
ting them slowly destroy her. when she recorded several albums with Recorded live in 1977 and 1978,
After a disappointing album Maggy Prior, in the early 70s, under the before the band had any records out, this
(Hunkpapa), Throwing Muses are back moniker of the Silly Sisters. Since then, Q) rips and roars. Siouxsie, high priestess
with what may be their most balanced her low, throaty voice and her a cappel- of Gothic hordes, is at her rawest here,.....
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work. The band's early, rickety sound la interpretations have been much- and her versions of "Suburban Relpase,"-'
has evolved into something morecoher- admired. Her reputation "Hong Kong Garden" or
ent, because everybody's got to grow in the US is fmallyout- "Helter Skelter" haven't
older and learn to play at some point. growing the small cir- aged one bit. Next time, I
The song fits more into a verse! chorus cles of English folk afi- want to lure a 16-year-
structure, but it doesn't mean that the cionados, and this old punkette into my lair,
band got mainstreamed; they are one of album, recorded with I'll use this as bait.
,
FAT AXL by Silverfish •
mistake their apparently simple song HBO's Kids tn the Hall, though. THE PRINCE OF WALES
structure for amateurism. In ,other words, On the EP Music for Pels, our men do by Devine/Statton
Beat Happening are the most misunder- a brilliant "Baby Elephant Walk," but all (Rockville)
stood band in AIDerica. the good stuff is on the album, as HenrY In 1980, Alison Statton was in
Onstage, Calvin looks like a spastic Mancini meets the Beach Boys meet the Young Marble Giants, and never has
Ted Bundy. Heather is shy, and her ears Cramps. This is the perfect party record. any band been described so well by its
grow really red when she plays drums name. The Welsh trio's music was eco-
(this I find attractive). She looks like ALPHA CUE by Algebra nomical yet eloquent, frigid yet emo-
she'd rather be at the library. Unlike Suicide (Body/Antler) tional-under the black cover of their
many alternative bands, they have a lot Lydia Tomkiw_ and Don Hedeker one and only album (recently reissued
of female fans, who all look like they live in Chicago but are Virtually un- on CD by Rough Trade) was the
still live with their parents. Beat Hap- known in the United States. MoSt of whitest music one could dream of.
pening's songs 'are about love, sex and their recorded output, save fota 1986 Later Statton sang in Weekend, a cool
obsession. They're wild teenage rock 'n' compilation, has been available only in nco-jazz ensemble akin to early Every-
roll, while at the same time being the . Europe. Tomkiw's deadpan delivery has thing but the Girl, only to disappear
furthest thing from it. prompted comparisons to Lydia Lunch from the public eye. Fans were getting
. and Laurie Anderson, -but I wouldn't restless, until the apparition of this
MUSIC FOR PETS (EP, K) like to give the impression that she is a album, out in 1989 but only now avail-
and SAVVY SHOW STOP- derivative, because she isn't. able in the US (another, Cardiffians, is
. PERS (Cargo) by Shadow Tomkiw's themes are often morbid, . already out in Europe.) '!be Prince of
Men on a Shadowy Planet but they're carefully checked by her con- Wales is a quiet, acoustic reverie, and
Instrumental surf music made in (ise, precise words. Hedeker, who teach- Alison Statton, paired with Ian Devine,
Toronto, Canada. The Ventures live! es statistics in his spare time, provides a even raises her voice on a couple of
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet subtle musical counterpoint to Tomkiw's occasions. The acoustic cover of New
once wrote a song for the Winter lyrics. On Alpha C~ the songs flow flu- Order'S "Bizarre Love Triangle" proves
OlympiCS in Calgaty-neediess to say, it idly, and their smooth, polished rhytluns once and for all that there are actual
wasn't selected. This is a shame, invade your subconscious without your songs buried under the state-of-the--art
because these three guys are campy as even realizing it. Algebra Suicide is a dance technology ....
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arl Ie fOrming, his faithful dog" Fanny, acted
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as his Stage partner. "The Joan Collins
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JULIAN CLARY. The Ballroom.' 253 W. 28th St. Through May 12. Tues· Fan Club," as they billed, the~elves,
day through Saturday at 9 pm, Friday and Saturday at 11:15 pm and Sun· meandered around the London COme-
days at3 pm. dy Club circuit until Fanny's unexpect-
ed early retirement.)
by Jonn Wasser The hourlong
.~
show could be 'regard- It is perhaps for this reason, and a
Camp, people say, is resurging. ed as' an
.
attempt at creating a- surrealistic touch of nervousness, that the act failed
Kinny Gardner recently finished a suc- homosexual fantasy world The elements when Clary had nobody to work with.
cessful run at Eighty-Eight's, Jay Rogers are all present a vinyl bodysuit, studded All singing attempts yielded a tenible dis-
returns next month,and the atte Berlin dog-collars and fairy dust appearing at sonance. Clary's voice ,is an endearing
revue continues to sell out the Duplex. the obligatory moments. On the other cross between a frog and the late Rex
This illustrious art, a mainstay of the J hand, Clary's cross-dressed outrageous Harrison. The performer doesn't ,
sing or
homosexua~ experience combining Ziggy Stardust persona may just mask a even rhythmically speak-be "talks" his
inspired quips and esCapist glamour, has certain insecurity. Both theories would songs. While Clary may be faulted for
garnered a growing legion of new fans. have their proponents, but the answer- various artistic choices (his repertoire
.' - included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and
"Que Sera Sera"), his worst mistake was
choosing the Ballroom, a venue ill-suited
for this type of show. When next at bat,
Clary would be best advised to Choose a
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519 W. 23rd St. (212) 206-0523.
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by Michael Paller
Late in Charles Busch's new play,
Red Scare on Sunset, the glorious Julie
Halston crinkles up what she has of a
nose and says: "Ideas are dangerous!
Squish 'em!" summing up what could
be taken as Busch's attitude toward the
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FAIRY DUST Julian Clary spreads the word. intellectual life in his previous work.
Ideas? Not on your life, kids-this is
'But beneath the mercury-coated barbs probably lies somewhere in the middle. comedy. And while Red Scare on Sun-
and designer-style costumes lies intelli- Making his entrance to the blare of set is as funny a piece as Busch has
gen~ and pointed commentary reflect- the Gone With the Wind theme, Clary written, it has who"d have thought
ing the performer's relationship with welcomed us to an 'evening of "prema- it?-ideas, too.
society, as a whole the gQ<Xl,the bad, ture theatrical ejaculation." He then spent It is easy to see how Red Scare on
,the gay and the' straight. the initial 15 minutes nervously telling Sunset could be misunderstood. Set in
Hot on the heels of Kinny Gardner jokes and searching for a sparring partner Hollywood during the blacklist years,
cOmes another . Brit, Julian rl,,",
~lt who has from the audience. Finding tWo, he grew the heroine is not a brave actresssacri-
,
pitched his cabaret tent on Anierican more, confident, and the bawdiness be- ficing her career to defy HUAC. Mary
campground Clary'sshow at the Ballroom gan to flow. . Dale (Busch) is a musical-comedy star
is a pastiche of double entendres, songs Cary's other, more immediate partner without any political awareness' who--..
arid good taste gone astray. A British in cabaret crime is Russell OlUmey, his (lit- uncovers a Communist plot to take over
comedian ·and TV eraJJy) straight man Hollywood. After neatly dispatching it,
personality, he relies and accompanist. . she marches on Washington to de-
heavily on chatter An .accomplished nounce fellow travelers~including
and patter, British pianist, Churney fe<;l Frank Taggart (Arnie Kolodner), who
music-hall humor and lines 'to the star happens to be her husband.
a dash of inspiration.
,
. with inspired ease. When the Communists--characters
with barely enough dimension to stand populate the very skewed- world of Red pathetic moments but manages to sum-
up-appear, things get dicey. The Scare on Sunset. Just as Busch's previ~ mon his shred of dignity and defi-
blacklist was, after all, no laughing mat- ous play, The Lady in Question, was a ance-before he is snuffed out.
ter. People lost their livelihoods for hav- send-up of anti-Nazi films of the '4Os, Indeed, everything here, under Ken-
ing political thoughts. We're supposed this new piece mocks the anti-Commu- neth Elliott's direction, seems just a bit
to cheer the likes of Mary Dale? Or her nist propaganda fllms that Hollywood deeper than usual. Could it be that the
best friend, Pat Pilford (Halston)-a churned out as late as the early '60s. underlying seriousness of Red Scare on
frightening radio comedienne, part There is nothing in the play that is Sunset has brought out colors that
Hedda Hopper, part George Jessel- not distorted, beginning with B.T. Busch's Theater in Limbo company
who fires employees on the air if Whitehill's set, which makes The Cabi-_ hasn't used before?
they're the slightest bit pink? ("Don't net of Dr. Galigari look like a model of Oh, yes, Charles Busch. His com-
worry about him," she snorts about one city planning. Taggart is the lone repre- 'mand is so sure and effortless that he is
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ex-employee. "He can always get anoth- sentative of the ordinary world (and he in, ,constant danger of being taken for
er job-at the Moscow Art Theater.") has the FBI after him). The rest-per-' granted. He is outrageous, of course,
But, wait, just what is the Bolshe- fonned by the strongest cast to open a but his decidedly unrealistic, oversized
vik ftve-year plan for show biz? The Busch play in New York-are bent or acting rings true because it is grounded
Red devils envision a Hollywood built warped at various--odd angles. Hal- in a very specific, personal reality. Act-
on an ensemble system, with no star ston's Pilford (whose motives are not' ing and playwriting are masks which
billing. Special lighting for actresses so much patriotic as pragmatic) ..is, by reveal the face underneath, and beneath
would be banished, flattering filters on turns, a big, brassy dame and a simper- that Honey Girl 350 wig, makeup and
camera lenses forbidden. Most hOrribly, ing doormat-unlovable and impossi- dress is a perfonner more serious than
the enemies of the American Way plan ble to dislike. Kolodner, the perennial he would have us believe-perhaps
to expunge the fabled Freed Unit, Zeppo Marx of Busch's world, brings more serious than he would have him-
which produced all the great MGM an appealing simplicity and Joel self believe. Is Busch becoming politi-
musicals- of the '50s-and where Mary McCrea chin to his lonely task. 'As Mal- cal, ,making a serious statement about
is currently filming a musical of the life colm, the gay butler whose various threats to personal expr.ession? It's diffi-
-of Lady GodiVa. careers are destroyed ftrst by Pilford cult to say. "I'm really so unpolitical," he
As should-but may not--be clear and later by the Communists (who declared in a recent interview in this
be clearthese meanies are not to be blacklist him from every hair salon in magazine, only to say later, "I think that,
taken too earnest1y-any Hollywood), just by who I am, it's political." There
more than are the rabid Andy Halliday are many ways of being political in the
Red-baiters, despairing does his best theater. And in Red Scare on Sunset,
homosexuals, sinister 'work yet in 'a Charles Busch proves that he can make
Method actors or the rest Busch play. Mal- a point -as well as a joke and compre-
of the grotesques who , colm has his ~neither.T
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DIGEST, rve described. But a strong challenge to won't pretend to objectivity .. If all el~
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the marriage laws has high symbolic fails, there is always the Stud, at 9th and
researchers and treatment activists. The value for our community. A recent deci- Harrison streets. With no door charge
phase-II will be a "salvage", protocol for sion by the legal groups to throw their except on Fridays and Saturdays, it's one
160 people with HIV-related neurocogni- support behind those marriage cases that of the few dance bars open all week,
tive symptoms who have failed other are being filed by members of our com- and one of the residences for the non-
therapies. Those who respond poorly munity is a pragmatic response to the scene. The patrons are mostly fashion
will be switched to an "open-label" ann popular desire to have equal access to fall-outs, people lying low for a while,
of the study in which they will receive one of the central, defining institutions in and others either too apathetic to chase
the drug for at least six months. our society. T parties or who somehow didn't know
there was somewhere else to go. For a .
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decent no-attitude kind of place, visit the
Azithromycin, clarithromicyn, itra- Continued, from pa.ge 41 Stud-Mondays and Tuesdays are sug-
conazole and ddC are available most gested nights.
require a doctor's prescription-from the words, the sisters were doing it for The other non-scene stars are Cafe
PWA He3Ith Group at 31 West 26th St in themselves as well as for others. When San Marcos, known locally as the lesbian
New York City; or call (212) 532-0280. the straight men got pompous, the sisters airport lounge, at Market and Castro
Peptide-T is available through the Los read them.' streets, and the Detour, on Market Street
Angeles Buyer's Oub at (213) 748-1143. T For as long as this struggle contin- between Castro and Noe. Both feature
ues, Graduate Center gay and lesbian stu- good music, dim lighting and pool tables,
Chris DeBlasio and Rich Lynn con- dents will be going to QJNY-wide meet- but Cafe San Marcos gets extra points for
tributed materialfor this article. ings and rallies and setting the example its huge, soft chairs.
of effective queer activism, so that The un-scene stay at the Bagdad
OUTLAW younger students
, can learn to . respect and Cafe on Market Street at 16th. Open 24
Cont:lnued from page 30 work with us, thereby learning to also hours and featuring two walls made of
work with their own queer peers. Gonza- windows, it is the best place to duck the
more general policy against disaimina- lez suggested saying: "You're here for the scene and the non-scene. Popular with
tion by the government-rhetoric rein- student strike? So am I. I'm queer," so that bar staff, off-duty drag queens and go-go
forced by the OC Court of Appeals' 1987 we make sure that our contribution is not dancers, it combines the private and the
decision about gay student groups at underestimated. Nor, as we march and public with 24 hours of free coffee refills.
Georgetown University-it is not clear picket and we occupy and we sit-in
that the law applies to this issue at all, against an indefensible attack on public lan~
since issuing marriage licenses does not education, will activist dykes and fags Accommodations are allover, but
squarely fall within the range of activities underestimate the contribution that this the three best for cost, ·location and
covered by the law. struggle
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has made to our own radicaliza-
,
queerness are the Metro Hotel 'on
Even if the law did apply, one must tion, to our own coming out and our Divisadero Street at Page, the Pension on
,
remember that Congress has legislative own taking action. As striking dyke stu- Market Street near Franklin. and the Trav-
,
authority in the District. A court ruling in dent Joan Parkin said, "There have always elodge on Market between 16th and 15th
favor of Dean and Gill would probably been gays and lesbians within political streets. All feature rooms for under $50 .
be qUickly overturned by legislation, and movements. We see so many of us now per night and are centrally located.
it is possible that the legislation would because coming out has become political- When you get to the Golden Gates,
not be so fIne-tuned as merely to state ly advantageous as a subversive way of don't say no one warned you. All the
that the "gay rights law" does , not apply ,
dismantling the system. But coming out buses and subways are 85¢, and with the
to marriage licenses. A ruling that a sexu- within a political movement is only a sub- bus you get a transfer you can use two
al orientation-discrimination ordinance versive, radical action if that radicalism more times. Walgreen's Drugstore at Cas-
compels recognition of same-sex mar- isn't co-opted, but rather infused with the tro and 18th streets is open 24 hours for
riages might lead to wholesale repeal, not street activism that's so necessary for its cigarettes, razor blades, dental dams,
only in DC but in other jurisdictions as existence." Work, sister. Queers, fight condoms and surgical gloves, along with
well. It alsO,might be a powerful barrier back. T $3 lipsticks and a Diet Pepsi. Remember,
to enactment of new gay rights laws. ,
San Francisco is a glamorous town, and
Since marriage is a matter of state, rather TRAVEL glamour is always cheap and best in dim,
than local, law, opponents could argue Continued from pa.ge 46 . lighting. And always carry ID, even if it's
that a vote for gay rights is a vote for gay women alike. It's also boy-friendly. Then not necessarily your own. T
marriage, a step for which state legislators there's Snatch (Saturdays at Oub Deco,
may not be ready. 521 Uukin) and Faster Pussycat (Thurs- r ,
It .is net hard to understand why our
major legal groups have opposed this
days at FIrehouse 7, 16th near Valencia),
the pet .projects of Downtown Donna.
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legal theory, the locational drawbacks
and the possible negative consequences
come if they behave.
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..._ntlnu cI -w. _BBlI .,._g_ 12 gious beliefs or not being willing to take which combine the gay and lesbian voting
the risk-or perhap5 they are supportive, bloc in Park Slope with neighboring con-
"New YOlk is perceived as being very but their seat is tenuous." Although chances servative areas. Park Slope is in District 39
liberal, but we're not, and it gives us a fulse of a victory look bleak this year, due to in both plans, joined with Carroll Gardens
sense of security," Assemblywoman Deb0- expected opposffion in the Senate, Glick is and Kensington in Version A, and placed
rah Glick added., "We need to get the sup- still optimistic that anti-bias and gay and with Wmdsor Terrace and Kensington in
pat of the Assembly, we need to get pe0- lesbian group5 are on the right track. Version B.
ple out there to testify that they are discrim- The last time a similar gay rights bill Members of the I.ambda Indepen-
inated against, and we need to mobilize came up for a vote on the Assembly floor dent Democrats, a political club in Brook-
and 0fB3Ilize our support. ~ was in 1985, where it passed with the lyn, had sought to place Park ,Slope in a
"We've never had a strong enough minimum of 76 votes. The bill, which district with gay voters in Brooklyn
political.presence in Albany," Darley con- was limited to housing rights, never even Heights, Prospect Heights, Cobble Hill,
tinued "New YOlk City is already protect- made it to the Senate floor. The only and Boerum. That district, however, was ,
ed by legislation, so there is not a burning other time a gay rights bill was voted on viewed as unlikely.
desire by New YOlk City residents to sec it was in 1983, where it failed in the All the lines for the 51 proposed
~. The. gay and lesbian community has Assembly, 59 to 79. T Coundlmanic districts may change signifi-
not made it a high enough priority." DISTRICT cantly before the commission's June 3
According to Glick, it is going to c:_ntlnu • cI 'l'rc»Bn .,._g_ 13 deadline, according to Alan Gartner, the ,
domestic partnership bill and gay-inclu- briefly dropping down to 53rd Street. . More than 1,<XX> women attending the
sive anti-bias legislation. Last year, nearly The overwhelmingly white and NaOOnall.esbian Conference, where 1han(r
60 people lobbied, and at least twice that Democratic District 3 has a total popula- son W<IS a scheduled spe!ker when the em
many here expected to turn out this year. tion of 151,000 with 81,000 voters. sion GlIDe down, heard Thompson wge: "&
Another channel might include Carol Greitzer, the inCUIIlbeOtwho long as we're invisible, we're vulnernble. It's
adding a clause to the effect that "New currently represents Olelsea and the West ,got to bemme as pIblic as it can <XXIX!."
York state does not condone holl1aieX\lal- Vtllage, lives in the proposed district, as "I'm stunned that a judge can u~
ity," similar to what Connecticut lawrilak- does Tom Duane, the openly gay candi- against me things like coming out,"
ers did, in order to get more conservative date defeated by Greitzer in the last elec- Thompson said tearfully. "I would've
legislators to pass the bill. Dadey called tion, who has already announced his stayed in the closet if not for this case." .
, such measures "unfortunate but, ultimate- plans for another run. Although the judge wrote that over the
ly, worth it if it means passing the bill." The commissioners placed the past two years, "when asked where sh~
Why -legislation of this nature has southern half of the West Vtllage in Man- would like to live, Sharon has consistenrly
been so long in coming in New York is hattan's District 1 to swell the population said, 'St. Ooud with Karen'." He added that
due to "a certain lack of moral fortitude," of the district they have drawn on Man- the statement was "not tantamount to a •
Sanders said "It takes very few people to hattan's southern tip, where many Asian- preference of who should be her guardian,"
prevent a bill from passing, and this is a American and latino voters reside. That because without short-term memory, '-.
very diverse state, in terms of upstate district resembles the 61st &sembly Dis- Kowalski amnot exerose free speech.
and d()wnstate. There is also political trict that put lesbian Assemblywoman 1homp!oo slid that on Apil25, Kowal-
misplaced concern as to what impact on Deborah Glick in office last year. ski said that she "was sad" at the cle<:Eon
legislators it would have." Unable to agree on a single propos- and W<IS "mad" that slY! could not attend the
Glick speculated that legislators might al, the commissioners have released two NaOOnall.esbian Conference in Atlanta
vote against the bill due to "personal reIi- separate scenarios for Brooklyn, both of -Carrie Wofford
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869-3530. Through June 9. is Lelblan and Gay Lobby Day. In the from Impolite to My' Butchers, Shootout
THE WPA THEATRE presents R.d'la" evening, it's a Gay-Ia Benefit Plrfor· or' He Died· for Beauty, Minimum Wage,
IbEVE'S GARDEN presents prtnny Alavl'a OR Sun"t, a new play by and starring manci and Awardl Ceremony, featuring Flesh and Blood in Cincinnati and The
C./dratln, Wom.n, a photography Chari .. BUICh, ,creator of Vampire lesbian performance artistHoIlj Hughll. Sunshine State. $12. Theater at 224
exhibition. Alavi will be presenting her Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach For complete details, contact the P~ide Waverly, between Perry and West 11th
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12-6:30 pm. Reception:'May 7 from Andy Halliday, Julll Haillon, Mark THE MOMENTUM PROJECT presents
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Through. June 30. Kolodner. 519 W. 23rd St Tu-Th at 8 pm of sports and celebrities." Included: a evening of readinge from the new City
and Su at 7:30 pnr-$22, Fr and Sa at 8 sports auction featuring memorabilia Lights anthology Top Top Stori8S. With
THE CARNEGIEHAlL MUSEUM presents pm and Su at 3 pm-$26. Reservations: from stars of bassball, football, basket- readings by Glln O'Brien, Conltance
its Inlullural Exhibition, featuring mem- (212) 206·0523. ' ball and other sports; a wine tasting; DeJong, Donna Wyazomllrskl, AlchilF/
orb ilia of gay Ruseian composer Peter prizes; and a private dinner with Staub Siraul and others. Curated by Ira
,lIylch TchalkOYlky. Included in the exhi· CHERRY LANE THEATREpresents David and other sporta stare, The evening bene- ' Silverberg, $6/$1 for membere. 512 W.
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ment to Prospeck Park .. Non~jocks and Mln'l Rap Grolp at 7:30 pm, before Gene Fedorko at (212) 674- HOPE or
!lpectatore welcome. Call for meeting their Glneral Milling at 8.:30 pm. THE .DEFENDERS present a Benefit for Robin Haueter at (212) 971·9488.
place. Then, at 6 pm, It's Orang .. Tonlght'8 dlscus810n topic 18"Gay8 and Sl Francis of Assi8i AIDS Ministry. Bring
Potluck .nd VldlO ~Ighl Bring orange LeSbian8 as Foster or Adoptive Parents." three cans of fod, three pair of 80cks or. QUEER NATION,Wllkly M .. llng. The
foods and beverages for a viewing of Joy Nonworthy and Sal Kullm.n of the three pair, of underwear. 2·4·1 drinks Center. 208 W. 13th st. 7:30 pm. Info:
Orange. Are Not the Only Fruit. Plea~e New Jersey F08ter Parents Assoication available (limit two). There will al80 be a (212) 9788-8720.
call 24 hour8 In advance. to conflrm'all. will ~e on hand. 21 Normandy Height8 ' raffle for a "basket of cheer." The Spike.
'SAL activities: (718) 96&-7578. . Rd. Morri8town, NJ. Info:' GAAMC Gay 20th Street at Eleventh Avenue. 10 pm to WOMEN'S ALlERNATIVE COMMUNITY
Helpline: (201) 285-1595. midnight CENTER pre8ents Altarn.tlve Com·
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER Bo.rd munlty Dilcullion Group. Tonight's
of DI.ractorl Me ..llng from 2:30-7:30 ACT UP G.neral MIlling. Cooper Union. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 Topic: "Hera production8 jam." WACC.
pm. Then, at 7:30,pm, if8 MACT member Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm. West Hemp8tead, NY. 8 pm. For complelll
Eric Persis band M Thangl. Both evente Irno: (212) 564·AlDS. LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR pre- details: (516) 483-2050.
happen at the Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 8ents a LIn Album Racordlng Concert.
.Info: (212) 222·9794. . HERITAGE OF PRIDE Ganlral Member· Lavender Ught maintain8 "the tradition of THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS
Ihlp Mlltlng. Allintere8ted person8 Black sacred mU8ic In an environment ASSOCIATION Planning Mlltlng. The
B. MARIA OLUWA ROBERTS pre8ents invited. The Center. 208 W. 13th st. 8 8upportive to lesbians and gay men," The Center, 208 W. 13th St 8 pm~ Info: (718)
SllIen, ail aftemoon of sharing through pm. Info: (212) 691·1774. Friends MeeUng House. 221 E, 15th St, 258-4102 or (718) 626-4699.
poetry and prose, ,Featuring Klmblerly between Third Avenue and Rutherford
Brown, B. Marian OluWl! Robarts, THE CLiT CLUB presents a Benllit Party Place, Info: Crystal Westpn at (212) 566- TOWER BOOKS presents David nlnld.1i
Shell.hM.bry, I~ra S.balu and N.ncy for Stonewall 25, a "global celebratiori of 4362 or Charles Brack at (212) 566-{)528. reading from hi8 book, Hand Over Heart
W.mn, plus an open reading. ASL Intsr· lesbian and gay pride and protest." Susie Timmons will al80 be reading. 383
preted. Refreshments avallable, $8/$7 Jocllyn Tiylor and Jalla Tollnllno pre· GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General Lafayette St 8 pm.
.with flyer. PWAs free. 'TRS Suite8. 7 E. 8ent live performance8 byShllly Marl Meeting Ind Orientation. H08t08
,30th St., betwe'en Fifth and Madi80n and Womln of Color from Wa8hington, Community College. Grand Concourse, FRIDAY, MAY 17 '
avenues. <Hl pm. Info: (212) 685c2848 DC. $10-$20 8liding 8cale. The Pyramid. Building A, room 227. 7-9 pm. Info:
or (718) 789-3281. 101 Ave. A. 8 pm to 2 am, Showtime is ,Jimmy at (212) 365·6239, Charles at . CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH
10 pm. Info: (212) 406·1114, (212) 378-34397 (Spanish) or Ed at presents a Jewllh Famlnlll Frtday Night
DIXON PLACE preeante Alternatlval-A (212) 792-8078. Shabbal Sarvlca, followed by Oneg
Nonfiction Sartll. Scheduled gueete are CELLBLOCK 28 present8'a New York Shabbal Congregation Beth Simchat Torah'
Lila Abu·Lughod, an anthropologl8t Strap·.nd P.ddle Anoclatlon P.rty. 28 CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH is New York's lesbian and gay 8ynagogue.
"w,riting against culture," who will read Ninth Ave., down8lairs, between 13th and present8 a Jewllh Woman'l ROlh fil Bethune St 6:30 pm. (212) 929-9498.
I, 'from Bedouin women'8 8torie8, and Um. 14th8treet8. Door8 open 8 pm. Info: ChodalhlNaw Moon Celbratlon,
I . N.rayan will speak on Non·Weslllm per- (212) 733-3144. Congregation Beth Simchat Torah i8 New GAY MEN OFTHE BRONX present Dinner
sppectlves of femlnl8t epl8temology. $5 York'8 ·Iesbian and gay 8ynagogue. 57 at Plna Tavern. 1918 Bronxdale Ave. 7:30
or TOE 37 E. 18t St, 'between First and TUESDAY, MAY 14 Bethune Sl 7:30 pm. (212) 929-9498. pm., Info: Charles at (212) 378-3497.
Second avenues. S pm. (212) 673-6752. "
• THE OUTREACH'USING COMMUNAL SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre- THE ANSWER IS LOVING Woman Talking
THE PWA COALITION presents a Sunday HEALING present8 a Benaflt Dlnnar. 8ent8 Pool Night. Featuring free pool, Women'l Talk, a8king can you lake care
Night Social for leebian and gay HIV-posi· TOUCH provides a weekly dinner to ping pong, billiards, air hockey and of yourself and be con8iderate of others,
live persons, PWAs and their friend8. Meet People With AIDS In downtown Brooklyn. 8hooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard, and live together? Some topics of discus-
and mingle in a relaxed atmosphere with Bargemueic. 5:30-8:30 pm. Info: Audrey Seventh Ave. at Flatbu8h. Afterwards, 8ion: "Do you fall allover yourself making
music and refreehem!B. The Uvlng Room. at (718) 783-6763, Shirley at (718) 284- relax at the Roost. Seventh Avenue at 8th it work? Does it come easy to you? To be --
1222W. 11th Sl, west of ~nthAvenue. 3640 or David at (718) 857-6297. Street. The evening begin8 at 8 pm. or not to be, Is that a question and is
6:~:3O pm. Info: (212) 532~. Please call 24 hour8 in advance to con· there an an8wer?" $10. 1964 E. 35th St
, LESBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE OF COLOR firm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578. Brooklyn. 7:4510 pm. Info: Ruth Berman
MONDAY, MAY 13 STEERING COMMITTEE Glnar.1 and Connie Kurtz at (718) 998-2305.
Milling. 15 Park Row, 19th floor. 6:30 A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Jewslle
THE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS pm, Info: Bert at (212) 505-0506. Gomez, reading from her book, The Gilda
RESEARCH presente a Dockside Gala Stories. 548 Hudson St8 pm. Info: (212) Illf IIIT1ISSIf II lUI
Blnlm P.rty aboard Carnival Cruise MEN OF ALL COLORS 'TOGETHER 989-4850,
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ME (Arts and Entertainment 555 Fifth Ave., 10th floor., NYC 10017. (212) 661· 10:211PM TNT Gymkata Worst 0' the week award: Olympic gymnast Ku'it
4500) CCTY (Rick X. P.O:·Box 790, NYC, 10108) GBS (Gay Broadcasting Thomas proves he Clln swing from bars, bare his chest, but can't act'
System. Blitch Peaston. 178Seventh Ave., suite A-3, NYC 10011.(212) 243-1570) Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and ·female strippers, live
, GCN (Gay Cable Network. Lou Maletta. 32 Union Square East, suite 1217.(212) call·in show; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
4n·4220) GUB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadca$l8rs. (212) 473·1689)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis. Jean Carloinusto. 129W. 20th St, NYC 10011. .THURSDAY, MAY 9
(212) 807·7~17) RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions. P.O.Box 305, NYC 10021.
6:00AM SHO A Different Story I'll say: Boy-meets-girlturnsoutto be
1?12)988-2973) WAle-TV (77 W, 63rd St, NYC 10023 (212) 456-7m) WBAI·
FM'(li!J5 Eighth Ave., 19th floor, NYC 10018 (212) 279-0707) WCBS-TV (51 W, fag~meets·dyke. Made in '78, so don't expect fashion (or any other)
52nd St" NYC 10019. (212) 975-4321) WNBC-TV (30flockefeller Plaza, NYC statements.
10112. (212) 664·4444) WNET-TV (356 W. 58th St., NYC 10019, (212)560-3000) 7:00 AM WABC- TV Good Morning America More Madonna. CH 7.
WNYW-TV (Fox. 1211 AV{AM, NYC 10036. (212) 556-2400) WPIX·TV (220 E. 9:00AM WIND·TV Best TalkScheduled: Fighting the effeC1s of AIDS. CH 11.
42nd St., NYC 10017.(212) 949-1100) 10:05 AM TBS The little Girl Who lives Down the Lane ...is Jodie FO$l8r,
in a role whiCh reveals how good she is at keeping secrets (not very).
MONDAY, MAY 6 1:110PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay and lesbian news
magazine; 99.5 FM (:30) . ' ,
6:00 AM WIND· TV Broadcast New York A discussion of the distribution
of condoms and HIV testing to prostitutes. CH 11. 1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing. local news about the gay and
. 1:110AM DeAundra Peek's Hi Class Hall 0' Fame All about a Georgia gal lesbian community with larry Gutenburg. 99.5 FM (:30)
(along the likes of Lady Bunny and lahoma). Manhattan Cable. CH 17 5:00 PM Cristina Tema: mujeres casadas con bisexual.as. CH 41.
1:05 PM TBS Norman ...ls That You?'Redd Foxx.and Pearl Bailey as the' 10:l1li PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and,aboutthe lesbian/gay
bewildered parents of a homosexual.' Oh, get over it, Mary. community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30) .
1:30 PM WUSB !IO.l FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts a weeldy 10:30 PM GMHC living Wi~ AIDS Health and politics. Manhattan Cable,
lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show. CH V/35 (:30) '.
2:110PM WUSB !IO.l FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music pro- 11:ooPM GCN Gay U.SA~ news and entertainment from around the
. duced by women for women. country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
2:30 PM WUSB !IO.l FM This Way Out More queer news. Midnight GCN Men in Films: male , erotica, interviews with adult filmstitrs;
5:oo,PM HBO Mommie Dearest I bet you Christina Crawford's favorite .Manhattan Cable, CH V/35(:3O)
, movia is. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 12:30 AM' WNBC· TV David Letterman Scheduled: Richard Simmons. Isn't
7:30 PM WCBS- TV Entertainment TonightWell, Madonna outed him in it past his bedtime? That girl is tiredl CH 4.
the Advocate last week, so I 'wonder what he's got to say now. CH 2. . 12:30 AM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male porno
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda ShowCH 17 stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion, interviews.
BQ Cable, CH56 (1:00) FRIDAY, MAY 10
9:00 PM WNET· TV The Shape of the World A program about mapping 7:00AM WABC-TV Good Morning America More Madonna. CH 7.
diseases, including AIDS. CH 13. 9:00 AM WCBS-TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: sexual addiction; CH 2.
9:00PM GCN Gay USA Paragon Cable. CH C/16(:30) 10:00 AM WIND-TV 9 Broadcast Plaza Scheduled: Richard Simmons (up .
11:30PM Tomorrow/Tonight live. entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon early from last night, we see).CH 9.
Cable, CH 0/1.7 (1:00) 2:30 PM WBAI-FM R.ompiendo el Silencio Todos los viernes,. Gonzalo .
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. K10set K1ips; Manhattan /Paragon Aburto con temas y noticias p,ara la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana.
Cable, CH,C/16 (:30) 99.5 FM (:15)" .
7:00 PM WCBS- TV Hard Copy Scheduled: Dick York and Dick Sargent
(the two Dicks, I mean, Darrenson Bewitched). One of them~1 think
TUESDAY, MAY 7 Sargent-reports that he is not keeping a houseboy as rumored, but
8:00 AM HBO Victor/Victoria I think this is TV's favorite movie about, , he will walk in Gay Pride this year. Sorty aboutthe boy, Dick. CH 2. '
queers because they're aren't any real ones in it. 7:00 PM WBAI 99.5 FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alc,alay, producer.
10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled topic: crimes against 11:l1li PM WFOX-TV M*A*S*H Frank wants to drum a homo'outofthe
children. I smell a bashing in the make. CH 7. -'- Anny.,CH 5.
4:00 PM TMC Slaves of New York NYCplus downtown plus the art scene 1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
equals queers. If they're not in the movie, they should be. Manhattan Cilble, CH V/35 (1:00)
7:30PM WCBS-TV Entertainment TonightMadonna's on. CH 2. ,.-
9:30 PM HBO The World According to Garp John Lithgow has a fine sup- SATURDAY, MAY 11
porting role a football player turned transsexual. 8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any SaturdBYwith DaVid Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; FM (2:00)', '.
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00) 7:00 PM GCN Gay USA News and entertainment from around the co un-
11:00 PM GBS Out in the SO's:news, infonnation and interviews; - try. Ba. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00) 11:110PM Gay 7VMale porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
12:30 AM WNET- TV AIDS in the Barrio AIDS and latinas/os. CH 13. 1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show Male and female strippers.
Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 1:30AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show Male and female strippers.
1:00 AM WNET- TV Diana's Hair Ego The story of a woman, who uses her Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
hair salon as an AIDS outreach and infonnation center. CH 11
1:30 AM WNET- TV AIDS: Facts Over Fear A program on AIDS. CH 13. '. SUNDAY, MAY 12
8:110AM LlF Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Paul Newman and Liz Taylor as only 7:30 PM WBAI·FM The Gay Show. Co-hosts Allan Ross, Marie Becker;
Tennessee Williams could have them. Bob Stonn and larry Gutenburg salute lesbian mothers and mothers
9:30 AM WBAI 99.5 FM GhostS in the Machine This radio show is hosted , of queers. Alternates with Out/ooks. 99.5 FM (1:00).
by OutWeek Features Editor Victoria Starr. 2.5 hours. 10:30PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male porno
10:110AM, WABC· TV Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled topic: tra nssexual- stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
ism. I shlJdderto think how she'll bundle this one. CH 7. 11:l1li PM GBS Way Outl Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies host.
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, bl,imelight (Gregg C.'s Heaven. Live parfor- pm. $5) 432 W 14th St. (212) 406-1114. .
mances: 10 pm.') Sixt~ Avenue at .20th Columbi~ Danc .. (First Friday dances. 10 pm to
S1r!l!lt.(212) 807-7840. 2 am.) Columbia University Earl Hall. 116th
Privata Eyes'IMarc Berkley's Kool Komrads. Street at Broadway. Daytime phone: (212)
.Strippers, downtown cro\io(d,studer:rts, pro- 854-3574.' ,
fessionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight. .$7) 12 + Hatfield's (Women's night.) 126-10 Queens
W 21 St. (212) 206-m2. . Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. (718) 261-8484.
Pyramid (Michael T. presents New York Nights. ,;'eLooRY !,lin (Hosted by Page and Don. OJ
Alternative music with OJ Bad Taste. Jl) Patrick Butts. 'Deviant' crowd. $5.) Pyramid.
Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212) 420-1500. 101 Ave. A. (212) 420-1590.
Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video and
Tuesday - live entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St.
+Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight. Lesbian (212) 807-7840.
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erotic videos and slides. Go·go girls Doors Meat on Friday (Xclusive performances at 1:30
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open at 8 pm. $3 before 11/$5 after.) am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) Pyramid. 101
OutWeek Listings, 159 W. 25 Avenue A. (212) 420-1500. .
Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212) 420·1590.
th St., 7th floor, NY, NY +Millamium (Ladies Night) mo New York Ave.
+ -t\-Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, sin-
10001_Fax: (212) 337-1220. (Route 110)Huntington, U. (516)351·1402.
gles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W. Jtu[newinfo] +[women] Parallel (Uncoln Palsgrove IV, Scott Currie and
29th St. (212) 868-6989. . *[attracts lVs] Chauncy present Satyricon. Featuring
Danceteria (Chip Duckett's Gay Tuesdays. Matthew Kasten's beauties. DJ Johnny
Doors open at 10 pm. ) 29 E. 29th St. Info: Dynell. $12.) 229 W. 28th St. (212) 563-9292.
(212) 353-8n5. . Private Ey.. (YMVA Night, for students and pro-
-, fessionals.) 12 W. 21st St. (212) 206-m2.
+ Grand Central (Women's night.) 210 Merrick
Rd. Rockville Centre, U. (516) 536-4800. Stingray's (Free before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W.
Jack Officer's Club (OJ Craig presents cruising, 51st St. (212) 664-8668.
bruiSing, drinking and carousing. $3),505 E. Thursday + Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd., Woodside,
61h St., between avenues A and B. • The Bank (For fags, it's Sperm Bank, with host- Queens. Club: (718) 899-9031.
Roxy (John Blair's ·Muscleon Wheels." Gay ess Hap! Phace, DJs Craig Spencer and
rollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied Victor Anonymous? For dykes, it's Egg Bank Saturday
. cover.) 515 W 18 St. (212) 645-5156. in the Jodie Foster Lounge. Guest DJs, Tha Qank ( Controversy. DJ Patrick Butts. Drag
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sleazy girl, action. $101$7) 22S E. Houston St., queens, drinking and dancing. $151$1Q/$7.)
Wednesday at Essex. (212) 505-5033. 225 E. Houston St., at Essex. (212) 505-5033.
-t\-Channel69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda -M:opecabane (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of the Barefoot Boogie (For adults, kids on 2nd and 4th
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson. month. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth ' Saturdays. Smoke- and alcohol-free. May 13
Sexy, upbeat, East Village.fag and dyke crowd. Avenue. (212)755-6010. is ·OIdies Night.· 8:30 pm to 12:30 am. $5Ikids
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$5.) Pyramid. 101Ave. A. (212)420-1591). Danc81eria (Coming May 2. Shescape presents free.) 434 Sixth Ave."4th floor, between
The Boya Room (Hosted by Dallas. Cheap Thrills Every Thursday for Girls. Guest DJs. Doors Ninth and Tenth avenues. (212) 857-5152.
presents House music, downtown crowd, open 6-11 pm: $5 before 7/$7 after.) 29 E. Center (2nd and 4th Sa, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. DJ
go-go boys.Three floors. 60·foot ceiling. 29th St. (212) 645-6479. Karin Ward.) 208W. 13th St. (212) 620-7310.
$7/$5.) 51 W. 26th St. (212) 576-1890. Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located at the corner of + Center (Women & Friends. First Sa. OJ Karin
The Bunkhouse (Club Trash, a night of WDRE- 10th Street andJefferson behind football Ward. 9 pm to 1 am.) 208W 13 St (212)621H211l
alterna,tive music, with Freddie and DJ stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) 795-1161. + Clit Club (Erotic lesbian videos, slides and
. Kamakazie. May 8: guest hostess Cherry Fuego (Moe Gonzalez presents reggaie, house go-go girls.Ooors open at 10 pm.) The
and and hot women. Doors open 9 pm. $5.) Pyramid. 101Ave. A. (212) 420-1590. -
Vanilla.) Montauk.Highway. Sayville. (516)
567-BUNK. " Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212) 420-1590. Club Welt End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays.
+ Excalibur (Ladies Night. $1 drinks.) 10th Hatfield's .12-4-1 drinks, female impersonetors.) 12-9 11m)547W. 21st St.
Street andJefferson behind football sta- 126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. Columbia Danc .. (Third Saturday dances with
dium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) 795-1161. . (718) 261-8484. OJ Karin Ward. 10 pm to 3 am. $5.) Columbia
-t\-Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig and More Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ University Earl Hall. 116th Street at
Larry Tee. Doors open at 10 pm. $10.) Sjl¢! Tommy Rlchardson,go-go boys, videos, bil- Broadway. (212) 629-1989.
Avenue at 20th Street. (212) 807-7850. liards. $10J$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave. 419419 N. Highway, Southampton, U. (516)283-5001.
~Limelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson and (212) 518-3283. Love Zona (dancing & performers) 70 Beach St.
Keoki. $51$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street. bThe Pump Room (Dallas presents go-go boys, Staten Island. (718) 442-5692. '
(212) 807-7850.- , a light show and a large dance floor. $12/$8.) +Girl Saturdaya (Shes cape presents Saturday
I + Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure . 515 W. 18th St. (212)645-5156. " Nights for Women. With go·go girls and a
Party Production Dances for Women. Free +Pyramid (Dee's Dyke Barfor dykes and dyke . guest OJ. $8 befQre 10:30/$10 after.) 20120.20
buffet from 6-8 pm. Renee Cooke, bar- hags. OJ Mike of Bensonhurst. $5) Pyramid. W. 20th St., between Fifth and Sixth
tender. $5.) 16, W. 22nd St., between Fifth ,
101 Ave. A. (212) 420-1500. ave niles. (212) 645-6479.
and Sixth avenues. ) Stingray's (New club, new sound system, Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez. Go·go boys, videos
+ Private Eyn (Shescape Afterwork Party froln everything else is a sl!rprise. No cover 'and a slide show. $51$7.) 432 W 14 St.
5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7 tonight) 641 W.51 st St. (212) 664-8668. Parallel (John Blair and The Athletic Complex
I, pm/$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St. Shescape: (212) present New York's hottest go-go boys. DJ
645-0479. Private Eyes: (212) 2fXr7n2. Friday Tommy Richardson. $15.) 229 W. 28th St.
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'''rivate Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, profes- ABC (Chip Duckett presents OJ Merritt and (212) 563-9292. ' .....
sional and women. $7.) 12 W. 21st St. (212) dancing in the ballro!)m and balcony. $10J$7 -t\-Roxy (Locomotion. Gay men, straight women,
206-7n2. ' w. invite.) 17 Irving Place at 15th Street. some lesbians;) 515 W. 18th St., between
SUver Lining '(2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane,. Tha Bank (Nightmare on Wax: Alternative music Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212) ,645-5156.
Floral Park, U. (516) 354-9641. hosted by Lee Chappell and Michael T. OJ + Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane. Roral Park, LI.
Stutz (2-4·1 drinks.) 202 Westchester Ave. Ralph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $10J$7.) 225 E. (516) 354-9641.
White Plains, NY. (914) 761·3100: Houston St., at Essex. (212) 505·5033. Sound Factoiy (Mixed crowd but mostly gay.
+ Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie present Clit Cfub Serious House music. No alcohol. Doors
West. With go·go girls and ,
lesbo videos. $1 open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St., between
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. Go-go boys. $6.) 229 w. 28th St. (212) 563-9292. Circle Rep presents Keith Curran's bru.lAlIywitty WALKING TIlE DEAD,
• SOB. (Leticia Mohtalvopresents , The Lust a play that sbatters the ll:aditiooal'
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myths "f, sexuality!
House. First Sunday of the month, beginning •
June 1. OJ Marlow. $5.) 204 Varick St., at Homer was just a regular guy looking for love, comfort and sanctuary in a chaotic world.
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Houston. (212) 243·4940.' However;, before Homer was. Homer, he,was VerOnica. And now, Homer is 'dead, "
>\oClub Edelwei •• (Tuesdays are for lesbians, TANYA BEREZIN, Artistic Director
presents,
but it's open to all Tu-Su.) 167 W. 29th St
(212) 868-6989. WALKING THE DEAD
419419 N. Highway (Ate 27). Southampton, LI. by ••
(516) 283-5001. KEITH CURRAN
Grand Central 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre, Directed .by
LI. (516) 536·4800. .. MARK RAMO NT
Magic Touch (Anglo/latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, . with
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718) 429-8605. sconv BLOCH,
Monster 80 Grove St, at Sheridan Square. (212) ASHLEY GARDNER,
924-3557. JOE MANTELLO,
• Pandora's Box Sheridan Square & 7th CHRISTOPHER SHAW,
Avenue. (212J 242·1408. COnER SMITH,
The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for indi- . MYRA TAYLOR,
vidual partills and themes. Also check Going
Out for special events.) 101 Ave. A. (212) TYRONE WILSON
420-1590. TlCKE1S: (212) 924·7100
Spectrum (Look;under daily listings for individ·
ual'parties and themes. Coors served.) 802 CI'RCLE REPERTORY COMPANY
99 7th Avenue Soulh
64th St., at Eighth avenue. Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn. (718) 238·8213. • Be careful of how you live your
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SEXUAL ABUSE ASIANS .. RlQDS- NY· York Area Bisexual Network. ing .eIf-d8fanae and karate for 17 Many 18boratory tests and
. (Sponsored by SAGEI A not·for-profit organization years. 5 week courses in self· physicals are provided fre'e of
Mondays, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. which promotes friendships with BISEXUAL WOMEN'S defanse forwomen, Community cha rge to pa rticipants. Child
Sage. Room at the Center Asian/Pacific Islander, Asian- SUPPORT GROUP woikahops in self-defense. Ongo- care can also be provided. All
Experiment.1 Ther.py Group American, and non-Asian gay Discussion & CR Group meets ing cia_ in karste & tei chi for Identifying information is kept
far WOi.,.o1 (Ag .. 21 and up) to man through social, cultura~ edu- every 2nd & 4th Wednesday, women. Courses & woikllhops in confidential, Call (212)481-1050
support the recovery process cational, and service activities 8:30 • 8:00 pm at the Community SD for lesbians & gay men. Slid·
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children, and explore and ATR (AIDS TREATMENT Monthly social events for the 57 Bethune Street For info. call:
release beliefs and patterns 1lESCMlCES.INCJ Bisexual community and friends. CIRCLEOF MORE UGHI' (212) 92~9498.
that block growth. This re·inter- Publishes a quai1lli!y Directory of Cal NYABNfor details of upcom- Spiritual support and sharing in a
grative procen assists in clinical trials of experimental ing events. (2121459-4784 gay/lesbian affirmative group, CONGREGATION
uncovering your self worth and AlDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ, West·Park Prasbytarian Church B'NAJ JESIIIRUN
inner strength. Psychothera· and Philadelphia, and hes educa· BFAC (BISEXUAL poU11C:AJ. 185 West 88th Street Wed: wor- Monthly Spiritual Gatherings end
pists Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW., tional materialr/ seminars for trial AmON COMMITTEEI ship seivice 8:30 pm, program free catered festive lUncheons for
and Robbye Stuart-Russell, participants. AlR also advocatas Politicel action on issues of 7:30. Mansha (212) 304-4373 Char- all People With AIDS, their lovers
MA facilitete the group. for improveman1B in the trial sys- impoi1llnce to the Bisexual/l. .... lie {2121891-7118. and families. Program includes
tem. 259 W. 30th St., 9th fl.. NYC, bian/Gay community. Monthly music and discussion led by our
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ter 208 Wast 13th Street. NY.,NY HUMAN RIGHTS 459-4784 Groups by licensed clinical Catholics. Activities include Litur·
Meeting every Thursday 8:00 P.M Lawyers Referral Se,rvice for social workers and psycholo· gies and socials every Sat, 8:00
the Lesbian and Gay Community BISEXUAL YOUTH gists. Special experience e in pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER (ARCI Full Range, of Legal Services Infonnalsociiir& support group addictions, stress management, Street, NYC.Call(212) 818-13m.
Supportive housing for home- (212) 459-4873 Free Walk·in for Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly depression, career counseling,
Ie •• PWAs (Bailey House and Legal Clinic. TU8lday 8-8 pm. meeting/potluck lunch held relationship concerns, AIDS DIGNrrY NEW YORK
apartmentsl. Non-judgmental Lesbian & Gay Community 1:OOpm on fourtli Sunday of the anxiety and coming out issues. Lesbian and,gey Catholics and
pastoral care for PWAs and Centro Ground Aoor month at membars homes. Call Sliding fee 8cale. Insurance friends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
loved on88. Volunteer opportu· NYABN for this month~ location. accepted. Village location. For Development The Cathedral Pro-
nities. (212) 481-1270, 24 West BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE This group is psrtofthe NawYolk inwnediate appointment, call 212- ject Worship ServicllS & Social·
30th St., NYC 10001 .. SUBMISSION GROUPI Area Bisexual N8IWork. 353-2888. A staff mamber will Sun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's Epis-
Share S/M experiences and retum your call within 24 hours. copal Church 218 Wast 11th Street
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'network of Asian Pacific le,- Thi. group is Part of the New and political neads of the Bronx (TTYNoice)PROVIDING CARING, Women. Fridays starting April
bians. Planning meetings on the York Area Bisexual Network. Lesbian community, Regular SENSITIVE AND LOW COST 5th 8:30-8:30 p,m. For G.y .nd
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other Jewish bisexual (and 9817 (Englishl or Miriam 212· PROJECrs HEAIJH INFOJIMA. oyer 40 1st $ 3rd .saturday 8-8
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A non-profit. educational orga- 13th Street, Part of the New HIV+, we offer SUIIPort groups, have no one to telk to? Not any Group for gay and Bi-Sexu.1
nization dedicated to preserv- York Area Bisexual Network. for seminars, public forums, refer- morel Now you can call the Men Every Sunq.y 2:30· 5:00
ing separation between state more info. Call (201}440-3902. encelibrary, referrals, social HOTT·LlNE. 212-255-1517Th e p.m. *$5:00 Donation
gay athletes of all abilitillll. Fun support group of Gay Men of Call for slidas for Lssbian Artista' WBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
Runs of i~ milllll held every Sat African Descent dedicit!ld to , IDEf(mY HOUSE Exhibition, Gay 6. Lesbian Com- P.O. Box 1258 N'ew York, New
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7pm in Prospect Park. For infor- Gay Com!llunity. GMAD is'in'clu- rals arid g,roups for tha la~bian, Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene shaped and reflected lesbian
mation: call (212) 724-9700. siva of African"African-Amari·
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on varied specialized topics, axciting p~ojects. For more info mond at (212) 932-7902 (d,Y') for itS. first volunteer training. Those
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