INSIDE ~ q THE MICHIGAN WOMEN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL NEWS Out Takes.24 Living With AIDS.34 DEPARTMENTS Outspoken.4 Letters.5 Stonewall Riots.5 Blurt Out.6 So tom ay or..7 Jenniler Camper..8 GLAAD Tidings...28 Obituaries.30 Out/Law.30 Look Out.45 Out of My Hands.46 Gossip Watch.47 Out on the Town.48 Going Out Calendar..59 Tuning In.62 Dancing Out.63 Community Directory.64 Bar Guide.66 Classifieds.68 Personals.88 Crossword.106 FEATURES Into the Woods RacM Pepper] goes to the Michigan Women's' Music Festival . 36 I Coastal Scene Jim /‘rotvnzano gets off on LA s mushrooming queer underground. . 42 ARTS FILM: New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival We go experimenting wttbJeweUe Gomez. . 49 THEATER: The Bessies oils Stuart airs the flap. 51 BOOKS Nemesis a nom de plume covers an ugly plot, according to James Conrad... 52 BOOKS: The Safe Sea ol Women Sarah Chinn takes a few laps around. . 54 ON THE COVER (I. to r.) Zoe Lewis, Lynn Howard, Deanna Renee photographed by Barbara Seyda at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival outspoken The Road Not Taken The history of AIDS is the history of illusive hopes. Prom the first hint that a killer was loose among us. through the dark years of poweriessness. to the current. partially successful, seizure of medical control by activists and community researchers, one thing has remained constant, the propensity of ■cures' for AIDS to appear like clockwork and the willingness of the press to trumpet these ‘cures' to the avid, desperate population affected by HIV. Such la apparently the case with the hyperthermia treatment that hit the TV news this summer. A MAID investigation now indicates that hyperthermia is a complete bust, without the slightest ‘clinical, immunologic or vtrologic' effectiveness. In response, New York's Gay Men’s Health Crisis issued a statement deploring 'the apparent exploitation of people with HIV* who were 'led to pay incredible prices' for the useless treatment. The GMHC statement continues, Hfc are equally disturbed by the careless broadcast media coverage of hyperthemia, which led many people with HIV to believe it could cure them.* GMHC concluded that, in the future, the media should be 'more responsible so that people with HIV are not exploited again.* For chose of us active in the fight against AIDS, the press often can do no right. One moment, we re demonstrating against media outlets which ignore the epidemic. The next, we're forced to protest reckless, out-of-control stories about unproven treatments that send PWAs on pointless roller coasters of hope and despair. There must be a happy medium between a total news blackout of unproven treatments, on the one hand, and, on the other, front-page screaming headlines of any promising therapy. No one Involved in AIDS wants the media to continue adhering to the kind of schoolbook stringency (hat had reporters simply parroting 'proven' therapies reprinted from medical journals or government press releases. The AIDS experience has thoroughly discredited that brand of journalistic laziness. '*k need an inquisitive, open-minded medicaj press to off-set the narrow-mindedness at much of the medical establishment. Even in this instance, for example, a case can be made that artides about hyperthemia. exaggerated though they were, were what prompted NLA1D to launch Its Investigation, an investigation which win now save people's time, money and health. But the overblown manner in which hyperthemia was repotted, particularly by the Cable News Network, was unnecessary and exploitive. By accepting the claim of a single doctor—based on evidence from a single patient—and making it the foundation for a weelc-long. front-page, top-of-the-hour press extravaganza, false hopes were inevitably raised. And this is hardly the first time such storks have been hyped. Prom Tbe New York Timer' articles on bone- marrow transplants to the Village voter's Compound Q cover story to practically everything in the Native, the press has consistently seen profit in promoting cure-mania Anyone connected to the epidemic knows how debilitating it can be when hopes are recurrently lifted and dashed. Between skepticism and rurveti, silence and sensationalism, lies the proper road for AIDS journalism. It's a road of careful inquiry, applied intelligence and editorial integrity. Unfortunately, for too many journalists, it's still the road not taken. 4 OUTWIIH »«ri«n.v.r re, 1MO PUBLISHER KENDALL MORRISON LETTERS ON “O" AND “M" WORDS When FAIRPAC and th« New York State Lesbian and Gay Lobby began discussing the con¬ solidation process now under¬ way. a great deal of planning went into the selection of the name for the new organization. Professionally moderated "focus groups' were held In New York City and upstate. People were asked their responses to names and words to generate Ideas and guidelines for the new name. Participants Included not only ■actMst* types but also "average folks," If you will—people who do not consider themsefves polit¬ ical, but who might donate money or volunteer time on an ad hoc basis for an organization working for the advancement of lesbian and gay rights through poetical action and lobbying. Among the topics address¬ ed was the inclusion of the words "gay" and lesbian' In the name of the new organization. We had brothers and sisters upstate (and In the dty) who said polnttilank It would be difficult for them and people they knew. It is not being condescending to acknowledge the reality that It Is one thing to have your banking done anony¬ mously through a Citicorp cash machine, quite another to deal face-to-face with the tenets at the local savings-and-loan. Our Job as an organization is to help cre¬ ate an environment where such tear is unnecessary, but we’re not there yet The fact that some peo¬ ple must ‘still surrender to the demands of the closer Is indeed sad. but a fact nonetheless. An argument can be made that the name could include the "G* and V words and be abbre¬ viated with only the initials on checks, return envelopes and so on. But another feeling strongly was that people were tired of acronyms and Initials that don’t mean anything—participants wanted real words (ike "pride." "fair" and "rights") that have an emotional impact. Part of our mission In a political organization is outreach and education—Including out¬ reach to people who need to get mail in a small town or In a budding In New York City where the low number of apartments exempts it from the protections of Intro Two (the 1986 Gay Rights Bill). So the question for the organization becomes. How can you reach people who have concerns about getting mall from you? How can you keep them informed? To pretend that the name of an organization does not have a financial Impact Is naive; Dona¬ tions to The National Lesbian arxl Gay Task Force are dwarfed by those to the Human Rights Cam¬ paign Fund, and FAIRPAC has been able to raise funds more successfully than NYSLGL Sadly, not al of us are able to Ive In "fabulous outness"—es OutWeeKi own name demon¬ strates. One asks the man at the newsstand for Out Week—not "the lesbian and gay news maga¬ zine." The fact that subscription copies are mailed in a discrete envelope attests to the existence of fear and bigotry which the consolidation of FAIRPAC and NYSLGL will continue to fight but which lamentably still exists. Candida Scott Plal Execute Director FAIRPAC . Manhattan OUTWEEK TIDE Mine Is one West Coast voice which thinks OutWaak con¬ tinues to be the most courageous gay magazine In the country— also the best written From "(Xit- ing" to "I Hate Straights." you present difficult, but thought- provoking articles which force us to reexamine our internal and external realities. This is critical as our movement enters its third decade, a time whan we can fafl Into complacency or be brave enough to delve Into new fron¬ tiers (Issues) which vrii push us forward. OutWaak continues to remind me of the controversial dynamism of The Lesbian Tide, the national lesbian feminist newsmagazine of the 70s which first tackled issues like S/M and outing mafor feminist leaders of the 70s. We got In trouble for that tool So, keep up the tough tight OutWaak. You are a breath of fresh air and continue to remind me of our old street chant "Gay is better than straightf" Jaanna Cordova former pubkshar. The Lesbian Tide ELECTION REMINDER Tuesday, Sept. 11, Is pri¬ mary day. and this year, lesbian and gay voters In most parts of Manhattan south of 14th Street have an unprecedented oppor¬ tunity to elect one of our own to the state Legislature. Deborah Glick. an openly lesbian candidate for state Assembly, has an excelent shot at being the first gay legislator in New York state and the first openly gay publicly elected ofti- STO/tBVAU R/OTS sr ittauc expressed in the focus groups dal In New York City. Deborah cant win unless al her supporter? go out and vote. Don't let this historic opportunity pass us by. We can win the one, but each and every one of us must do our part. And then we can have one hell of a victory party Sept 11. John Magisano GUO Manhattan ARTISTS, ART * POSI¬ TIVE AND AIDS "AIDS Is KIKng Artlsts^ow Homophobia Is Killing Art" Is clearly a message directed to the public about a specific group (artists) and how they ate affect¬ ed by AIDS and homophobia Last week's Lookout page (no. 62, Sept S) featured a pho¬ tograph of the poster with the above message altered to read: ‘AIDS Is Killlng/Now Homopho¬ bia Is Kill mo * We object to Sarah Schutman* and Kathryn Thomas' inappropri¬ ate commentary characterizing our original message as elitist As a group of artists and members of ACT UP, Art* Posi¬ tive addresses the connection between AIDS phobia, homo¬ phobia and the current censor¬ ship of lesbian and gay culture. Outwears commentary Is irresponsible and divisive and distorts our basic message. M+PosM* Sarah Schulman and Karen Thomas' comment last week on Art+Posittve's message. ‘AIDS Is Killing Artists/Now Homophobia Is Killing Art,* was petty and inaccurate. There is nothing elitist about the poster and T- shirt. Its language is not even exclusionary. It simply speaks about a particular part of our community which has been dis¬ proportionately hit hard by AIDS and homophobia. What does Schulman wart, a laundry list of every group which has lost members to AIDS? Does she really think that ArUPosItlve was saying that AIDS is killing only artists? Of course. AIDS kills, and homo¬ phobia kills; that should be self- evident to any gay or lesbian wtth more than a functional brain stem. I would hope that in the future the editors of OutWeek would be more sensitive to Ikw comments like Schulman and Thomas' encourage inappropriate and unnecessary infighting and division within the lesbian and gay community. Saw Grubman, MX), (white. Jewish, male) Manhattan It Is pathetic and against the spirit of working together that OutWeek features the alter¬ ation of the message,‘AIDS Is (Oiling Artists/Now Homophobia Is Killing Art,* posters In the Lookout page as something politically correct. Sarah [Schulman] and Kathryn [Thomas], your dimwit- led cheap shot that this message is now improved because It has been generalized and diluted to read 'AIDS Is KMngMomphobia Is Killing' only adds to the igno¬ rance that has made the struggle against AIDS, homophobia and arts censorship so difficult In communities deeply affected by AIDS. Yeah, every cab driver in New York City knows AIDS kills, and most of the people I know with AIDS, or dead from it, are artists. Specific messages about AIDS and homophobia and how k affects people, whether they are Asian. Black, children, hemoph*- acs. Latino, women or artists Is critical in order to inform the pub¬ lic how these groups are being ravaged by AIDS, and separated and oppressed by homophobia and censorhp. You say the mes¬ sage is elitist? Look in toe mirror, improve you writing skills. Dennis Davidson Mo Hernandez Sarah Schulman responds: I wasn't aware the poster was made by Art*Positive. which usually expresses the inclusive Oriel and anger we all feel. I'm concerned about this particular poster. AIDS kMs many different kinds of people, and clearly artists' lives are not more Impor¬ tant than other people* lives. There has been virtually no research on women with AIDS, even though it Is the highest cause of death tor Black women in NYC. Woman w1th AIDS can¬ not oet dtsabddy benefits because their symptoms are different than man*. Poor children with AIDS have only begun access to penta- matSne this week. Public housing tenants cannot Inherit a lease alter a lover dies of AIDS, whle renters In private buddings can. These Injustices are faced by large numbers of people In this city with very dWe notice Right now there is slot of media attention on a/ttsts. 14% can use this access plus our resources, imagination and sUK on behad of all people who must fight AIDS and homophobia, Instead of locus- mg prlmarfy on artists CORPORATE CONSISTENCY? The controversy surround¬ ing our support to North Caroina Sen. Jesse Helms Is being wklely discussed in an atmosphere devoid of facts. An extremist group claiming to represent the entire gay community has called tor a boycott of our products— particularly Marlboro cigarettes and Mdler beer—to protest our support to Sea Helms. Phip Monts Companies Inc. was among the first American corporations to assist In AIDS research and AIDS-related efforts. Our company-wide contributions in this area w« reach more than $1 mRonbythistal. Philip Morris is one of the nation's leading corporate sup¬ porters of the arts and is eunentiy sponsoring a campaign to in¬ crease pubic awareness of the Bi of Rights, a document which enshrines toe principles of individ¬ ual freedom and free expression We were one of the first cor¬ porations to denounce discrimina- BLURT TO OUTWEEK YOU’RE NOTHING... Sendre Bernhard N toe groeaesL The grossest But It* sad that ere can. Holding out lltfls aim pc*, we beckon for recognition, lor "role models’—oil of toon rice balls wifi which to nourish our dltfandad bellies. Will, it* Imo to give op tost tired gig. Ttw Mre* toil of haktioltt. M up and cough, sister* and hretoora. Bernhard la. rafitr predictably yet petoeticalty. toe let**! huhtilahead to have teon lobotomtzed by her own greed and megalomania. Bo busy eras our dav Sandra, cnmponlng hor way up too Nicer ten of the Hollywood sign, tint the forgot to protest the Inoemon or a large, eternized needle into toe beet of hor Mart. Oope. Too lets now. The upshot? Sample this rich tare from People “B I'm wtth ■ men. It* becauaa I'm wtth a men. B I'm wtth a woman, you know, every woman that I'm teen wtth I'm not deeping with. Pm not a lesbian, and I’m deb ol being celled one. I’m not and I wart to tet lie record straight’ Now. tar bo It for a progressive gay and Itsbian mag to question poopin' aasial choice* or to Impede toe right of otoere to formulate tootr own teif-Mentity. Just a few guee- ttom. Why It It that Hollywood, fiat moments, force* people to become to open, ao fluid. »mwr“aarroar‘ definition* of their sexuality? And why. when they luw on* movie out and are ehoodng anotoer with Bruce WIIHs, do toey chafe to at 'being called one.’ Beets what Sandy? Yoi made It to Hollywood on the hacks ol leafea end tags. Appealing to toat Mowing or, Nth# very least, not axcorlating them, makes ten** kind you have m>y more. —Sarah AMR bon and to support equal opportu¬ nity regardless of race, creed, color or choice of lifestyle. Our support for Sen. Helms (or for that matter, any other politician) is notan endorsement of the senator's position on the entire political spectrum. We have supported many candi¬ dates for public office whose outlook on many Issues is dia¬ metrically opposed to that of Sen. Helms and will no doubt continue to do so. Our contribution to the Jesse Helms Center, at Wingate College, in North Carolina. Is In support of scholarly work, nof of Sen. Helms. Its purpose Is not political, nor could It be under the rules of Its charter. It Is educational, a fact explicit In its nonprofit status granted by the IRS. We see no contradiction In our support to Sen. Helms and our support to other candidates and causes. All those decisions arise from our commitment to our business, to our stockhold¬ ers and employees and to being a good corporate citizen in our communities. In the same spirit, we ask those who disagree with Sen. Helms to understand that we. like they, are trying to do right as we see it and to act for the best in a complicated world. Guy L. Smith IV Wee President. Corporate Attain Philip Morris Manhattan Gabriel Botello replies: Calling the groups who initiated the boycotts ‘extremist" Is mis¬ leading and offensive. We don't believe your fig¬ ure of $1 million, but In any case your efforts on the AIDS crisis, while necessary, hardly 'address the special needs of the gay community." The gay community Is not the AIDS community, and AIDS Is not a gay disease. In case you hadnl noticed. However, your support tor arch-homophobe Helms certainly addresses the special needs of those who would like to see us dead. Your campaign to support public awareness of the Bill of Bights Is a laughable joke In light of your massive support for the politician who most fre- Quentty attacks those rights. By the way. those with AIDS intensely object to being called 'victims.' The polite and sensi¬ tive term is'people with AIDS." THE WRONG BEER NOW It Is unfortunate to learn that some of our gay brothers and sisters continue to believe that the Miller Brewing Compa¬ ny Is a friend" of the gay com¬ munity. I learned firsthand that it certainly is not. After seven years as an employee in good standing with the Miller Brewing Company, I was fired for what was obvious¬ ly a disguised reason for their desire to rid themselves of an out. open homosexual. This leads to the question of why Miller so readily discriminated against a gay person. it is true that some of Miller's distributors (indepen¬ dent businesses) have been described as being "good" to the community. Those distribu¬ tors know where a good portion of their profits come from and attempt to make a token ges¬ ture to acknowledge this, but are they or Is the brewery itself, spending a proportionate amount of promotional dollars back into gay accounts, com¬ munity organizations and puNi- cations? This is certainly the case with regard to the Black and Hispanic market because Miller is keenly aware of the ramifica¬ tions that they will have to deal with if those communities are unfairly treated. These dollars are not returned to the gay community as they should be; the Miller Brewing'Company and some of its distributors are totally unresponsive to our community. No special market¬ ing effort is directed by Miller for the very large gay market that exists. Miller is not a friend* of the gay community and we should not spend our dotars on their products. WHtiam P. Oardietlo Staten Island LOST CUSTOMER My boyfriend, Timmy Dou¬ glas, died one year ago this week. For lim. It was the end of nine months of suffering with AIDS. For me. It was the begin¬ ning of a time of pain and lonei- ness that I had never thought posstile, beings all too famOar to the people who read OutWeek. We spent those nine months scrambling for some¬ thing that would make It better. New drugs seemed to be on the horizon, but they were out of reach because American leadership was unwilling to mobilize to save lives. We were reduced to Issues of emotional support, dietary supplements, spiritualism and behavioral changes that are the last resort of the disenfranchised in the scientific age. The bitterness I feel now is toward the individuals, Insti¬ tutions and elements of gov¬ ernment that mobilized to actively inhibit efforts to advance research, provide treatment, find a cure and allow some comfort for people with AIDS and their loved ones. Senator Jesse Helms is such a person, Philip Morris is such an institution and togeth¬ er they perpetuate that ele¬ ment of government. There is a movement afoot in the gay community to claim the social and political franchise that is ours for the taking. The boycott of the Philip Morris brand products. Miller beer and Marlboro cigarettes, lends voice to that movement The reality Is that the boycott is in effect! The debate over whether or not to boycott as a community has been decided. What remains Is the extent to which the gay con¬ sumer and the gay businessper¬ son will support the community. and the resulting claims we can make as a political power. The sale or purchase of a bottle of Miller equals profits for Miller equals profits for Philip Morris equals funding for the reelection of Senator Jesse Helms equals an attack on the gay community. When times were good and life was a joy, Timmy and I spent a lot of time in the gay bars and clubs of New York. I drank Heineken, Timmy drank Miller Lite. I wonder it Miller misses him as a customer? I want them to know just how much I miss him. GIVING TO GANTT I was very interested in the article which appeared In the Aug. 22.1990. issue of Out- Woek [no. 60] entitled "No Time For Miller Time." It wee a greet history lesson. I do support the boycott of Miller and Philip Morris, but we need to look at ways of unseat¬ ing Jesse Helms! I propose that we take some of the money we choose to boycott against Miller and PhHp Morris and send it to Harvey Gantt. It Is sample: Har¬ vey Gantt cannot win without money) Print Harvey Gantt's campaign address on every page. Boycotting Philip Morris alone will not unseat Jesse. But money In Harvey Gantt's cam¬ paign fund may. Thanks for your wonderful¬ ly radical vehicle, which I do not always agree with, but stand In utter awe and amazement of. at other times. Danny E White Mtam. Ha Contributions to Harvey Gantt* Senate campaign can be sent to: Harvey Gantt for U.S. Senate. 700 E. Stonewall St. Suha 655. Charlotte. NC28202. REVERSE IDIOTISM As a concerned resident of the Jackson Heights/Elmhurst ana, I attended the memorial *ervlce/anti-vlolence rally In response to IN brutal murder of Julio Rivera In an anti-gay attack a few weeks previously. Many of the speakers made the Important point of linking this anti-Day attack to the bias- related violence motivated by bigotry, such as racist violence against Blacks. Arabs. Asians, etc. One speaker who made this point very effectively was Dr. Marjorie HU. 1 was shocked and dis¬ mayed when a white man who was participating in the rally heckled Dr. Hill and shouted. *What about anti-white vio- lencer I have no idea whether this reactionary Idiot was a member of Queer Nation, as were the majority of those In attendance. If he it a member. I think Queer Nation needs to do some serous consciousness- raising among its members about the nature of prejudice and oppression. Most bias-related vio¬ lence Is committed by mem¬ bers of an oppressor group against others in an oppressed group who are usually fudged as being 'inferior.' The same Is true of homophobia and sexism. When is the last time you heard of a group of les¬ bians and gays assaulting someone for being straight, or a group of women assaulting a man or submitting to his sex¬ ual abuse? The same is true of racist violence. Most crimes against African Americans by whites are motivated by racist big¬ otry. When Black-on-whlte violence occurs it is usually in the context of economic crimes, e.g.. robbery. It is extremely rare for a white per¬ son to be attacked by Blacks on the basis of racially moti¬ vated bigotry. When that guy shouted up ‘What about anti-white vio¬ lence?' it is obvious that his outburst was motivated by a deep-seated racism. IMach Mac NtaXais Elmhurst, NY MAO TO MAC The Daily Haws Magazine is pleased that OvtWeek semi- approves [GLAAD Tidings, no. 59. Aug. 15] of our June 24 cover story on the Gay Officers Action League. For the record, reporter Mike Santangelo's original file did Quote at some length a les¬ bian police officer, whose remarks ware subsequently removed from the story by me. While a lesbian presence might have been situationally useful to the story, this officer did not particularly Illuminate your point that 'lesbians and gay men face very different problems and Issues when- they come out on the job,* and I scrubbed her on grounds of editorial redundan¬ cy. The story lost several redundant gay men as well. We assure you that the Dally News Magazine sought not tor a minute to systematically delete lesbians from the GOAL report. Neither did we feel It necessary to make a large point of Including them purely by reason ol tokenism. JayMaeder Editor Daily News Magazine WHOOPS! Three cheers lor Michelan¬ gelo Signorlle! In issue no. 61 [Aug. 29], he blasts Whoopi Goldberg about her attitude toward her near love scene with Demi Moore in the movie Ghost The director could have thrown all homophobia to the wind and just let the audience deal with seeing Oda Mae touch and kiss Mollis. We probably would have remembered that Sam was doing the touching and kissing. And so what If we did forget Sam for a moment, as soon as Carl bangs on the door the scene is over anyway. Another thing—why is * OK for Motile to run around looking Ike a 14-yaaMdd boy? Could It be because we know she* 'straichr? Why is it that when lesbians look Nke Motlie we’re too obvious, too butch, too androgynous? As for Whoop) trying to live down the lesbian scene In The Color Purple —sadly enough, that scene can go right into the •near love scene* trash bucket The only thing that I remember In the way of body contact in that movie was Mister kicking Celle's ass. Whoop*—you're supposed to be an actress! So stop acting like playing lesbian scenes is something to be lived down! Life could be a lot worse than getting paid to kiss the actress that played Shug Avery or Ms. Demi Moore And to think Whoopi—I used to love you too. Pochette Austin-Brovm Manhattan 40 WHACKS We plan to remount Ltezfo Borden: An American Musical In another venue this fall. We're going to do it again—hopefully with a longer run this time—in spite of Madam X and Ane Rubenstein's mean-spirited attack on our work [no. 62. Sept 5] because we believe that queer theater should be seen and heard by more than the 150 or so peo¬ ple who screamed, dapped and cheered through our perfor¬ mance In spite oMhe heat at the Ohio Theater on August 18. With so many obstacles facing gay and lesbian artists. I’m espedaly sad that Instead of writing this letter. I'm not writing one thank¬ ing you for your support Steven ChesAk-DeMeyer Composer. Lizzie Borden; An American Musical SHADES OF CRAY I am assaulted, insulted and enraged by the heterosexism that surrounds me. I hate the compul¬ sory. compulsive institution of heterosexuality in all Its forms. But I don't hate straights l have two straight friends. One is an Afra-Caribtoean woman whose relationship to me as a white lesbian Is much like mine to her as a straight woman of color—based on an understand¬ ing that the gap between us is narrowed by our willingness to isten and to change. Another of my straight friends Is a feminist professor for whom the personal Is stil political; she continues to reject heterosexual privilege in her lie and work, long after many of her coleagues have tempered their radicalism. When I think about these two friends, I discover what's wrong with "I Hate Straights ’ The world is not just straight and gay. It is also male and female; black, white, brown and yellow; able-bodied and disabled; rich and poor. Power, privilege and oppression are exercised along al these divisions and more. As a woman. I share life experiences and poibcal realities with straight women that I do not share with gay men. Indeed. I have seen more sexism among my gay male friends than homophobia among my straight female friends. For white men. homo¬ phobia may be the only obstacle to a fairly privileged existence, and hating straights seems to make sense. For lesbians and gay people of color, the world is a lit¬ tle more complex. I don't care whether hating straights is nice. Sometimes it feels great to say. "I hale men.* 1 hate whites.’ or'I hate straights; It's empowering and affirming to violate that taboo, to reject what you've been told about who and what is valuable. But you think twice before you try to build your ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDS You can capitalize on what could become a great growth industry in the 1990's and make a socially responsible investment at the same time. And your dollars can work to create a cleaner environment and a healthier quality of life. For free information, call us at 212-269-0110 or 800-262-6644 or return the coupon below. CHRISTOPHER ST. FINANCIAL, INC. HU W.ill StrivT. New Vivi. NY ItXXB politics on a sentiment like mat Because tor meet o< us, tfie "us" is not al gay. and straights are not al “them." Vera Whitman Brooklyn LIBERTARIANLY SPEAKING Since I have noted the phrase “gay libertarian conser¬ vative’ on several occasions in OutWeek (’Queerty Speaking,* no. 59. Aug. 15]. I would like to offer a brief objection to It. It makes no more sense to say ’gay libertarian conserva¬ tive’ than to say ’gay Sberatari- an liberal.* In some Instances, the libertarian position may approach (if not overtake) pre¬ sent-day liberalism (e.g., decriminalization of all con¬ trolled substances, an aversion to a large-scale, standing mili¬ tary In peacetime) while in other instances, it may approach standard conservatism (e.g.. laissez-faire and economic deregulation, the abolition of the NEA or any extensive federal bureaucracy set up to monitor long-term civil rights legisla¬ tion). But in all cases, the spirit is that of the framers—that, generally speaking, the least government Is still the best. indMduai creativity and person¬ al responsibility being the norms and a true democracy being the ideal. As Barry Gold- water repeatedly told the “Moral Majority" in the early 1960s. we kbertarians no more favor gov¬ ernment support for their pro¬ gram than we do any ’liberal’ agenda. In short, it one wishes to be conservative (or liberal, or anything else politically), that is. of course, their right; but please don't drag us libertarians into their/your scheme of things. We have enough Identity crises of our own. BobStocum West Long Botch, NJ. BWMA SPEAKS OUT (The first part at this essay was written by a multiracial group ot women.) We. the Board of Direc¬ tors of Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts/the Center for Anti-Violence Education, are writing to present our perspec¬ tive In relation to the July 28. 1990 march against anti-les¬ bian violence in Park Slope. An editorial In OutWeek implied that we detracted from the march's unity by our attempt (with others) to make central to the march's agenda a com¬ mitment to fighting both racist and homophobic violence— since for lesbian and gays of color the issues cannot be separated. And some in the community have criticized us for eventually withdrawing our support from the event. We would like to explain the histo¬ ry of the organizing for the march and our views of the politically significant issues raised by the demonstration, namely, the difference between ’muftiracial* and ’anti-racist.* and how we define and estab¬ lish unity that represents the diversity of the NYC lesbian and gay community. Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts, a largely lesbian organiza¬ tion, has been doing anti-vio¬ lence teaching and organizing for 16 years. We have always offered self-defense classes tor women. Three years ago, we started teaching self-defense workshops for lesbians and gay men. Because we are commit¬ ted to fighting violence against lesbians and gay men through broader organizing, several of our members attended the Ini¬ tial planning meeting for what became the July demonstration. BWMA is a multiracial or ga nization with a commitment to anti-racism. We know that to fight violence in the lives of an lesbians and gay men, we must address not only homophobia but also racism. For that reason, we and others present at the first meeting advocated out¬ reach to lesbians and gays throughout Brooklyn, and we advocated for the march to focus on homophobia and racist violence as interrelated Issues, equally crucial lor our community. The meeting was predominantly white, and most ot those present expressed fears that addressing racism would take the focus off homo- phobic violence. As one white individual put it racist violence is terrible, but we need to keep the focus on *our" issues. Obvi¬ ously. there was a difference of opinion about what ‘our issues are. The debate continued at the second meeting, where only six of the 50 or so people present were people of coiot (The following stcllon was written by woman of color.) The women of color who were present at these two meetings raised concerns about racist violence and its inherent connection to anti¬ lesbian violence. As women of color who are lesbians, we are frequently assaulted in our daily lives with racist and homophobic aggression. As we defend ourselves from these assaults, we do not alienate one part of ourselves form the other for the said [goal] of a focused agenda.' It is absurd that white people who call themselves ‘mili¬ tant" political activists think that the people of color who work and struggle with them against social oppression can actually separate parts of ourselves or the mutually inclusive Issues which define who we are—or that we would be willing to do so. We. as lesbians of color, can no longer tolerate nor afford the time spent per¬ suading white lesbian and gay llberals/progresstves that our issues are mutually inclu¬ sive when they deny and dis¬ miss this key political princi¬ ple. In situations where few people of color are present, arrogance and self-righteous¬ ness often prevail among whites discussing racism, and usually the few people of color are not heard. Since this was the case with the organizing of the July 28 march, women of color left the second meeting after our spoken concerns about developing an anti-racist per¬ spective. doing committed outreach to multiracial orga¬ nizations and lesbian and gay groups of color, nonviolent confrontation with the police and nonracist behavior within the demonstration were nei¬ ther acknowledged nor vali¬ dated from the sidelines with other observers form our community on July 28. we saw that the march by no means succeeded as a mul¬ tiracial event. The lew people of color participating did not. and realistically could not, begin to represent the diver¬ sity and multitude of lesbians and gays of color In our city. (The next place was written by white women.) As white women In BWMA, we left we had to act on two fronts. Historically, and still. BWMA is a predomi¬ nantly white organization. Part of doing anti-racist work as white women is being allies to women ot color by recognizing racism and refus¬ ing to support or accept it. When the concerns of les¬ bians of color were dismissed in the organizing of this march, we all decided to with¬ draw BWMA's organizational resources from the march. On another front, we felt responsible as white people for challenging the climate of hostility that made it impossible for women of color to continue attending the organizing meetings. So. individual white women from BWMA continued to participate in the organizing of the march and continued to voice the need to link the issues of homophobia and racism. We know, from being criticized ourselves for racism. that it Is easy to become defensive, and then It Is hard to listen to the viewpoints ot people ot color. But if we are committed to counteracting the racism that we have inevitably internalized, we must hear and respect the experiences of people of color, though they will be different from our own. (The next section was written by a multiracial group of women) BWMA has been criti¬ cized for withdrawing from the march. We acknowledge that there are differences of opin¬ ion on the appropriateness of that choice. We also believe that the work we and others did in the organizing meetings helped to broaden the agenda and overcome the organizers' initial fear that the inclusion of a commitment to fighting racist violence would take the locus off ‘our" (read ‘white’) issues as lesbians. The rhetoric of the march and the leaflet for it thus included an opposition to all hate crimes. However, opposing all hate crimes is not the same as rec¬ ognizing racism as a problem within the lesbian and gay community. And dismissing concerns about racism and declaring the march a multira¬ cial success because a small percentage of the marchers were people of color does not change the fact that the orga¬ nizers failed in their responsi¬ bility to put together an event for all ot our community. It is not enough for an organization or action to be multiracial. ‘Multiracial" Is not the same as ‘nonracist' or ‘anti-racist.* A lesbian and gay organization may be multi¬ racial—have members of dif¬ ferent races—and still have no analysts of how the threat of violence plays out differently in the lives ol lesbians and gays, depending, among other fac¬ tors, on our race or ethnicity. An anti-racist perspec¬ tive. however, recognizes that both racist and homophobic violence must be placed at the center of our political agenda. When an anti-racist agenda is not made central, the con¬ cerns ol people of color are marginalized and as a result we/they often leave an organi¬ zation. The result is an exclu¬ sively white leadership— as was eventually the case with the march. We came to the organiz¬ ing meetings with the goal of building a march for everyone in the gay and lesbian com¬ munity. The organizers of the march and some in the media have presented our determi¬ nation to broaden the march as divisive. But it is the peo¬ ple who do not yet put racism along with homophobia at the center of our political agenda who are reinforcing the divi¬ sions in this community. ‘Unity* cannot be declared because some people of color decided that joining a march organized by whites was bet¬ ter than not marching at all. Unity will occur when the concerns of people of color are addressed equally and thoroughly in each of our organizations and in our com¬ munity. Theri is a lot more work to be done to bring us together in a real unity that recognizes both our com¬ monalities and our differ¬ ences. We eagerly look for¬ ward to joining with others in this work. Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts Corrections Because of a printer's error, many of the photo¬ graphs in some copies of last week's Out Week »nr unrecoRwaWy dark Our apologies to the photographers and sub¬ jects alike. The East Village Wigs Out...Again SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Fttthtrs, nqmnt and. of count, mgs in Tompkins Squire by Nina Reyes NEW YORK—The annua! Easl Village performance extravaganza known as Wigstock gives to all the opportunity to shake out the Rapunzel in them, and aside from a few garish hairdos, the year's fest came to a close this year with a surge of queer energy and little incident. The event, arguably more fashion show than concert, included many stunning musical performances by the ladies of the court. But the most enter¬ taining port of the day's offerings were the downtown royalty strolling through Tompkins Square Park. 'Darling, you look faaaabulousT exclaimed one lady to a bewigged confidante, a refrain heard over and over again throughout the afternoon's festivities. Attendees, taking the phantasmagoria of the event to heart, wore not only wigs, but outrageous hats, splendid evening gowns, divine costume jewelry, fishnet stockings and stiletto heels. Women dressed as men. men dressed as women, boys dressed as girls, girls dressed as girls, men dressed as girls, and far too many men dressed as men. The sixth annual festival received special notice from Manhattan Borough President Ruth Mcssinger, who declared Sept. 3, 1990, -Wigstock Day' in the borough of Manhattan. "The Wigstock experience, a celebra¬ tion of music, peace, love and drag, helps New Yorkers realize that cele¬ bration of difference makes us all richer,' the proclamation stated. Several groups of Pink Panthers, a lesbian and gay community anti¬ violence patrol, circulated watchfully throughout the gathering, on guard against potential assaults such as the one that marred last year's Wigstock celebration, in which several men in drag were brutally attacked by lacrosse-stick-wielding youths. Even so, at least one violent inci¬ dent did occur in conjunction with the event: Following Wigstock. a few blocks away from the actual event, a gay man was beaten by a thug who apparently doesn’t like men wearing false hair (see sidebar). An unconfirmed report also came in that a straight man was assaulted, appar¬ ently because his attackers perceived him to be gay. . OONtlDtldVd OOUN&Uft NO OUT OF POCKET MONTHLY EXPENSE NO FORMS NO WAIT-DELIVERY IN 24 HOURS 1 - 800 - 445-4391 Call for information and brochure. Patient coordinators to serve your nwds Serving the comm unit if in AIDS related care since UNIVERSITY PHARMACY HEALTH CENTER Party promoter bashed after Wigstock NEW YORK—A gay man walking down his East Village block several hours after the conclusion of Labor Day's Wigstock festival was attacked in front of the Hell's Angels clubhouse, sustaining bruises, abra¬ sions and two black eyes, but avoid¬ ing injuries that would have required a visit to the hospital. No arrests have been made in connection with the assault. This guy literally slugged me in the side of the face, threw me on the sidewalk and kind of ground my face into the sidewalk,' recalled party pro¬ moter Chip Duckett, who lives on the block of East 3rd Street between First and Second avenues where the Hell's Angels clubhouse is located. Duckett, who originated the les¬ bian and gay parties at local night¬ clubs like Mars and Quick), said he was not attired in Wigstock finery when he was attacked. He stated that his attacker said to him, ‘Don't wear a fucking wig on this block.’ Ths assailant apparently had seen Duckett earlier in the day when Duckett was on his way to the festivities in Tompkins Square Park. Duckett was unable to positively identify his assailant from police mug shots and was not even certain if his attacker was an Angel or one of the numerous Angel wannabes that hang around the clubhouse. The incident, which has been classified as a hate-motivated crime, is currently being investigated by the New York Police Department's bias unit — Nina Reyes OYfaES,™AaersAMOtwcvB- Dehbie Harry and Cher enjoy the show *1 was amazed at how smoothly It Wigstock '90 was dedicated to went off," exclaimed Lady Bunny, Ethyl Eichelberger and International Wigstock's founder, hostess and high Chrysis, two brilliant, recently de¬ priestess. ‘I thought the weather was ceased drag performers whose contri- gorgcous and there was a great turnout butions to Wigstock in past years and we got all the acts on early. It was helped make the festival the extrava- the first time we've ever done that!’ ganza it has become.W REAt QUEENS DONT DRMK MUJLBt— Boys enjoys Bud at Wigstock. 5 * • Simplified Diagnosis for PCP If you are HIV positive with a T cell count of 200 or less with a new or increasing cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, and/or fevers, you may have Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). 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For further information or an appointment contact: Anthony I). Blau, MJ). Medical Director The Downtown Pulmonary ( enter 314 West 14th St New York. NY 10014 (212) 691-4384 OUR 7th YEAR BACKROOM wrn »» aw America s Largest Gay/Lesbian Computer Information Service CALL US WITH YOUR COMPUTER! (718) 849-1614 (modem)_ Two hospitalized over Labor Day weekend in anti-gay attacks No Holiday From Gay-Bashing by Nina Reyes NEW YORK—A number of bias- related assaults rocked the city’s les¬ bian and gay community over the Labor Day holiday weekend, including at least two incidents that landed gay men in the hospital, according to the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti- Violence Project. Still, with fewer than ten separate attacks recorded, an anti-violence activist from the AVP grimly character¬ ized the weekend as relatively unevent¬ ful. “Our response was, That’s not so bad.’ and then we realized how terrify¬ ing it is that two or three incidents each day is commonplace,* said David Kirschenbaum, a spokesperson for AVP. On Saturday evening, Brad Lamm and Gary Apruzzese were walking along Seventh Avenue in midtown when a van with Ontario plates passed. The men turned down a cross street to escape a barrage of verbal assaults, but when they arrived at Broadway and 51st Street, they found the van waiting for them. One passenger reportedly screamed, *Your friend was down at the piers last night, and he gave great head!* and then five youths streamed out of the van and allegedly attacked the two men. Lamm was hit and knocked to the ground but escaped serious injury. Apruzzese was severely beaten and eventually required stitches both below and above his eye and on his right temple. X-rays and CAT-scans, and treatment for a concussion. *1 was lying in the middle of the street, and blood was flowing from me to the curb," Apruzzese recounted^ ’Brad thought I was almost dead.* A pedestrian who witnessed the attack heeded Lamm's plea for help and called 911. A police officer picked up the call and stopped the distinctive- looking van, which was caught In a snarl of traffic at West 44th Street. Apruzzese was taken to St. Clare's Hospital, while Lamm was taken by police to identify his alleged assailants •Both of us fed my strongly about being visible,* Lamm stated, explain¬ ing why he thought he and Apruzzese had been targeted for attack. He and his lover will not allow last week's attack to intimidate them out of the simple pleasure of holding hands in public, Lamm continued, adding that while their openly gay demeanor has provided the two men with frequent opportunities to defuse gay-baiters, 'this is the first time that something violent has happened.* The five youths charged with assaulting Lamm and Apruzzese are: Alex Figueroa, 18. of 329 Clifton Ave., Newark, NJ; Michael Hannah, 22. of 1909 McCarter Ave., Newark. NJ; Anthony Maya. 19, of 66 Irving St., Newark. NJ; Manuel Ortiz. 17, of 509 Second Ave., Elizabeth, NJ; Jesus Torres, 17, of 289 Woodside Ave., Newark, NJ. The alleged gay-bashers will come to trial on September 26. In an unrelated incident in the wee hours of Monday morning, two other men were assaulted on Christopher Street near Greenwich Street. That inci¬ dent began when two men jostled Tarlach Mac Nlallais and Kevin Potter, and Mac Nlallais felt one of the two attempt to pick his pocket. An altercation peppered with anti-gay epithets ensued. *It sort of evolved into a fist fight.* Mac Niallais recalled. But when one of the two men pulled a bottle from a nearby trash can. and the other man produced a long metal pipe, the fight became lopsided Mac Niallais ran over to another trash basket to arm himself with a bro¬ ken bottle. Potter, faced with two assailants, attempted to flee into the nearby gay bar. Two Potato. However, he found his entry barred by the bouncer, and the doors to the estab¬ lishment were locked in front of him ’When I stepped in there, the bouncer said 'You cant come in here,' Quality, Personal Dentistry September 14,2128 10pm At the Duplex 61 Christopher St 255-5438 Tickets $10 2 drink min. Suite 704 200 West 57th Street New York, New York 10019 (212) 333-2650 Office Hours by Appointment Only THE NEW YORK BUTLER SERVICE I*ln4 cktss Ik MMta.il* ILunUma. iiifinit.il. tuHuUc. IkirtoakTs mul uniters nv.iiluNc. assisted countless gay-bash¬ ing victims in the past, be also pointed out that his bouncers are instructed to keep out people participat¬ ing in scraps that arise out¬ side of the bar. *It always gets blamed on the bar,* Mead explained. ‘But it's not the bar, and It's not the customers.' According to the Anti- Violence Project, at least five other recorded gay- bashings occurred over the course of the holiday weekend. A gay man was attacked at Sixth Avenue and 9th Street, and another was beaten on the subway in Brooklyn, but no addi¬ tional information was available on either of those THE 6UY WAS MOUNM THE MTE UKE A BASS and I said, This guy is trying to beat me upl" Potter recalled. 'When I turned around, the guy was holding the [pipe] like a baseball bat, and he hit me.* The gash Potter sustained from that blow required seven stitches. Mac Ntallais returned to the melee just in time to see his lover ejected from Two Potato and pumineled with the pipe, whereupon he ran to Potter's assistance, and the men's two assailants deoarted from the scene. And while Mac Niallais flagged down a car to get his lover to the hos¬ pital, a passerby posing as a Samaritan ripped the gold chain from Potter's neck as Potter lay semiconscious on the ground. The man also foraged through Potter's pockets for money. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident. At St Vinoerrfs Hospital, the two coin¬ cidentally encountered Lamm and Apruzarae, who had been transferred there for tests. Bill Mead, manager of Two Potato, explained that his bouncers refused to allow Potter into the bar because they believed him to be part ALL BAT -—Kivtn Patt»f it St Wncsflrt "With over a hundred cases each month since June,* the of an all-out street brawl, not an in- AVFs Kirschcnbaum reiterated, ‘two a progress gay-bashing. day doesn't seem all that unusual, no While Mead claimed that he has matter how frightening that is.’T 7T ALWAYS GETS BLAMED ON THE RM.‘-Giy-bl*t»ng utt, Chnstop^find Gr-nmchttnH Ramblin’ Around NEW YORK-At least six gay man ware raportadly mugged at knife-point In the Rambles In Central Park two weeks ago. marking the contin¬ uation of a crime spree that has traditionally plagued that area during warm-weather months. However, according to police, the overall number of armed robberies in Central Park Is down this year in compari¬ son with muggings reported last year. Requesting an increased police presence in an area that la known for its gay male sex¬ ual activity may be too problematic, Matt Foreman, director the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, explained. Instead, Foreman said, *What we're looking for in the Rambles is for people to come forward and report things that hap- pan.* If people victimized in the Rambles successfully prosecuted their assailants. Foreman thinks, the word will quickly circulate among what he suspects Is a fairly small group of perpetrators that the Rambles is not as fall-safa as It has been. None of the Rambles mug¬ gings rsported to OutWnk were recorded as bias-related incidents by the police, because they did not conform to the technical description of hate-motivated crimes. The Anti-Violence Project plans to distribute warning cards to men In the Rambles in the next few weeks, alert¬ ing them to the continuing dangers of robbery and assault in that area. 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NY 11570 (SI4) 744-2300 (21 2| 593-4200 pleasure chest Thriving Sex Clubs Resurrect Bathhouse Issue in San Francisco by Allen White SAN FRANCISCO—They call him Father Frank, and with his church of glory holes, he has put the issue of bathhouses in San Francisco back on the front burner of public debate. Under legal protections of his St. Friapus Church, Frank has created a unique social center offering activities scheduled from dusk to dawn. In the last few weeks, the San Francisco police have, on two occa¬ sions, interrupted the minister’s evan¬ gelical outreach to the gay commu¬ nity. The church has two branches located South of Market, a neighbor¬ hood near the Financial District that is also home to many of the city’s leather bars and thriving nightclubs. Though the police visits closed the facilities for a few hours, there have been no citations Issued, no violations of law uncovered, and business has resumed the following nights. Unlike other churches, the most prominent and popular area is not the altar, but the 'meditation rooms* where glory holes are dramatically covered with Iridescent paint flooded by black light. Father Frank and his operation have once again made public what had been silenced for years: the growing desire for bath¬ houses and sex clubs in San Francisco. The last such facility went out of business three years ago, primarily because of lack of business and because of stringent health department guidelines that made their operation prohibitive. But while bathhouses have dosed in San Francisco, they continue to do a booming business just across the Bay in Berkeley, and in San Jose, about 50 miles south of the city. And following a serious drop in tourism following last year’s earthquake, the city's two largest gay movie theaters are reporting near¬ capacity crowds. The Labor Day holi¬ day weekend was one of the largest grossing weekends in years. This week, the Bay Area Reporter, one of two weekly lesbian and gay community publications in the city, editorialized that 'Gay bathhouses should be allowed to open and oper¬ ate in San Francisco.* Times have changed,' the paper opined. The bath scene has changed. Gay men are more aware of how HIV is transmitted and the safeguards against it than they were in the mid-1980s.’ Responding to the police action against Father Frank’s operation, the other gay weekly, the Sentinel, editori¬ alized last week that, ‘if the problems are fire danger, bad hygiene and the sale of alcohol, maybe it would help to remember that we once had struc¬ turally safe, nonalcoholic and wonder¬ fully dean sex dubs—they were called bathhouses' The father, whose full name is Frank Finch, believes that it is time for change. "We’ve learned our lessons,* he said, ‘and we have emerged from that and are now trying to build some- "THE SEXUAL RfVOamON IS NOT DEAD'— Fettm FrenkFmch in front ot» 'roSpous muroT in hit church on Oemertkm St A Cozy Cafe Featuring Homemade Natural Food m Cafe Fresh Baked Desserts Coffees and Capoodnos The Freshest of Vegetables, Fish, Pasta, 97 ST. MASKS PL., N.Y.C. (212) 974-9302 live music tues a, THUR8 nights Herbs, and Spices Real Estate ■ «> s §■' co .T t MomcMHj <;» j Furnishings! I S 3> c DC 4) £ « S o ■§ CO cl Dini ng/ M Entertainin Fall Fashion CONTACT OUTWEEK ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT 212-337-1200 news 'GETTMG THE GUYS OUT OFTHE BACK ALLEYS*— Sax Church gt 736 Tahimt St thing positive based on that experience. The gay community is very well edu¬ cated on [safer sex]. There are people that assume that no one down here has any brains. This is the lull perspective of the community, doctors, lawyers, chiefs. The whole group is here " Father Frank also believes that his church discourages illegal activity. "We want to draw them into what the California consenting adult law calls 'a private place’ where they will not be committing crimes and will be doing ’good works.” That is the social pro¬ gram of the church, he reports. "We arc getting the guys out of the back alleys. When they were closing the baths, they would go to the bushes and the back alleys. Now, we are try¬ ing to draw them out of that place where, technically, sex is criminal.* Father Frank's church is certainly not alone in providing provocative sexual activity. Business was booming in San Prancisco’s gay entertainment palaces over the labor Day weekend. Crowds jammed into the Campus Theater in the Tenderloin and at the Nob Hill Theater for an evening of fun, fantasy and the opportunity to rub their hands and mouths over the chests and legs of a bevy of pom stars. The success of these two opera¬ tions is yet another indication that gay men are exploring new opportunities for safe ways to express their sexual drive. The crowds at the Campus were due in large pan, according to man¬ agement, to the popularity of their star performer. Tim Lowe. A spokesperson at the Nob Hill credits the crowds to the return to the city following a post¬ earthquake lull. Lowe is a popular video star who has performed in 26 videos to date. Many come to the theater to get a look at what they sec on their home videos. "Everybody has different porn stars, and the people want to see their favorite," Lowe told OuJWerk. The show at the Campus is audi¬ ence participation taken to the legal limits. The only rules, which are announced at each show, state that the customers may not touch the ass or the genitals of the performer. The action at the Nob Hill, a four- theater complex, is equally as sensual. They advertise as the world’s greatest male sex emporium, and, according to many, they succeed in living up their daim. The question of reopening San Francisco's bathhouses comes just two months before a very important elec¬ tion for the city’s lesbian and gay com¬ munity. On the ballot are two lesbian candidates for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, one gay candidate for the school board and the return of the issue of municipally sanctioned domestic partnership. The candidates and the domestic partners initiative all have a good chance of succeeding. The explosive bm sex clubs on p«o« as STRAIGHT BALL BASHING I set* a check for $1,000 to the Harvey Gann campaign fund On the check I printed under my signature, QUEER ACTIVIST I did not expect a thank-you, but I was not prepared to be ignored, either. Gann came to this little Podunk, shit-kicking town last week, and who was not invited to the business luncheon? Me. THE DEMOCRATIC QUEER! Talk about homophobia. The last meeting I went to of SENATE VOTE VO, Asheville, it was decided by straight environmentalists to be lowkey on *gay* issues for fear that Jesse (UGH!) would use it against Gantt in the campaign. Guilt by association I mean, what the fuckl Once Gantt is elected, what are we queers supposed to do? Sneak in the back door of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, to express the needs of Queer Nation, ACT UP, etc. Or meet Gantt at the parking lot of the Watergate Hotel to whisper those needs giving the homophobic new meaning to the handle •Deep Throat* It is fust as OK to be queer before the election as it is after the election. To play into the hands of Helms is to give him more power and perpetuate growing homophobia in North Carolina and the nation. I am here. I am queer. GET USED TO IT, MY DEAR. I am not shutting up nor am I going to be an invisible queer voter. Gantt is acting the appropriate middle- class family man with family values, so how- do we know he is going to help with AIDS funding and human rights once he gets into the Senate Just being black is not a qualification to represent Queer National needs. Let us hear from Gantt, and what he plans to do for us queers once he is elected to the Senate, before any more donations are sent to his campaign Shit Wc are visible now with Helms in office. Arc we going to trade that for invisibility once Gantt gets in office? Let us hear from Gantt on the issues which mean so much to us, AIDS, homo¬ phobia, human rights. Charles Merrill Charles Merm hitting from Inside the Unas. Photo O 19*0. by Alexander Liberman. Execullva Director CondS Nasi pubtcotlons. taken at tha Baach CUb. Palm Baach. Floods Pom which I rasignad because may dkJ not alow minoritts as members. Liberman Is Jewish and I am QUEER OUT TAKES FEDS DISPROVE BLOOD-HEATING AIDS TREATMENT NEW YORK—A governmental investigation into a controversial AIDS treatment has revealed that what was initially hailed as a possible cure for AIDS may not have had any effect at all on the two people cited in the gov¬ ernment report. The treatment is known as hyper¬ thermia and involves the heating of the patient's blood outside the body in order to raise overall body temperature. Prior to the governmental investi¬ gation, which was conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the only informa¬ tion about the treatment had come through journalistic reports, leading AIDS activists to express concern about the accuracy and usefulness of the data circulating through the community. 'As a physician, I can’t say enough about the harm done to people with AIDS when a dubious treatment is trumpeted by the media like hyperthermia was,* Dr. Ramon Torres commented last month after it was disclosed that one hyperthermia patient had died immediately after undergoing the treatment. Torres assisted NIAID in its hyperthermia investigation and advises Gay Men's Health Crisis on medical matters. "There is very little information out there, and a lot of uncertainty,* he continued. The NIAID report revealed that the physician at the center of the con¬ troversy, Dr. Kenneth Alonso, an Atlanta pathologist, apparently misread his first hyperthermia patient's clinical condition. According to the NIAID report, what Alonso diagnosed as lesions resulting from Kaposi's sar¬ coma, an AIDS-rdated cancer, govern¬ ment specialists found instead to be a disseminated infection of bacterial ori¬ gin. The national media’s focus on hyperthermia resulted from the patient's claim that his KS had disap¬ peared and his overall condition had improved following the hyperthermia treatment According to the NIAID report, it is highly likely that the patient’s bacte¬ rial infection responded favorably to the antibiotic infusion that he received prior to undergoing hyperthermia. At the very least, the fact that a broad- spectrum antibiotic was administered confounds experts’ ability to determine whether the hyperthermia treatment had any effect on the patient's symp¬ tomatic HIV infection. The second patient to undergo the costly and potentially dangerous treat¬ ment did not experience improvement after hyperthermia, according to the government investigation. Although data on the third person with AIDS who sought treatment from Alonso was not included in the NIAID investigation on hyperthermia, inde¬ pendent reports stated that that patient died eight hours after undergoing the treatment under Alonso's supervision in Mexico City. It was that news that prompted activists to call on the doc¬ tors involved to release their data, and to demand that the government make public its findings. GMHC's assistant director of pol¬ icy, David Barr, told OutWcck that his agency is 'deeply disturbed by the apparent exploitation of people with HIV revealed in fthe NIAID) report People with a life-threatening illness were led to pay incredible prices—$- 30,000 and more—for a treatment which has had no effect on their medi¬ cal condition,' he said. Neither Alonso nor Dr. William Logan, the Atlanta surgeon who oper¬ ated on the first two hyperthermia patients in conjunction with Alonso, could be reached for comment on the government report. — Nina Reyes 30 COPS RAID CAMP OF 70 MEN IN IOWA CHICAGO—Thirty police officers from local, county and state forces as well as the FBI raided a gay cam pout near Boone, Iowa on Aug. 2S. One man was arrested for possession of marijuana, and another for allegedly having sex with a minor. The 70 campers, who, according to organizers, are mostly 'doctors and lawyers and other professionals,' gather yearly for the Midwest Men's Festival. In previous years, the 10-day gath¬ ering was in Missouri. It was moved this year after Missouri state park offi¬ cials canceled the group’s reservation, claiming that last year many of the men were nude, and that at least one couple had sex, which is illegal in Missouri. The 7 am raid lasted two hours, according to festival spokespcoplc. Police poked their heads into cabins and tents, inquiring If any children were present, organizers said. Photo albums, festival records, personal papers and other materials were seized.Several of the officers wore rub¬ ber gloves; others videotaped the raid. Boone County Attorney Steven Oeth told the Des Moines Register that police went to the campsite. Elk Horn Ranch, because of 'concern about what was going on.' Police later said that two infor¬ mants had attended the festival and that one observed Harry Hayes of Hiawatha, Kans., have sex with a 9- year-old boy. Boone County Sheriff Ronald Fahr added that two cars at the camp¬ ground were registered to men con¬ victed of sex offenses with children But Rich Eychaner, co-owner of the campground, believes the raid was the result of police homophobia. “We've had women’s groups, indi¬ viduals who want to meditate...church groups,* he told reporters. “But when we had a predominately gay group, the FBI went in to raid the place.’ Mark Reed, a spokesperson for the festival, condemned the raid as “excessive* and added that sex with minors is not allowed at the gathering. Eugene Meyer, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investi-gation, defended the use of a large number of police officers, explaining that the encampment was spread out over 180 acres “and we had a search warrant to look for children, child pornography and drugs.* The 9-year-old boy at the gather¬ ing was with his father, organizers say. The police informant said that he saw the child and Hayes engage “in what appeared to be (a) consensual* sex act the day before the raid. The informant also observed a photo album in the dining hall that contained pictures of nude men and children, police said. At press time, festival spokespeo- pie said that they were gathering evi¬ dence that could contradict the reports of the informant, but they did not pro¬ vide details. The Midwest Men’s Festival was started in 19G2 by a group of Missouri gay men. —Rex Wockner COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT 208 West 13th Street New York, N Y. 10011 212/675.3559 AUSTRALIAN ^ AV Cane and i JAI Dcro Under at tfc C« and meet jotr mates DnnUbderallkblgHlgajpartj tftbejorl Lcarta^ US ior Australia Fetruarr 16,181. Prices start at 13899 far 16 dan/15 n^its Call Etui Vei: of Aagij 212/972 6880 Before Oedipus, there was... (irnimim an explosive new play by |OHN R- CHISM WEHriELL-S BOOKSHOP S02 WEST imt ST. 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The limited number of enrollees in trials and the lade of demographic and geographic diversity of the pa/lxn pants threatens the success of the program and denies many people,. the opportunity to participate in experimental drug therapies. To put it bluntly," the panel con¬ tinued, "the number of people involved in clinical trials (12,000) vs. the number of people eligible for clinical trials is pitifully small. The ground rules for trials seem often too rigid....People of color, women and children are grossly underrepresented. "Much of the blame for these many problems," the commission wrote, "rests with academic health cen¬ ters...A clear, crisp, well-articulated dinical research strategy is simply not in evidence." Among the commission's recom¬ mendations: A national health care sys- Pick NEW YORK—One weak baton primary elections, three political heavyweights and The New York Times endorsed openly lesbian Assembly candidate Deborah Glick, stamping her campaign with the establishment imprimatur that could make the final difference in her race to go to Albany. State Attorney General Robert Abrams, New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Hottzman and Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger. pictured hare with Glick and City Councilor Ronnie EkJridge. who endorsed Glick earlier in the race, each announced their support of Glick on Sept. 4, praising Glick't commitment to a progressive agenda and her willingness to be an outspoken advocate for the issues she supports. “It's important to have someone who is openty gay who wilt go to the stats Legislature and speak with that Glick special poignancy, that special personal passion about the deprivation of rights and liberties of so many in our society who are gay and lesbian." Attorney General Abrams added. And for only the second time in history, on Sept 6, the Times endorsed an openly gay candidate, naming Glick the paper’s choice for the 61st Assembly District Last year, the Timet backed gay City Council hopeful Tom Duane. The recent endorsements provided Glick with icing for her already formidable roster of support, which indudes femi¬ nist and pro-choice organizations, labor unions, vensratsd Black activists, the Village Voice and many gay and lesbian politicos. The primary election is Tuesday, Sept 11. —Nine Reyes tern, adequate AIDS services In rural communities, increased enrollment in N1H clinical trials, more research on opportunistic infections and aggres¬ sive efforts to address the ‘shortage of crisis proportions of health care providers capable and willing to care for* HIV-positive individuals. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, told reporters that much of the commission's report is on the mark. But he said that increasing enrollment in drug trial studies would merely turn them into ‘drug-distribu¬ tion programs.* —Rex Wockner Chicago SPOKESPEOPLE: WALESA IS NOT ANTI-GAY Close associates of Polish Solidarity party leader Lech Walesa have told the British Broadcasting Corporation that Walesa is not anti-gay The statements follow claims by Polish gay activists that Walesa West 40-50’sll Brand new studios, Vldeo-elev. bldg D/W/Laundry In bldg, from $800. Large 2 BR, safe block. Elev. Bldg $1550. Huge 1 BR Drmn. bldg. $1295. Hans Eiholzer 445 0182 Kuzmuk Realty, Inc., 541-4040 •Hospitalization •Major Medical -Salary Replacement •Lite Insurance sexual* and drug users from Polish society* if he is elected president Walesa’s spokespeople told Eugene Sroolar, who heads the BBCs Polish Section, that Walesa never made the ’eliminate* statement and *is not hostile to homosexuals ’ *He's a Catholic, but a liberal one,* explained Smolar, who knows Walesa personally. "Walesa probably did make a passing remark about elim¬ inating soda! problems. This may have been misinterpreted. I'm sure he didn't mean to suggest the elimination of homosexuals. He may have meant eliminating the problems that homo¬ sexuals face and the need to speak openly about this subject.* Smolar said Walesa, Is "only a worker, not a professional politician. Sometimes he makes off-the-cuff remarks that he doesn't mean or which are open to misunderstanding. However, deep down...I know he would oppose discrimination on any basis. Whatever Wblesa said, his office assured me that he didn't intend to cause offense or alarm.* Walesa’s aides told Smolar that they were very disturbed by reports from San Francisco, where gay activists have urged the city to rename a street bearing Walesa's name. Phone calls to Walesa's Gdansk office went unretumcd. Walesa himself is not known to have ever publicly declared his sup¬ port for the civil rights of gays and les¬ bians—a demand that has now been put forth by US activists, including San Francisco's Queer Nation. The San Francisco Examiner has also called for Walesa to speak out personally on the issue. "There is more at stake here than the name of a San Francisco street,* the paper editorialized. —Rex Wockner in Chicago and Peter TatcbeB in London SEX CLUBS Oontlnusrf from p«o« aa issue of reopening the bathhouses has the potential of betng political dyna¬ mite in a community with diverse viewpoints, and a flash point for homophobia in the city’s electoral politics. Board of Supervisors President Harry Brin, the highest elected gay person in San Francisco, opposes the concept. 'I'm not in favor of It,* he told the Bay Area Reporter. *We must do whatever we can to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Our first priority is to save lives. We have a whole new gen¬ eration of young gay men who don’t need to be exposed." Carole Migden who, along with Roberta Achtenburg, is an open les¬ bian running for an at-large seat on the city's Board of Supervisors, said, "It is never going to be easy and pop¬ ular to be gay, and if the idea (is! that a gay or lesbian candidate has to mask or cover lesbian or gay issues or visi¬ bility then I think it subverts the pur¬ pose of our candidacies.* *We come with the full host of issues,* she continued. “Some are eas¬ ily accepted by the general public and some are more difficult. It is our responsibility to advance them and to educate, and to have people under¬ stand us and have our issues advanced to a proper resolution.* Tom Ammiano, a gay man run¬ ning for the board of education, sees the bathhouse debate as a possible problem for lesbian and gay candi¬ dates *tf we don’t do our homework. BIUITIDIM6S Commentary Darkman Universal Pictures has just released a new movie. Darkman. that contains subtle but dangerous anti¬ gay stereotyping. In the movie, actor Larry Drake plays a crime boss. Robert Durant, who, it is implied, is gay. Durant chops off his victim's fin¬ gers by day and sips martinis with his boyfriend flunky by night. Ifs a radical departure from Drake's role as mild- mannered Benny on LA Law. Like many gay characters in Hollywood, he's dead by the end of the movii We wouldn't object to seeing a gay villain hers or there, if Hollywood also represented gays and lesbians as ordinary people and as heroes But the fact is that the good guys are very rarely gay or lesbian. The film industry’s anti-gay bias perpetu ates the negative stereotype of | gay people as unbalanced and evil. Darkman. in particular, adds to the false notion that gay people are menacing. As writer Vito Russo has chroni cled in his book, The Celluloid Clout Hollywood has had a bloodiest killing off its evil or maladjusted gay charac¬ ters. Darkman is no exception. This trend has probably played a part in some people's belief that the lives of all lesbian and gay people are inherently tragic. Let Universal Pictures know that they owe us some depictions of gay and lesbian heroes. Write to: SaRy Van Slyke, Senior Vice President of Marketing. Universal Pictures, 100 __ Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608. It has the potential for detracting as it has the potential for enriching,* he said, *We have gotten such a bad rap about our sexuality that it could take on the air of irresponsibility. We have to be careful about how we present it. Sex is not dead * In San Jose’s Watcrgarden, a short drive down the peninsula, and Berkeley’s Steam Works, the bath¬ houses are open and often operate at near capacity. But operations are dra¬ matically different from their counter¬ parts of the late 70s before the dawn¬ ing of the age of AIDS. The emphasis is now on health. No longer called "baths,* they are listed under the heading of ‘gyms/ health clubs’ in such publications as Bob Damron's Address Book. Self- described as private dubs for gay and bisexual men, they are, as they say, an ‘alternative.* The Watergarden boasts an out¬ door patio, tanning rooms, workout rooms with the latest in weights and other gym-type facilities. No drugs or alcohol are permitted in the facility. The Steam Works, accessible by public transportation from San Francisco, is housed in a converted warehouse. It also offers a weight area, steam rooms and a Jacuzzi. The emphasis on cleanliness would draw praise from the most severe critic. Following the completion of a membership procedure, those enter¬ ing the dub are directed to a wall of rules. They are serious, short and direct Unsafe sex is not allowed, vio¬ lators are ejected and banned from their establishments. There is a subtle education pro¬ cess that is present throughout one's visit. Opening a spotless locker, the first and only thing inside is a condom. Moving through the facility, the walls carry photos of all types of men. Constant messages advocate safer sex. Throughout the facility there are boxes of free condoms. The popularity of the clubs crosses all lines in the gay community. There arc young men, with chisdcd bodies, blond hair and blue eyes. There are men with dark tans and black hair and mustaches. There are people of all colon in an atmosphere which appears devoid of racial preju¬ dice. And there are older men with graying hair and men with bodies which could use more than a few hours on a nautilus machine. "The sexual revolution is not dead,’ says Father Frank. "It was just knocked slightly off course. Now peo¬ ple have learned to live with AIDS, and they have learned their limitations. Our group is a mature group. ’Young people are experimenting within the rules. They are gelling the word of safe sex regularly If someone needs a link guidance, they get k.’ For Father Frank, he practices what he preaches. ’I meet my sexual needs,’ he said. ’If I didn't have this place I would probably be sining in the upper balconies of the theaters and in the park grounds and, as I have said, they are ail illegal Some people think I work awfully hard at tills, but it certainly is well worth it.'T AIDS Hotline 718 485 - 8111 . m Dr. Charles Franchino 30 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10011 212.673.43321 office hours by appointment suffering from YOU WON’T BEL!EVE YOUR EYES WHEN YOU SEE HEMORRHOIDS. WARTS, AND FISSURES TREATED MINUTES WITH IASERS! INSURANCE PLANS ACCEPTED. LASER BENEFITS: NO PAIN! NO BLEEDING! NORMAL ACTIVITIES. NO HOSPITAL STAY. EVENING SATURDAY APPOINTMENTS AVAlI ABLE. DON’T MISS OUR 6 OFFICES METROPOLITAN AREA! Commentary OUT LAW Aids Law: Where Do We Stand? Part 3: The Health Insurance Problem T his third In¬ stallment in a scries updating AIDS and the law focuses on the Insurance indus¬ try. From tarty in the epidemic, the industry struggled with the challenge of a new, expensive medical condition that threatens to upset the basic calcula¬ tions underlying its operations. Briefly stated, the private for-profit insurance industry operates on princi¬ ples of actuarial risk: calculating the odds of a particular risk's occurrence, pricing insurance policies to cover that risk and generating a surplus for the company. This system fails to generate the normal level of profit, if a new risk occurs which was not factored into the calculations. Even if the new risk is eventually factored in, prices may be raised so much that purchasers will decide to forego buying insurance. Unfortunately, many insurance companies decided to meet this chal¬ lenge by using every possible way to avoid paying for AIDS, rather than fig¬ uring out how to spread this new risk over the large pool of insurance pur¬ chasers by raising premium rates and providing foil coverage (as at least one nonprofit insurance provider, Empire Blue' Cross, has done). The problem is undoubtedly complicated by the recent real estate slump, since many insur¬ ance companies invest a large part of their reserve funds in real estate. A majority of Americans obtain health insurance through their jobs. If the employer is large enough to quali¬ fy for standard group health insurance, employees and their legally recognized families qualify for coverage without providing individual proof of insurabil¬ ity. In this situation gay people are left out. Although society is slowly begin- by Arthur S. Leonard ning to recognize gay families, the for¬ mal legal recognition that would auto¬ matically allow the gay life partner of an employee to be covered by the group policy docs not yet exist outside of a handful of cities which have domestic partnership laws. A lawsuit challenging this inequity is pending in New York, brought by Lambda Legal Defense on behalf of gay teachers employed by the city’s board of educa¬ tion. Some dty council members have been working with community activists on domestic partnership legislation, but neither of these arc likely to pro¬ duce widespread change quickly. Those who can obtain health insurance through an employment- based group are not necessarily home free with regard to AIDS. There are significant loopholes in the laws regu¬ lating insurance and employee benefits and customary exclusions from cover¬ age in standard insurance policies. The direct regulation of insurance company practices is a matter of state law. Under New York state regulations, insurance companies may not exclude particular diseases from coverage under a health insurance policy. Some states do not have such a requirement, so people covered by health insurance in those states may discover that the fine print in the policy excludes coverage for HIV infection and related medical conditions. It is also normal practice in the insurance industry to exclude from coverage any treatment or medication which has not been generally accepted by the medical profession. Insurance companies routinely deny payment for drugs which have not been licensed by the Food and Drug Administration or which are characterized as 'investiga¬ tional.* Serious threats of litigation have forced some insurance companies to begin paying for investigational AIDS drugs which have received only limited approval from the FDA. As to other medical procedures, a New York court recently ordered Empire Blue Cross to pay for a bone marrow trans¬ plant for an HIV-infected man whose doctor contended that this procedure was his beat hope to avoid developing CDC-defined AIDS. The insurer con¬ tended that such an operation was ’experimental* in the context of AIDS, since it had only been tried a half- dozen times with mixed success. The judge ruled in Bradley v. Empire Blue Cross that insurance companies should not be dictating medical procedures to doctors. It is too soon, however, to know whether other courts will follow this opinion. Finally, health insurance policies normally exclude coverage for medical conditions which existed before the effective date of the policy. Under some policies, this exclusion only lasts for a defined period; under others, the exclu¬ sion of coverage may be permanent. Some form of national health system which does not restrict participation to those who are individually insurable seems the obvious societal solution , but our political leaders have strongly resisted this solution. Thus, a new employee covered by group insurance may nor qualify for coverage for an HIV-related condition for which he was already receiving treatment before becoming employed. Many insurance companies will also try to get out of paying for HIV-related conditions if there is any evidence that the employee knew of his positive HIV- antibody status prior to employment. Such an approach is contrary to the public health goal of getting people to learn their HIV status, obtain early pro- phyiatic treatment and not transmit the vims, since it encourages new employ¬ ees to remain ignorant about their own health in order to get coverage. Some companies even try to squirm out of honoring claims when there is a record of treatment for other sexually transmit¬ ted diseases, but these attempts are being strongly opposed in court Unfortunately, a major loophole in the law has, in many cases, made employee group health insurance cov¬ erage for employees with HIV-related conditions practically unavailable for many persons. Although states may regulate insurance companies which sell health-coverage policies to employers, a federal law governing employee benefits prevents the states from regulating employers who pay the health bills of their employees under self-insurance programs. The federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, also known as the Pen¬ sion Reform Act, prevents state regula¬ tion of employee benefits programs. But the federal law does not provide direct regulation of the content of such programs in the area of health care. This curious situation will probably not be affected by the new Americans With Disabilities Act, which contains provisions evidently intended to pre¬ serve the status quo regarding employee benefits issues. The result is a major gap in regu¬ lation. Large numbers of employers take advantage of this situation by con¬ verting their health plans to self-insur¬ ance and then excluding or tightly capping coverage for HIV-related con¬ ditions. Lambda is pursuing two test cases challenging these practices. Unfortunately, a federal trial judge in Texas ruled in July in McCann v. H & H MUSK that the employer’s limitation of HIV-related claims to a lifetime max¬ imum of $5,000 is completely legal. ^ NYC ^ AREA DIALOGUE NOW ACCEPTING WOMEN’S PERSONALS! Kennedy Travel USA 800-237-7433 718-347-7433 JRSVP CRUISES Lambda is appealing that ruling. Mean¬ while, the switch to self-insurance (with AIDS exclusions) is becoming widespread as employers try to cut their health insurance costs. A final concern regarding employ¬ ee group insurance is that businesses which have experienced significant HIV-feiated claims or which operate in industries considered 'high risk* for AIDS claims, have found it very diffi¬ cult to obtain insurance. In addition, those with existing group policies have been hit with substantial premium increases as a result of past HIV-related claims. The Whitman-Walker Oinic in Washington, DC, received such a large premium increase for its staff health plan that its director announced that the dinic may have to dose. The DC City Council passed a special appropri¬ ation to pay part of the premium, but Mayor Marion Barry vetoed It, and the future of Whitman-Walker, a major provider of HIV-related services, remains uncertain. Things arc even worse for those who have to prove their insurability. Small employers cannot obtain the kind of large group policy which allows employees to qualify without a medical examination (including an HIV-antibody test). Self-employed indi¬ viduals or those whose employers pro¬ vide no health benefits are in the same boat. It is legal for insurance compa¬ nies to require the HIV-antibody test everywhere in the United States. Many states have passed laws regulating the manner In which tests are administered (requirements for informed consent, counseling and confidentiality are widespread), but no state forbids an insurance company from requiring test¬ ing and making insurability decisions based on the test. The insurance companies which have decided to test applicants consid¬ er HIV-positive individuals uninsur- able. This judgment is based on stud¬ ies which show that the risk of an HIV-positive person developing medi¬ cal complications requiring a payout of benefits Is considerably higher than other risks which insurance compa¬ nies assume. At first blush, there seems little basis for arguing with this conclusion. While something like 7 percent of smokers are likely to devel¬ op lung cancer after several decades of smoking, epidemiological studies show that within five years of infec¬ tion by HIV, well over 20 percent of those infected are likely to develop symptoms requiring medical treat¬ ment, and within ten years, more than half of those infected will have CDC- defined AIDS. The insurance compa¬ nies' arguments about insurability appear strengthened as new medica¬ tions are licensed for prophylactic use by asymptomatic people with HIV infection. Theoretically, anybody who is infected can immediately start gen¬ erating payment daims by using pro¬ phylactic medication. Insurance companies can take care of the enhanced risk of benefit claims from smokers by charging a higher, but still relatively affordable, premium for their coverage due to the small percentage of smokers who generate additional daims. With HIV infection, they argue that the premium would have to be so high that the insurance would not be affordable; even spread over the pool of all pur¬ chasers of individual insurance, they claim that a large increase in premi¬ ums would be required for every¬ body, which they characterize as ‘unfair* to those unlikely to acquire HIV infection. At least one insurance company has given the lie to this daim. At the Sixth International AIDS Conference, in June, officials from Empire Blue Cross (New York's nonprofit insurer) report¬ ed that it was possible to provide cov¬ erage without HIV-antibody testing, because the proportion of the individu¬ al insurance-buying population which is HIV-positive is so small that the costs can be spread affordably over the entire pool of buyers in the same way that costs of ocher major illnesses arc distributed. (Empire Blue Cross has open enrollment periods when individ¬ uals do not have to prove their insura¬ bility, and this is the only way for HIV- infected New Yorkers to obtain a minimally adequate general health insurance polky. Unfortunately, not every stales Blue Cross program pro¬ vides this access.) Empire Blue Cross officials stated that if the percentage of individual insurance buyers with HIV-infection were to increase significantly, the costs would become unmanageable. On an empirical basis, however, it appears that most of the increase in HIV infec¬ tion in the New York city metropolitan area is occurring among IV-drug users and their sex partners, who are less likely to have the funds and the fore¬ sight to purchase individual Insurance policies. It seems likely that others with HIV Infection—gay and bisexual men and people who have received blood transfusions or dotting medica¬ tion—ore the main customers for such insurance, and their numbers are almost statk. Indeed, as a percentage of the insurance-buying population, their numbers are probably dedining. Con¬ sequently, legislators concerned about individual access to health care should ban the use of the HIV test as a deter¬ minant of insurability. The bottom line, however, is that for many people the current situation is untenable. Thousands of HIV-infected employees may be covered by self- insured employer plans that exdude or cap HIV-related claims Many more are excluded from obtaining individual insurance due to their HIV status or eco¬ nomic condition. In order to qualify for Medicaid, they must spend down their assets and drastically undermine the quality of their lives. A solution must be found which takes account of the health needs of all groups affected by HIV and all other uninsured Americans. One immediate, though inade¬ quate, solution is to allow HIV-Infect¬ ed people who need insurance to par¬ ticipate in the Medicare system. Some form of national health system which does not restrict participation to those who are individually insurable seems the obvious societal solution, but our political leaders have strongly resisted this solution. This problem should be a major focus for political organizing and direct action during the "90s and would provide a strong basis for polit¬ ical coalitions with other groups suf¬ fering from lack of access to quality health care.T The Law Firm of REDA AND SCHWARTZ WHERE rrs THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER Television That Matters To The Lesbian and Gay Community. Brooklyn & Queens: BO Cable Mondays 9-10 pm,Channel 56 Thursdays al 7 pm Manhattan Cable Channel J / 23 GAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM ( 516 ) 243-6822 ( 212 ) 594-7642 j&S- FLY - N - STAY FLORIDA TWO ROUND TRIP AIRFARES FT LAUDERDALE OR MIAMI BEACH , LIVING WITH AIDS Compounding Things by Bo Hwton Y ou know how in articles about treatments and medicine we run across the phrase ‘anecdotal reports? Its implicit meaning is that these are not really trustworthy accounts because they’re not assembled statisti¬ cally, they're merely things people say over coffee or standing in the super¬ market checkout line. Well, I am a Compound Q patient, and here’s my anecdotal report: Five months ago. I appeared at the appointed hour at my doctor’s busy office. (For this article, I will refer to my doctor as Dr. X) The waiting room was decorated in soothing violets but stocked with lousy magazines. Pint 1 was asked to sign a ten-page statement which essentially gave my permission to be Infused with trichosanthin and detailed the experimental nature of this chemotherapy, listed the horrifying possibilities of the drug: coma, blind¬ ness, increased HIV activity—this stuff can even cause death. I signed. Dr. X was of course extremely enthusiastic, almost giddy with the posi¬ tive potential of the drug. Though all results are preliminary and dosages have not yet been figured out, it was clear that Dr. X and his associates believed that Q was a significant treatment for HIV, that it will lengthen life, improve health, maybe even cure people. The Q comes in a little glass vial with Chinese characters printed on it The nurse breaks this vial, pulls the liquid into a syringe, shoots it into an IV bag. 1 sit there for a few hours being monitored—blood pressure, temperature and pulse are all tested every half-hour or so. By the time the treatment is fin¬ ished, I fed quite lightheaded, and my vision is a Hole blurred. I can barely make out the $250 check to Dr. X. Then, 1 take a taxi home. The first few times, it is suggested that someone stay with the patient, in case he or she drops off into a coma, and it is recommended that every few hours the patient be awakened and asked sim¬ ple questions to establish mental darky, because neurological damage is one of the risks. The effects of the Q oo me physi¬ cally have been fairly typical and what I was led to expect. I felt like I’d been There is an aspect to this whole process, whether with Compound Q or any other new drug, the documentation of which must be anecdotal: That is the emotional, psychic toll. It's damn scary to be infused with some weird cucumber extract. hit by a speeding bus and thrown a couple of blocks. Within five hours, every musde ached, the stiffness and soreness were beyond anything I’ve known. Through that night and the follow¬ ing day my body is host to a mysteri¬ ous duel of temperatures. I find myself perspiring, weak, red, my throat sore and my temperature above 101 degrees; within 30 minutes, I am shak¬ ing violently, and I am pale, and my teeth are chattering. The aching makes walking into the kitchen or bathroom a dreaded, difficult project. Eventually, all this calms down. I don’t sleep at all the first night and only for hour stretches the next day. But, they told me all of this would happen. There is an aspect to this whole pro¬ cess, whether with Q or any other new drug, the documentation of which must be anecdotal: That is the emotional, psy¬ chic toll. It’s damn scary to be infused with some weird cucumber extract. Q is actually a root, I think. That is appropriate, because this drug, and the whole experience, seem to dig deep. A slow, but by now predictable, process begins. Over the days and nights in bed I am somehow brought closer to AIDS, its implications, and a perception of myself in relation to it. The first time I took the Q, my lover, Dan, came home from work, made us some supper, then settled himself cozily in bed with books (be likes Trollope), intending to stay up through the night keeping watch. By 1 am, Perry Mason was on, and Dan drifted to sleep. Every time I changed positions, he awoke, held my hand, asked if I was all right. I kept telling him I was fine. I’ve noticed the most peculiar feelings I have toward him and other people during my *Q days.* I am afraid to be left alone, and I want him near, but 1 become withdrawn, extremely remote, deadened. I cannot run to the store or even make myself a sandwich, and my dependence on Dan or others is foreign and horrify¬ ing to me. I stare at the TV, keep the volume low. After Perry Mason, there are other reruns, movies, talk shows. By 4:30 am when Hazel comes on, I have the distinct sense that I am loot, that what little I know of myself is mistaken, that what little I like about myself is erased. And the experience of those long days and evenings and nights is also about memory. Quick, dim images of 34 outwi old boyfriend* and drug* and the books I read as a child. It is as though Q and my Imagination have conjured up a box of papers and pictures so that I can see myself before this time- before AIDS. So sick, my strength and motion so limited, virtually alone with a stream of moments and faces from my past This must be what dying is like. After four or five days, I begin to recover from this emotional, physical other world. It's like in the old movies where someone is blind and the serious, handsome doctor takes layers of bandages from around his eyes, and the nurse and the hospital room slowly come into focus. There is an indescribable but very simple joy to recovery. Illness is the great transformer, and so is the restoration of health. Suddenly, I feel gratitude for the simplest things—having a cup of coffee, taking a drive, being cruised on the street. And then a few weeks go by and it is time to take the drug again Each month 1 am tempted not to take the treatment, seeing that the emotional price, which I can only inadequately describe here, is so strong, so power¬ ful...and for what? For some drug that may or may not bring up my T-cells a bit? And what does that prove anyway? And Dr. X can never know what I go through, what my friends and family go through, between my visits to his office. I'm a classic, stubborn cynic. For me, AIDS has represented a pervasive social and political phenomena which mostly makes me angry, and a per¬ sonal confrontation with mortality which makes me afraid. For me, it's all about survival, and my defenses get locked into place. Perhaps it is unfortunate, but I do not consider AIDS a gift; 1 consider it a worldwide trauma. You will not catch me at heal¬ ing cirdes taking deep breaths. I do not focus on various organs and say affirmations about them. 1 do not believe that Dr. X is actually out to get me. but I don't have a lot of trust in him either; his career, I realize, will continue impressively whichever list of statistics I end up on. 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AJJV7%U\ SutwvIM ■ Q Advjfwt- rwn jflhin. _ li* nwmtftat na* I4MIMMI CHANDLER INN Inn T»*w n Bed it Brvtkf J»t it, i®*o OVTWIIK 35 \ Each August, thousands of lesbians head north for that annual event known as the Michigan Women’s Music Festival. Seeking peace, love and harmony, they sometimes fall upon infighting, S/M debates and racial tensions. But that doesn’t stop them from going—nor from rev¬ eling in the one-of-a-kind happening. Michigan! Mention that one word to almost any les¬ bian, and she will look at you, smile and sigh. Though the Michigan Women's Music Festival, the largest annual gathering of lesbians in the world, is well known among dykes everywhere, it is also a well-guarded family secret. Information about the t festival is spread largely through the lesbian grapevine, and a single small brochure published each spring lists that year’s performers and admission fees. The elusive organizers don't seek advance publicity—and rarely speak to reporters at all, perhaps for fear of having the festival exploited or misrep¬ resented. While it is true that the name of the festival reflects the geographic state it is held in, Michigan, as it’s called, has also become very much its own state of mind. It’s a code word, a test word and a word which can get you [ through cold winters, broken hearts and a homophobic, woman-hating world. It’s a rite of passage for new dykes and a place to return for others. For many, Michigan is their only true spiritual home. Having been to the last two festi¬ vals, I felt in the know about the fest and what it means for many women. Yet, I also know that I have my own personal, very differing expectations each time I go up, and that each woman's festival experience is com¬ pletely different. So how could I, a sin¬ gle, young, white woman with her own urban biases, fairly portray an experience shared by 8,000 women to a readership with little knowledge of the festival's existence? No problem, I told my editor. The thought of cruising thousands of women while on assignment for the country's most happening gay mag was too much of a good thing to pass up. So, notepad in hand and OuiXPeek photographer Barbara Seyda in tow, I traversed the land, hoping to capture what, for thousands of women, is the quintessential lesbian experience. he Michigan Women's Music Festival was for¬ mally born in 1976, when 2,000 women came for a three-day event on 120 acres of Michigan farmland. Back in the stone age of "women's music," bringing so many "liberated" women together in the woods must have been a great act of courage for its organizers, who lacked money and experience in feed¬ ing and entertaining such a crowd- The following year, the fest was moved to the "Old Land* and, in 1982, it moved to its current site near Hart. Attendance has risen and fallen over the years, with more women coming after a summer of glorious weather and fewer after disasters like the shigella outbreak of 1988. Festival organizers Boo Price and Lisa Vogel admit to wondering whether the need for the fest was diminishing over the years. But on the day the gate opened this year, there were already 3,000 women on the land, and this year’s record attendance of mote than 8,000 should prove to all that the festival is here to stay. Getting to the fest is its own story. Because it is located in the Midwest, a large contingent of festival-goers drive from cities like Chicago, III., or Madi¬ son, Wis., passing through towns on the way with suggestive names like New Era, Perryville and Fruitvale. About three hours into the nearly five- hour drive, my own car contingent started playing "spot the dyke," look- ing for telltale sleeping bags in the back windows of cars packed with women. Blasting Sinead, we pulled up to a small-town K-mart to get our last packs of gum. The strange looks we got. we realized, were due to our short haircuts and my DYKE FAG SPACE T-shirt and not anything we were buying, Soon we were there, two more dykes having made the trek that for many is an event around which the rest of their lives are planned. For others, the journey is more difficult, or more expensive, than a five-hour car ride. Women come from all comers of the continent to get to the fest, often driving from Montreal, San Francisco or Texas. This year, I met women who had bicycled to the fest from Oregon. And, as always, there was a sizeable contingent of women from overseas, including Ger¬ many, Australia, England, Africa and the Soviet Union, who flew into Grand Rapids and got picked up by a festival bus. Organizers now estimate that more than 90,000 women have walked through the gates of the festival since they first opened. hat is it that draws women to this annual lathering in remote Michigan? Of course, it is the music—12 scheduled three-set concerts over four days. This year’s concerts included performances by the Washington Sisters, Faith Nolan, Alix Dobkl, Heather Bishop. Vicki Randle and Casselbcrry-Duprce. as well as live poetry by Judy Grahn, comedy by Marga Gomez, a collaborative tribute to Black women and the blues, dub poetry by Lillian Allen and the percus¬ sive splendor of the Sawagi Taiko drummers. Wherever you arc on the land, you can count on hearing women making music together. This year, however, the musical lineup seemed a tad tame to me. Per¬ haps because it was an anniversary year, there seemed to be an added emphasis at the fest on honoring the old guard. Consequently, sets by festi¬ val old-timers like Linda Tillery and Holly Near got precedent over those by the vanguard of women's music, like Two Nice Girls. Many expressed surprise, in fact, at the delegation of the hottest out lesbian group at the festival to the day performance-area rather than giving them their deserved spot on the festival’s more touted Night Stage. Perhaps expanding the festival by a day or two will make it easier to satisfy everyone’s artistic egos while making sure performers are assigned to the stage best suited to their abilities and following. In addition to the music, there arc the workshops Taking 22 pages to describe in the festival program, work¬ shops range from special all-day inten¬ sive sessions on Wednesday to shorter ones during the rest of the fea There are dose to 200 scheduled workshops on subjects ranging from networking for lesbian twins to dyke scientists, female ejaculation, rattle nuking and lesbian co-parenting. Workshop tides this year included ‘Nerds A Cultural Workshop.” •Fun With Bad Poetry.’ ‘Amazon Cellu¬ lar Memory' and ‘Dreadlocks: The Roots of Power, Not Just Another Exotic Hairstyle.* There are also ongoing meet¬ ings at the Sober Support tent and the Oasis, an emotional support area for women in trauma. But it is the impromptu gatherings which always define the festival. Advertised by word of mouth or posters in the Porta Janes, these were the sessions just thought of the week before or too radical to be officially sanctioned. They consisted of, this year, all S/M events, Phranc’s home movies, a screening of a radical dyke flick called Snatch and a networking session for women involved in ACT UP and Queer Nation in the US and Canada. The only workshop I attended this year, the networking session, turned out to be an inspiring hobnob for activist city dykes, a blast of urban reality I sorely needed after three days of connecting with rain-drenched Mother Earth. Music and workshops aside, there is another reason women still flock to the festival. Michigan is one of the few remaining safe spaces in the world for women. Here, girls and women are free to walk alone by day or night without fear of attack, a frame of mind to which even experi¬ enced festival-goers take a day or so to adjust. Needless to say, going back out into the 'real* world after the fest is even more of a shock. Photo Barter* And these days, Michigan is also a place to remember the importance of building and rebuilding women's cul¬ ture when women-only spaces like coffeehouses are under attack from some gay men who feel that, by not being admitted to such events, they are being discriminated against. For these, and a variety of other person¬ al, political and cultural, reasons, going to Michigan has become one of the few known ways to stay sane in a man's world. hough the festival is over¬ whelmingly white, it's still a veritable melting pot of women. Fat women with their clothes off, skinny women you wish would take their dothes off, women braving the land in wheelchairs, deaf women signing to each ocher, mothers carting around babies on their hips or in wag¬ ons, and young girls running safely through the land. Bald women. Punk women. Hairy women. Androgynous women. Straight women. City dykes. Country dykes. Francophones. Anglo¬ phones. Separatists. Sadomasochists. Anarchists. Ferns. Burches. Dykes wear¬ ing Birkenstocks. Dykes wearing no shoes at all. For every festival-goer, there is a story and, with it, compliments and complaints. First-timer (or "festivirgin") Heidi Vogel, from Cincinnati, says that she plans to come “every year for the rest of my life.’ Danielle, a 10-year-old from Minneapolis, loves the fest so much, she's already been three times (with her mom). And Pat ’Rose’ Dod¬ son, a 65-year-old straight mother of an adult lesbian who also attended, finds the whole experience ’incredibly energizing.* Others are more cynical. Jessie Toomey and Jennifer Gillmor drove to Michigan from Toronto. Reacting to the overabundance of ‘rules and regula¬ tions’ on the land, they set up a sepa¬ rate “anarchists' campground' and were “trying to break as many rules as possible.' Several women sneaked into the grounds without paying to protest the fears climbing admission fee, $185 for five days (a one-day pass is $50). Others were critical of having to work on their vacation (everyone is required to sign-up for a four-hour work shift). of a non flexible fee schedule at the gate, of the fact that fewer “alterna¬ tive’ women attended this year though organizers apparently spent thousands of dollars on a Friday night fireworks display. No festival would be complete because of a perceived abundance of self-policing, and shortages of food, without the expected roster of “hot The Winning DUOaaaei* ■■■ Threesome I'm going to take you to queer bars, /I'm going to drive you in queer cersJ You're going to meet aH of my queer friendsJ our queer queer fun—it never endsJ We re going to have a happy life /both of us are going to be the wife. from ‘The Queer Song," by Two Nice Girts Two Nice Girls, the out lesbian rock band from Austin, Tex., gave the great¬ est performance at this year's Michigan Women's Music Festival. To the excited screams of thousands of dancing and singing fans, drummer Pam Berger and singer/guitarists Gretchen Phillips. Kathy Komiloff and Meg Hentges. the four fine dykes who comprise Two Nice Gilts, worked the crowd into a frenzy with their usual mix of out sensibility, sexually charged lyrics, great music, and gosh-dam dyke cuteness. Since the release of their first album, Two Nice Girts, in earty 1989 on Rough Trade Records, and their more recent six- song EP. “Like a Version.* these women have been building a faithful national and international following. This year marked their first appearance at Michigan, and the Goddess must have been watching, for she blessed their set with the only sun we saw the whole weekend. But some¬ how, that didn’t seem so strange. After all, how could it rain on the only four women present at this lesbian fest who dare to sing of lesbian desire the way many of us actually experience it? If one wanted to analyze the contri¬ bution of Two Nice Girts to the future of lesbian music, one could easily say that they are the future. With the help of a few other performers, like Phranc, Two Nice Girts have been at the vanguard of creat¬ ing contemporary lesbian music for an increasingly appreciative, diverse audi¬ ence of women who actually wart their per¬ formers to Ml out Knee ike Tm going Id tel you how Its going to be)Soon you're going to be fucking me.* Indeed, because the band it will¬ ing, both personally and in their music, to state that they are queer, they have fast become role models in a commu¬ nity continually starved for them. The band now receives, according to Phillips, more than ten fan letters per week, many of them from "young, ago¬ nized dykes." And by strutting around during their live set. making suggestive banter between dyke-identified num¬ bers like "Goons" and "The Queer Song" and by incorporating some real¬ istic-sounding orgasms into their songs, they had the audience scream¬ ing for more in an almost unprecedent¬ ed two-encore set. As l waited to interview the gals in front of the “Old Cuntree Store," women passing by recognized them despite their camouflage of generic rain gear, and many stopped to say heBo. Still enthralled, sever¬ al tripped over themselves in the mud try¬ ing to tel the band how much they admired them. One bold woman, obviously staretruck by Philips' onstage orgasms, came to within an inch of her face and. staring intensely, said, "I just wanted to see what you look like up dose ’ True star-sta¬ tus is obviously dose at hand in a lesbian world which Philips unabashedly admits is "hungry for sex talc and orgasms “ And she's right. After their perfor¬ mance, a very long line of women wait¬ ed to meet the group and have their albums signed, while everywhere chests proudly sported Two Nice Girts T-shirts. Two Nice Girls are popular, particularly among younger lesbians, because post-Stone wall dykes appreci¬ ate the band's ability to rock 'n' roll and their decision to be out onstage. As fan Susan Crawshaw of Chicago explains: "They're having a great time up there without having to be so earnest about it. It’s about time that we saw lesbians being sexy onstage.*▼ Going When I considered going to Michi¬ gan this year. I thought about what it would mean that I was going up solo. For two years in a row I'd experienced Michigan's sexual magic with that year's lover, affirming our friendship during sun-kissed days and celebrating our love under starry skies, victims of Michigan's special spell. So. memories being what they are, I was hesitant to walk the festival trails alone. With no steady girlfriend to put up my tent I doubted whether I'd sur¬ vive the weekend. Nevertheless, it didn't take much persuasion from a good friend to let her fty me out from San Francisco to join her for the test. The magic of Michigan was beckoning, and this Castro street girl knew that a week¬ end's dose of woman-only space would probably do her soul good. We set up our tents and cruised around, eying girts and talking sex. But soon my cohort, missing the woman she was dating in Chicago, suffered a heady attack of alone-at-Michigan angst, and drove home after only one day. Suddenly, my safety net was gone. Smooching women seemed to be every¬ where. I kept seeing old girlfriends with their new flames, and the sounds of other women making love hung heavy in the night air. I started to wonder whether I'd made a mistake coming to Michigan this year. Then I met her. In my reportoriai wanderings. I stumbled upon a group of women dancing and drumming in the woods. After taking in the whole tribal scene of women chanting and throwing themselves on the ground in time to the most bewitching beat, my eyes fixed on an orange-haired girt playing the taiko. Clad in a tank top and ripped biker shorts, her body swayed to the rhythm of her drumming, sweat dripping from her face. When she opened her eyes to take a break. I offered her a drink of water, and she smiled at me. I was com¬ pletely and immediately in love. We spent a good part of the next two days together, my solo Michigan experience suddenly and irrevocably changed. We hung out together, talked about differences between US and Canadian dykes and rode into town with her friends to eat a nonvegetarian meal out of the rain. As the local folks gaped, her pals commanded the town's only pool table while we fucked outside in their van. Late at night, after every¬ one else had fallen asleep, we made love for hours as the rain pounded down on the roof of my tent eventually lulling me to sleep in the arms of a woman with whom, though I barely knew her. I feft incredibly connected. Yes. Michigan was working its magic on me once again. She and her friends had to begin their long drive back to Toronto all too soon. I gave her my Keith Haring T-shirt, and she toid me that she'd try to come visit as we and other new couples every¬ where kissed goodbye tenderly. We were happier to have met than we were sad¬ dened to part. That night alone and freez¬ ing in my leaking lent I thought about her warmth as I lay on my rain-soaked sleep¬ ing bag. my leather jacket covering as much of my body as possible. As I hud¬ dled into a little ball and waited for exhaustion to pull me into sleep. I won¬ dered if she and I would date if we kved in the same region of North America. A day later I was back in San Fran¬ cisco. coping with lost luggage, endless activist meetings, impending journalistic deadlines and a more local romantic interest My whole Michigan experience was seeming farther and farther away. Had I really just been to the promised land. and. if so. why did it feel so good to be back home? Was my everyday life already so affirming that I no longer needed to attend all of the women's fes¬ tivals? Or was the memory of the damn rain just discouraging me? When I developed my festival pho¬ tos, there she was again, playing the taiko drum and looking just as cute as I remembered. Suddenly I was transport¬ ed back to the festival, flooded by memories of her touch, her taste, of how she bit my neck as I made her moan. I think of the magic of Michigan and realize without a doubt that some¬ day I'll go back again. T topics.* Heated debate took place the previous summer over male children on the land (boys up to three years of age are now allowed; older males must stay at a boy's camp just outside fest grounds), racism at the festival and play space for S/M women on the land. Indeed, this year the expected issues did blow up, threatening to cre¬ ate an ideological war zone between groups of women all there, in theory, to promote the concept of a diverse, harmonious lesbian nation. While racism is actively combated at the fest, including preseason ‘unlearning racism* sessions for work¬ ers and 13 workshops addressing the political and cultural issues of women of color, there were racial confronta¬ tions, and the festival's annual march against racism turned nasty when it moved into the crafts marketplace and marchers accosted white craftswomen who, they feh, have unfairly used cer¬ tain symbols, particularly Native Ameri¬ can ones, in their work. Phyllis Pennesse. a Black woman from Chicago, goes to the festival to relax and for a rare opportunity to connect with other lesbians of color white doing her work shift in the Women of Colors tent. She says that while she personally feels that ‘Michi¬ gan is a wonderful thing to have and place to be,* she has been frustrated by a lack of awareness at the fest over issues important to women of color. She points out, for example, that while many white women come to the Women of Colors tent to listen to drum jams, these same women do not neces¬ sarily participate in less ‘exotic’ cross- cultural bridging, like forums on racism. Pennesse says that only by lim¬ iting some workshops to women of color could participants fed truly safe. While women of color have their own space partitioned off, leather women at this year's festival had to contend with the opposite problem. Long-tolerated on the land, and as much a part of building the fest's histo¬ ry as any other group, fest organizers this year took an open stand against their activities. After complaints from a group of sex-police separatists called the Seps—Separatists Against Sado¬ masochism—festival organizers released a statement in February to fest workers stating that due to "sharp disregard for -«.P. other women attending the festival.' S/M activities would no longer be tol¬ erated at Michigan. S/M quickly threat¬ ened to be 'the' issue of 1990. Although some leather women and (heir supporters boycotted the fest this year. S/M women were indeed present, albeit slightly more cautious about whom they invited to their play parties. But play these women did—in a remote comer of the land designed to be out of every wandering sepa¬ ratist's way. While not officially approved, leather women did have their own well-attended daily gather¬ ings to demonstrate such arts as quick- release knot tying, temporary piercing, fist-fucking and a dosing night 'Slave Auction" where participants paid with already earned "fuck bucks.' The S/M women had the fest’s best moment, however, when an unmarked, low-flying plane swooped overhead on Saturday afternoon to drop fliers about the &/M controversy into the waiting arms of women all over the grounds. The flier, which we thought was going to be right-wing religious banter, was actually reprinted articles from the Advocate and Gay Community News. It also included an open letter from the Outcasts, a Bay- Area lesbian S/M support group. In their statement, the Outcasts called on fest organizers to accom¬ modate S/M women’s needs at the fest as they have other wom¬ ens'. To fail to do so,’ the flier reads, "is dear¬ ly discriminatory." For the rest of the week¬ end, the S/M question was aired continually on pathways, shuttles and in meal lines. Oh yes, the rains: In an outdoor festival with no shelter except for a few large, communal tents, this year’s constant rain dampened spirits. Although many women bravely stuck it out, a larger-than-usual exodus from the grounds Sunday afternoon left some women waiting in the rain for more than an hour to catch a shuttle. Many of the concerts had poor attendance as women stayed in their tents, rather than brave the ele¬ ments, and some concerts almost didn't happen at all. In fact. Sweet Honey in the Rock, the inspirational Black women's a cappella quintet, had their perfor¬ mance delayed by a torrential down¬ pour Saturday night, only to brave the weather at 1 am to play for a shrunken crowd of several hundred. Across the grounds, scores of already-drenched women crushed Into the Community tent to seek refuge from the storm, drink hoc coffee and try to dry off. As they socialized under the tent instead of at the rained-out annual singles dance, a group of antsy city girls, myself includ¬ ed. entertained the masses. Stripped down to leather jackets over bare chests and shorts, we sat in a circle and sang 70s songs, making music with forks on coffee cans, empty beer bottles, croquet sticks and Jen's conga to the good- natured applause of our captive—if not captivated—audience. It was, for me. one of the festival's finest moments. ome now for several weeks, I've been letting memories of the festival swirl around my brain. I think of all the women who told me their stories, and the many more whom I never got the chance to hear. I think of the antagonism between the separatists and the S/M women and wonder when fest organizers will real¬ ize that it is equally important that both groups be present and vocal on the land For, as Two Nice Girls’ Gretchen Phillips said, ‘Women telling other women how to have sex is like straight people telling gays and lesbians how to have sex." Rachel Pepper urites free-lance for the International gay and lesbian press She bos a mvrence for Michigan that has sur¬ vived sbigeUa, nonstop rain. S/M intoler¬ ance and a shortage of pita bread She lues and works tn San Francisco*gay Cadno. OUTWIiK 41 A mushrooming Los Angeles gay underground gets up, gets out and gets off. by Jim Prov«nzano ouVe eaten at Fabula, the 110-percent gay Mexican restaurant, and brunchcd at ultra- chic Hugo’s. You’ve cruised West Holly¬ wood's video bars and had a fine time. But now you want something less upscale, a bit more funky. Take heart, activantes, and drive over to the burgeoning alternative scene, woven loosely between rapidly growing ACT UP/LA, newly formed Queer Nation/LA and the perfor¬ mance art and club scene that stretches from Santa Moni¬ ca to the surrounding burbs Wild entertainment of all sorts can be found outside the usual gay enclaves listed in Damron's and the Gayei- low Pages Most notable are the Tuesday night parties thrown by the somewhat anonymous Sin Brothers. Their Sit and Spin events (named after a bizarre vertigo-induc¬ ing child's toy) have recently taken place at the Latino bar, Plaza. The party's incredible popularity, however, has resulted in round-thc-block lines as early as 9 pm. ‘We started on Thursday nights in January,” says Sin Brother Jeff Hilbert/ Then we dosed for a bit and reopened at Las Estrellas, this Mexican drag bar. Then it started to snowball.” On a successful night, nearly naked go-go boys and girls inspire a giddy mix of terpsichorean festivity A wide selection of habituts include tattooed Latino boys, myste- rious black-dad lesbian artistes, combat-booted kids and a gay array of celebrities, including scene-maker and Exposure columnist Lance Loud, pom star Joey Stefano. outrageous drag star Chi Chi la Rue and female imperson¬ ator Jimmy James. The Sin Brothers also publish a small My Comrade -style magazine called—what else ?—Sin Brothers, which is filled with zippy articles and ads from area boutiques and gay stores, providing a guide to alter¬ native funk culture. Tied in with this emerging queer playground is the rapid growth of ACT UP/LA. whose hundreds-strong mem¬ bership may force the group to move their weekly meet¬ ings in quaint Plummer Park to a larger space. (Along with fighting AIDS, many people admittedly come to socialize. At the core of this new-sprung, West Coast ’90s sensibility are the artists, who shuffle from highway underpasses and clubs, rethinking a liberating perspective. underpasses and dubs, rethinking a liberating perspective Recently catapulted to lame as one of the gang of four defunded by the NEA for being too queer, Tim Miller sad¬ dles the additional responsibilities of directing Highways, the West Coast equivalent of New York's PS 122 (which Miller co-founded). Among Highways' recent successes make contacts and just plain cruise.) In addition to AIDS activism, LA's lesbian and gay community has managed to develop a diverse environment of queer freedoms. For mainstream pride, last June's Lesbian and Gay Pride parade, sponsored by Christopher Street West, proved to be LA's largest yet. On the flip side, guerrilla activists sue* cessfully launched an anti-Andrew Dice day campaign, defacing Ford Fairtaine billboards citywide Artist Robbie Coral's 14-foot-by-4ft-foot Jesse Helms billboard on Santa Monica Boulevard (it reads: 'Articiflcal Art Official") raised quite a few eyebrows. The mock terrorist group Agfc plasters small posters with similar intentions. The most popular street poster Is a simple painting of a young man of color, his mouth covered by a pale Unde Sam hand. The words below read: "Censorship is unAmerican." (The paster, funded by Virgin Records, is now making appearances on the East Coast as well.) At the core of this new-sprung, West Coast '90s sensibility are the artists, who shuffle from highway are the Ecce Lcsbo, Eece Homo Gay and Lesbian Perfor¬ mance Art Festival, which featured Holly Hughes. Seattle's Alice B Theatre and San Francisco favorite Keith Hen- nessy. "It’s all happened in the last year, and Its pretty amazing." Miller says of the new scene. Highways is locat¬ ed in a budding arts complex in Santa Monica's ware¬ house district, which Includes an electronic video caff and the offices of High Performance, the noted quarterly devoted to performance and conceptual an. D t was on an especially audacious near-full- moon August night that these elements coa¬ lesced. In a warehouse near Highways In Santa Monica, the Sin Brothers and produc¬ ers Marcus Nazario and Mario Tamayo held an immensely successful ACT UP/LA bene¬ fit Before the event began, audience mem¬ bers participating in Keith Hennessy's "Saliva" were led to backyard railroad tracks to witness the last act of his THE HANOMmmNG'S ON THE WALL— Sft and Spin's outing wad work. Hennessy combined pigment and nonoxynol 9 with the combined spit of each audience member, ritual- istically slathered it on his nude body and then danced in a circle of dried palm fronds and hand prints. Follow¬ ing the show, many viewers crossed the parking lot to join the benefit line, already a hundred strong. Upon entering, party-goers were invited to scrawl their nominations on the outing wall. Other diversions included a drag booth (with compli¬ mentary tutus, gowns and a variety of Max Factor cosmetics), a shaving booth (where tits, testicles and tushes were smoothed hairless) and an array of homo and iesbo-erotic murals. Late Into the night, the shaving room became a testostoroom, where many boys’ groping hands and lustful lips found immediate satisfaction. Onstage, performance artists of the night includ¬ ed Curtis York, who inserted liquid pie mix up his butt with a pastry cone and Davis, the West Coast's doppeigSnger to Manhattan’s Ru Paul. Davis flitted onstage in Southern-belle drag, while two tanned, muscular men dad only in panty hose recreated a tumultuous Princeton rub on a massage table. Also erotic yet political was Dale Goner's installation, ‘George Bush Is Fucking Me,’ visible through a glass office win¬ dow. Griner hung in a leather sling sur¬ rounded by dikios named ‘Fear, Denial and Repression,’ while a torpid skxno video of the president, hanging by chains, loomed over him. Dance music included a fero¬ cious assemblage of house, disco classics and industrial-rhythmic fall¬ out. By 4 am, some opted for a trek to Probe, a dance club that stays open ’til noon. ‘We raised about $12,000, after expenses,* said Wen¬ dell Jones, one of ACT UP/LA’s ben¬ efit organizers. "We wanted to create a positive atmosphere, where we could get over the nervousness to the space was cleaned and painted, ready for renovation as artists’ spaces. The collaborative team will be look¬ ing for a large party space elsewhere. ‘We try to find spaces that people don’t normally go to," Hilbertz says. What is unprecedented is that the Sin Brothers simply started Sit and Spin eight months ago because they were bored with the night life. While the membership of Queer Nation swells. ACT UP continues to draw in new activists of all cul¬ tures—all of whom eagerly take to the new queer social ambience. And Highways has only been around for a year, yet artists like Holly Hughes bring in sold-out audiences. But, as with all such things, when the throngs come rushing, scene pioneers become disenchant¬ ed. Some say Sit and Spin is already too popular and choose the more bluntly named Club Fuck. Jeff Hilbertz notes: Things seem to be happening right now. Another club then, while twirling a baton to a Sousa march, shat it on an American flag, redefining the term ‘mixed media.’ The evening was hostessed by tall, dark and fabulous Vaginal Creme put our sexuality out’ By early dawn, pooped partiers had departed, leaving piles of beer bottles and a crowded outing wall crammed with names Within a week. called Sissy USA is start¬ ing up next month." No doubt it too Will be over long before queer Easterners catch up. i*. ii The telephone rang yesterday morning, waking me up from a lovely dream in which I was participating in a dance marathon during the Depression (though the whole thing was quite obviously rigged right from the start), and the caller mysteriously told me, ‘Aber el was /gbit.’ 1 have been gening this same cryptic message every day for the past two weeks—ever since the disappearance of the Annual Summer Pudge Competition and I’m beginning to suspect that there may be a connection. As my friend Ernst, formerly of the OuTWWir copy room, has been on an extended vacation in the Canadian Rockies this entire summer. I’ve had to rely on my own sketchy knowledge of German in this instance and have roughly translated the message to mean ‘The fish is playing baseball.’ which, of course, make no sense whatsoever. Still, It’s a clue and therefore not to be lightly dismissed. Meanwhile, with a gay-owned and -operated marshmallow cream company angling for a major promotional tie-in, pressure is being brought to bear from above (Le., the 6lst-floor executive suites) for me to announce a winner in the ever- popular Annual Summer Pudge Competition, while at the same time my editor would like to know why I have temporarily discontinued "Dining OutT Oblique references to the mail room have been made. As you well understand, I can’t tell a living soul that the competition entries have been stolen, especially in view of the fact that I was in the commissary at the time- and not at my desk, where I should tunes, and he looked at me quizzically before replying, "I can’t abide Jerry Heman songs. They all sound the same." He lit a cigarette and went off to the men's room. The bartender wanted to know if I'd like another drink, and I was about to decline when he mentioned that it would be "on the house." Despite the undertaste, I could never pass up a free drink, so I agreed and took out a cigarette. Having left my lighter back at the office. I picked up the matchbook left behind by the pianist and was just about to dose the cover before striking when I noticed this message addressed to me on the inside: "Bradley— Something else is needed. This is my friend Johann. He will tdl you. But I tdl you, don’t push yourself. If you can’t, you 0x0*1—00 dishonor. Whatever, I will meet you soon. Love, Julian." At that very moment, the lounge started spinning with increasing speed until everything became a blur, and I passed out Sometime later, I came to in my apartment. I'm not sure how I got there, but the telephone was ringing. I answered and once again heard, ‘Aber etuas feblt’ Today has passed without event except that l scream every time the phone rings. Demand has stepped up for both my review and a competition winner, and unless I can come up with some answers lout de suite, as the French say, I'm afraid I’m just going to have to award that pastry marble to Edelweiss' "aunt" by default.T have been, and I cant fully concentrate on my restaurant review duties until I figure out what’s going on around here. That fcs the dilemma. It would be a great help to me if I could just ascertain a motive. What could anybody possibly hope to gain from stealing all of the entries except the one submitted by Edelweiss' "aunt,* the OulWeek personnel liaison who is also, coincidentally, on vacation? And just exactly what is this business about a fish that plays baseball? Mystified, I snuck out of the office after leaving a message for my editor that I was off to review the Red Scare Restaurant (which has, I understand, been doing pretty wretched business of late) and went instead to the revolving cocktail lounge of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, where I do some of my best thinking, and where the pianist was playing The Rink" from the Kander and Ebb musical of the same name. A new bartender was filling in for Hector, but that didn't strike me as extraordinary at the time, though 1 noticed that my martini had a chalky undertaste During one of his breaks, the pianist sat down at die bar a few seats away from me. 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I n these kinds cf Jobs, we find there’s only one thing more dreaded and embar¬ rassing than spewing gross misinformation (like the time I wrote that Vantty Fair's Tina Brown wears Chanel, when, in fact, she doesn’t): not catching a typo and/or spelling error (like the one last week in this column in which new Esquire chief Terry McDoodl's name was inadvertently transformed to that of a famous closet-case actor named Roddy). But also disturbing is when the message hurled from here is misinterpreted. And perhaps I should accept blame for that myself: Maybe the turbulent mix of vitriolic gossip and raging CAPITAL LETTERS, interspersed with quecnic and nauseatingly cute lingo, tends to underestimate, exaggerate or even blur the true facts as well as distort the meaning of any analysis. For instance: Last week, ACT UP overwdmingjy voted against having the group featured in Vanity Fair’s annual December ‘Hall of Fame' issue. This happened. I’m told, at the extremely underattended Labor Day meeting, while much of the membership was at the Wigstock festival. Though I received quite a few calls over the following days from angered ACT UPers who wanted to report their grief about the situation, I was also contacted by some who were present at the vote and were pleased by its outcome and who expected that / would be equally delighted. They said that they'd based their decisions on my rantings here about Vanity Fair, its editor in chief, Tina Brown, and all of the gay and lesbian editors at that magazine. The opinion of these few people who called me was that the publication and those people who work there are so monstrous that ACT UP should have nothing to do with it or them, and that Vanity Fair, as a "glamour" magazine, b 'unimportant' and even 'inappropriate' for ACT UP to be featured m And yet. I’d never said anything of the son—not intentionally, anyway. The truth be known. ACT UP’s actions sadden and disappoint me. I’ve spent over a year here bashing Tina Brown and her underlings for the lack of queer and AIDS coverage in that magazine. Why? Because Vanity Fair, far from being 'unimportant,' b one of the most influential magazines in this country, read widely by many of our enemies who would certainly feel challenged and would definitely stand up and take notice if ACT UP were saluted in its pages. Also, because Vanity Fair is a magazine read by many people who are actually, more or less, our would-be friends—or are even some of our own people-^ and who. because they are hopeless fashion victims, would suddenly realize that what they perceived to be a crazed band of radicals who threw the com¬ munion ho* on the floor couldn’t be all bad, since they are being featured in the pages of their dt rigueur culture bibte. OK. their logic Is outlandish, and these people are, for the most part, pea-brains;! wont argue with that at all. BUT WE NEED TO REACH OUT AND POLITICIZE PEA-BRAINS, TOO—IN WEK PUBUCATON5> Many factors, including my incessant prodding in this column, using admittedly ruthless tactics that have come under sharp criticism (especially from people inside Vanity Fair, who would literally love to get the* hands around my neck), have resulted In- 1) admissions among many of the staff at the magazine that they’ve been lax with regard to AIDS and gay issues; 2) long, drawn-out meetings at Vanity Fair to come up with ways to improve die situation and a committment to implement changes quickly; 3) lots of healthy—though fierce and heated—discussion at Vanity Fair and throughout the 'glamour' press regarding these issues. And the past few months have already seen changes at Vanity Fair. In addition to the faces of open gays and lesbians here and there in the mag, some major pieces have suddenly surfaced. The August issue skewered Cardinal O’Connor regarding his AIDS and abortion policies. The September issue exposed Jesse Helms’ hypocrisies. For November, the magazine plans to profile the AIDS movement pioneer, British activist Simon Witney. And for December—only. I’m told, after queer staff members at the magazine pushed hard—Tina Brown decide^ to have ACT UP join Nelson Mandela and others in the annual 'Hall of Fame' feature. (There will also, supposedly, be a "Hall of Shame* section this year, filled with monsters). Now, it must be acknowledged that all of the media misrepresent and/or make lesbians and gays invisible. Vanity Fair is not any worse than the rest with regard to our issues. If ACT UP were to deckle not to cooperate with every homophobic publication, they'd get zero press. And the group has never operated that way. In fact, at the height of protesting Tbe New York Times last year for its irresponsible and virtually nonexistent AIDS coverage, ACT UP still allowed the paper to do a huge feature story on the group and invited the Times Vo come to a meeting and shoot photographs. And ACT UP has posed, fawned and yammered for every glamour rag. They've reached millions of people by doing so. From August 1988 to May 1989, I chaired the ACT UP media committee. Wc always worked under the premise that our immediate enemy was the government and that our first priority was to get the word out by exploiting the media in exactly the same way that the other side was doing it: by By Miclelaigelo Sinirile shamelessly utilizing high- powered, savvy tactics. We ACT UP voted against being in Vanity Fair's “Hall of Fame.” OUT ON THE TOWN WITH CVniJCV* 1 !ike to think of O I UIML I . Wigxock as a kind of culture dash between gay, dub and cabaret scenes, mixed with a heavy layer of hakspray or, for the more politically minded in our community. Gay Pride with a fashion sense and a funky beat. The outrageous wigs-a-go-go that was the "Sixth Annual Celebration of Love, Peace and Wigs’ disproved the statement that nightclubs are only filled with col¬ lege students, as Tompkins Square Patk became a veritable cultural smorgas- boord. This was my first Wigstodc, and no, it wasn't as magical as k seemed in vjgaoak TbeMoute, a film by Tom Rub- nltz, but I'm sure that Mfoodstock wasn't as perfect in person as It was In the movie, especially with al that rain. Don't let the skeptics tdl you otherwise, the Wigstock experience was stU incredible, and yes, this time even I was saying. "Love." Being a drag performer in this dry ain't easy—for that matter, being any type of transgenderist isn't a bowl of cherries, and one day of drag-queen appreciation is the least we can do. With this in mind, I was able to withstand being stepped on, pushed and pulled. (One ugly man with a press caret, who blocked my view, told me that if I didn't have a laminated card, I wasn't press, and then went on yelling about freedom of the press when I asked him to move. Just try yelling at a member of the pry press about First Amendment rights!) AH the usual suspects and regulars in this column, plus a few out-of-towners, turned it out for us. Up from Atlanta cable TV, Teeruqe Music Fan DcAundra Peek moved the crowd with an "orginaP rendition of Two of Hearts," and the lovely and talented Lurlccn Wallace did several numbers with no less than three costume changes. Native New Yorker and Channel 69 hostess Linda Simpson presented a queer-nation fashion show with tastefully appointed gay men. les¬ bians and drag queens that ended with the unfolding of a "Soy It Loud, Gay and By Liz Tracey & Sydney Pakorny Proud* banner. Hostess, super-drag queen and poetess. Lady Bunny, per¬ formed an orginal composition—the dec¬ laration of drag rights—set to a disco beat, of course. Habitual wig wearers, the House of Field, headed by newly pro¬ claimed house mama. Codie Ravioli, had us all lip-synching with Mbs Guy. Tm just a sweet transvestite." An annoy¬ ing man standing next to me continually repealed, "When is Dcec-LUc going onT and I'm sure he was not alone; it seemed a lot of people came to see the fonkadd- ic trio. When the moment came, I worked my way backstage to watch Dmitry. Tow ha and the woman I most want to be when I grow up, Lady Kler. Performing with a set of multiracial, multigcndcred dancers, the trio called Deee-Ute made the stage look like a mod Benetton ad in a stroke of schedul¬ ing genius, immediately following was ‘comic" and Gong Show leftover, Bar¬ bara Patterson Lloyd, telling jokes like "1 opened my refrigerator and found my salad, dressing* that had the crowd yelling, "How do you say decc-ti re d?" As they say, reading is fundamental. So much for love. Liz: But then again, the day before a full moon, anything can happen. Manhattan Borough President Ruth Mcsslnger came to Wlgstock before many in the audience did, giving the Lady Bunny a proclamation naming Sept 3, 1990, "Wlgstock Day." Now, while some people may say that a procla¬ mation isn't Stopping anti-gay or -lesbian violence, think about this: How many times in this world have openly gay and lesbian performers ever been honored as such, on their own terms and at their concert? Not fucking often And yeah, wdl, there weren't a lot of lesbians in boy drag, but there were a few. ACT UP/Queer Nation/ WHAM' S Emily Smith accosted me on Avenue A, and while grabbing an appendage I have consequently assured myself was temporary, and Implored me to perform oral sex on her—essentially, she told me to suck her dick. I think she meant k nicely. Sydney: The continuing saga of cable TV censorship an episode of Super Dude (a whimsical night-life show, kind of like The Midnight Hour hut better, produced by John Carmen and Beauregard Houston- Montgomery) filmed at WIG QUEEN— The L$dy Bunny THE AIIS Don’t Worry, Honey. They’re Just Experimenting. NEW YORK LESBIAN AND GAY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL. Curated by Sarah SchuJman and Jim Hubbard. Anthology Film Archives. 32-34 Second Ave. (212) 477-2714. Sept 10-16. by Jawalla Gomez ■Fucking in ignorance is no longer acceptable " This line from Fear of Disclosure, by Phil Zwickler and David Wojnarowicz, is a warning rung by feminism more than 20 years ago and has become a fitting coda for modem lesbian and gay life and the art we create. This year's Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival offers a great variety of films embodying this loss of naivct* (whether false or real) and some others which simply exploit' it. As with all experimental art that forgoes or dc-emphasizes narrative, the director's gaze takes on added weight; one experiences experimental film, feels it. sees it from deep inside who one is. No simple narrative can render the visceral response to the red DREAMY Isaac Julian's Looking for Langston MARLONVOUSI ThsTonguas Unti«d Crtw- shape of a woman's lipa or to a a poignant plea for the recognition of with her own middle-class expecta- youthful mate torso, perfect in one's humanity. The less-obvious mes- tions and methods, and von Praun- propottion, chiseled by light, or to the sage delivered by the Images and text helm's expert eye gazes both dispas- Emptre State building hovering over is a realization that gay male culture Is sionately and admiringly. The dally New York City like a menacing impotent when Individuals live only events—a pigeon squashed on the hypodermic needle. And, of course, for themselves and are too afraid to street, a job taken as an ‘exotic contrary to what Jesse Helms would accept intimacy as one of life's most dancer,* the revelation of one have us believe. Images have meaning precious gifts. woman's lesbianism—are captured in beyond their simple shapes. Survival in Ntui York, Rosa von vivid technicolor, as if this were the Ftar qf Disclosure uses the image Praunheim's full-length narrative about '60s, not the "90s. Yet the closeness of of a trivial action—go-go dancing—os three German women moving to the his camera allows little romanticism, a framework for a plaintive narration city, is a fascinating look at what and the women themselves are most The question is loud, unanswered: images can mean when captured in a unromantic as they shed their inno- Who will love you If you are HIV-posi- foreign gaze and how the loss of cence and take on the world, or at tive? The male dancer continues his naivet* Is differently shaped. Von least the ruins that are this city, rhythmic moves, seemingly oblivious Praunheim is a genius at the subtle In order to write this in advance to the voice of the man who refuses to shaping of observation so that the of the festival most of the program live unloved. Zwickler and Wojnarow- viewer lives beside these women was aired at a special screening, so icz have fashioned a tiny, five-minute rather than simply observing their lives not all of the films were shown, and gem whose most obvious statement Is unfolding. Each meets the city head-on in some cases, substitutions had to be SO OVTWBIK ■•*<• made for those I'd asked to see. The result ts that I saw only three (liras by women, although there are 20 in the festival. One, Between, by Claudia Schillinger, is a surprisingly romantic reverie, almost an erotic daydream, following in the strong visual tradition estab¬ lished by Barbara Hammer. (Hammer will co-facilitatc an open forum for audience and artists on Saturday. Sept. 15. at 3 pm.) The other films by women stimulated a number of ques¬ tions. Sexual Deferment: If You Meet tbe Buddha on tbe Road, Kill Him (Her. It), by Andrea Kirsch, bathes us in footage of a mass religious gathering at the Ganges. But here, as in many films by those who are not people of color, those who are people of color become a sensationalist background for intro¬ spective meanderings. My question must be: If it’s good for you, is it neces¬ sarily good for me) Black and Hispanic people are intrinsic to the landscape of von Praunheim's fUm; here, the Indians' pilgrimage feels exploited. Isabel Hegner's Eye to Eye Is a portrait of Jack Wfclla, lover and model to Robert Mapplethorpe, and an articulate Black man who lived in the shadow of a white artist. The film extends that shadow after death by giving us little about Walls himself except his very cogent reminiscences of Mapplethorpe. These are valuable for those Interested in Mapplethorpe and his work but leave us with little about Walls except a casually misogynlstic remark about lesbians. The filmmaker dearly wasn't as Interested in Walls as a gay Black man who evolved from young Innocent to photographic Icon, as she was in the famous white artist. I didn't see Dreams of Passion, by Aarin Burch, a film about two Black women who meet at a dance, nor the two films by Chantal Akerman. the mistress of erudition and self- examination, nor Loma Boschman's Butcb/Femme in Paradise, which features a sullen butch and a mysterious sex goddess in the wilds of British Columbia. Nor Hei-lp, by Abina Manning, and Home Movie, by Lee Ann Brown, both filmed in Super 8—still the most revolutionary and accessible way to create movies as far as I'm concerned, video notwithstanding But I will be there to see them when romantic or ircnay HIM they’re shown at the festival. 1 will not be there to (re)sec Philip B. Roth's A 25-Year-Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman It has a kind of trendy appeal to those flirting with omnisexuality but is, finally, as artless as its title: The older woman initialing a boy in the ways of sex; his facile domination of the situation (to his sex partner Annie Sprinkle and the camera- woman, he says, *1 feel like I’m fucking both of you*); the exaltation of his sperm (she saves it for his altar) are not new. That the man is gay, that the woman collaborates and that it is filmed without style or grace do not make It experimental. That Sprinkle thrives on self-objectiflcation does not prevent the filmmaker from coming across as an exploitative adolescent living out traditional male fantasies. At least Sebastion's Tricia's Wedding (which is just as artless a documen¬ tation of the Cockettes doing a White House wedding) has some historic value—and It has Sylvester. The high energy of this festival will no doubt emanate from three films that have already been shown in New York but still haven't had the audience they deserve: Paris Is Burning, by Jenny Livingston, Is a documentary at once frenetic and desultory about Black and Latino gay men, drag queens and transsexuals voguelng to glory. The Bessies or Bust THE SEVENTH ANNUAL NEW YORK DANCE AND PERFORMANCE AWARDS. Brooklyn Academy of Musk. 30 Lafayette Ave. Sep. 12 at 7:15 pm. Tongues Untied, by Marion Riggs, was a hit at this year's New Festival and captures the classic pop culture of Black gay men, while giving voice to their yearnings for brotherhood. And Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston, after surviving attacks by the Langston Hughes estate, stands as an embodiment of Black vision. Its funereal opening lets high style speak for Black experience; the camera's drift downward to dancers, splendid in tuxedos, evokes romantic innocence. Here, the male gaze is Black, pene¬ trating, sweeping, taking in not fust the physical but also ‘history...the smller with the knife.* Julien plays with Images and colors (black and white) as one hopes an artist will: with both abandon and precision. He uses poetry intrinsic to Black culture (most notably Essex Hemphill’s) to focus the search for a poetic hero. And he finds many (including some women) daring to gather, dance, dream and mourn each other even when the wolf is at the door, and nalvcti is no longer viable. Julien, pan of the Sankofa Collective of London, Is not seeking to document or narrate the lives of individuals, but to give resonance to the Images and Ideas that are Black life. It's a Aim to be seen attain and attain. And this festival, now in Us third year, promises to keep coming back with new experiments. ▼ by Otis Stuart Traditionally, Bessie is the wild card of the awards family. In the seven years since Dance Theater Workshop instituted the New York Dance and Performance Awards, the Bessies, as they were named (after modem dance doyenne Bessie SchonLerg), have called their own shots in honoring the best of down¬ town dance and ter modem dance the event s THEATER performance art. Vote Is by committee rather than by the kind of inner drde picking the Tonys or the Oscars cross- community forum. There are no set nominees, resulting in an anyone- might-win ambience that is a key to the event’s happiest, rowdiest signature: The spon¬ taneity is for real, making thb the live¬ liest show in town. This year's Bcs- sics, set for Sept. 12 IMO OUTWIIK SI Helms Museum under construction to the Tarheel state The corporation's name on the Bessies Invitation brought the paradox home to Finley, and the unlikely alignment of the Bessies with the NEA crisis almost canceled the show. After two days of consultation with Finley, the awards committee and scheduled performers, Dance Theater Workshop Executive Director David White decided to proceed as planned. At least one activist organization has announced plans to protest Philip Morris policies outside the performance. Vance will be among the protestors, and Finley has been asked to join. White is direct about the contradictions of the situation: *1 can understand the despair, the frustration and the real anger and rage these issues generate. There are some really insidious things going an, and, as far as I'm concerned, Jesse Helms is a candidate for capital punishment But Philip Morris is one of the few corporations that has not moved one iota toward qualifying ks support for the arts. At a time when a lot of craven corporate interests have begun to dictate contribution policies, Philip Morris has not attempted to politicize ks funding.* The event itself will hardly shy away from the issues. Feminist artist Jerri Allen will host, along with actress Laurie CaHoa The Mellow White Boys will , perform and will be joined onstage by, 1 among others, Holly Hughes, another of £ the NEA four, and the gay activist singing £ group, the Flirtations. The political cast . of the performers, White concludes, “wil & keep the issues articulated. We are living jj to a time of relativity. To depend on £ absolutes to all areas will potentially lessen the forces we can use. At the very least, the situation now allows for a at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, significant contributor to both Helms' central issue to intensify and for a are running true to form. Two weeks current reclcction campaign and the dunce to play the string out* ▼ ago, one of the two scheduled hosts, Karen Finley, withdrew in protest over the Philip Morris company’s partial sponsorship of the event. Finley was one of four artists recently NEMESIS by Rosamond Smith. Dutton. $18.95 Cl. 276 pp. denied funding by the National Endowment for the Arts as a conse- by JamM Conrad violence against gays and lesbians quence of Sen. Jesse Helms' infamous It's tricky business, making treated with as much disdain as any obscenity clause. As we went to press, demands on an author: to hope for a other crime of hate, to indude lesbians. Obie-winning actress and performing ’good* gay to balance out any *bad* Truly, it's tricky business making artist. Danitra Vance, the other gays, to find compassion and tostruc- demands on the world. That Rosamund scheduled host, left the show for the tion when AIDS is mentioned (or even Smith’s (aka Joyce Carol Oates) third same reason. Philip Morris is a to have AIDS mentioned), to have mystery, Nemesis, foils on most of these Fags Die S2 oimnu points is, perhaps, just too bad, and not homophobic. This is jus a mystery, gay men do kill gay men, and. let’s face it. a novel with gay characters (good or bad) is always welcome by gay and lesbian readers and promi¬ nently displayed at A Different tight But Joyce Carol Oates is too good for that, and sexuality, in fact, is a key device In the scheme of this book. Maggie Blackburn, director of a prestigious New England music school, is lasing the men in her life. As the book opens, she’s involved in a rela¬ tionship but spending her weekends at a nursing home with her dying hither. Choosing not to tell friends about her father, speculation begins that she is having an affair and soon the man she is involved with leaves her a note, teasingiy and bultytngly' asking why she left town without telling him. Her angry reaction ends the relationship. *Tm not a woman who is spied upon!* she tells him. "You're hardly a woman at all," he replies Maggie’s "womanness" is an important issue for her. Aware of being single, she gets lonely watching married friends leave her house together. Her one female friend, hardly present In Maggie's life, continually tries to change Maggie s conservative wardrobe and, when Maggie suddenly cuts her extremely long hair, takes her to the beauty parlor ("This la an emergency!" she declares. Maggie remarks, "But this is me, isn't k?*) Discussing a mystery without giving k away can also be tricky business, but in Semesis, gay visibility depends entirely on the occurrence of the crimes Two gay men are savagely murdered, and a third disappears. Earlier, one of the doomed gay men sadistically raped a much younger, presumably straight man—a crime he has committed numerous times in the past. An unfounded rumor of a gay sex ring is leveled at the music school arid TbeNeu York Times picks up the story. The murderer writes "Fags Die* in blood, words which eventually give the murderer away when be, in 20 pages, rationalizes the crimes. For the most part. Smith writes fairly and openly about her gay characters’ lives. There are no coming-out stories or hang-ups among the older gay male professors (which make up all of the gay characters), allusions are made about the impact of AIDS on their lives, and their bonier comes across as catty without a sinister chiid-molester undertone The sexual problems in the novel, with the exception of the rape, seem to dwell more within the heterosexual community. Straight people literally lack sexuality In the book. There are a few married couples so dulled by domesticity that they arc rarely given names. One man, Calvin Gould, the dean of the school, becomes Maggie’s obsession and the only clement of heterosexual motivation among the characters, except for Brendan Bauer (the straight rape victim), whose asexual Infatuation with Maggie Is clouded by her own sisterly interest in him after the attack. The sexual battle lines are extreme Where straight couples attend a cocktail party, museum openings and concern, the older gay men do all of this and still find time to keep apartments In the dry, get their hair cut in SoHo and stay up late with friends getting stoned. But beyond di ff erence s in lifestyle, Smith supplies career and romantic histories of the gay men, which straight characters, besides Brendan. Cal¬ vin and Maggie her¬ self, lack. Lesbians, apparently, do not teach at, or attend, music schools. Smith's primary thematic device is to twin her main charac¬ ters. Maggie and Bren¬ dan r e present celibate outsiders who cham¬ pion the cause of punishing Brendan’s anackeT and, later, the attacker’s murderer. Calvin and his mysterious wife, who is rarely seen in public, take on secretive qualities and quite literally look alike. As the mystery unfolds, these "twin- nings* are important in understanding charac¬ ters’ motivations and solving the crimes. Because Smith handles her gay characters so honestly in their dialogue and interests, and because gay readers are starved for well-written books which include gay characters, the rape and the murders do not blatantly offend until near the end when "Fags Die’ appears on the wall written with a gay man’s blood. For Smith, the words are only another due, and there is no speculation on the possibilities of the murders occurring because the men are gay, something you cannot Imagine slipping by quite so easily if it involved an ethnic or religious the rape at the beginning of the book) leaves a lingering sense that they deserved k. Perhaps the "gay- that-gets-away" (the disappeared third) is the most telling pan of the book regarding carctess- minonty. The absence of any reaction to two murdered gay men and ‘Fags Die* written in blood (nicely off-set by ness on Smith's part with her gay characters. He Is friends with a lot df the other characters, a murder suspect and a possible next victim. With his disappearance heightening the tension with possibilities that he was either murdered or is the murderer, and though everyone speculated, Maggie •lost her taste for such speculation,* and eventually *h!s fate had been eclipsed by the mote desperate fates of others.* This mystery is only chal¬ lenged by Maggie's ending in a domestic bliss in which the presence or absence of sex is never clarified, and in a world where fags die and disappear, heterosexual invisibility emerge s as the novel’s real mystery. ▼ The Waves THE SAFE SEA OF WOMEN: LESBIAN FICTION 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman. Beacon Press. $24.04 cl. 272 pp. by Sarah Chinn Lesbian Action occupies an uneasy position in our community, situated somewhere between fierce devotion and half-embarrassed ridicule. While few lesbians' bookshelves do not boast a couple of novels published by Naiad, Seal, Victoria or other lesbian/women's presses, those texts are rarely held in high esteem. It's curious that a culture which takes its musicians so seriously that it creates a plethora of critical/polit¬ ical writing as well as an increasing number of three-to-five-day women's musk festivals has not accorded the same value to its writers. In this almost-comprehensive study of contemporary lesbian fiction. Bonnie Zimmerman begins the cultural work of analyzing the navels and short stories of the lesbian nation from the past 20 years, literature forged in the fires of the women's movement, lesbian liberation and struggles against racism and imperialism According to Zimmer¬ man, lesbian fiction acts as both weath¬ er vane and bellwether for the political and social leanings of the mainstream American dyke community; it creates a mythology of what this community •should* look like, depending upon, of course, who is writing the text. Zim¬ merman is ambivalent as to the func¬ tion and benefit of this myth-making: On the one hand, considering the ongoing invisibility of lesbians in popu¬ lar culture (apart from the few damag¬ ing stereotypes—the lesbian vampire, the hyper-butch aggres¬ sor. the corrupt or of young girls) and the general misogyny of contemporary culture, any lesbian-generated, lesbian-positive criticism is precious to us. On the other hand, doesn't les¬ bian fiction that claims to ‘create lesbian identity and culture, to say this is what it means to be a lesbian, this is how lesbians are. this is what lesbians believe* run the risk of gen¬ erating an oppressive homogeneity which will perforce represent only the most privileged—those who can get published? Zimmerman also wor¬ ries that lesbian writers unselfcon¬ scious of their roles as myth-makers, ’rather than reveal the truth about lesbians, fabricate new myths for old without acknowledging that (thelrl stories are exactly that—stories.* Zimmerman identifies and struc¬ tures Tbe Safe Sea of Women around three of the most common myths of lesbian fiction: the creation of a lesbian self (or coming out), the construction of a lesbian couple and the forging of a lesbian community—and, by exten¬ sion, the lesbian nation. Her personal experiences with the feminist, lesbian and separatist movements lead her to an explicitly political reading of these myths, and her broad knowledge of the lesbian political scene, particularly during the 1970s. adds immeasurably to her analysis. I should point out that those decorvstructo-dykes who want strict semiotic and textual criticism will be more than a little disappointed, for this book narrates the events between 1969 and 1949 as much as it analyzes the texts that came out of it. Zimmerman's involvement in the cre¬ ation of these lesbian myths, especially through her partkipa- tion in lesbian sepa- BOOKS rat ism, sets up an analytical paradigm I find a little disturbing. The majority of texts she discusses in the first three chapters were written in the 1970s and early 1980s. a time in which much les¬ bian fiction explicitly or implicitly dealt with the idea of a lesbian utopia. Her enthusiasm for these texts is dear, and though in later chapters she criticizes these fictions for their narrow focus and chronicles alternatives and resistance, especially in terms of race or dass, she associates them with a time when visionary white lesbians thought that they could create a lesbian nation (preferably separatist) of their own: a new Lesbos. This nostalgia for the hey¬ day of radical lesbian feminism skews Zimmerman's readings of more contem¬ porary fictions. Few readers could miss the wistful ness in her descriptions of contemporary lesbian texts as “less visionary and mystic...less communal and more individual, even idiosyncrat¬ ic* It is here that Zimmerman and I dif¬ fer most, a difference as much genera¬ tional as political or aesthetic. Naturally, our divergent political agendas are not reason enough to cri¬ tique her or valorize my own view¬ point. Tbe Safe Sea of Women does, however, privilege the discourse of lesbian separatism and woman-identi¬ fication at the expense of the less les¬ bian-specific, broader agenda of the 1980s and of the book itself. A good example of this is her minimal discus¬ sion of my favorite dyke talc of the mid-1980s, Sarah Schulman's Girls, Visions and Everything, a quintessen¬ tial urban lesbian text. Zimmerman’s claim that ‘the resurgence of homo¬ phobia in the late 1980s...should remind us that the liberal 70s may have been a momentary aberration* glosses over such 70s nightmares as NOWs ‘Purple Purge,* the class ism and racism of much lesbian feminist theory, tbe murder of Harvey Milk, the Briggs Initiative and Anita Bryant. It also forgets the alliances built between gay men and lesbians, white lesbians and lesbians of color, to name a few, over the post decade Moreover, why does Zimmerman skip over the growing genre of lev bian erotic fiction? While she briefly discusses hot potatoes such as Artemis Oakgrove and Pat Califla, Zimmerman doesn't even mention Tec Corinne, whose short stories On the other hand, doesn’t lesbian fiction that claims to “create lesbian identity and culture, to say this is what it means to be a lesbian, this is how lesbians are, this is what lesbians believe’’ run the risk of generating an oppressive homogeneity which will perforce represent only the most privileged- those who can get published? dissolve and disrupt the boundaries between ‘legitimate* fiction and eroti¬ ca. While not as controversial as Cali- fia, Corinnc has been instrumental in the fictional creation of another myth: the lesbian sexual self. If nothing else, she should get a merit badge for pro¬ ducing an original vision in the con¬ text of an increasingly hackneyed genre: As Zimmerman astutely points out, 'Lesbian erotic language, in the space of a decade, has become as familiar land as predictable] as Home¬ ric or medieval epic language.* Another issue raised but not fully discussed, is that of the lesbian reader as consumer and the role of ‘quality* in a critical analysis of fiction. Zimmer¬ man accurately points out that lesbian literature has become conservative to the point of rigidity in form, almost always following strict narrative lines within a limited number of genres (coming-out stories, lesbian love sto¬ ries, lesbian utopias, detective novels), but she inadequately addresses why the lesbian readership simultaneously demands stock romances or coming- out novels, cherishing them as genuine expressions of lesbian voice, and derides them as trash (I’m fust as guilty of this as the next dyke). While Zim¬ merman acknowledges that lesbian critics are leery of harshly criticizing lesbian fiction for fear of being called •unsisterly,' she docs not interrogate the double standard that allows the lesbian community to attack these scholars for expressing the same deri¬ sive opinions many lay dykes dis¬ pense. More importantly, she does not actively question the criteria by which we judge these texts in the first place. Despite these major issues and some minor inconsistences (Ann Allen Shockley is. for example, described as Black and straight on page 132 and white and lesbian on pugc 180; Bobbie Crawford of Georgia Codicil's Shoulders is spelled as -Bobby*), lie Safe Sea of Vtbmen is a book worth reading at the very least for the commitment with which it treats lesbian fiction and cul¬ tures. Zimmerman rs most astute when she is weaving connections between fic¬ tion and politics, re-envisioning lesbian fiction as lesbian praxis. At times, those politics can be as limiting as the texts they produced; at others, her vision casts as wide as the best fiction of our lesbian nation ▼ LIZ AND SYDNEY Grace Jones’ birthday party at Stringfellow’s, was aired with cuts to eliminate two ‘offensive* segments— Nightlife magazine columnist Fred Rothbcll Mista talking about condoms and recommending that you tie a twist ’em around the end to keep it on* and the birthday girl explaining her idea of a tasteless gift—*a dildo.* Liz: We would like to preface this with the note that we don't know how James St James got into the column two weeks ago. It may have been an edi¬ torial addition, or perhaps someone has just been sneaking into the offices and sticking his name in there every two weeks or so. Anyway—Mr. St James cel¬ ebrated his twentysomething birthday twentysomc-odd days before the event at Disco 2000 last week. A dinner, which had been touted as an outdoor bar- beque, became an indoor buffet of two hot trays of pasta for loo many people. Native columnist Quentin Crisp was caught in the feeding frenzy, and guests were reduced to staking out the serving table and then having accquaintances take the plates from them after falling to obtain their own food. There was no birthday cake in sight—perhaps some hungry dub kids scarfed k before it even left die box. James received his presents with great pleasure—despite his real birthday being a ways away, merely reflecting the dub attitude toward birth¬ day: More is better, and early is best. Sydney: I Laving lost to head hon¬ cho. Rudolf. Quick! is showing the strain of the times With a budget deficit larger than the national debt and owing more money than a Central American country, a recent Friday night at the Parity Girdles party saw the security staff enforcing a newly -selective* door policy. It seems that some of the staff believe tlut the cel¬ ebration of underwear as outerwear should be limited to one color—white. Rcportcdly, 230 regular patrons were carded and turned away, even if they were of age. and even after being admit¬ ted by door girt and wig aficionado Kate Harwood Of those denied entrance, most were Black or Latino men—some, friends of the party's promoters. The Parity Circles promoters had no knowl¬ edge of the racist door policy earned out by Quick! personnel and weir quick! to condemn the actions of the club's staff. ▼ OOSSJR^. . knew that, by using the media and being "press whores." we‘d have an oppor¬ tunity to affect public opinion. In doing so, we were actually operating in a much more radical manner than the Left had ever attempted before and were effecting change more than a lot of stagnant 70s lefty groups who were so paranoid and suspicious of "the system* that they wouldn't deal with the media at all and found themselves never getting the message out (except when they’d preach to the convened in the leftist press). In essense, we had an urgent fucking crisis to deal with, and we didn't have time to be >00000 politically correct. I've spoken to some members of the ACT UP media committee about exactly what happened, and, again. I come to realize that misinterpretation of this column with regard to Vanity Fair may have played a factor. And I'm sorry for that. (Perhaps its unavoidable, but It’s certainly making me rethink the ways I express myself.) The people on the media committee are truly dedicated and hard-working. They were weighing whether or not to have ACT UP in Vanity Fair, and some of the concern was in light of all of the aticism of the mag that came from this column. And so, after three weeks of tossing the idea around, they did a most unusual thing: They took the decision to the general membership. And even the general membership seemed to be influenced by this column in a way that I had not intended. I'm told that, in discussion on the floor, this column and the issues it has raised were even brought up. And, overwetmingly, the group decided against having ACT UP featured in Vanity Fair. Of course, there were many different reasons that the membership responded the way it did, beyond the influence of this column, and I do understand and respect all of them: They come from people I've worked with and admire. Some ACT UPers were con¬ cerned about the fact that Vanity Fair, at the demand of photographer Annie Lieboviut, would only have eight people of ACT UP’S choosing in the photo and that Uebovkz insisted that the photo be taken in her studio and not at a demonstration or even at the ACT UP meeting. There also was going to be very little text—just a simple blurb, as the "Hall of Fame* is a photographic feature—and the photo would be very staged, using props and so on Many felt that no eight people could r epre s ent the group in such a capacity and had reservations about how to actually go about choosing them. Others feh that the whole project was just too glamourizing of indtviduak and was not dealing with the concrete issues of the AIDS crisis. Some simply thought that ACT UP, after being ignored for so long, shouldn't jump immediately once Tina Brown snapped her fingers and then do it all her way—especially if they weren't comfortable about it And one has to agree that there is certainly something to that. Whether the decision not to be a port of the "Hall of Fame’ is ultimately a good or bad one, the message to Brown is simple: ACT UP'S reaction was the inevitable fallout of years of homophobia at your magazine. You cannot expect to be the darling of the queer set now that gays are HOT, HOT, HOT. Why weren't you championing these activists a long time ago, when they were asking for your help, instead of now, when they command media attention EVERY¬ WHERE? It would be naive, egotistical and presumptuous of you to think that they would jump at the chance to be pari of a section in your magazine that has, in recent years, been derided as a gallery of power-crazed honor stories. (And to you, Ms. Leibovitz, couldn't you make an exception to your pretentious rules and go and photograph these embattled people on their terms, especially since you’d be doing something for your own people? And don't tell me you don't shoot mote than eight individuals at a time. I remember that huge group photo a couple of years ago of at least two dozen downtown nightclub idiots—I suppose that was ultimately more important?) In other words, Tina and company, dont think that this rejection by a wary ACT UP gives you an excuse to go back to your old ways (in fact, perhaps you should commission a full feature story on ACT UP that fleshes out the issues of the AIDS crisis). 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Mink Siolo end Cookie Mueller. 10 min, it I pm; tee UVB.Y ARTS for Info refreehment*. ilgn-up for werkehepi end Internet group* et the Center, 20* W IS St. 3rd Root. eocieUng it I pm; program et MO pm free toalglit lueuit NYC BAY MENS CHORUS AadMoee for taeor, barltae* end km eactlaal; • pr ope rod long, wgtrt-reedlng end voice plecoment oxercleoe era required; 7-10 pm today end tomorrow; echodulo EAGLE BAR Movie Night Men Dee t lotto, with Jetilco Lengn; 142 Itth Avo(et2i9ttl1pmcMi-*4Si pm (Info: 212/4*1-SMS, SASE to NLC. Bex IMS DvcrOjr, BA S0091I NYC BAY ANO LESBIAN ANTI-VIO¬ LENCE PROJECT n ew Crl tli HerHne lag tnoMA et dio Cenwr. 200 W IS X Wert Wing 2 M pm Info from Retort Vitquer. K77-OI97 JUDITHS ROOM BOOKSTORE prevent. Jilla Poaelepo. Syttkltf frooty: Utlotmlt, tho Unit tho Ftthorf Too gut. Ml Woehlegton St (et Chertoih 7 pog free AWC iccoesfcie. but intlng a Indtnd. 777-7S30 FOURTH NY LESBIAN t BAY EXPERI¬ MENTAL FILM FESTIVAL preeente Lovweeci BmeeY fverba* VkgH Mor- pearl* Perto 1 If70 Boy Pride Mtrtho, Yeaa Beeevele' A KM ot F*k. Mark MaallafV Aut Dor form - Tho Mom Book, tom Ck owoa f i Letter et 7 pa* end Taela CyprteeeV VWt But. DovM SLOPE ACTTVTTIES FOR LESBIANS Cre- edve Write* Mgbt in Perk Slope. BWym 730 pm SAL kdtVmvp 71MM-757* A DIFFERENT U6HT BOOKSTORE pre- St* Hudeon St (Mwn Chirlek/Perry St.lt t pne free (but limited luting, irrive •eriyflt t*M«B0 fimPy. friend*, carnet eexuehy. hr* ne- *n Nf on on-gelng group) 1. tonight IM4 E SB X BkVx HO pm SIR 71M0B23B STANLEY H. BERKE tnd MARSHALL SIMONS ROCK R ROU DRAG BAR pro¬ lint The M Aaeael Birthday Betfc ter loved one; 227 W U X 730-0 pm SB. *29 0580 (Editor', not. H.thi Yogi cIntel ire offered Saturday*) BI-WAYS NEW YORK Ceckteil Time: HoHo ffhf. ot Koffy-i Village Wen 4* Bedford X 7 45-B45 pm club S2S-SS22 A DIFFERENT UGHT BOOKSTORE prp- i.nt* Fell 1MB Beedleg tertee: Peter Bedel. Cereor. 54* Hudten X (btwn Cherim/Perry Stik * pm free (but tedh ed enetfng. arrive eerfylk MB-4M0 PUBUSMN6 TRIANGLE Meetly Meek leg. tor geyi ond kebieni in the pub- felling Induttry who went to further the growth end dletemlnttlon of loiblen/goy literature; oetefellih i r. I THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 SLOPE ACTTVTTIES FOR LESBIANS Dlaing at Tkxee. Tax Max cuWne. 412 9d> Ave (Mwn Vt StxL BUy* • pm Live Moule Night at Sheet. to hear (on performed. 5th Ave A 3rd St. BkTyn; 1030 pm SAL Wo/rxvp 71 VMS-757* INT’l BAY B LESBIAN OUTDOORS ORGANIZATION Jamberee ML Sept IS- M; it i 2B» icrt campground In ooit- orn PA noir Philadelphia. wRh like, wood* lewne. Iportx Roldo ond courti, roc hofe. Ofttipk-.lM poet dorm-etylo iceommodetion* $135 tor four doyo; 21VMBM4* 10 plorclngi 'with e quick, gentlo. conaorohlp: Info from Michel*, MM400 12 W 21X «how it rnMnighk opan W pm- SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS 311 FTetbueh Ave, 730 pm followed by kuih Aval. * pm-leh; fodawod by drtnke tt die Landmark Pub, IP 7th Ave (2nd St). 10 pm-leh; Brook** SAL Info/Tovg end networking between Bronx bated pregrime, raildentx end the CSP*; et BACSP. 1 Fordham Plot* Suke SXt ASM pm Sandro or Richard. 212/2*5-5*05 MEN Of Alt COLORS TOGETHER Net Never eo 4 Neeftky Pleyobep it Two Potato, OwtnopherAiroevNvtch Stx, M | DIXON PLACE prooonti Tho Ri I budd tho April 24-2*. 1M1 Conference | la Atlanta; ell ktbieni invited; In the Center'! SAGE Room. 20* W 13 X M Early Ml. to moot now friend* la o reined ttmoiphore; fel ichedule wW be diatributed; refreehmente; et the Center. 20* W I] X I pm doneden; BRIAN BUTTERICK. DU6WAH. JEANETTE ANONYMOUS B VICTOR ANONYMOUS open Ditto Mt o my O m •t Roxy. Thurtday perdee wkh OJi Be- •eetee. Allibe. Tebbee. Madame, Wendy VMM; eerv4ng by Otympi* decor by Oble end Beeeie ewtrd-wlnner Heek Snyder 515 W it X 1030 pm *10 gen- .r.l/ts w«h Invbp; 048-8IM FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 FULL MOON NY/NJ Certb Cewp M. MPT 14-H. three day* el camping. new frieedr. primitive eccommode- tloni, creftx. wertihopi. tupirnied hide welcome. 201/399- 7001 PRIDE INSTITUTE Sobriety ln» w » l WhM SEPT 14-10. for leebtana, gay moo, bt-aaxuala in racovory from chemical dependenct; •« Morin Rotroot Center. Framingham. MA; •rrtvo by 530 pm roniglat. dopart by 4 pm Sunday, StSc 9001547 7433 DARTMOUTH GALA toy UogoWlem Staten Fenan: Otar tePb*Mcf*ervfcoL wWi a panol of three oponly gay polM- dent Toro Doom IIIM Dry Council candidate), Deborah Slick (Hat AO NTS Aaeembly candidate). and (cm took I floe aland County Congrouional candidate); with cocktaih and hearty buffet at the Yale Club. Main Dining Room, 20th Root, SO Vandorbut* Ava at 44 St (overlooking Grand Central Sta¬ tion); booloaoa otdro reqetred. 530 13D. $30 advanco/$40 door/MS for program listing; info 714/7M-4SS4 (chocla to Dartmouth GALA. Boo 7745k NYC 10150-1114) (proceeds aril banoflr NetSALA. the notional non-profit aero cation of ol gay and laabton akrmnVse organtrations) FOURTH NY LESBIAN A GAY EXPERI¬ MENTAL RUI FESTIVAL praaanta Jaa aMa> MaoagaamryY Apa It Love MU# d Uttlt L Jack Watora' Tho Mill Otyti. Jofl Cola'a Tht Truth Gama, taabal Hagaar'a Eye to Eyo at 7 pm and ■arkara Haamar'i Lublin Minis. Michelle MoAabaor'a EifiOSufO. Lorma »aickmaa’a SuOdwfemme In Pindiso. Martas Rigga’ feopua* Untied* 1pm a aa LIVELY ARTS for Mo SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS CHibhouee; phona-in your favorttat B bring ctariaa end too Wo pa JP. 7 pm SAL WeFravp 7(41546-757t THE ANSWER IS LOVING Wtamoa Talk- lag YVomea's Talk Sacaad Opinio* ‘making a decision, the poaaitoBty of maUng a mlatika...the coneequencef. the rewards*; 1964 E 35 St. BWyn; 745- lt pm $10. Ruth Barman ft Connla Kurta. 118/994 2305 MEN Of AU COLORS TOGETHER tdo- curroot vidaoa and ddcuaalon of tht viaton and maaaaga they proridt. open to ek, at the Cantor. 20$ W IS St 7*8 om mtm A DIFFERENT U6HT BOOKSTORE pra- aanta a Book Mgatog: To. WWabwy. Tea Pa/coat Korirw, 544 Hudaan St (born Chartaa/Parry Sta), M pm fraa. 940-4480 SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 M Aaaaal Waal ttda Art., Cram ft Aadgaaa Fair. Waft End Ava. M-M Sta, 744-4330 WKCR-FM Raeord Fair, at which tha Columbia U. nation makaa room lor now pieneri by entoadtag tha old at bargain prlcar, Wallman Aud.. CaAortiia (L 115 ft rnray; daalart On record.I can B45223 MEN OF AU COLORS T06ETHEIVNY Node Baacb O.ti.g ta Saady Hook. NJ, maadng at tha Comae 201 W13 Sc MO am 82-1714 (Driven: NJ Tpka South. Exit 1 1 /Barden State Ptwy South ta Exit 117/Rouaa 3ft Parking Lot G) SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS tad WOMEN ABOUT WkMo tutelar RjMag la Paaaayhnaia, about SS0; SAL Info/ravp 7IVM6-7574 Invp war daa by AIM 31. check tor tote rvatabifcyl WOMEN ABOUT Ilka Trip la Stetoa can needed Wqlravp 701 481-D440 SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS UatWtagoVMt Braacb at RMara Cola, rerun from the After Piece cube; 11 am Waftta* Window Shop pi a*. fialUry Happlag. Hair CaMay moot at tha Artor Place Cuba; 1230 pm Root*want followed by a 'abend* bar, 5J0pm Madea.a Parly, to «iew»o HBO ape clal f/aada A mbltln Tear, thara Madonna ttortar and clipping*. Eaton to bar taper (Madonna hadn't rtvp'd ytofclpm SAL InftVnvp 7IV54S- 7571 PARENTS OF COLOR AND OUR FAMI¬ LIES PaaaUWecaaatoK Caotaf Oaf M Oar CkWdrae and racial baar, at the Canter. 201W IS St dtacuMion from 1130 am » I pm toctolang fram 1-2 pm Mo 714133-3436 FOURTH NY LESBIAN ft GAY EXPERI¬ MENTAL FILM FESTIVAL praaonti ■ MWf m f r atied? where Barkan Hrar.tr ini Jerry Tarugllo fieffltett wen "no panolA no expert*. What an tha aruarT FundrattingT Repreaente- tlaoT Dittr,but-on? Why? 6andar Tokania.T Who daeidai? RacitmT Canaanhipf Madia aru buraaucra- clo*T*; artirtt and audiancaa wel¬ come. at Amhotegy film Archhraa. 2nd Ava at 2 S^ 3 pm Wo «8-1498 FOURTH NY LESBIAN B GAY EXPERI¬ MENTAL FILM FESTIVAL praaanta Aady WarhoTi My Nutter 119*7, with Paul America) and Sabaadaab Fririek Wadding (1171, with tha Cockattaal at 7 pm and Cbriadaa V.ckoa a Wry of tht Wxkod. Lna Am Irrwri Mom Motto, Poaay McDonald's Ufl on fifth As I Know ft Ablaa Manning i Hot-Up. Jolla (Mar's I Got This Wry From Katin'Gris. Marcella Tkiraeba . i‘Me (Tbrnm. Laaiia KecaadTs SuMme. Aaria Barak a Drums of Ponton. Ottda IcMIllagar-a Between. Chaa- tal Akar.aa t Sooto Mo Villi and floth tt I pm aaa LIVELY ARTS (or Into WOMENS THEATRE/DINNER/ETCI Movie aad Dinner Mgto In Manhatun. lor non .rooking toebiena. prafar.My over 3ft 7 pm-tah; 7W84-0772 ter Mo HUOSON RlVtTl SLOOP CLEARWATER praaanta Tha Waablagtoa Slamn w4» Malaala Maaaar. a banafrt far tha anvirortmantel advocacy group; feetar- v»g muaic that 'ancompauaa goapaL a capo Ha funk, |en-bep. blue* aad taland rack* by Sarong and Sandra {truth. How Do Yon Fool Find tho Spirit) and Malania; at Rfverrlde Churah. Assembly Hak. 120StftRhrar- aide Drive LttJFt to rwotfltS); 730 pm $(0 advance lOacar Wikda, JudMi'a Room, The Breedihep at 18 St B BwtyVS12 door (had price lor eenior*. Udo, disabled. limited tacomo); brio 91V464-7173 (EdhoTY note Tho Wtah Ington Staton, who are proud famlniiti and laabtond. an alao advocator far tha emrfronment and agalnat apenhot- dl Tha* Rnt album Undorrtotod. waa produced by Obria Raeord. artktTara- aa Truft on tha IcaDargg labaU ASIANS ANO FRIENOS/NY 3rd Sator- day Social laaaraftiaaal Food Food- rai. a gtftronomlcel evening with a variety 01 American, European. Allan and Latin American dahei; ft tha Can¬ ter. 204 W 13 SL 3rd Floor. I pm 174- 5064 (Editor-, note Contributing cookx •ro roimbunod lor axpanaoi aad admkted fraa to tha faaftll OIXON PLACE prat ante Freak Maya (continuing Mo autobiography, corpus hta famSy-i dementia) and David Cato, reading bom now wortr. 37 Eatt let St (town 1«V2nd Avee), I pm»Of TDf no nvp. doon open 730 pm S7M7S2 La MAMA La GALLERIA prewnte Mark torn reading from hat nconty pub- Uthod trilogy. 7k* Parted Sta^r. *toma- thlng Froncli Bacon might mumble under anaoithoaio* by tha *toxy, angry, and even • Me cruel* gay poac SEaat 1ft St (town Bowary2nd Avo). I pm. dontdan GIRTH ANO MIRTH AmmI Wii son (Vila Social, baar. wlna. rod*, munchtot, Ihra OJ; at tha Canter. 201W 13 Sc 430 pm » membor*f$10 guaate IG&M. Box KL Pelham NY KMB-OOIOI 0I6NITY/SUFF0LK Diaaar Theater Patty A Cb o r m ttoy at Pirn Grave Inn, Patchogua, U; 4 pm $2ft 51*1442 -0159 CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH rUchar lorvicaa. 57 Bathuna St (Waetborh Complex, near Watt Sl up caurtyard rampL 10 pm DIM SUNDAY SEPT. 16 GAY MENS HEALTH CRISIS. HISPANIC AIDS FORUM. LOISAIOA INC. LOWER EAST SIDE FAJWIY UNION. NYC DEFT. Of HEALTH present lata to 6a Om of AIDS, a family educational and recreational avom with maak, teaater, priiao. and AJOS education; In ti. Eaat River Pork (bring plcnlca tad opand tha dayi Eaxt Rhrar and 10 SC 11 am - 4 pm 407-4486 mX) 44B-7470 walk with hlftorieal *ddbki‘; 11 am Braacb arWhaVOanraL popular w«h vegan- rnr and maat-aatari, 18 7th Are ail« Sc Park Saga; 1230 pm Do Tho Afpto Tktog Catorral FartvaT antartainmant, food, orta ft enfte. rponrorfd by Brooklyn Retldentt Agotaift Bi«f-Rotated Vtolaoca; 9th St Sandahdft Par* Slope; naan - 7 pm FMd Trip te Ttatet Sgaaraa Dyke Para Dooeo. at tho Canter (below); fraa; 530-4 pm SAL infafrrrp 714166-7574 ALLIANCE OF WOMEN A6AINST RACISM EVERYWHERE Aati-RMlaa Warkihep. ft lha Cantor. 20B W 13 SL 1130 am - 5 pm 8 more If/law IF, Luventa 427-4175 GAYMEN AND LESBIANS IN BAOOKHAVEN Mm a Greap Maatiag ft SactoL at a member-, homo an U; 51(1751-2901 BISEXUAL PRIDE Oiacaaatoa Graap: FmottoooHr Pi aad PbyatoaMy Pf. at the Centre. 20BW13 Sc 3-430 pm 469- 47*4 cal Beefa toon Ml Wtthrngten St (tt Chariaafc 3 pm fraa ftWC accaaaibto. but footing talndteft 727-7131 CENTER MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE praaante Tka FI rat Aaaaal Tm Dance M benefit 6a Leeblea aad Gay Caaa- ■aaity Sarrioat Caatar, hoatad by Mlckael Faroe, with tani|ht-f OJ RHckaal Jorta. Fraa Bloody Mary* and Mbnoaot bum 6-7 pm fraa buffet at 730 pm at 2*2ft 20 W 20 9c epene 4 pm tlft 020-7310 (Edkor-f note Buy tta (t the Cantor. M-f. 10 *m - 10 pm only ttr bought In idyinct benefit the CanterJ TIMES SQUARES Waraaa'i Bara Deace with 'dancing, cowgirl, and rafratomante' te loam about tha Dmaa Square, aad enjoy Waatarn Square Dancing; at tha Carter. 200 W 13 SC 530-0 pm fraa; Me from Byrne 740- OIM. Keth 242-2400 x1002 (Edltaf-e note: Timor Squaraa U NYC'* only 61 gayAeebian equere deace club end par- tor leegetoe •« 7 pm; «nd Paler nudee) *nd Jama t LW«| — 1 Pjrw to Bunting leaguing tod touae belle) at I pnc tad LIVELY ARTS lor Mb CARLA SUMER. QAV® JAMES ROBIN¬ SON. DAW LEI6H, LEE CHAPPELL pra- eem Smmmamt LTC A lam Craiae. Drcla Una around Manhattan with OJ and Dra floor ehow, Pier 8X 42 St and the Hadaoa Rhrer (12th Auoh boarding 7-0 pm. dapartura I pm aharp; SIS Oncludaa free paaa la Rory', Sunday party aftotorard* ox 9123-11*1.4090835 MONDAY, SEPT. 17 NEW JERSEY WOMEN 5 AIOS NET- iaauaa. and woman wMi HIV/AIOS; I am - S pm; 2C1/B4M482 (Thank. go to GMHC tor thle Datong.) BRONX AIOS COMMUNITY SERVICES PROJECT Broax AIDS Taak Feree Meeting, with a workshop on altarna tiva tharapiaa in HIV Infection. Ona Fordham Plata. Suita BOO; S-7 JO pm; DYKES B LEZZ1ES LESBIAN FEMINIST THEATRE & SCHOOL hagina Pal I aa that run on Monday nights from SEPT 17 ■ DEC 10. playwribng. directing day; chock lor avaHabMtyl 6AY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS COUNTY. NJ WMkfy Moaatag A Social wtti The Annual 9f J* Bsauty Coe r»« listings nex* week Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers Information must bo rtctnndby Monday to b« included in tha foBowinfl weak's issue. Send items to Rick X. Tunino In, Box 790, NY. NY 10108. $3£j3* Pension, 1787th THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13 amlW a-3. nyc loonTsidj-15701 ina m wnet-tv aoetwcwiAinaBty Haar*ig« 8CN (Gay Cable Ntowork, Lou MaMta, 32 Union Square Hatch meytsk tto ba^atorh) corrflrm ha approaatwo East Stole 1217' 477-4220) of tamby value*. CM 13 (800) 6MHC (Gw Mans HeaRh Crto. Jean Cariomosto. 129 W 20 IJBPMR^W^H^ftrttMInrigayflasbtonmao- St. NYC 10011; 807-7517) RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prods., Box 305. NYC 10071; 988- 2979) •C-TV (77 W 63 SI. NYC 10023; 456-7777) .Al-FM (506 Blh Axa. 1«tt a NYC 10018; 2794J707) WCBS-TV (51 W 52 St SL NYC 10010.975-1321) -TV (30 RockafaSar Plata. NYC 10112; 86*4444) ■TV (356 W SB SI. NYC 10019; 560-3000) I-TV (Fox. 1211 AV/AM. NYC 10038; 560-2400) Editor's Notes Apelmlee am oflered to WNET-TV, whose September 9 broadcast of GusVhn Sandra Mato Nocbs wai cut Asa to a tormaflng arror. Also totaled was GCNY Man to F*na — --- --- _ a-Refer* to fltote shows which may be eNactad by the aew »choto bowd ra-atacOoc. CH 7J100) table TV fewciilaa ureement ahminaung Channel J/23 >~7 mm Ghgrtch, Jim JM138 PM RB PflOO KMpalltk, Chariton Heaton. WMmi F. Badday;Con gay male pomo stors; Manhattan Cable. CH J/23 (30) Ge^eMOowm,GaryKwtPNSchroeSecOennti >-11*11M OMHCLAtopH*M dfaawr, CH 13(200) Paragon Cable. CH J723 (30) pm GcnaeMK ||g| r s r‘ midnight CCTV The Dkwar Cast Stvar underwear ads of vtenws. Bowslo Abarto con tarns*y noflr' tftayear. a Sara ftabto •yrVsegrrert. iaka & Btect. comumM kflna gay y MttonA.995 FM Manhattan and Paragon Catda. CH C/16 (30) S-70IPM 7to Gay Dtfiy tonrShw. ^ 1209 AM The Aranda and fitomadto Sbrnm. Manhattan Cabia. Laban; Manhattan Cable. CH J/2 3 3$ CH 018 (sea 830 PM) 730 PM WC8S-TV FT Jodie Foster. CH 2 (30) .100AM Gay TV gw neto pom. Paagon Ctola. CH JT23 (30) ^ TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 11 ** 4:B0 PM WCBS-TV Gtrildo scandals and the 1 Catholic Church, part I ol II: CH 2 (1:00) 1 p^ao^Catoe CH^J23U 1001 400 PM WABC-TV Oprah. Kitty OakaUs; CH 7 (1.00) £££?mBI> nwoffw ** COB PM CSPAN Motor HttflnfS PrrWaw rounotable ***** ni.eua.ren hv n.raon.l .ccu.lnlanca, ,2:001 lT(S# VWYW TV (Fox) Grand Hotel(1932 i Orato l, Joan Crawfors. John Barrymora; CH 5 (200) vtawars, Manhattan 8 Paragon Catda. CH C/18 (1.00) WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12 - m pop. _C993FM _PM WCBS-TV Gara/tto: acandals and tha Catholic Church, part II of II; CH 2 (100) 8:00 PM CSPAN Sector Havings Prtvhw. roundubla SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 16 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 s-030 PM GCN Gty USX: oew and antartainmanl from around tfw couetry; Paraoon Cabto. CH J/23 (100) (For Manhattan Cabla. sea THURSDAY) 731 PM WLfW-TV Paoftt s Podium, see THURSDAY 5-1130 PM RB PROO The Itdy 9ynf. Rabin Byrd praaants metoTemale strippars; Manhattan Cabla, CH J/23 (100) 1636PMM1 Crimea; CH 2(100) 730 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Stew: news and Intotmabon lesberugay community; tvervoth“°^- g with CWtoeks. 99.5 FM(lOO) Tim rhtTrou^^.^^ itortt0n - ^m ^MT/ted Cr rM and tanela *-1136 PM GCN Man A tow mall erode, intorvtows ***** RBPno ° Fh« Raid, *>to_S7row_nwl._and tomato ^ ^ ^ ^ ch J«3 (30) m and Pwagor Ctoda, CH J/23 (100) DANCING OUT Monday Private Eye* (Marc Borfc.lvy's KoolKomradsm/ Razor Sharp & ftnppari; itudanta, proteinonals, 86) 12 W 21 SL club 206-7772 Tuesday *U>vv Machinal Larry Tta & Lahoms Van ZandL young & axoOc crowd) 860 Bway, at 17 St 254-4006 •Private Eyoa (Marshal Simon'* Rock nRoHDng Bor. V) 12W 21 St. btwnSttVWi Avar, 206-7774 •ftexy (Mbn on Mfwefa, gay roOar skating; starts8pm)515W 18 St 6465158 Wednesday •Batter Days (prana nly gay man of color) 318 W48 St 169 Avasl; 2468925 •Ua wH gllt (Michaal Alig & Lorry Tee's Disco 2000 10 pm. *10; Coon tarvadl 8thAva at20St;club807-7880 Private Eyas | YMVA Night, students, professaonala. lesbians and non- gay woman; S7) 12 W 21 St btwn WVBth Aves, 206-7772 •Pyramid (Linda’s Channel 89 party, DJ & bva laabiarVgay shows. East Village crowd; 86) 101 Avenue A town 6/7 Streets; 420-1590 Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tuei-Sun. woman SAT) 175 Chany La, Floral Pk. LI; 5161354-9641 •Sed-O-Mee (Lahoma Van ZandL pom stars, go-go boys; opens 1030 pm, 87) 566 W 23 St (11th Ave); 306-5253 State (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ava. White Plains; 9147761-3100 Thursday •Cepacabeaa (last Thu. ol the month Susanna Bartsch party, next ia Sept 27; iffy door) 10 E 60 St at fifth Ave; 756-6010 Exes liber (81 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) comer lOttVJef- ferson behind football stadium. Hoboken, NJ, 201 -795-1161 Hedtekfa [2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightfy. women on THE & FRI1126-10 Queans Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens, 716281-8484 Cteaacfcl (Chip Duckett's Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson. 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442 a •Roxy (Disco Intonuptut, OJa Sister Dimension & Patrick Butts, entertainment breaks; 810; opens SEPT 13) 515 W18; 645-5156 Friday Cekenhia Dance* (I st Friday of every month, including summer, next is October 5) 118th St & Bway; 854-3574 days Meet lAJdo Hernandez'* alternate Fridays, next is Sept 14; DJ. go-go boys, videos; opens 10 pm; 85) 432 W 14 St; 353-3886 Octagon (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Sassion, primarily gay man of color; free muchies; opens 11 pm) 556 W 33 Sl 947-0400 Private Eyes I YMVA Night students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St btwn 5*h/8th Avee; 2067772 •Qnickl (Pamy Birdlor. TVs, gays, straights) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks btfow CanaO; 9262442 Saturday Barefoot BoegleTsmoka & alcohol keel 4346th Ave (btwn 610 Sot 832-6759 419 419 N. H Handle Bar (Her Planet alternate Saturdays, 88; optns SEPT 22) 232 E 9 St (btwn 2nd/3rd Aves); info 2567875 Sitver Lining 175 Chany Lane. Floral Park. U; 516354-9641 Stan 836 Grand Boulevard. Deer Park, U; 516242-3867 Sunday Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd. W. Hampstead, LI; 5164869616 Cleb Paradise (Pyramid Productions. 6 pm ■ 2 am. 85 before 8 pnV87 thereafter) 15 Wavorty Piece (btwn 5th Ava/Bway); 533-3018 Leva Shack (Jdl Reiter's Booby Tnp, alternative music. 831 at New Lis- mar. 411st Avenue at 2nd St 777-9477 Pulse (Shescape Taa Dane as for Woman, 7 pm • midnight. 86 before 8 pnV87 thereafter) 228 E 54 St (2n63rd Aves); info 6466479 Every Night (or almost) Dochess ntsmal dance floor) Sheridan Sq & 7th Ave South, 242-1408 Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/letbian mix, see Every Night above, for detada) 802 64th St Bklyn.; 7162368213 Editor's Ups tor tourists: A (•) daeetas a club that attracts TVs A (mtdanetss a new listing. range Irvm tS to 815 Imtes alter dbcouus and are samsimaa leqursd. rs «tee id cad stead to confirm Out a party ia stfl Napparing. Serna ckibt. eipeoaby Capacabana. but aho Unebght. Lora Machina. OweU. pta Una at era do©' Mixad parttea utuaSyget gayer aa tea night wears on | tttWW-HOU CHELSEA _ Barbary Cm*. 64 7thAve.(14tfiSll 675-0385 The Break. 232 8th Am. (22nd SO. 627-0072. Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet 16th& 17th), 929-7183 Eagle's Nes^ 14211th Ave (21 «StL 691-8451 Private Eyes, 12 W. 21* St (bet. 5th & 6th], 206-7770 Rawhide, 212 Btfi Am, (21* $U unlisted Spike. 12011th Am.. 243-9688 WEST VILLAGE _ The Anne* (to CelModt 281 673 Hudson St (bet I3th& 14th], 627-1140 —Temporarily Closed Badlands. 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