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FILM: Lesbian ExperimentalFilm Karl Soehnlein speaks to SuFriedrich, Jennifer Montgomeryand Sadie Benning ..•••••••.• 48

TELEVISION: Twin PeaksMisogyny climbs to newheights, and Anne Rubensteinis over it••••..••.••.••••• 4 9

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BOOKS:Shock TreatmentMaria Maggentt on KarenFinley's Literary aspirati.ons •••54

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Classifieds 66,Personals 75Crossword 82Bradley Ball is on vacation.

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passed, months filled with more meetings, community fomms,, letter-writing campaigns and more. But 13 still says no, evenlouder and more, authoritatively than ever: "non-negotiably,,

unconditionally no." , ,Now, in an extraordinary move, GLAAD 'and Queer

Nation, two very different groups, have tactically united Qnthis issue and formed a joiilt committee to call a community- .wide 'pledge boycott 'of donations to Channel 13. They havebeen joined by groups as diverse as Gay and Lesbian Inde-.. ~. ~: - '\, ' , , '

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'For many lesbians and gay men, Channel 13 bas" some-times seemed like a friendly oasis in the hostile desert oT lV.Wher~ -else might ,one see a sensitive dacµmentary about les-bian mothers, an intelligent treatment of AIDS issues or a quali- 'ty origirial proouction like Longtime Companion?

But if 13 seems'. good, it1s'only because the 'rest' of the1V universe is' so unrelievedly pad, On mainstream lVtles-bians and gays are either invisible or portrayed as sexualfreaks. Thus, the meager bones occasionally, tossed our wayby 13"make some of us almost grateful>· , ";iw"';i\"~'

Almost but not' quite. Because unlike ",",..MIt, ,

any, other' station, 13 has a mandate to ,: serve ,those very-muioritie5 whith other sta-' Ii .~ "Iitions ignore. And if one presupposes that ';' TOT'A'Jl~bians am} gays are a legitimate' minority", : ·'.i,·13,'scommitmentJo us'suddenly is revealed· ' .NOt 'as p~th~ticand insul~ng, Gay~ and lesbi~ns ISNOT FE"",re,celve only a fractIon of the prpgrammg "" ",*,,", , ,.,0"."" 'aim~d at other gr~ups le~ than one-:.t~nth ~t)GAY,lAof the program hours ,aimed at Blacks, for ", ....;,'"""": ' ,.".,,-;'

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virtually always conceived, produced, 'arranged, directed and hosted by ,heteto-, ,.sexuals. There 'are no ,openly lesbian.or ,

,gay commentators on)3 (as Jhere are .'.. ! "i"I" ••.• ~_

BlackS,.womeri, "Asians; etC,), .no: gay' prq- ,grain hosts, little or no visibliry on homo- '

, . ~ ..phobic shows .like MacNeiVLehrer, and nogay public-affairs programs at all. There,are

"just old reruns of Before Stone"tv,alt;.o/peON' PUBDCNOnCE-aueer IVatiof,.protesting outside WNET last weekshows, a flurry, of fags during Pride Weeki,' .,j", " " , '

and not much else. , " . :" ", : pendent Democrats, the New York State Pride Agenda (FAIR-'In response to this, GLAAD,the Gay and Lesbian Alliance PAC's successor) and ACf UP. OutWeek is proud to. add its

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Against Defamatjon, waged a long, l0!l~ly war. For years, name to the list.GLAAD has maintained a. 13 Project ami~ at convincing the We urge. our readers to withhold their money from 13'station to increase its culuicil,'political :;Uid'artistic coverage' of until that station agrees to produce a multicuftural lesbianour'enormously diverse co~unity, ~eir, countless meetings and gay weekly program. Du~iqg, Pledge Drives such,~~ thewith 13 executives, their letter-writing campaigns and phone- : current one running from December 1-9, we urge you to

'. ins, their careful documenµtion of.1:S'l;egregious failings hive' let 13 know ~at they aren't getting your money, and' Why. .yielded some occasional resUltS,b.ut·):hirigs,at the station have •We 'particularly urge tbis of our readers who have,remained much the same.: ,', .':': > • ; attained tOe measure of material comfort that allows them to

. . .. " .' '.~ .In the last few yero;s,;~ommunity energy focµsed 'on die express their activism through financial donations. to the

, idea that gays wor~"w:ith 13 to produce' an inexpensive.Iesbian community. Recognize that while, we usually ask you toand gay multicultuiaI publit~airs program: a show by gaYs,for give" in this case you can do as much gooo by not giving;

'. gays and ab9Ut gays. A number of highly successful, ;lward-v.:m- and letting the station. know why. 'rung le!>~ilinand gay producerS st~peQ foreward with .plans to \'. ,",The 13 pledge boycott' offers the New York leSbian and,,'7< 'of' • '. <.- , ~~-., .' 1 '. .,..,. - :,-. • ,_. .,- .' • ',- , -,

pr9Ci,ucesuch a shpw. First GLA¥J ~dthen others, 'most Fecept- . 'gay community. a rareopportullity to \inite young' and old,ly the 'direct-action group Queer Nation, took up the cause. activists and donors, progressives and conservatives, people of

But 13 said no, Again and again and again., Eventually all colors and all persuasions in a long overdue project,others in the' community, including :this'magazine;t:aised the '9~mandiilg ~t which other groups long ag9deman,ded:fair~specter of a community-wide "pledgeboyc()tt" to deprive, the ' ness in public media. ,".' .'

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station of lesbian and gay membership dollars if they persist- "We can do. it, and we can win, -ed in depriv~ng us of visibility. Since then, months have Don:t give another nickel to 13 un~ilwe do.

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, CLONE CONSTRUCTION 'We LOVEDMichelangelo SignoriIe's article "New Clone VB.

Old Clone" [no. 72, Nov, 28]. In fact, we loved it so l1luch, wewanted to help out and add on to the already-humorousbut truth-fullist. Weare sure these will not bethe only additions.

New Clone Old ClonesHouse music Disco divasWigstock " Invasion of the Pines

David Leavitt Gordon MerrickOutWeek TheAdvocate(only for the personals)

Has lesbian friends Will not go near a woman at alllime Cafe IJulius'

, Boxer shorts Bikini briefsPolitically correct Politically unawareLoves Madonna Loves BetteMldler'

NobleWorks (greeting cards) , RockShots, Keith Haring Tom of Rnland, Mark Morris .' PeterAllenCarenWheeler Gloria Gaynor

Charivari Workshop toft 'AIDS crisis Marie's CrisiS"Fiercel" "Fabulousl"

Chip Duckett SteveCohnCharles Bush ChartesPierce

Heritage of Prlde'March TheWhite and/or Black Party, '.. Michael Musto ' Liz Smith·

Tony Shafrazl Gallery Poster OriginalsBody Shop Cllnlque for Men

, Qart Simpson Krystal carringtonRoxy , TheSaint at large

ChelseaGym ' ChelseaGymWBAI-FM WRKS-FM

Brooklyn Academy of Music TheAdonisTower Records ' Decadance

, Avsda Aromatherapy Amyl Nitrate, Jeff Stry~er ' AI Parker

Thanks again for making uslaughl

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any pOlitical gay movement.That was "their" realm over Inthe Wast Village. It wouldseem the desire to separate'from the "old clone" wasmuch deeper than Mlchelan-gelo believes.

Throughout the '80s,when gay men were scream-Ing and pleading that their

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brothers were dying, the"new clone" was remarkablysi.lent. In 1985, AIDS was,after all, an "old clone" dis-ease. It was "their" disease,and we, of course, wereyounger and smarter andgoing to live forever ...until westarted to get sick in ever-increaSing numbers our-selves. AIDS mobilized the'"new clone," not when thethreat was' knockil,1g, but'Nhe'n It was already Insidethe house.

I resent the Implicationt~at gay politiCS were some-how meaningless beforegroups like ACTUP and au~erNation came into being. WhileIt is fun to imagine that this

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ManhattanMichelangelo Signorlle re-sponds: You are absolutelycorrect that the new clone'look was first worn by thethen-complacent BoyBar andPyramid crowd; however, theactivists' soon adoptedit-and many in that East. Village crowd later actuallybecame activists themselves.But the pOint you make is ontlirget, as Is your secondpoint about AIDS first being.an old clone disease. Howev-er, to say that I Implied thatactivism in the gay commu-'nity began with the newclone is quite a reductivelreading of the piece. I spokeconsistently of the "new"activism, realizing that,' ofcourse, there was much that,

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I suppose It's a Wasteof about Itl Would you calltime to point out that Dad someone "apic" or "nigger"?does get to makehis choice- ,Would you burn a crall onand chooses his son-but I someone's lawn? Would youguess the thing that disturbs not vote for someone' be-me most Is that I had as- cause of the color of theirsumed a writer In a gay/ skin? That's being racist.queer/cheerful (delete whlch- There Is no one In ACTUP orever is not politically correct) Queer Nation that I wouldmagazine would have under- equate to Davi~ Dukes.stood more ,keenly than any- When you don't translate,one else that Dad's stroke In something Into, Spanish orthe final scene is a metaphor ask Majority Action's opinionfor AIDS. The play was written on something that 'affectsas a distressed response to ' them, or when you don'tthe loss of one of my closest include minorities In groupfriends to the fell disease, but photographs, your only guiltrather than g'oing the stereci- is of being Insensitive .. Let'stypical route of having Jeff get not change the meaning ofsick, I deliberateiy inverted the this word; let's keep it in Its 'metaphor, so that it is the proper context,young, healthy, homosexualson who has,to look after theIncapacitatedparent. ,

The director believed,and ,QET INVOLVED NOWI, ,

I concurred, that the metaphor Is ther.e nothing worsewas so obvious it would be ',than a lazy, conservative,hitting the audience over the opinionated faggot who sitshead to include the,lInes I and does nothing yet dareswrote for Dad: question the tactics of,say,

"Years ago, In my darker Queer Nation or ACT UP?moments, I used to imagine it The more I run acrolls thesewould be the other way round, pa~hetlc wa.ates of life, thethat he'd end up catching that arigrler I get. These are alsoterrible disease,and I'd be the the same people who feel Ifone nursing him to his grave., they give a few sorry-assButnot this, Anything but this." dollars to their favorite

Obviously, we were homo cause, they are doingwrong. Obviously, Mr. Paller their part. Wrong, shit for'does need hitting over the bralnsJ These days moneyhead. justdo88 not cut It. Get off

David StBvsns your tl red butts and join aTopanga, CA group; any groupJ It Is time

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What I would like to know18, Where do all you proudpeople go after Gay PrideWeek? Are you all so contentwith your lives that you see noneed to get Involved? Do youfeel equal to straight America?Need I remind you who andwhat we are up against these 'days AIDS, Jesse "the Mag-got'" Helms, racism, sexism,censorship, the church, bash'-Inga, "your right to love whoyou want, stc. Tell me you can 'hug, hold hande and kiss Inpublic without fear, and I'll tellyou that you are a fuckinglow-life liar. We will never beequal If we don't start speak-

\, Ing,upl ,\ As for all you conservativedirtbags who remind me that'We haveto work,with [straights]not against them," I tell you,my life on this earth is tooshort. I don't have time to waitaround while straight Americadecides whether I'm an equal. . .,J demand my rightsl Whatabout you? It is time to getinvolved nowl·

Michael AllenManhattan

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roughs Wellcome ad in thisweek's issue (no. 74, Nov. 28),I am unable to express mydismay in words. ,

You have not earned thereputation ,for rigorous stan-

. da'rds of reporting and analy-sis that allow you to lie sodangerously close to the mostpOwerful and worrisomemember of the AIDS estab-lishment. While Paul RykoffColeman (no. 73, Nov. 21),known for his pharmaceuticalexpertise and background,slaps BW on the hand forpoor ethics, he barely toucheson the more Important Issueof whether AZT Is a blessingor a conspiracy. His article onHIV testing Is so filled with

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"researChers discovered thatthe sooner an HIV-pos,itive,asymptomatic patient getsAIr, the better the chance ofprolonging Ufe," Even themost. uninformed of us, evenGina Kalata, knows that manyAZT claims have been foundto be based on somethingless tHan s,cience.Like theground-breaking "extrapolat-ed" study 'of 4,000~plus gay,men where over 1,000 men inthe protocol were lostl Likethe more longitudinal studiesin Britian, which show wehave nothing to shout aboutafter, .all .. Like the originalstudy that became unblindedimmediately, with people tak-ing a whole mixture of drugs'not allowed by the "study."And, according to AIDS EditorColeman, "We now know thatalmost all HIV-positive per-sons eventually developsymptoms,"..dependiQg, I,sup-pose, on that San Franciscocohort, of 84 hepatitis-vaccineguinea pig,s, who almost allhad several kinds of VD andhalf of whom were fist,.fuck-ing', rimming dorug-abusers.Adifferent NewYork cohort; asmost mainstream new.s sto-ries'f8ih~dto mention, showeda rather small, unconvincing- ~

progresSion to symptoms,very different from thedoomed 85 (and believe me, ifyou had, an entire nationwatching you for ten years,waiting for you to drop dead,your T-cells~would fall, too).

I am not going to reciteJohn Lauritsen's entire Poi-son by Prescription, but Irecommend that people whoare anxious to give good PRto BW first read this AZTcommentary ASAP evendespite the fact that Laurit-sen writes for Chuck Ortleb,who is obsessed with dol-phins, pigs and Republicans.Lauritsen's horrifying sce-

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nario is coming true. First,AZT was for the near-dead. 'Then, it was for the sick.:rhen, it was for the immuno-suppressed. Now, it's for th~healthy who score below 500on the T-cell test. All weneed now i,s a campaign thatwill get healthy faggots (forkindling) into the hands ofdoctors who can keep testingtheir T-cells until the daycomes When, after a bout of

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opinions ,and criticisms, par-ticularly when they are as vit-riolic and,personally directedas some of the letters andcolumns in OutWeek. Butmore important, we should beproud to tell the world whowe are as queers, and whatwe think and feel. Anythingelse is cowardly.

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1') Tell your pseudony~mous contributors' (such .asMadam' Xan.d the "ThreeAnonymous Queers" of sev-eral months ago) that unlessthey come out and use theirreil! names, their articles willnot run.

2) Refuse to pr.int anyletters to the editor' from,

writers .who ask that theirnames bewithheld.

" , Gay men and lesbians, .like anyone else, should beheld accountable for their

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The rise in anti-gay andanti-lesbian violence, gay-bash-ing, similar in natu~ to attacksagainst Asian Americans,African Americans, the home-less and other ethnic or religious, groups, has risen at,an alarmingrate in this city. The NYCAnti-Bias Unit reports a 107 percentincrease in anti-lesbian and anti-

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gay attacks. I know that thesestatistics are not news to,you-as gay men and lesbians,you face harassment, threats,violence every day. I'm writingto tell you that these statisticsare not news to me either-asan African American, I've facedharassment, threats'and vio-lence but as surely as I amfamiliar with the numbers citedabove, I also know the faces'behind the figures. '

In January of this year,Jimmy Zappalorti was mur-d~red by two men simply,becausehe was gay.As I gazedin shock at the horrifying TVimages of James Zappalorti'slifeless body, I wondered howmany other viewers took a deepbreath and whispered, "Therebut for fortune go I?" As I readnews reports of hate crimes, Ithink to myself, Yesterday, itwas an African American;tomorrow, will it be a Catholicpriest? And I resolve that unlessall are safe, none are safe.

As I looked into the eyesof Jimmy Zappalorti mother, Icould not help but think, as afather and grandfather, what itmust be like to lose'a child toso horrendous an act. As I leftthe Zappalorti's memorial ser-vice, I was deeply moved tocommit my administration toconfront hate-motivated crime,

Some have said that Ihave not done enough to con-front gay-bashing; surely witheach insult hurled, with eachfist clench~d, more needs to bedone-but allow me to outlinesome of the steps I have takento confront this growing epi-demic of hate. In my tenmonths in office, I have spoken

out against lesbian- and gay-, bashing in many different set-tings to many different audi-ences-from the altars of St.John the Divine to St. Patrick'sCathedral, from a citywide tele-vised news broadcast to apress conference for the les-bian and gay media and it ismy commitment to you that Iwill continue to do so in bothstraight and gay settings.

In an effort to reduce anti;.lesbian and anti-gay violence, Ihave initiated the followingprograms:

I have,launched a "Unity"campaign des'igned to im-prove racial, religiou~ andintergroup harmony that isinclusive of the lesbian and gaycommunity. Corporations andorganizations that wish to pro-mote this campaign mustinclude the lesbian and gaycommunity before they willreceive my support.

I have added my support,of the NYPD's "We Are LookingFor the Rnest" lesbian and gay'police-officer recruitment cam-paign. The workforce of lesbianand gay police officers contin-ues to grow through suchefforts, and with the peer sup-port of GOAL (Gay OfficersAction League), the lavendercomQ1unilywill be representedin blue. '

I have established a$5,000 "Lefs Stop the ViolenceFund" community-patrol grantprogram, Inave personallysent an application to the PinkPanthers and applaud theircourageous work, It is throughsuch joint community-policeefforts that we Can take backour streets.

I have appointed openlylesbian and gay judges who arenow serving in both the familycourts and the criminal courtsystems. •

I continue to support theManhattan district attorney'slesbian and gay recruitmentprogram for new assistant dis-trict attorneys, conducted by

Katy Doran, theliaison to thelesbian and gaycommunity.

I have e~- ,couraged les-bians and gaymen to jOintheir local aux-iliary policeand respect thework of Vanes- P!'Iayor Dinkins at the Zappalorti memOrialservicesa Ferro, theNYPD liaison to the lesbianand gay community, for hertireless senSitivity-training ofnew recruits.

I have established a say"No-2-Bias" hotline through theNYC Human Rights Commis-sion, which can receive reportsof anti-gay and anti-lesbian biasattacks in 140 languages.

I have appointed a newPolice Council on Lesbian andGay Issues that reconvened onOct. 17, 1990. That first meet-ing addressed, head-on, face-

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to-face, the Julio Rivera· mur-der and the Purity Diner inci-dent The council also formedworking groups to study theNYPD Police Academy cur-riculum regarding anti-gay andanti-lesbian violence and sen-sitivity to the lesbian and 'gaycommunity.

On Oct. 10, 1990, I an-nounced the "Safe Streets!Safe City: An Omnibus CrimimilJustice Program ,for the CitY ofNew York." The $1.8 billionprogram will bring 9,603 newpolice to the streets of our city,expand educational and coun-ciling opportunities to youth,prol,[ide safety services tosenior citizens, increase com-munity-based patrol grants, inaddition to a number of crimi-, nal justice and probation pro-grams. We wilt soon see newofficers not only in gay neigh-borhoods but throughout thecity-officers 'sensitized to gayand lesbian issues serving thegay and lesbian community.

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lobby for the Passage of ..thebias-related violence bill. InMay of this year, prior to thedefeat of the bill, I addressed anaudience at the Cathedral of St.., -John the Divine. ,Inmy' speech Isaid, "Write to your state Sena-,

tor to urge passage of the,bias-related violence bi'll thatincludes protection for gaysand lesbians, Remind them,those who killed James Zap-palorti because he was gay are

, just as culpable and just asdespicable as those who killedMichael Griffith becausehe wasAfrican American, those whoassaulted Victor Aamon be-cause he was,Lati"o:an~ thosewho killed Israel RQsen be-,cause hewas a Hasidic Jew."

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bas~ing. When the bigotsresort to yiolence, We can con-tain them and ·condemn themwith !>urunity. ,,<hen ,a fewshout out words of !late, wecan drown them out with actsof hope. And when instigatorsseek to turn us against eachother, we can respond by turn-ing to each other-and com-,ing together to fight our com-mon foes. As you walk thestreets of New York with the,

Pink Panthers, I will walk the,

halls of Albany to overcomebigotry, and I stand before thecitizens of this" city and con- 'demn anti-gay and anti-lesbianviolence. Together,we will win.

-Mayor Davidil Dinkins

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office has issued a prohibitively llighcost-assessment for the domestic partner-ship legislation currently periding beforethe City Council.

And while the legislation's sponsorsare not backing off' from the bill, its m~-timillion-dollar price tag may well ensurethat the legislation goes absolutelynowhere.

The fiscal analysis of the domesticpartpership legislation, released just oneday after the bill was introduced, predictsthat full implementation would add $65.2million to the $1.1 billion price tag for thecity's fiscal year 1991 health care benefits.

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memoraildumattached to the legislationby the legal divisiqn of the City Councilthat predicts the domestic partnershipbUl, if enacted, could ,"impose an enor-mous fmancial burden on the city." ,

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, ,$65.2 million figur~isbased on the esti-mate that 50 .percent of eligible cityworkers would sign up their partners, for city-funded health care coverage.

, Actuarial analystS, Grzelewski ~dded,came 'up with the 50 percent figure,which translates roughly into 4.2 per-cent of the city's total workforce, or

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series of assumptions that some of thebill's b3.ckers dispute.

For example, the cost estimates wereincreased 25 percent "as there exists asignficant potential for fraud for catas--trophic cases."

And the memo adds on $205 millionto cover the costs of single employeeswho might enter into domestic partner~ships simply to take advantage of thenew health care option. '

Grzelewski also assumed that aneven lUgher percentage of retirees wouldsign up, and that all opters ''will tend tobe higher users of health care," drivingcosts up further.

In Berkley, Calif., where domesticpartnership benefits are similar to thosep~posed h~, approximately 6.8 percentof the city workforce has enrolled. Butaccording to Berkeley's risk manager,opters have utilized those:benefits less

often than other munidpal workers.Other dties that have adopted simi-

lar legislation have experienced no com-parable astronomical increase in healthcare costs. And in West Hollywood, thecosts of providing municipal workerswith health insurance, because of jug-gling the city was forced to do to pro-vide benefits to domestic partners, actu-

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"I've been looking at other cities,and I think my price tag is very reason-able," Grzelewsi told OutWeek. His crit-ics disagree.

"Other cities have granted healthbenefits to domestic partners with littlefiscal impact," pointed out ManhattanBorough 'President Ruth Messinger.

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huge dent in the city budget.""The figures, are wildly off base,"

agreed Paul Horowitz, a member of theFamily Diversity Coalition, which drafted'the bill currently before the City Council,"and by allowing OMB to have the mostsubstantive comment on the legislation,the Dinkins administration has done itselfa grave injustice." ,

The domestic partnership biJl wouldproVide nontraditional couples who livetogether and share responsibility for,OOsicliving expenses the opportunity to enjoylegal protection and economic privilegescurrently available only to married cou-ples, Chief among those economic bene-fits is the option for ,city employees to ,extend health care coverage to theirdomestic partners. .

A separate proposal, proffered bythe Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of theAmerican Civil LiQerties Union, wouldbroaden a Koch-era executive order thatallows city employees to record domesticpartners. Under that proposal, authored ', '

by former project director Nan Hunterand submitted to Huma~ RightsCommissioner Dennis deI.eon in April, allcitizens would be able to register domes-tic partners through the Human RightsCommission. '

Although a spokesman for deLeonhasclisclosed the commissioner's inten-, ,

tion to foiward the proPosal to the mayorwith a positive recommendation, thataction has not yet heeD completed

And while the bill currently has tencouncil sponsors, there are not yet enoughvotes to guarantee passage of the bill.

In particular, the absence of supportfrom City Council President Andrew Steinhas riled activists.

The mayor's silence on the bill,given his vocal support for such legisla-tion during his mayoral campaign, hasalso irritated its supporters.

Both deLeon and Marjorie Hill, themayor's liaison to the lesbian and gaycommunity, appeared at the press confer-ence announcing the bill's introductionon Nov: 20. .,

"Ihe commissioner is supporting thebill, not necessarily as it is right now, butin concept," disclosed HRC spokespersonLonnie Soury.

Hill, in contr~st, did not equivo-cate. "I fullYI support it," she said,acknowledging that the city's dire finan-cial situation contributed to the mayor'slukeWarm poSition.T

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the back of.the bus by thosewho used to sit 'there," saidDeborah Johnson, ,spokes-person for the Black Gay andLesbian Leadership Forum.

In October, the Forumcontracted with Essence, a.lifestyle magazine targeting

African-American women, to ruri a half-,

page ad publicizing the Forum's FourthAnnual Black Gay and lesbianLeadership Conference, scheduled formid-February in Los Angeles. After, accepting the 'ad and Forum's check inexcess of $6,000, Essence declined to runthe ad, reportedly claiming that "conser-vative advertisers might not approve."Conference or~ are suing Essenceunder New York City's human rightsordinance, alleging discrimination on thebasis of sexual orientation.

Sandra Lowe, a staff attorney atLambda Legal Defense who is han-dling Forum's case stated, "Fear ofconservative opinion is not an excuses•• BLACK GAYS on page 3&

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The plaintiffs allege,that when Axelrod andthe Public Health Councilallowed the RomanCatholic Archdiocese ofNew York to open sixresidential health carefacilities for P,WAs, thestandards of care govem~ing their treatment inthose facilities weremade less rigorous so asnot. to violate church,teaching on sexuality andreproduction.

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health officials, dairning that recently,adopted "health regulations governingcare for 'people with AIDS are inade-quate, dra-wnillegally and in 'Violationof

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200,000 cases of AlPS later, you wouldthink the point would be obvious," saidDavid Barr, assistant dirc:;ctorof policy atthe Gay Men's ~ealth Crisis. "It is theprofessi'Qn<il ~nd ethical duty of everyhealth care facilj.tyand' worker to provide

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Instead, Archdiocese facilities mustrefer their clients to other Departments ofHealth-approved providers known tooffer counseling. If necessary, theArchdiocese must escort the client to the. "

coµnseling .site, Currently, the •Archdiocese has 44 'designated' AIDS i?ibeds available. ~

Virginia Shubert, an attorney with 5the Coalition for the Homeless, alleges :Ithat the regulation was made illegally. ~When the original standards were illannounced in March, the Archdiocese 6met privately with state health officials, ,:;;:but the plaintiffs claim that the public has ~not been given sufficient opportunity to :-comment, a vio~ation of the New York 0

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The suit alleges-as AIDS activistshave claimed since the standards wereapproved in July, that the standards ofcare are inadequate and, in someinstances, dangerous to the health ofPWAs. The standards require PWAs totravel for counseling, which can be bur-densome, especially because PWAs atthese residential health care facilities arelikely to be quite ill.With the Archdioceserequired to give a client a referral lists•• P'WAa TACKLE 'on pag_

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dent iQ. the US Supreme COurt," Stoddard.'oontiriued.

But Stoddard, like the ACLU,,doessupport the general 'goal: gay people'sright to get married. "The ideal suitwould take place' in New Jersey or)

Oregon or Alaska, because all threestates have equal rights amendments.

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discrimination. And all three jurisdic-tions have exceedingly independentjudiciaries." ,

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"I find it incredible that people can ,think that marriage is a banner of gayliberation," commented Paula Ettelbrick,Lambda's legal director, who specializesin family-relationship issues, "I don'tthink marriage is a very progressive

. strategy. It is merely opening up a privi-leged category to a few more people."Ettelbrick favors domestic partnership,

laws that embrace more nontraditionalfamily units.

But Dean, an attorney in privatepractice who will be representing himselfand his lover in court, thinks that mar-, '

'I riageis OK, and the time is now."It's always a good time to fight for

your rights," he said in a phone interviewfrom New York, where he appeared onthe CBS morning news program. ,

And if they lose? ''We'll show thatwe've eXhuasted our judicial remedies,and will have ~omake our case throughthe legislative process," he said.

Meanwhile, at the Cook CountyMarriage License Bureau in Chicago,same-sex couples spent three hoursdemanding-that clerks issue them mar-riage licenses, according to OutlinesNews Service. The clerks said no, butactivists attracted reporters from nearlyevery news outlet in the city. No lawsuitshave been filed. .

Dean, 27, a Long Island native, andGill, 23, formerly of Queens, have beenliving together in Dupont Circle for nearlyfour years,

''We're getting married anyway, mar-riage license or not," Dean said, mention-Ing a planned holy union ceremony,"The bottom line is that Pat add I loveeach othet" he dec1ared,,

"I wish that they had held back andWorked with the rest of us in pursuit of anatlona,l strategy, because bad law does 'not advance our interests," Stoddardconcluded,

"I'm not going to degrade my rela-tionship by not trying to avail myself ofeverything I believe we're entitled to,"countered Dean. "What if 30 years ago,'someone had said, 'No, Rosa, don't ridein the front of the bus?'"'Y

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FBI director wb;o is suspected of being ahomosexual has gone to Congress to try

: to destroy our greatestcivil rights lead~r by'portraying him~s a, homosexual."

So,.goes African-American syndi-cated,colu.Qlnist Carl Rowan's reminis-

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Rooney :!hatthe FBI, undet the directionof J. Edgar Hqover, ~ade secret tapesportraying a gay relationship betweencivil r~ghts heroes Martin Luther Kingand lWph Abe~thy.

Rowan's new memoir, BreakingBarrif!rs" reportedly describes a 1964meeting between Rowan and Rooney,the lawmaker who chaired the powerfulsubCommittee that oversaw the FBI.Thaes when Rooney, a friend of Hoover,told Rowan about ,the existence of tapes

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contammg son:te pretty racy conversa-tion, 'according to Richard Prince, aBlack co)umnist with the Rochester,Ttmes-unton, who obtained a draft copyof the tome., On, one· of the tapes, according to

RooneY, King said to Abernathy; "Comeon over here, you big Black mother-fuck~r, and .let mesµck your dick,"Rowan wrote in his book. ' '

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sistent, target of an extensive FBI investi-gation that sought to undermine hisleadership standing, ~d it is likely thatHoover would have seen allegations of

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Ironically, a tell-all autobiographyby Abernathy published last year stirredup controversy by painting King as a

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his wife Coretta the night before he waskilled. Hoover is widely believed to 'have been ,~closeted gay man. I

Since then,allegations, thatKing plagiarizedparts of his doc-

toral thesis have left many King adrilir-ers of all races sensitive about eventhose criticisms of the fallen leaderbeyond the scope of the FBI., .

,And even Rowan reportedly hassome doubt about the existence of suchtapes. According to Prince, the two sur-viving members of Rooney's subcom-mittee said that they had never heardallegations that King was gay.

"There's no evidence that anythingactually took place," pointed out Princein a phone interview from his Rochesteroffice. "No oq,e knows what the tone ofthe remarks were, whether it was saidas a joke, or who was speaking."

He added, "Even after all of thoseallegations of womanizing, not one wo-man has come forward after all this time."

Under court order, the 'FBI turned, ,

its secret tapes of King over to theNational Archives in 1977, where theywill remain sealed until the year 2027,according to Outlines News Service.

The book is not due out until mid-December, and Rowan isn't, talking,beforehand. But a spokesperson for hispublish~, Little, Brown, and Co., said, "Ihope that this does create a bit of a stir,because that will create iilterest.»

Meanwhile, excerpts are set toappear in Vogue and Ebony. BLK, anational magazine for the Black lesbianand gay community, published a newsstory by Prince about the book in itsOctober issue,~,

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,As a joumalist, publisher Alan Bellhad,some reservations about printing.material about Dr. King that was likelyto causea stir.in his magazine;BLK.' , I;~

Bell pOinfed out that although ,several dozen sets of galleySare'in cir-culation, only one columnist has Cho-sen to write about it. "H~s everybodyelse interpreted it differently thanPrince has, or is everybody justafraid?" he wondered in a telephoneinterview from his LosAngeles office.

"The whole thing may be a fab- .ric;:ation, anyway," he added."Certainly, it's not beyond theresources of our federal agencies tomake up things that they want to betaken as truth." • •

And reaction to the news was·likely to be anything but apathetic. "Itwould be nice to know someone asrespected as Dr. King would have hadgay relationships, if thafs the case. ButI fear that people might use somethinglike this iria negativecontext."

Reaction from his gay reader-ship was mote difficult to guess. "Dr.

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"Most African Americans will ., ,

see this as one more attempt by theman to demolish one more of ourheros. Considering the source, Ithink that will probably be the per-ception by Black lesbians and gaymen as well," he told OutWeek.

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umbrella organization of the departtnents':hopor, ethnic and religious groups, aI two-week ultimatum to respond to itsrequest for aclmlssion before taking steps,to force the Societies' hand

The Gay Officers Ac;:tlonLeague isthe only, one of 22 fraternal groups withinthe NYPD not to be affiliated with COPS, ,

and has spent the last year requestingadmittance. Its correspondence withCOPS has been Ignored, or, alternatively,. action on its application has been post-

. poned. GOAL was told that its applica-tion could not be considered during thesummer as COPS' executive board was Inrecess for three months,,

'But according to Donald Jirak,deputy executive director of GOAL,and alieutenant at the 13th Precinct In Murray

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GOAL's executive board is due to,

meet with various headsof the NYPD next week, to appraise, them of their position. The ex~tive,

director of GOAL,Sam Ciccone, said:"We want to wait until after thisbefo~ doing anything. But ifwithin a"couple of weeks they say no, we aregOing to have to fake some steps." '

Ciccone would not specifywhat action GOAL would take but

., did say that the NYPD would be Inconflict with its credo of nondiscrim-

• ination if it supported an organiza-tion that dlscriminates, "NYPD pro-videsservices to COPS thatenhances its functioriing. This couldopen up all sorts of problems if

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that GOAL could expect a responseto its letter of Nov. 17 sometime In- mid-December. A vote on GOAL'srequest for admission will be takenat COPS's Jan~ meeting, 'Meanwhile, reports'ln New York

'Newsday that fwe member organizationsof COPS threatened to withdraw if GOALis excluded have been denied by thepresidents of those groups, The ShomrlnSociety of JeWish police officers, whichwas reported to have supported GOAL,has In fact voted against GOAL'smember-ship. The president of Shomrin said that Itwas avel)' sensitive ~e anQ "basically amatter of endorsement," I

, The Viking Society of Scandanavianofficers, which also reportedly threatenedto withdraw from COPS in support ofGOAL, has ,not taken a vote on the issue,said its president, Kenneth Hansen, "Wehaven't even spoken with anyone fromGOAL,"he added, .

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lilian Braxton, who' is also head ofthe Policewortten's Endowment Associ-ation, which was said to have backedGOAL, told OutWeek that no one threat-ened to pull out of COPS. "No vote hasbeen taken yet, and the information thathas been reported is erroneous," she said

it COPS was formed In 1985, replacingBrotherhood-In-Action, which was dis-banded after it refused to admit the gayofficers' group. Its membership consists ofthe presidents and vice presidents of 21of the 22 religious, ethnic and fraternalsocietites within the police departme:nt

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The newly elected openly lesbianstate assemblywoman in Maine, DaleMcCormick, spoke for many of thoseinterviewed when she said; "The net-working .., and the personal support .. ,[were] the best part."

With most of the time put aside for"caucusing," the conference was designedfor discussion by the 40 elected officialsand 60 appointed officials. Peg Conway,the director of the Philadelphia Mayor's

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Caucuses existed for elected officials,for appointed officials and for activists. A, lesbian caucus was formed during thelesbian workshop, "Still Invisible ~ AllThese Years?' "Is there a separate lesbianagenda? Women feel we do a lot of workorganizing in this community, and that

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Edward Stapel, a founder of the GayUnion in Germany, offered the keynoteaddress, "The situation of lesbians andgay men in Eastern Europe has changedonly a little bit: We only have anotheradversary," he said. Since'the fall'1989revolutions, the "people [are] electlingl ...conservatives into the political offices.Progressive ideas don't have any chan~

after the perversion of socialism by theEastern Europe Communist parties,"Nothing the "economic wall" which sepa-rates Eastern Europe from Western and

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QUEEN(S): Claire Shulman, Queensborough president, has hired a lesbianand gay community liaison: G;uy Maffei,executive director of the AIDS Center of .Queens COunty. Perhaps the Beep will 'now join her colleagues Fernando Ferrer(the Bronx) and Ruth Messinger(Manhattan) in endorsing the domesticpartnership legislation now before the citycouncil. ...

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, stunned the world ,by :resigning after winning the •firSt round of vote-of-con" •fidence balloting, the :board of dire.ctors at •GMHC completed its own : ,.parliilmer'ltary wrangling, • GARY MAFFEIafter which President Joy • ,

, , •Tomchin seems to have •quit her job without losing • AIDS FOR A DAY:While Dec. 1 mar1<edWorfd AIDS Day andthe election. : A Day Without Art, Nov. 29 was Women and AIDS Day in

.by ANDREW MILLER According to a press • Manhatlan, thanks to Borough President Ruth MesSinger. She was. statement, Tomchin was : joined at a press conference by eight women "infected with, and

, reelected for a third term "but at her request will selVe only six • affected by, AIDS" to highlight the plight of one of the fastest-grow-months." In the interests of smooth sailing, her successor, current • ing populations affected by the epidemic.Second Vice President Jeff Soref, has already been selected to fill: Quick on the draw with those community-based proclamations,out the one-year term. • our best friend in city government had also declared Community

Seem odd? Well,' it is. A faithful "Rim Shots" sGurce close to : Health Project Day at a fund-raiser for the gay community clinic tenthe board cut through the PR fog. After numerous tie votes and a • days e8r1ier.four:hour meeting, the 18 board members compromised: : 'Tomchin and Soref each got half. A unique solution unavailable to • TIMES CHANGE: Under pressure from the NYC Humanthe Iron Lady. . • 'Rights Commission, the paper of record has begun to permit any

: person who places a paid obituary to state the cause of death., ' ,

''US HOOSIERS, WE EAT": But when rotund special guest • Previously, only funeral homes or an immediate family memberNYC Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers arrived at GMHC's : could provide.such information, often leaving friends and lovers ofjacket-and-tie President's Luncheon on Wed., Nov. 28, he was • out-and-proud people with AIDS in the lurch.greeted at the entrance to the HalVard Club by a faithful cadre qf : _ While TheNew York Times began calling us "gay" some timeAIDS activists before he could make it to the table. • ago, the lovers of lesbians and gay men are still referred to in code

ACT UP members, long-standing critics of the former Indiana • throughout the paper. Some things never change ....'health chiefs record on AIDS and his handling of this city's crisis, :' I

also had some choice words for GMHC. ' • I CAME, I SAW, IRAQ: Openly gaY, lawmakers Barney 'Fran~, Just the day before, reps from each group stood side-by-side . :' and Gerry Studds of Massachusetts ~re among the gaggle of

, ,at a press conference announcing a joint lawsuit against the • Democratic congressmen and -women suing President Georgestate's health commissioner, David Axelrod, for his involvement : Bush in an attempt to insure that the conflict in the Persian Gulfin securing state funds for anti-gay AIDS hospices run by the • escalates only with Congressional approval. 'CathOlic church. ' ' '. Meanwhile, the Faculty Senate of John Jay College of Griminal

And GMI:lC spokesperson Geoffrey Knox said rumors that the : Justice is asking the City University of New York, of which it is aagency lirst in the fight against AIDS has invited US Secretary of • branch, to kick ROTC off its campus once and for all. The Senate,Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan to be guest of honor : prompted by the college's, Lambda Club, objects to ROTC's dis-at an upcoming reception for donors are without basis. • crimination against lesbians and gay men.

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, OXFORD, Ala.-Arizona nativeBObAxe!t<;>nhas called this city of 9,000"n.6me" 'for the past three years. Lately,though, thiS city of churches and fast-food restaUrants has been less than gra-cious since the 28-year-old gay man,decided to 0per1 an AIDSClinic.When it, begins offerihg medic~l treatment onDec. 4, the clinic, ASKInc., will become,the f6urth rurai AIDSclinic in the nation ', and Ala~'s second.

Controversy over the clinic-AIDS'through Support and Knowl.edge-

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public meeting that he should go else-where. Ironically, the meeting's pur-pose was for 'Axelton and his staff toeducate the city's police, frre and res-cue' wo.:kers·abQut HIV infection. Butnot much educating' got done. Themayor told Axelton: ,"I'm not going to, promise',you that we'll be friendly., Usually,we're friendly to' people inthis town." ,

, .- Smith wasn't the onlY' hostileOxford denizen at the nieetiµg. Someresj~ents who live near the clinic, justa few doors down from' City Hall and, around the comer from the police sm-, tion, said, that they 'feared homosexu-als roaming" their neighborhoods' andpreyiPg on their children. Others said,that they were afra,id garbage from theclinic would infect them, ", ' As of ,February, the Centers forDisease Control tracked 2,800 cases ofAIDS in towns With fewer than 100,000people. Epidemielogists and healthcare workers are concerned about therate 'of increase in rural areas, In'Ge~~gia, rural, AIDS cases :,ire increas-ing at eight tiril~s the rate of ur~ancases, according to Dr. Barbara Hanna,an infectious disease specialist andvolunteer at the Oxford clinic.

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In Alab,ama, there are 867 AIDScases. But the Alabama Department ofPublic Health estiIpates that there are10 untested I-llV-antibody positive indi-viduals for everyone person withAIDS in the Slate.

To date, over 2,000 Alabamanshave te~ted p.ositive for antibodies toHIV. Axelton is among them. Hetested positive in 1985, when therewere no AIDS services available inoutlying areas. Facing AIDS,AxeltoQ set up the clinic. "I quitnursing school because I couldn'tdeal with death and dying,"Axelton says. "How ironic."

Clearly, the myth of innocentcountry life untouched by whatmany rural residents see as tp,es'<;ourges of cities-homosexualsand drugs is being shattered byAIDS. Most people with AIDS inAlabama are wl¥te, male and gay.Alarmingly,fhese small townsy.,-Oxford among' them---':lack theknowledge and facilities to combat, ,

the disease. S6me say that it wouldbe ftne if all Axelton did was coun-sel people with AIDS, as he did BOB AXELTON-Clinic Defenderfrom his home for three years.'Now that he plans to offer medical'treatment and to test for HIV antibQ!1-ies, some want him gone. "[Peoplewith AIDS] are going to shop at our 'malls, they're going to eat at ourrestaurants," says one Oxford policeofficer. "Red Lobster-I wonder howtQ;ey're going to feel knowing they'regoing to be serving these people." '

But there are those who disagree.Carolyn Thornton, whose elderly auntand uncle live next-door to the clinic,say:sihat the facility is needed. Still,along with many city residents whoapprove ofAxelton's work, she distin-guishes between AIDS' "innocent vic-tims" children, transfusion recipi-

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Although members of the rescuesquad say that' they treat those with,HIV infection compassionately, the

, ,police are openly hostile. They resentAxelton's refusal to give the depart-ment a list of his clients. They refuse toaccept what Hanna told them at theNov. 7 meeting, that they are in con-tact with people with AIDS every day."I don't think it's right thin they can'tlet-us know who' we need to be scaredof and who we don't,'! one police offi-cer says. "These people are dying.They don't care who they infect."

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~ night of remember-C!! ing, a night ~f cele-! bratlon; Hun-dreds~ marched, as theyd! have ever year since II

'1978, from San, Francisco's Castro dis-, ,

trict to CIty Hall, to remember Harvey Milkand Ge<?rge Moscone, '

It was not only a night to rememberSan FranciSco's flJ'St'openly gay superv.isorand a mayor who was a friend to the com-munity. It was also a time to 'celebrate whatIs being called the "Lavender Sweep,' Inlast month~ elections, two lesbians, CafoleMigden and Roberta Achtenberg, were

, elected to the Board of Supervisors; TomAm-miano, a gay man, was elected to theboard of education; and adomestic Parttlers Initiativewas passed,

The emphasis on cel-ebration changed the char-acter of this year's event:The ma'fch began with thesound of whistles and'shouting,

Instead of a somber,single drummer tappingout a dirge; the entire San.Francisco Lesbian !lI1d Gay~rching Band stirred thecrowd with the strains of~Callfomia, Here I Come.', ,

When the march arrived atCity Hall, the band greetedthe arriving participantswith "If My Friends CouldSee Me Now."• •

,For Brianne Connell,it was her night to ri1ake a.personal dec1aratio~ ofcomiOg out as she' directedthe band. It was her very , ,

fltSt time as the drum major Graffito in the Castro 1990, ,

,old from Altoona, Pa. "The only thing hehas to look forward to is hope," Milk said In1978, "And you have to give him hop~:hope for a better world, hope for a bettertomorrow, hope for a better place to cometo If the pressures at,home are too great,hope that Itwill ~ all right"

That young man from Altoona, whowas 16 them, would now be 28 y~rs old.Today he may be a gay activist He may bea person like Jonathan Katz,

Katz lived In Washington, DC, until ayear ago. Now 32, he remembers how helearned of Milk'Il death. "I saw a piece ofgraffiti In Dupont Circle," Katz recalled; "Itsaid: 'Harvey Milk still lives. Dan Whitewill die." That was the beginning of mypoliticallzatlon, "

,Tuesday night, Katz was one of the•people from Queer Nation caayIng the ban-ner at the front of the,

march. The banner hadrecently been returned l'by police after an c!overzealous security itguard snatched It at a :!crulse-In-klss-In In a ~ ,suburban shopping cen-ter near Stanford Uni-versity In Palo Alto,

This march definedthe changing of roles forour community leaders,One of those Is Milkprot~g~'Cleve Jones., Each year, since 1978,Jones has organized andled this march. Standingat the lead, he used abullhorn to direct thepartidpants as they'took

Iover Market Street.The bullhorn be-

longed to Milk. H~ usedit to speak at Countlessrallies and dem'onstra-tions. For those who

for an all-gay group, What did she dobefore? Well, for six years, she was the leaddrum major for the University of California. \

marching band, "A marked contrast to the festive mood

was the presence of hundreds of candles.Many who had walked In this march everyyear were InIt1allyshocked at the seeminglack of respect for the dead, .

Iri fact, the joyous atmosphere was thehighest forM of praise for Milk andMoscone, slain 12 years ago to the day bythe bullers fiI:ed by colleague and adversary,SupelVisor DanWhite, It was also significantbecause It strongly signalled the arriva1 of anew generation of gay men and lesbians,

The world of Harvey Milk was,theworld of "the gay community." The worldof 1990 is very definitely "queer."

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As the' march began to move downMarket Street, Jones handed the bullhorn, toBen QuIson, That gesture indicat,ecia trans-fer of power as significaqt asthe November elections.Carlson, 27, works in SanFrancisco at MobilizationAgainst AIDS, writes a columnsummarizing the events of the, local GLAADchapter and is an 'active member of QueerNation. '

"I turned it around andaimed it at my head like at,gun so I could hear the,march echoing inside, like aseashell. I held it up in front ..of City Hall imagining Milk's ~, ghost speaking through it to- the crowd,· he said, Next '.year, Carlson may be the ._______ '" ,

organizer of this march and it Remembering Ha1Vay Milk, SF City Hall, 1990.will- be he, a member of ' . ,Queer Nation" cany-ing the bullhorn. Last Tuesday night, Craig stepped up

For more than a decade, Hany Britt to the microphone as Commissioner Craig",has been the lone elected spokesperson for one of the five-member Police-gay men and lesbians in City Hall, In Commission that overSees the cops. ThisJanuary, that changes with the arrival of African-American lesbian from AtlantaMigden and Achtenberg, The power and now uses her power on that commissionthe voice of the gay community-will now to fight for her community. She was heck-be shared in the halls 'of city government led because, in 1990, the crowd demands

, Migden spoke to the future as she' that she one of us account for theaddressed the crowd at City Hall. She Said riotous behavior of the police at an ACTthat the arrival of the two means "fabulous UP rally on Oct. 6, 1990. ,thin8' for women." The community agenda The march was also a time for peoplewill continue to expand.

Britt continues to hold office,though he now takes on the role ofstatesman" This, in itself, is significant.Our community has produced very few'who can be looked upon as veneratedleaders, Britt is,as he was Tuesday night,the link to the real world of Harvey Milk.It is he who bridges the Milk legacy tothe world of today,' ' ,

Milk was the first openly gay elected Iiofficial in San Francisco. At about 10:30that fateful morning, Dan,White enteredthe office of then-Mayor Moscone.Following an argument with the pro-gaymayor, White shot him sev:eral times, Hethen went across the hall to Milk's office,where Harvey, too, was murdered. Withtheir deaths, it seemed the hope of a com-munity had also been snuffed out by thebullets fired by White, a former SanFrancisco police officer,

In 1978, Gwenn Craig chaired San Ha1Vey and constituents at 1978Castro St Fair

Franciscans Against Prop 6. The group wasformed by Milk to successfully fight'the,Brigs's Initiative, a statewide anti-gay ballotproposition. At the time, the cops were theprimary enemy of the gay community.

to reach out and graB a piece of our his-tory; which has been captured by RobEpstein, who won an Oscar for '!be 7Ymesof Harvey Milk, In that film, a young gayschool-teacher remembers those years. As

he stepped to the pOdiulllTuesday, that school-teacher, TomAmmiano, spoke as the highestvote getter in the recent election lfor members of the city's board of .C!education.

ile written words of authcRandy Shilts in his book, TheMa}w of Castro Street, gave us apennanent journal of our history,too. In 1918, ~e was the onlyperson chronicling our story forthe mainstream press. One of R!Ymost vivid memories of thatweek was Shilts sitting in a boxseat in ,the San Francisco OperaHouse describing MUk's funeralfor the live cameras of the cityPBS station, KQED.

As Shilts and -Epsteinmarched to City Hall, they reminded us thata history of our community continues todevelop. Our historians have increased,and our visibility is, as Harvey MUk hadcfreamed, everywhere,

As the evening came to an end, theburning candles were placed on a nearbystatue of Abraham IJncoln. Iremember thenight in 1978 when I sat across from CityHall and watched what seemed like mil-lions of candles burning, not only on the

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Civic Center and saw not only the can~\ I dles but also our future. I saw a new,, younger generation of vibrant, enthusi-astic and questioning queers. Theymarch not behind the banners of tradi-tional gay political clubs, Instead; theycarry high the banners of groups likeQueer Nation, the ,Gay Asian PacificAlliance and Act up, ', Yes, itwas a night to remember, butit was also a night to celebrate, And whatbetter way than to dance our way out ofthe Civic Center, as we did, to the strainsof Madonna's "Vogue.' That sign inDupont Circle is probably long gone,though the relevancy of the message con-tinues: "Harvey MUksti1llives,·...

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~ shocked that Gov.~ Mario, Cuomo~ received only 53'I percent of the~ ,vote in a nonde-~ , sCnptfield in hisif ' ,re-election race, ,... ~ "'....,. I

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"Lesbians and Gays for Cuomo" .litera-·fure. It lists co-chairs, regional co-chairs,and regional contacts. The names lookgr:eat on paper, but there was'no cam-paign. The literature was mailed'to veryselect gay political ,lisis.' There was nodistribution in 'the bars or discos or inSheridan Square, no ads in the gay

I.'press, People who accept responsibilityshould do more than just see to it that 'their names and those of their friendsappear on literature unless, of course,the entire exercise is 'a sham. This.kindof mirior job does not do our commu-nity proud, If you look at the campaignin the gay community as an example, itmay explain the governor's poor show-ing in "the election. Someone in thegovernor's office is asleep at the wheel.

The domestic partnership bill wasintroduced in the City Council on Nov.,20. The legislation has ten Councilsponsors, the comptroller and the bor-'ough presidents of Manhattan and theBronx: It's a rough road ahead-first

. hearings are needed, then a vote bythe General Welfare Committee and, ifif passes there, then a vote by the fullCouncil. If it fails in committee, we can. ,

move for a diScharge. For those whofollowed the gay rights bill through its

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from Manhattan and Abe Gerges from;Brooklyn. Gerges will be leaving theCouncil next, month and will bereplaced on the General Welfare Com-mittee at the whim of the Councilmajority leader. The chair of the com-mittee, Sam Horwitz from Brooklyn, isundecided, and Councilman JoseRivera from the Bronx is a questionmark. Defmite "nons are Walter Ward(straight out of Night of the living,

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Dead) from Queens and our archfoeNoach Dear from Brooklyn.

At a Gay and Lesbian IndependentDemocrats meeting on Nov, 14, it wasstated by Family Diversity Coalition'sco-chair Liz Schalet that there would beno chief sponsor per se of the legisla-tion-sponsors would, be listed alpha-betically, Thus South Brooklyn Council-man Steve DiBrienza would be the firstname listed and would have the privi-,

leges of a chief sponsor. But on Nov.20, when the bill was introduced, itwas announced that CouncilwomanCarolyn Maloney was the chief spon-sor. When !lSked, Schalet said that Mal-oney insisted on it. So much for com-munity input and self-determination.

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The speaker, Peter Vallone, is theone we have to get to on this bill. Hislegal office issued a memorlµldum tothe bill's sponsors that "weigh heavilyagainst tht: legislation'S pass~ge."These considerations are 1) state pre-emption and 2) economic impact. Val-lone mouthpiece Peg Breen says: "Thestate has done so much legislation inthis area, it would be unconstitutionalfor us to consider it. We cannot changeor modify state law."

We all know that this bill doesnothing to change or mooify state law.,The legislation would only be endow-jng domestic partners with a right notto be discriminated against on the basisof their marital status, and then only .with respect to tht:ir deaIiOgs with thecity as employer, provider of servicesor operator of programs. This is totallyallowable: The Council is not attempt-ing to "endow" domestic partners withany of the federal or state legal rightsgranted to married persons. Peg Breen,was much more credible as co-host ofInside Albany than as mouthpiece forPeter Vallone, I wonder if she has••• IN8IDBA 'JRADINq Oil page 38

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Iwas driving in Beverly Hills in late~o~r, when I looked up and saw

Christmas decorations strung across 'the. ., ,

street between light poles, It wasunnerving because it ,:w-asso unexpect-ed, TniditionalIy, I have preparedmyself emotionally for about 30 daysof intense bombardment that beginsafter Thanksgiving. This year, with talkof a I'ecession and, potential conflict inthe Middle ~, retailers want an even

,gr~ater opportut),jty to hawk, their. .\ . ., ware~;"which is why Santa and hissleigh of reindeer and gatherings. ofquistmas qroUers incongruouslyspanned Santa Monica Boulevard on asmoggy 8O-degree October afternoon.. As I thought about the winter holi-

days that are celebrated in this country,I reali,zed how conSistently th~y arebased on oppressive values. Having aholiday to celebrate Christopher Colum-bus is as appropriate as designating aday to f}QnorWrongway Corrigan, thepilot;:who ended I,1pin Europe by mis-take. As Native Americans. who were,

already here would attest, "Columbus,

did not discover the Americas!" And ifEuropeans were ignorant of the NorthAmerican continent's existence, mistak-enly calling Native Ameneans "Indians"is n~ emctly wprth,y of celebration.

Veteran's Day has become anotherexcuse for' establishing a three-dayweekend. Like the May Day celebra-tionsthat have traditionally been heldin Red Square in Moscow, this holidayis an excuse for pr-opaganda 90, behalf'of war. With troops ,presently in theMiddle East to "liberate Kuwait" from,

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their land, using their supplies, healingremedies and agricultural techniques tosurvive the' winter and then givingthanks to "God" .for their endurance.

While even most. Christians arehard-pressed to remember the religiousorigins of the Christmas holiday, thedeluge of Christmas carols and seculardecorations totally ignore the possibilityof non-Christian observances that arealso part of the, December calendar.J<;!wishpeople, fOT ex.lI.mp1.e,observe'Chanukah, the FeStival of Lights. Thisholiday celebrates the resistances ofJews in the Temple, where ~e lampsdid not go out despite a shortage of oil.

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Many African Americans observeKwanzaa, a seven-day festival using'the Seven Princj.ples and modeled onharvest celebrations in Africa. TheSeven Principles are Umoja, (unity),KujichaguJia (self-determination),Ujima (collective work and responsibil-ity), Ujamaa (cooperative economics),Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity) andlmani' (faith). Each family creates analtar on a straw mat with red, blackand green candles and fruits wherethey gather and discuss one principleeach night. .Gifts appropriate for thespecific principle are exchanged:

Many of the symbols associatedwith Christmas were appropriated' fromthe pagan winter-solstice rituals, whereholly, ivy and mistletoe were as com-mon as wit~hes 'gathered around thefire. Like Halloween, when childr.endress in witch costumes but fail to,

honor their contributions to the originsof the holiday. the winter solstice is no,longer an important annual marker onthe calendar. Instead, the persecutionof witches and the ignorance of theircraft continue in this country.,

In a time when so many oppres-sive forces continue to operate withthe full knowledge and support of theso-called Moral Majority, I am hard-pressed to find a reason to celebrate.The recent electoral results around this'country affirm that issues of concern togay men and lesbians, people of color,environmentalists and others are beingsacrificed so that tax increases will notaffect those who already possess a dis-, '

proportionate share of the resources.~ere in C;tlif'Qrnia,another Republicanwas elected to the governor's office,and voter referenda that would protectthe environment or provide additional

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Friday morning, Nov. 9.<I was suppa;ed 10

be going down to Wdshington for the 1001AIDS dink:aI TIiaI 'Group ineeting, but first I "went 10~itAIdo (mking the wrath of !.anyKramer, whose departure was one hour latedue to my detour) at the PS 122 Gallery,~ Ray !)ad three. photos and an essay inthe A"'9' of lDfms show. We put roses in avase underneath the stark black-and-whitephotos eX Ray's wheelchair, walker and cane,Overnight, a crucifix had fallen from theART+ panel and Was lying IIat on its back.

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skunks, at a. garden party. Skirmishesbetween ~ and ACf UP continued ,at;the March meeting, culminated at the. ,May 21 ·Storm the NIH" demo and ulti-mately won NIAID's assent to unlimited

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and scientists got to see for themselvesthe industrial-strength force of ACf UPdoing its job. Almost invariably,' theactivists asked the best questions. It was abizarre anthropological spectacle.

••••"The AC7t7' is a flexible, well-oiled

machine running efficiently ... but theneeds of the Institute are different from,, those of the AC7t7 investigators. We needthe flexibility of a contract mechaniSm."-Peter Gomatos, Associate Director,Treatment Research Program, Division o~AIDS, NIAID

Perhaps one reason the onslaught ofactivist observers failed to generate more'friction was the distraction of the ACfGinvestigators ,by NIAID'l! ,restructuring,

plan. NIAID had hit them where ithurts-in the pocketbook. Be~auseresearch monies are unlikely to increaseSignificantly, each of NIAID~snew plansthreatens the autonomy of the ACfG sys-tem as run up to now. Here are the high-lights of the plan:

1. The Division of AIDS (DAIDS)Initiative. Starting next year, NIAID will,begin awarding contracts (rather than the ,ACTG,cooperative agreement) to appli-cants who agree to undertake fast studiesof either a) treatments in community use,regardless of scientific merit (examplesgiven included hyperthermia, oral inter-feron and compound Q), or b) phase-one studies of promising new agents.The ,principal investigators of the ACfGdon't mind losing what they disparaging-. Iy refer to as ·debunking studies"(although their studies of useless drugssuch as dextran sulfate orAL-721 havebeen helpful in changing patterns ofcommunity use, but their results werenot well publicized), but they are out-

, .'raged at the possibility of lOSingfIrst shotat new phase-one trials. They haveapproximately one year to prove thatthey are capable of carrying out phase-one trials rapidly enough to satisfy thecommunity, industry and NIAID. '

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Clinical Trials Units (ACIUs) come up forrecompetition. Sites will have to {'rovethat they can enroll a certain number ofsubjects. Thereafter, funding Will be tiedto performance. Core grants will beawarded to fund staff and services, andincentive funds will be a~ded to sitesenrolling the best and doing the, bestwork. Investigators are panicky and irate.The acting head for NIH is said to beintrigued by this appro;tch, which, if itworks, may transform other NlH-fund,edfields as well. In an era when overall(biomedical funding is imperiled, it makessenSe to tty to get a bigger bang for thesame amount of money.

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In sununary, NIAID is Undertaking tofund competition for the ACfG. From our'standpoint, the most important missingelements of the plan are:. 1) Who willdetermine what research is fundedthrough the DAIDS initiative? and 2) Howwill these contracts be designed andawarded? Extensive community involve-ment is a prerequisite for success here.

On Monday, Nov. 12, ACT UPunveiled i~s ·Countdown 18 Months" 'plan, a project designed to make the fIvemajor opportunistic infections, or DIs,treatable and preventable by May 1992.The next night, over 150 representativesfrom the drug companies, FDA and NIHattended a planning meeting sponsoredby ACf UP. The outgoing chair of the 01Committee, John Mills, told me that theywould consider rewriting the missionstatement of the 01 committee in light ofthe recommendations of ACf UP. Over

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" ,Shering compound SCH 42427 for main-tenance therapy. They are also discussinga concept sheet for steroids in acute CM.

Other studies being discussedinclude BV-ara-U for herpes zoster (shin-gles), topical trifluorothymidine ()'FI') foracycloyir-resistant herpes, c1arithromycin I(for mycoplasma fermentans/incongnitus,and ACfG 145, a comparison of penicillinBwith ceftrlaxone for neurosyphilis.

There were several rounds offarewell speeches to Qutgoing OI commit-tee chair John Mills of UCSF.In his threeyears at the helm, Mills took a virtuallymonbund committee with only 20 peoplein its ~, established 8 Pathogen StµdyGroups (PSGs) ,to divide up the various .OIsjthe PSGs generated scores of con-cept sheet~, and their trials now haveover 2,600 participants. At the same time,unrelenting (and still ongoing) pressurefrom the community forced MAID to takeOls more seriously, and NIAID in turnforced the ACfG Executive Committee to

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Johnston died after living with AIDS forthree years. He was 39 years old.

,Oliver was many things to manypeople: a loyal friend, a loving son andsibling, a supporter of his neighborhoodand his community. Forthose who knewhim, he will be sorely missed. But to thelesbian and gay community, he will be,rememb(lred as.a part-of ou~,history.

SiX months before ACT UP was, ,

born, a group of six gay men decided tomeet on a weekly basis to discuss theissues ~surrounding being gay in the ageof AIDS. Each session inevitably led to a'political discussion. It ,was an unav~id~able part of our reality: AIDS was a politi-cal crisis. We decided to create a posterto address this reality and, after muchhaggling, came up with Silence = Death.By the time ACT UP was planning its firstdemonstration, Silence = Death posterswere being wheat-pasted all over the city.

During the third or fourth ACT UPmeeting, someone asked if anyone knewanything .about the posters. Oliver and Ilooked at each other. "Should we tellthem we did it?" I asked, not wanting to,compromise our agreed-on anonymity.

, O!ive,rquickly decided. that we shouldand stood IJp to claim the poster onbeh~lf of the Silence = Death .Project.That.wasc the beginning of our symbiosiswith ACT UP. .'-I' Oliver helped *to forge the AlPSactivist community as we now know it.Even while waging· his own struggleswith .the disease, he was committed to

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arms Silence = Death, we will alwaysthink of our friend and comrade Oliver.

there will be a memorial service"onWed., Dec. 12, from 5:30-7:30 pm, in theauditorium;of the Lesbian and GayCommunity Services Center; 208 W. 13th

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.James' H. BlackBorn Ap~1 2, '1936, in Malone, NY,

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James devoted most of his life to I

music and music education. For sevenyears, he was assistant director ofeducation of the Metropolitan Opera'Guild; sang with the NYC Gay Men'sChorus, performing as a soloist inAlice Tully Hall, St. John the Divine andthe Kennedy Center; performed asbass so.loist with Pan Am's Chorus,Angelorum in churches ,and basilicasthroughout 't~e world; His family,friends and fellow chorus members'will miss his unique creativity in plan-ning parties, travels and events so thateach became a fantasy never to be for-gotten. He never lost the ability to playand generously,love.He j9yfully ,andmagically moved us all to join nim inthe grand party of life.

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A memorial celebrationservice will beheld on Sat., Jan. 12, 1991., from2:30-5:30 pm at The Society of FriendsMeeting House, 15 Rutherford PI. In lieu Offlowers, please send donations to:' HighPeaksHospice, POBox 131, SaranacLake,'NY, 12983; Visiting Nurse'Service HospiceCare, 350 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10118; orGod's Love We Deliver, POBox 1776, OldChelseaStation, NY,NY10113-0945.

James: We becamea family united inlove. Life with you was a constant explo-ration of new vistas. You had a vision ofwhat could be, and you would take usthere. The world was fuller, grander andmore joyful for being with you. You are inmy bones, in every bird song, in everydance and in every flower. Every, Thanksgiving will be a celebration of yourlife. I love and cherish you.

-Harold Kooden

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A memorial for Vito Russo will beheld at 12:30 pm on Thurs., Dec. 20, atthe Great Hall of Cooper Union (7th St. atThird Ave., New York). '

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trouble sleeping a,tnight.,The domestic partnership legisla-

tion is our gay rights bill of the '90s.It's 'an issue of simple fairness for us,but the benefits will extend not only tolesbian and gay couples but also tosenior citi,zens,people with disabilities,unmarried heterosexual couples andthose who are economically disadvan-taged. It's a bill all people of goodconscience can endorse.

The Council sponsors are SteveDiBrienza and Abe Gerges fromBrooklyn, Julia Harrison from Q\leensand the entire, Manhattan contingent:Robert Dryfoos, Ronnie Eldridge, C.Virginia Fields, Miriam Frie91ander,Carolyn Maloney, Stanley Michels andthe benumbed Carol Greitzer. T

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revenues for social service programswere soundly defeated.

For many of us, the holiday sea-son is a time of immersion in familyand spiritual traditions that may ignore,rather than celebrate, the daily realityof our liv~ as lesbians and gay men.From ignoring holiday gatherings with-, "in our community, such as a GayMen's Chorus holiday concert, to sub-tle family pressure not to bring a loveralong to family gatherings, it ,is,oftenapparent that the "peace on earth andgoodwill" extends only to heterosexu- .al, white, Christian men, I am hopefulthat the focus can shift from franticholiday spending and partying to ayear-round attitude of acceptance ofthose who are different and a generos-ity of spirit that would make possiblethe development of creative ~lutionsto the problems that nobody deserves:AIDS, breast cancer, homelessness,smog and all forms of oppression.Then tµere would truly be cause tocelebrate.T

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blood values are a hallmark of AIDS,they will no longer be grounds for exclu-sion. Yet, despite all this progress, itremains to be seen whether most ACIUsare truly committed to conducting theexpensive, labor-intensive 01 studies asfast as they must be done.

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Organizers of the 1991 FourthAnnual Black Gay and Lesbian leadershipConference expect 1,000 conferees this ,year during the mid-February event 'in ~Angeles., The conference will include anarts festival and workshops on topics,

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Fomml believes that Essence has discrimi-natory practices, be(:aU5e we have dealtwith many articles and issues that face'the gay and lesbian community," saidCarc)l Patterson, spokesperson, forEssence. According to Patterson, Essencewill. run the, ad in the magazine's

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The conference began in 1985 inwest Hollywood and has taken place inWashington, DC, Minneapolis; San Diego;and Madison, WIS, In 1987, the 'officialsalso developed a statement whicq wasadopted again this year. '

The statement offers a progressiveviewpoint on gay and 'lesbian activism,with coinmitments to "reach for what weneed rather than settle for what we canget" in order "to shape a just society." Theofficials condemned racism in AIDS ser-,vices: "W;ebelieve that the racist disregardfor disproportionate [HIVJinfection anddeath among p~ople of color is tanta-mount to homicide by willful neglect."They commit themselves to passa~e oflocal, state and na,tioriallegislatioo outlaw-ing disaimination against all-peoples; thedelivery of basic necessities to all people;domestic:;partners legislation; school cur-ricula which is not homophobic, racist orsexist; equal rights for gay and lesbiall f0s-ter and adoptive parents; equality forwomen; and a rejection of racism "in our-selves and in our community."

At this weekend's conference, openlygay Minneapolis City Councillor, BrianCoyle, collected endorsements for a pr0-posal to have another national march onWashington fpr lesbian and gay civil rightsin 1992. Urvashi Vaid, director of theNational Gay and Lesbian Task Force,said, "It needs to happen, but we need totalk about it,': given the proposal, for amarch for nation health care.

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Bearing umbrellas and tote bags embla-zoned with the Channel 13 logo, the activiststrooped down West 58th Street to theWNET/ChanneJ. 13 building,' the New Yorkoutpost 9f the Public Broadcasting Service, toprotest the station's failure to reflect the exis-tence of the gay and lesbian community. Theaction came Just two days before WNET'sscheduled pledge drive was to begin,

It was, as Mister Rogers would say, "abeautiful ~y in the n~ighborhood."

The Nov, 28 demonstration, designed tokick off a funding boycott of the public lV

s~tion, was organized by an odd coalition of gay and lesbian, community-based groups, ranging from the street-level action-oriented Queer Nation to those wi-zards of the poison-penreprimand at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance,Against Defama-tion, The conflagratlon'into which the Channel 13 totebags

, -' .and umbrellas were tossed served as a final warning to Chan-nel13 that checkbook activism is not the only card that les-bians and gay men can play against the station in this fight for. representation" ' "

"It's our view that Channel 13 does more for the gaycommunity than all the other stations combined," William F.

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Baker,president and chief executive officerof WNET,remarks terse-ly in response to the announced protest, "We'repuzzled by this."

Pointing out that her organization has been negotiatingwith WNETover the course of three yeats, consistently pressingthe station to boost coverage of lesbian and gay· issues,

. GLAAO'sKarin Schwartz retorts: "We're voting with our bucksfor gay and lesbian .programing, I' don't know that we're goingto achieve our ni.lmber-one goal," Schwartz continued, "but Ido know that the pledge boycott provides the best avenuethrough which we can reach a position of power,"

At issue, activists contend, is WNET's abysmal programingbroadcast specifically to appeal to the lesbian and gay commu-'nity, According to an internal WNETdocument, Channel 13 pro-graming targeted to lesbians and gay men constituted only one-tenth of 1 percent of the total hours aired between November,1988 and November 1989, fewer hours in some cases, morethan ten times fewer hours-than any other minority group," However, while that percentage reflects the smallestamount of directed programing among all groups reflected inthe WNET study, the total programing hours devoted to AfricanAmericans, the, disabled, Asian Americans, women, Latinos,,

Native Americans and a handful of other groups constituted only4,6 percent of the total hours during that same time period.

"If there's a shot at media anywhere, this is our best chance,because it is mandated to provide media services to uhderservedcommunities," explains Ray Dries, a Queer Nation spokespersohfor the boycott. "A boycott is something that is going to tarnishtheir image, and they're not going to like that."

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, "I think that's how progress is made," Ann Northrop, anactivist and a former CBS news producer, agrees, delving intothe fmer points of successful1y embarrassing a public institu-tion devoted to educating and culturing the American mind."They don't move because they want to. They move beciusethey feel they have to,", Considering that a portion of the station's finances dependon viewer contributions, and that significant public satisfactionwith programing allows -the station to appeal to Albany for ahuge annual allocation, if activists in the gay and lesbian com-munity can raise a big stink about WNET's iniserable attentionto our affairs, the boycott may just be successful.

The move to this strategic pinnacle came only afterWNET executives fmally pronounced that under no circum-.stances would the station consider airing a regularly sched-uled multicultural public-affairs program directed to lesbiansand gay men.

Since various independent producers and activists .haveseparately been talking with the station abou.t enhancingWNET's paltry gay and lesbian programing with a programsuch as the one the boycott's supporters are asking for, the flat, ,rejection from Channel 13 representatives came as a shock.One WNET ~ecutive even disclosed that he was ideologically,opposed to creating programs with culturally targeted audi- ,ences, stating that he preferred to mainstream the issues andperspectives of minority'viewer constituencies into existingand prospective programs,

nlike consumer actions of thepast that lesbians and gay menhave participated in, theplanned pledge boycott ofChannel 13 has a specific end-mark: Activists have called for

the introduction of a weekly multiculturalqueer public-affairs show. Another crucialway in which this boycott differs from pre-vious actions the lesbian and gay communi-ty has joined is that the organizations thathave endorsed the boycott have sent repre-sentatives to a working group, which isempowered both to negotiate with Channel13 and to call off the boycott if and whenWNET decides to consider the coalition'sgrievances in good faith, ,

However, like antagonists of the past,Channel 13 has flatly rejected the workinggroup's demand for a weekly multicultural,public-affairs program, disingenuously argu-ing that if the Igay and lesbian communitywas granted a weekly slot, in the interestsof fairness, so would programS have to be allotted to everyother underserved group in the broad spectrum of peoplewhose particular issues are currently ignored in favor of suchshows as the daily JoY of Painting,

The fundamental component of this argument, of course,is an among-liberals sort of economic realism. However, con-sidering that, like the networks, the interest of sponsors com-bined with the viewing preferences of the nation drives pub-lic 1V programing, the notion that fairness has anything to do

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with what ends up on Channel 13 at 11 on Tuesday nights isludicrous, As one producer who has done business with 'WNET reports, their attitude is that Pepsi-Cola fully fundsTony Brown ~Jou"fl, and they'll be damned if they'll spec-ulate in any program that comes any less commerCiallyanointed.' And corporations like Pepsi-Cola make up thehard place on the other side of Channel 13's rock by makingit cl~ that they will not' fund a program unless a network·

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has made a public commitment to air the fibal product,In light of this economic underpinning to the station's

opposition to a queer program, the fmancial impact of afunding boycott should it be successful-would be consid-erable. Additionally, as this boycott coincides with the fttsttidal wave of the recession, there may be no way for theWNET to differentiate between queer dollars that were with-held in honor of the pledge boycott, and contributions thatweren't made simply because there's an atmospheric fever ofimpending fmancial hardship.

Perhaps a more frustrating rejection WNET executiveshave issued comes in the form of a promise that in two. planned public-affairs programs, which will feature rotatinghosts entertaining myriad issues, lesbians and gaymen-along with other groups trac;litionallymarginalized bythe broadcast media-will be ~qually represented. As'WNET's openly gay Vice President and Director of theBroadcast Center Harry Chancey, Jr., put it blithely in a

polemic published in GLAAO's newsletter, "I subffiitthat in a tight economic climate, the opportunity liesin puliing up a chair at the main banquet table, rather

than demandinga seat off to theside."

While on theone hand, thiscourse of actionsounds like anundoing ofPlessy' ,t,I.Fergu-son on the air-,waves, activi:>tscontend that itmanages ,simplyto achieve inte-gration whollywithin, segrega-tion, Sure it's astart, but untillesbians and gay

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studio audiences ha4 an opportunity to discuss the work andrelated issues of concern to gay men and lesbians in both cities,Halfway· through the broadcast, the San Francisco host, GingerCasey, used the adjectives "disturbing," "graphic," "explicit" and"troubling" to introduce Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, a semi-autobiographical work that explores the, experience of being

. Black, gay and male in America. When a member of the audi-ence objected to Casey's introduction, she lamely attempted to justify suchframing by referring to FCC standards and what she perceived as the obligationfor public lV to protect its NEA funding. After nearly four hours of sittingpolitely while heterosexual hosts mediated what was reputedly a gay ahd les~bian "town meeting," the panelists and audience became irate, As· poet Essex

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Hemphill/said: "We're not concerg.ed with [thel FCC Jor .NEA]. We're talking about fmallybringirig this question of,our sexuality to the table and dealing withit in a way that's forthright and honest." Thepanelists and audience then proceeded tebypasS the strai~t hosts and ,talk with each I

other.. They had made the show their own.A show of our own is the demand cur-

rently voiced by the gay and lesbian com-munity in New York, directed at our power-ful local public 1V station, WNET lli!s beenin existence for more than 20 years with amandate both to serve underserved audi-,

ences and to be responsive to its ~onstituen- 'cy. Have they done it?WNET has yet to pro- ,duce a single program from an uncompro-mised gay and'lesbian perspective.

As the New York producer of aUF! ANew York-San Francisco Town Meeting, I[Thomas Harrisl had hoped this would be thatprogram. I r~ized that for the program to do,

something other than pay lip service tei lesLbian and gay concerns, at least one of. thehosts should be lesbian or' gay. I campaignedfor a lesbian or gay host, arguing that this isthe only way to produce a truly current and prov.ocati:vepro-gram. My senior producer was intrigued and open to the idea,but Harry Chancey, Jr., the openly gay vice president anddirector of Broadcast Center at Channel 13, vetoed it. His argu-ment: The show was an extension of The Eleverith Hour (anightly public:affairs show), and since Robert lipsyte hostedTheEleventh Hour (including several programs on gay and l~bian issues), there was no reason why he shouldn't host' thelocal portion of this broadcast as well. , .

But though the show, was produced under the auspicesof The Eleventh Hour, it was not an Eleventh Hour program. Itwas a lesbian and gay lV special addressing our specific con-, cerns. Just as Tongues untied is mediated by a Black gay manand yet has broad appeal, aUF! should have been framed bygay and lesbian perspectives. To gay and lesbian viewers, thetwo straig9t hosts sent a clear message: You will be allowed'access to public lV, but your view5"will be contextualizedand sanitized through a heterosexual prism. This not onlycompromises gay men, and lesbians but also subverts ourstruggle to reclaim and shape our own identities and desires.The tension evident in the progriun fed the anger -towardWNET already smoldering among gay men and lesbians andfueled community protests against the station~

One such protest was formally suggested by GabrielRotello in an OutWeek editorial in the July 11 issue. Unfortu-nately, the editorial's title, "Queer Money and Public lV,"was a bit misleading, It implies that gay and lesbian moneythat Channel 13 receives through membership drives Of asadditional contributions can be used as a lever to securegay and lesbian programing. But lest we forget, WNET is apublic-not a cornmercial-lV station and theoreticafly, not

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isn'l,--.-recentlyexpanded to .inClude ,differences in sexual pref- , .'erence--that' has become' it ,buzzword heard, everywhere incultural .institutions around ¢,e- country. A more accurate wayof describing the situation ~ould be "Pub1tcMoney and Pub- 'lic lV." The question then becomes: Has HT served itsNew York gay and lesbian public? Well, let's take a look.

Of course, there are the Gay Pride Week. shows, Docu-mentaries like the Mariposa FjJni,Group's Word./s Out, Greta

/Schiller, ~obert Rosenb'erg and John Scagliotti's J3eforeStonewall arid Robert EpStein and Richard Schmiechen's TheTimes of Harvey Milk are retrieved from the shelves' each

, , .year, dµsted off and rebroadcast. More recently, the stationhas added' to this short list Phil Zwickler and Jane Lippman'sRights and Reactions, Quentin Crisp's The Naked CivifSer-vant, as well. as documentaries about the late artists RobertMapplethorpe and Keith ,Hanng.These are, wonderful, andwe can ,enjoy a rescreening; but I woulc:Jn't call this servingnew York's gay and lesbian pu1'lic. What's happening theother 51,weeks? '

In the search for annual statistics bn the station's gay andlesbian programing, only one official WNET document hassurfaced, a. report circulated at the Coalition for Lesbian andGay Rights' Oct. 16 forum "Should Gays and Lesbians Boycottor Support Channel 13?" According to this report, betweenNovember 1988 and November 1989 only nine of the sta-tion's 8,500 broadqtst hours were devoted to gay and lesbianprograms (comparea to 95' hours for Blacks, 85 for Latinosand 62 for women). ', According to Chancey, however, this number is incor-

rect, since it excludes what he called WNRET's "enormousamount of AIDS programing" (which mayor may not havedealt with gay material), nor does it include The Eleventh"Hour. Chancey could not give a corrected number of eV~'spec~'ulate because, he conjectured, gay and lesbian content apPearsin programs where it isn't the main focus. But such obscurity of

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Aside from Independent Focus, a WNET viewer'might catch lesbian or gay documentaries aired sporadi- 'cally, although the station barely promotes them. Forexample, the British Women Like Us and the Canadian .IiWoman in My Platoon both aired on Nov. 8, receivingrelatively high ratings despite little advertising. Occa-Sionally, one may also stumble across dramatic work likea segment of the series Degrassi Junior Higb or MyBeautiful Laundrette.

Harry Chancey, Jr:, says that gay and lesbian program-ing on WNET has increased dramatically in the past twoyears. "There's about one [gay and lesbian prograin] onevery month," he adds. Perhap,s it's not irrelevant that anincreasing number of gays and lesbians now work at the sta-tidn. But, in the words of one WNET empl<;>yee,"[Channel13's -record on] gay and lesbian progranllng has gone frombeing extremely bad to one which is progressing. But it isby no means good.", Is that all? Fred Noriega, WNET's new director of pub-lic affairs, has 'publicly stated that a gay or lesbian hQstwould appear intermittently on one of the two local pub-lic-affairs talk shows that are ~lated to replace The EleventhHour. Is this the answer to our dreams? No. Unless the les- B

c::bian or gay host has a regular slot, his or her show will be d:difficult to fmd or follow. In addition, these shows, unlike .gThe Eleventh HOUr,have very small budgets and therefore J5will be unable to produce pretaped segment~. This means ~that current actiVitieswill only be relayed secondhand, by ifthe studio guests, and little opportunity will be providedfor others in the local gay and lesbian communities to beseen and heard. ,

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The only other apparent venuefor gay and lesbian programing onChannel 13 is the showcase for inde-pendent' ftlm and video, Independent, Focus. The 1990 series aired at 11 pmon Sund;iy nights, from July to September. The work shownon Independent Focus is selected \:>ya panel of ftlmmakersand curators. The 1990 panel, which included lesbian ftlm-'·maker Su Friedrich (Da,mned If You Don't), chose six hoursof work made by gay men and lesbians 20 percent of theseries' total hours. The 1990 program included shorts such

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years. Before there was a Public Broadcasting Service, therewere only a small number of educational broadcasters circu-lating programs among thelilselves through a loosely knitfederation. In the early' years, soine 50' percent of the pro-grams that appeared on these stations emanated from theproduction facilities of NET, National Educational 'IV, a crea-ture of the Ford foundation. Iii the late '60s, the productioncenter NET was merged into. the station WNlIT, which subse--quendy assuineda leading role' in the conglomerate of non-profit 'IV stations united under the PBS umbrella in 1970. '

PBSwas one of the by-products, of the Public Telecommu-nications Act of 1967. This law eChoed in many respects therecommendations published in a report by the qunegie Com-mission on Educational 'IV, which defined public 'IV as "allthat is of human' interest and importance which is not at themoment appropriate or available for support byadvertising...commttted to dive1s#y and to tbe differentiatedaudience." The Commission's'.blueprint atgUed for substantial fed- 'era} funding of the system funnelledthrough a quasi-govemmental Cor-porationfor Public Broadcasting, or(]>B. Congress subsequently autho-, rized the' . of a>B, suI>-

•ject to congressional oversight butwith a board of directors selected,

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political meddling in CPB, espe-,cially rampant during the Nixon, and Reagan administrations, thepublic TV sYstem has been shel-tered' from direct political controlby PBS's and the station's arm's-length relationship to CPB. Theprivate entity PBS was givenresponsibility for interconnectingthe stations; its directors includerepresentatives from CPB, the sta-tion and the public. As itmatured, PBS assumed the role of 'the system's major program provider, collecting fees fromthe stations and packaging the' kind of slick shows thatwould allow them to compete with their commercial coun-terparts in return. For their part, the stations receive supportfrom a variety of sources; CBP grants (thus, the federal gov-ernment) .for maintaining their hardware-heavy,well-staffedfacilities; state and local government grant for the same; PBSfor acquiring programs and making these available via satel-lite-interconnection; regional program services that augmentthe function of PBS; other stations, which cooperate in co-production or co-sponsorship; corporate underwriters forlocally produced shows; and individual members. As the,needs and ambitions of the larger stations expanded overthe years, the hope of attracting more money from the lattertwo categories has led some public 'IV managers to tailortheir programs to suit corporate interests or the tastes oftheir largely white, upper-middle-class membership. But PBSis not supposed to be ruled by commercial concerns or the .ratings game.

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I ,"" been identified as a major factor in the precarious financialposition of the separate stations and the system as a whole,The most recent threat comes, from cable 1V and, commer-, .cial satellite services, which' have turned such public 'IV sta-ples as. nature and high-culture shows into money-ffiaking,

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Since each station designs its own schedule, selectivelypicking programs from the PBS menu and airing these

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This attempt to enlarge PBS's Pbrtion of the 'IV-audi-ence pie addresses many of the problems faced by any pro-ducer-a station or an independent-who receives PBS dis-tribution. With the,new consolidation, programs mayactual-ly be brought to the attention of millions of viewers across$-,. S,CAEEN _ ... 1»_51_ eo

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Distracted from tbe coat stores, Liz picked up a befty black con-struction bootfrom a stdewalk display,

Uz: ThJs Is great. I wonder how much this costs.Proprietress: Are you gonna buy something?Liz: Uh, I don't know yet, 'Proprietress: No. Go away. I've got to clOse up, and I have a cold.Liz (stunned): I'm sony you're not feeling well. -On to a ''variety'' store ...

, ,Sydney: Look-Raiders jackets! Oh, and this Is the only leather

; jacket-it even has a hood.Salesrpan: Can I help you?Sydney: I'm just looking, but how much for t¥s jacket?Sales~n: For you? M~ss, you don't want that-the women's

coats are on the other side.Sydney: Yeah, and they're ugly too.In a dtscoun~ leatber shop ..,'Saleswoman: Can I help you?Sydney: We're just looking.Saleswoman: What are you looking for?Liz: We'll know when we fmd it.Saleswoman: You gotta talk to me I don't read minds. You

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Sydney: I can't take this pressure. Let's leave.liz (to Saleswoman): Thank you.Saleswoman: What? You're not buying anything? You should, '

really think about a new leather jacket, you don't have to buy fromme, but that jacket of yours Is tattered. '. ,

Sydney: What are you, my mother?SaleSwoman: No, but if your mother was here, she'd tell you to

get a new coat,. ' .', Leaving a rug store ...Son' o( SaleSwoman (tq LtZ): Hey ...where'd ya get the hat?Liz: Uh-Wlngs on Broadway, 'Son: How much did you pay for it?Liz: 10 bucks, I guess, ,, Son: I'll but it from you.Liz: Um. ..I can't, I just got a bad haircut, and I

can't take the hat off,Sydney (Outside tbe store): What? Are you

c:razy? We could have swapped the hat for a rog.You need to learn how to b!argaln effectively., '

7be return ofCblp DNdtIIfI tv gay nigbt Iffe is, ,

'm«l9' asABC,,1. tbe gtrls attended opening nfBbt...Sydney: What does ABC really mean?Liz: Look at the Invitations, It means different

, things for boys and girls,- "Sydney: I 'still' don't get it, but...hey, where

did you go?liz: I'm right here, Take your hand c:if my nose.Sydney: I'm sorry, It's really dark In here,

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tain mood to the evening.Sydney: Yeah, anonymity. The music Is nice and loud, you'd

almost think you're at Sound Factory.Liz: Except for the Radio Shack lighting.Sydney: I think that multicolored diamond light Is cute. It, makes

me, want to hang a velvet poster, tum on a black light and listen to theVelvet Underground,

7bey go up stairs to tbe lounge ...LarryTc:e2: I haven't seen this much paneling since 1 left Georgia...Liz: ThJs Is weird. I feel a desperate need to polka.SydIiey: I'm sure if you wait long enough Dfnah3 will play one.

They should have polka lessons at midnight.Liz:What's that flag beh1nd her?Sydney: Polish. L "

lahoma Van ZatJdt4: I haven't seen this much paneUng since Ileft Georgia ...

Liz: Wow, this place Is versatile. They'll probably have the new. Polish president'S Victory Party here.

Sydney: And have a House Ball the next day. But instead of"Vogulng on Drogs," they'll have a category for "Polka on Vodka .."

Liz: Or "Vogulng on Pierogi." God, I love this city.At bome witb Liz and Sydney, where tbey aTe just awakening

from thetrdtsco nap...Liz: Are you getting up" It's 1:15.I mean, it's late we can't go oot now.Sydney: No, we have to go-this Is the opening of Uiny Tee's

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1. Friday night parties at I1vlng Plaza, (Once adance hall and watering hole for Poilsh expatriatesonly to later be patronized by downtown denlzenslike the B-52s and the late Sid Vicious.)

2. Promoter/deejay/performer and all-aroundnight-life personality and, according to downtownlegend, moved to New York from Atianta in a vanwith two drag queens.

3. Drag-queen deejay notorious for the contort-ed facial expressions that she makes while lipsynch-ing to her records.

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bigger and bigger and threaten to swallow me up. Perhaps even morefrightening are the waDs, coveted with Xerolred photos of, a purple-skinned, green-haJred Pat Buckley along with her husband, WilUam F.Buddey, Jr., who has been ~onned !nto Adolph Hitler with a fewstrokes of a pen. ,

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Last, week, for instance, a strange call came from a trusty moleinside Newsday: "lPonner New York City Mayor) John Lindsay just didthe weirdest thing." ,

"Where?" I inquired. _"Here In the Newsday offices.·It 8ee!JIS there was a party at -NewsrJay one night last week to honor '

.AssocIate l'UbJishet Steve Eisenberg on his proIlX)IIon out to the COIISt tobe eXecutive vice president eX lJIIlketin8 eX NewstJtrjs sibling pape!; theLos Angeks nmes. The party had a ridiculously hetero baseball theme("Everyone wore Yankees caps,· slssIed the c:a1ler) and was atIeIx$ed by

-abOut 200 of Newsdajs employees. ~us speakel'$-peOple who, , ,

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Then LIndsay, who has made some truly homophobic, if blzaJrestatements (last year, he would attend dinner parties, mumbling, and-ranting-sometlmes to no one specifically about the' "gay problem"and how AIDS was "God's relribution on the gay community,· causingmany to think he'd lost his matbles) stood up. (When IJndsay wasmayor, EIsenberg was his chief of staff, and the two were close.) Und-say blurted out the entirety of his speech:

"Twenty-five years ago, I was told that Steve EIsenberg was 'acommunist, a faggot and a f1ag-bum~.' Now it's twenty-flve years later,and he's still 'a communist, a faggot and a flag-bumer.'"' No one uttereda word. IJndsay then stepped dc;Jwn, as e'YeJyone in the room stared insilence, stunned arid dumbfounded.-

So my question Is: WHEN ARE 1HEY GOING TO CART nusLOONEY TUNE AWAYTO mE FUNNY FARM?!?

And when will things in my little world ever becomenonnal? Imean, right after that fieaklsh phone call, I picked up one of those. '

breeding pieces of debris. piling up around my desk. It was a two-dayold copy of 7beNew Yoti :nmas. On the fashion page, in the "Pattems"column (which was also faxed into my exlstenoe by a a lesbian thatvery day), Woody Hochswender gurgled about the color red: "It seemsthat men and women faVO( different sbacIes of red, Men are partial toyellow-based reds, which are more orangey ....Women tend to beattracted to sharper reds with a blue base, So when a woman puts onher sexiest red dress, sbe Is often, unknawinBly, aUtactlng her own sex,not rµen. And this I1IIIY Cltptain much eX what's WIOIl8ln th!s world."OM, REAIl.Y? I nDNK NOT, HONEY.

"rve already: gotten calls from quite a few fellows,· Hochswen-der told me when I rang him up, ,·1

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could be understood in a dif-ferent way than 1 Intend- ,,ed""My editors took a lineout of my column, and that'swhy It sounds different fromwhat I meant...I didn't meanto Imply that· He stammeredon for some time. And, actu-

ally, I became convinced that he really wasn't expressing any lesbo-phobic sentiments that he might be harboring but was really trying tosay something else (although, after listening to him go on in a fewdifferent directions for a while, I'm confused as to what he did meanto say). But then Woody added: "I guess 1 never thought that a

I 'woman who wanted to· attract other women would put on a reddress-:-I mean, most of the gals I've known over the years wore blackleather and went to Bonnie and Clyde's la dyke bar that closed downyears agol. But, I don't want to stereotype anyone.·

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the video f9l' the reasons the papers gave: It depicted "bisexuality,"·voyeuris~·"sadomasochism" and sexwith "people of undetennlnedgender.· But then, after speaking with some moles 1 have at MIV, Ileamed that Madonna most certainly wanted this to happen:, Thevideo showli a bare-breasted woman wearing only suspenders,which-forget about the queer stuff-was bound to get it axed. And,of course, Madonna happens to have hundredll of thousands of thevideos waiting to be sold in stores, each for under $10. How conve-nient! Yet again, Madonna Is being a IIhrewd businessW01Jlllll andmarketing the hot Helms-induced I.s.sues of the tilne--4rt censorship,male homosexuality, lesbianism and SlM-and scoring big. ,

And lets be real for a moment: Could Madonna perhaps bebehaving ina homophobic manner simply by u.stng society's homo-phobia to get something banned and thus capitalize on It? (Heavenforbid! Not Her Holiness! Not our Most Revered OneD Well, you couldargue "yes· on that question, but actually Madonna Is just Simplybeing Madonna, the wonderful PR machine, marketing strategist andself-created product she's always been. And, really, because the videowill sell millions, teens all across Ametica will see queer images, Infact, only Madonna could pull this off.

~, OK, Ic:Jecided that once again Madonna should be anointed asour patron aalnt And Ylhen the video club Private Eyes called to ask Ifwe wanted to see the tape (It.hadn't yet been released, but they had acoPY and were showing it to media people), arts editor Sarah Pettit andI hIgh-lailed It over there. But, alas, when we showed up, an Irate club. owner was scolding the employee who'd Invited us and others, cIaimlnsthat he'd be sued byWarner Bros, If they show It to us befoJ;'erelease,

Shit, Yet agaui., I'd ventured into the hOrrible, cruel outside" 'only to be disappointed, burned, shunned and sloughed off, Icame to realize the hOrrible troth: I like' It here In my strange, little

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I by Jennifer Montgomery. Dec. 5 and 12 at 7 pm. LIVING INSIDE; ME AND RUBYFRUIT; A NEW YEAR, .

by Sadie Benning. Dec. 5 and 12 at 7 pm. All at Collective for Living Cinema. 41 White St. (212) 925-2111.,,

by KarlSoehnlein, In the. experimental film world,

sisters are·doing it for themsel,;,es,Boldlyclaiming their place among the tradition-ally straight male avant-garde, lesbian,

fIlm- and video-makers areernerging assome of the strongest visual artists of theday. Throughout the month of Decem-ber, the newly reopenedCollective for Living Cinema 'will feature the latest fromthree lesbians at differeritstages of their artistic devel-opment, Su Friedrich, Jen-

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experimental ftIm scen~, recently pre-miered Sink or Swim, an autobiograph-ical look at a tumultuous father-daugh-ter relationship. Though less explicitlylesbian in content than, her previousDamned If YouDon't, the film has much

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Tht; experimental film world hasnever been particularly receptive' to les-bian expression, often ghettoizing or dis-missing it. "AfterDamned If YouDon't, Isuddenly became the 'lesbian filmrruiker'in the eyes of a lot of experimental film-makers, particularly in this old boys'scene,» she relates. "1bere's this assump-tion that if you're speaking from the'point of view of a minority, what you're·saying does not have any bearing on

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a group similar to the art world'sGuerrilla Girls, "I think there's this ideathat somehow the experimental filmworld is above the ldOd of petty, sexist,racist junk that's in Hollywood beCausewe're well educated and 'artistic,' but allthat stuff does exist." '

Of course, lesbian viewership is notmonolithic, whiCh is a challenge of anoth-er sort for Friedrich. "When I made. DamnedIfYouDm~ Iwas really thinkingof a lesbian audience. But ifs also very for-mally weird, and 1know through i5 yearsof being around that the lesbian c0mmuni-ty isn't any more open to formal experi-~entation than the straig4t community,Many of them just want a Hollywood ver-sion of their lives." But the lesbian commu-nity is also a continual source of encour-agement. "Women will cOme up to meand say, 'I loved Damned If You Dm't,particularly the sex scene, and I wish youcould do more because I haven't seen anyother, film that's erotic in that way.'"

Jennifer Montgomery hasn't beenworking as long as Su Friedrich-Age12: Love With a Little I is only her sec-ond film-but she too is grapplingwith her po.sition between the dualmargins of "lesbian" and "experimen-tal." "I do think there is a connection'between making queer work andworking _in opposition to traditionalnarratives," she explains. "I saw VitoRusso speak: last year, and he articulat-ed the way gays and lesbians have hadto insert themselves into straight narra-tive and the fact that we will always besubversive to narrative because wehave to approach it in disguise. To behonest and embracing of my sexualityinvolves making experimental work,because I want to talk about thingsthat are taboo in traditional narrative."

Like Friedrich, Montgomery'swork is also shaking up the establishedavant-garde. Her first film, HomeAvenue, a personal story of beingraped as a teenager, received a particu-larly misogynistic review from estab-lished filmmaker Warren Sonbert. "Hedidn't even believe I'd been raped,"she recalls. "I think [his] kind of attackwould come out of being threatenedby the increasing presence of womenin the expc:rimental fum field and theway it's changing the landscape. Inmore and more fUms, men are not pre-sent or are playing roles that are notvery flattering, and that must be very

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Sadie Benning's experimentalvideos break taboos by their verynature; as a 17-year-old out lesbian,she smashes the invisibility of queerteenage sexuality by giving it a voice.Using the Fisher-Price PXLVision cam-era, Benning creates 'work that'sremarkably beautiful and expressive.

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Benning is the daughter of an experi-mental filmmaker father, James Benning,and an artist mother, both of whom havebeen supportive and inspirational. "I'vebeen around a lot of art-growing. up. I'vejUst acquired my own way of expressingmyself." That may not be the eaSieSt thingfor an openly queer teenager in Milwau-kee, WIS., but Benning continues undaunt-ed. Her current video project is called jol-lies, and according to Benning, "it dealswith my sexual experienres up until now."

As for the future, . ho hasdropped out of high school for a whilebecause the homop~obia she faced was"pretty traumatic"-wants to go to collegefor filmmaking. "I really want to end up'making films. They'll probably always beexperimental, because I can't make mymind do something that it's 'not." 'Y '

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by Anne RubensteinI It's a bit late to write about Tw;n

Peaks, since hardly anyone watches itnow that it's on Saturday nights .. Somepeople gave up on it much earlier thanthat: That misogyny of the first episodecounteracted the can-you-b.elieve-this-is-really-on-1V attraction. Yet the solution tothe mystery of Laura Palmer's murdeF,nomatter how littlewe care about it by now,raises several issues worth thinking about.

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, nations, for violence, while alsoemphasizing that it is the men we trustwho embody the evil.

As sociologist Isabel Pinedo has, .pointe~ out, though, the women whosurvive in, horror fllms are those whodo not deny the rea\jty of viol~nce'.Sutv;ivors investigate; they learn whatthe dange,r is and how to avoid it;they fight back when attacked. Unfor-tumitely, David Lynch did not appro-priate this part of the standard horrorfilm formula. In Twin Peaks, investi-gation is men's work. Women who tryto figure it all out wind up likeAudrey, kidnapped and drugged,Women who are atta~ked-Jcllld this isthe part that bothers me the most-never seem to fight back, not evenunsuccessfully,

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of domestic violence, 'but only ifthey don't fuck; and now TwinPeaks, which says .that yes, domesticviolence exists, but no, there is noth-ing you can do about it. Maybe it'stime to'walk out of the movie hous-es and into karate classes. Time tomake our own damn movies. T

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by Rachel PepperIn case you thought "women's

music" was passe, these vital picksshould pump some new life into yourrecord collection.

group of rowdy Toronto girls I spentsome time with up there. It surprised me,then, to hear her band's cassette and findout not only that this woman can belt outvocals with the best of them but that Des-tiny, the band's seven-song debut effort,has become one of my current listeningfavorites. A three-member dyke bandcomposed of Phillips, Lynn Ferguson-Payne and Audrey Van Bolhuis, Random" .. Order describe them-

selves as a "reggae rockcalypso rap trio," andthere are certainly tracesof all these styles in theirmusic. "Oppression," a

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Order's lead voCalist,atthe Michigan Women'sMusic Festival this sum-mer. She was one of themore quiet and soft-spcrken members of a

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place is that madhouse on 4th Street, tP¢ WOW, '

Cafe. This month, the kind thesp4ms-in-resi-dence offer their annual winter' festival, includ~ing 19 programs of readings, performance:? and •a party. The list of talent is long and sparkly asa holiday garland Call (212) 873-1165 for ,infoor (212) 460-8067 for reservations. " ,

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J song about th;' "isms," leans toward reg-o gae, while "One Drink," a danceable

tune about the intoxicating powers ofi! love, is much more pop-oriented. But it'sII: ,"Positive Emotion," a ripping little fee1-

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(WEA/Warner/Red RockProductions)

Fans of the now-defunct progressivedance band Parachute Club will behappy to note that its lead singer, Lor-~e Segato, finally has her own soloalbum out. Segato, a sort .of Canadianinstitution, has come under criticism fromsome Toronto progressives lately for awaning political consciousness. Still, I'llalways remember her performances at'Toronto pl'CKhoice marches and PrideDay festivals, and as being the onlysinger at the 1988 Michigan festival tocome out as a lesbian on-stage duringhex:,set. Unfortunately, Phoenix, likemany crossover albums by queer artists,lacks the sharp political edge that

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was known for. It is,however, enjoyable forits own merits, being awell-produced popalbum featuring Segato'sdeep, sultry voice andsome of the best background musicians inthe' business. These include Vicki Randle,fellow ex-P ,dub member Billy Bryans,up-and-comiQg singer Rebecca Jenkirisand myoid school pal Micah Barnes.PboeniXs 12 songs range in quality and 'intensity, with the best being "GoodMedicine," "Unconditional Love," "StealingFire" and "Big Big World," "Beautiful andDangerous," a song Segato dedicated to

, ,her lover at the Michigan fest, is a lovesong that could only be written by onewoman for another. Distribution ofPboeni.x to the US from Canada has beenincredibly slow, and you may have to bugyour record store ,to carry it, If that fails,check the Ladys/ipper catalog, or beg aCanadian mend to sencl it to you.

GIRLS IN THE NOSEGirls in the Nose(mail-order cassette only)

Before the group Two Nice Girlsbecame a lesbian household name, therewas Girls in the Nose, singer GretchenPhillips and drummer Pam Barger's firstband. While never reaching the kind ofnotoriety that Two Nice Girls have man-aged, Girls in the Nose's self-titled 1989debut deserves to be· discovered by therock-loving dyke community. Lead singerKay Tumq's sexy voice alternately coosthen soars to a resOunding scr~ as sheknocks out lesbian-positive lyrics like "sheknows how to make love to me" at thetop of her lungs, band in full swingbehind her. In fact, this is by far the most \,.'lesbian-oriented rock album I've yetencountered, full of references to dykesexuality, politics and culture. There's asong about ve entitled "Meat";"Menstrual Hut," a song (you guessed it)a~out bleeding; a syrupy ballad about

" straight fen1inists called "Honorary Hetero-sexual Lesbian'"; "Come and Die," abbutthe virtue$ of death by orgasm; and ahilarious rap-within~-50ng called "Prison-ers of Pantyhose," which offers us suchwisdom 'as: "So here's some advice from,

Girls in the Nose'/Women' unite, takeback your hose.! Take them back to thedamn store/Say, 'We won't wear themanymore." But by far the album's best

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gals rock out on lyrics like "I don't likekisses,! And I don't like tongues,!But,baby, if you want to start ,me tocome/J~ bite me." To order the Girls in~e Nose cassette from them for $10,write pO Box 49828, Austin, TX 7fr765.

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Nomads·Indians Saints, the IndigoGirls' third and most polished album, con-tinues their traditional mix of soul-search-ing lyrics, strong solo vocals, engagingharmonies and accomplished acousticguitar playing. As usual with this pair,Salier's compositions are lighter in to~ethan Ray's spiritually searching ones, buttaken as a whole, the album is a well-bal-anced, inixture of the brooding and cel~bratory. The best songs on this albuminclude "Keeper of My Heart," "Hand MeDowns" and that most wise ode to life's,

choices, "Watershed," which reminds us:

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,"Up on the watershed/Standing at thefork in the road,/You can stand there and,

agonizelfill your agony's your heaviestload," and: "When you're learning to facethe path at your pace,/Every choice isworth your while." It is this sort of wis-dom, offered in combination with the sim-ple beauty of songs like "Southland'in theSpringtime," that will make you appreciatethe sCope of these women's talerits. Yes,there are those who object to the religiousimagery in these gals' music, especially'inthe lyrics written by Amy Ray, and thisalbum will probably not please such crit-ics. Still, for those who seek out the spiri-tual in a musical world so bereft of any-thing else as closely meaningful, the songSof the Indigo Girlswill always strike a res-onant chord '

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Although no longer still performingon the circuit, Meg Christian remains afavorite in ,the world of "women's music."One of the founders of Olivia Records,,

Olristian became one of the first recordingartists to fuse her love for women and herSee MUSIC on page 55

DECADE DANCE by Michael Lassell. A1ysonPublications. $7.95 pb.l44 pp.

by James Co-:-rad "Upon finishing Decade Dance,

Michael Lassell's first collection ofpoems, you might be reminded of Liveor Die, Anne Sexton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Confessional classic writtennearly 25 years earlier. The simplecomparison is the fInal poem iIi bothbooks: Lassell's "How,to Choose Life"and Sexton's "Live." Both poemsemerge at the, end of their respectivedark tunnels with such a similar,instruc!ional, "life7among-the-ruins"tone, you may wonder if Lassell wasconscious of Sexton's' famous call for, life when he appropriated her title andfus.ed it into his own, mtimately, Sex-ton's will to live has always been shad-owed by her later suicide, while Las-sell's :'How to Choose Life" is condi-tioned by remem"bered joys andprayers for· strength. By the end ofboth books, you feel an equal sense of

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"who says, "I love you" when he comes.This may be the point, but how oftencan it be made?'

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ble to critique, especially the poems in"Rendezvous With Death," which tack-le the denial, anger and sorrow ofAIDS invading the poet's personalrealm. The elegies are effectively writ-ten with the instructional second-per-son personal poems being the most,successful. In them, Lassell formallyconveys the mood of learning to dothings people at his age should notneed to know how to do: "How to,

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The political poems in "13arricadesand Trenches" are also hard to critique,but at their best they a:e funny andacute, though they often run on toolong and would prove to be swifterand more cutting if tightened, It isalways risky to write in word play andpolitical satire, but for the most partthe humor pays off, and even when -itdoesn't, the attempt is always appreci-ated in our rather .humorless world ofAmerican letters. '

The,best poem in the book is"Lord Byron Takes Leave of Love," a, ,smart and moving persona poem aboutByron's unconsummated passion for aGreek page.· ~ere Lassell leaves Lassellbehind and is dependent on his ~gi-,nation in 'two ways: as the persona of,Byron and the imagining of unfulfflledsexual love. Though the poem breaks,down near the end with a misplacedforward glance at immortality (the veryuse of a historic persona already forcesthe reader to consjderthe poem's jux-taposition with the present day), La~sell's delicate ana passionate lines cli-max with "I have become myself inpraising you." This is, in a sense, oneof poetry's great missions: to discoverthe true language of unfulftlled desire,the imagmings of a personal paradisethrough the tools of the everydayworld. Lassell's true talent emergeswhen he steps out of ,himself with this, poem to discuss desire,' physically andemotionally, through Byron's unrequit-ed love. A kind of desire that long out-lasts any temporary gratifications found, in a Times Square porn booth. T

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dyke's music collection. With five albumsrecorded on Olivia (her last album was not,and is not represented here), itmust have beendifficult to select the. songs for this ~So while listeners will undoubtedly feel thatsome of their favorites were left out, the mostnotable omission, given how many women' arein recoveI)', is that of the song "R.esdess.. SIill,other gems like "v.Ilentine Song,. "'!he Road ITook to You· and "Sweet Darling~· are

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HOLIDAYPARTYIJoin hundreds of professionalwomen & men of the Network ofBUSinessand ProfessionalOrganizations for the 8thAnnual Holiday Cocldall Party, (proceeds to benefit the,Center)

, on ru.... D.c 4 - 6:30 to 9:30 pm.$50 per person before 11/23190.Call our 24-hour answerllne(212) 517·0771for Infonnation and Invitation.

AudHlons for n.wUlblan,IGay Singing Groupwomen altos neededpop, folk, Jazz,classical and moreclose harmony, a cappella styleSun•• D.c. 2; Center, 208 W 13 StElliot. (718) 824-7776 for appt.

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LIVELYARTSAlso see the dally listings for show-Ings of one or two days.A (-) signifies a new listing

THE CLUB AT lA MAMA presents

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David CeI.·1 Th. Big 1018, "about a .WBAI Annual Holiday WBAI Craftlwoman's ongoing relationship wHh a fair with over 300 craftspeople sell-man who Is sexually liberating and Ing ceramics, precious metal jewelry,socially humiliating" and Frank fiber clothing and outerwear, blownMaya'IUnButhorlzsd Autobiography" glass, wood, houseware and homl!-"a series of funny, scary, and partially furnishings, toys and games, musicalfictionalized biographical stories"; Instrilments, quilts and tapestrie~,.74ft., E 4 St, second floor; $10 Thurs- rugs, pillows, candles, kaleidoscopes,days, $12 Fridays & Saturdays ($2 handmade books and paper, leatherless for members); THU-SAT at 10 bags and briefacases, pewter, more;pm; 475·7710 (thruDEC 8) at Columbia UniversIty's F-errisBooth

Hall, 115 & B'way; FRI from 5-9 pm" -CENTERMUSEUM Of lESBIAN ANDSAl & SUN froml1 am - 6 pm; $6 GAYHISTORYAND ARCHIVESopensper day/$15 for all nlnl! days; 279- ImBg,s From th, Front: Photogra-0707, 695·4465 (NOV 30 thr'u DECI phyChBllBnglng AIDS, various works16) which all Incorporate photography In. some way, juried by artists, photogra·

-HAllWAllS CONTEMPORARYART phers, activists; work by MorganCENTER presents Under S.lge, a Gw.nwald. Mark Johnlon, Trac.y ..vault ,Installation by Michael Hunt Lin. Robert Mignon. Rob.rlStolbach whose over 200 drawings Vazqu.z. The Center. 208 W. 13 St.,

confront the artist's "own personal (212) 62(>-7310.Through Jan. 18.crisis over the AIDS epidemic, thedeath of friends and his own fears."700 Main St. Buffalo, NY. ThroughDec. 17.

WESSEL O'CONNOR GAllERY pre-sents Loring McAlpin's PUrpl, M,n:n.w sculplural,coflSlruCtlons, con- ,slsUng of objects "designed to exam·Ine the cuHural symbology of currentmale Identity" Including "wrestlingpads, athletic lockers, a vanl/:y lable,'male' paperback books, and' cocktailbar accessories" wHh which the arlistInspects "the parameters of homoso~clal and homosexual Intimacy";showing with Sianley SI.lIar·1.umlnBllon of lb. mBI. nud, form;580 B'way (below Houston); Galleryhours TUE·SAT,10 am - 6 pm; 219-9524 (thruDEC 8) ,

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COOPERSQUARETHEATERpresentsEoln ,W.st'l HlstorlcBI Plflods, "adrama about the position of racial,-religious, polltical,and sexual minOri-ties in a histOrical landscape dominat-ed by a Celtic Irish CathOliCconservative majorlty"~ 50 E 7 St(Btwn lst/2nd Aves); $10 or TDF+$5;THU-SUN at 8 pm; closed NOV 22-25; 228-0811 (thru DEC9)

PUCHONG GAllERY presents Bill',Costa: Icon, Bnd Portrait" new pho-tographs of male nudes; 36A 3rd Ave;982-1811 (thru Dec 12)

VILLAGE THEATRE COMPANY pre-sents Eric B.ntl.y's ArB YouNow orHBV. You EVIf Blln, a "Brechtiantale of show business on trial";directed by H.nry Fonte, with RayAlh.rton. Barbar B.rcu. Mlch.lI.B.rk •• Mlcha.1 Curran. MillonElllolI, Wally Dunn. Randy Kelly.T.lTence Martin. David McConnell •Mlcha.1 John McGulnnels. JuliaMclaughlin. Rodn.y L. Nugenl.Dugg SmHh, Howard Thor.l.n; 133W 22 St; $12; WED-SA'F at 8 pm(DEC 16 at'7 pm for a clOSing nightbenefit); 627·8411 (thru DEC16)

COOPERSQUARETHEATERpresentsJames Dean Jay Byrd's My PBtHomo, "a late-night inter-glliacticdrag comedy that questions theaccepted definitions of what Is nor·maf'; starring RuPaul and MonaFoot, and Joel Von Ornll!!ln.r,directe~ by Jon Michael Johnlon; 50E 7 St (east of 2nd Ave); $10 gener-al/$8 In drag; FRIDAYSat 11 pm-Ish;228-0811 (thru DEG21)

BAGA DOWNTOWN opens p'reviews•of Mac Wellman's Slne,,11y FOrBv.r,

In which "Jesus H. Christ appearS Inthe Southern town of Hlllsbottom,made up entirely of KKK membersand some Mystic Fur Balls"; withAmy Brenneman. Frank D.al*. lachGr.nler*. Jan Hardlng-, PatrickKelT*, Sieve Mellor*. Dan Morln*,leili. Nlpkow*. K.nya Scoll*. David'Van negh.m* (*AEA member); 111Willoughby St, ,Brooklyn; $10 orTDF+$5; THU-SATat 8 pm; 718/596-2222 (thru DEG22)

-THE NATIONALORGANIZATIONFORWOMEN presents Women Phologra.pherl NOW, featuring' work' byBerenice Abbott,Barbara Brodnlck,Annie lelbovitz and others. Openingreception and a'uctlon on Dec. 17from 7-10 pm. Regular gallery hours:

M-F, 1-5 pm. New York Open GenterArt-Gallery. 83 Spring Sl (212) 219-2527. Dec. 9 through Jan. 13.

-VIS-A-VIS GAllER.Y AT ST.ClEMENT',S CHURCH presents AN.w Voice, photographs by Sus,anlerher, Pleasecall first. Gallery hours:-,M-F, 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday, 7-9pm. 423 W, 46th St. (212) 246-7277:

5 GROVE STREET presents Bob,

Brainard and Bob KohelT's BrlclrfBc,& Stucco, performers who bothappeared in Parting GlancBs, theiroriginal comedy material includes twojocks who learn they can vogue,retired SoUd Gold Dancers,Amlshrappers who put the "men back InMennonite," an early Simon & Gar·funkel, and the Rocky Mountain ButtBoys who open at a gay'rode,o inWest Hollywood; videos serve'!ls ,transitions between live routines; at55 .GroveSt (west of 7th'Ave South);$3 + 2-drink minimum; FRI at 8 pm;366-5438

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AMERICAN PLACE THEATER pre-seots I StBnd B.for. You NBkBd byJoyce Carol Oates, about ten'womendealing with life In today's America;with Ellzab.th Alley. Penny Temple·ton, Nancy Barrell. AnnieMcGreevay. Marguerlle Kuhn, Bron- .wen Booth; 111 W 46 St; $20; WED-SAT at8 pm, also WED & SAT at 2pm, SUN at3 pm; 840-3074

CHARLES lUDLAM THEATRE pre-sents Ludlam'l CBmlllB, starring anddirected by EvereU QUinton, withCh.ryl ReevlS. Ken Scullin. GeorgOstennan, Eureka. Bobb Reed. JimLamb. Clrl Claybourne. H.M.Kououkal. J.an·Claud. Valleux,SI.v.n P.II,.l Sheridan Square; $25;TUE·FRI at 8 pm, SAT&SUN at 7 pm;691-2271

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Normandy Heights Rd; MorristownCHERR" LANE TH,EATRE presents INJ; 8:30 pm; $3 membersJ$4 non-David ".venl' Th' Bum 01U" by members; 201n85-1595the writer of Breaksr Morant, starring ,Tony Boldwyn and Richard V.nture, SAGEpresents a C.I.bratlon ill Gaydirected by K.vln Dowling, about a L.g.nd Col. Port.r, (a benellt lorfather who tries to help with his son's SAGEtonight) wrHten and directed bygay relationships while he looks lor a Maurlc. Levin., with the evening'snew wile; 38 Commerce St; $27.50- host Jan. Pow.lI; cast Includ.s$32.50; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SATat at 7 Larry K.rt, L•• Roy R.aml, Julie& 10 pm, SUt\~t 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-' Wliion I William Roy. Daugherty I2020 FI.ld. Ann Hampton caillway. Bobbl

, \' Baird. ChrllUn. Andre.l. J.lonLUCILLE LORTEL THEATERpresents Gr•••• M.ry Cleere H.r.n. P.ul.,"""'0'1111, the William Rnn/James L.ur.nc •• K.ren M.son; musicalLapine musical, the third In Finn's director Plul ~eblood; Luc.llle Lor-M.rvln »'110", an examination of the tel Theatre, 121 ChrlstQPhtr St; 8 pm;Impact of AIDS on a gay male couple, tlX/info 741-2247a lesbian couple, a heterosexual cou-ple, and a child; 121 Christopher St;$27.50-$35; TUES-FRI at 8 pm, SATat 7 & 10 pm, SUN" at 3 pm; 924-'8782 '

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RAPP THEATRE COMPANY revivesThom.s M. Disch's Th, C"dln.'O"OXII, "a chilling look Inside thihierarchy of the modern CathOlicChurch exploring such Issues asAIDS, abortion, tle.s to organizedcrime and homosexuality"; directedby R. J.ffrey Coh.n, starring G.org.,McGrath as the Cardinal; 220 E 4 St;$10 (TDK ok); FRI &SAT at 10&11:30 pm, SUN at 2 pm (RT= 35min.); ~29-6160 (At presstlms, thsthsatllrs landlord, Cardinal O'Connor,. was stili In housing court, trying tosvlct thsss blasphsmsfS, ·RX)

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MONDAY.DEC.a

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANSDining on Ih. Upper W"I Sid.,before the Indigo Girls Conc.rt at theBeacon Thealre (74 StlB'way, 496·7070); loin the meal even If not themusic; 6 pm; SAL Info/rsvp 718/965·7578

BEACON THEATRE presents IndigoGirls In Conc.rt; 74 St & B'way; 8pm; $22.50; 496-7070 (also tomor·row)

SOUTHERNERSG.m. Nighl: Scrab·ble, Bridge, Hearts, M()Ropoly, bringyour favorite board and card games;on the Upper West Side; 8 pm; free;David Gilbert, 674·8073

. GAYACTIVISTALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTY, NJ W.. kly M .. Ung,tonight discussing Melropolltan

, Comm!!nlty Chun:~, Christ the Ube,.alor, and how some GMMC mem-bers have had their spiritual needsmet by this mostly gay chrui:h; atMorristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21

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THE COLUMBIA GAY HEALTHADVO-CACYPROJECTpresents a Forum onWom.iI .nd A1D8. featuring G.orgiB.lllinger Jr. 01 the Minority TaskForce on AIDS, Mydl. HI.rlon fromADAPT and a member of ACT UP'swomen's caucus. Free, The SchiffRoom In ferris Boot/! Hall. ColumbiaUniversity, Broadway at 116 Street, 8pm,

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MARC BERKLEY'S KOOL KOMRADS,presents Kill ollh, Bpld" 'oyParty, with videos of Brazilian men,Brazilian atmosphere, dancers; at PrI.vate Eyes, 12 W 21 St; opens 10 pm;$7 genera11$5with Invite; '206-7n2

TUESDAY.DEC.4,

NYC DISTRICTING COMMISSIONholds a PubliC H•• rlng on how todraw new lines for 51 City Councildistricts by June 3, '1991; at JohnAdams High, 101-01 Rockaway Blvd,Queens;5:30 slgn·ln, hearing Irom 6-10 pm (NYCDC, 11 Park Place,#1616, NYC10007)

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COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVEForum: MAl (Mycob.cterlum AvlumIntr.c.llula,.); presentations anddiscussions by leading researcherson treatment, diagnosis, preventionof MAl; all Invited; at the Center, 208W 13 St; 6-11 pm; $20 suggested;rsvp 481-1050

NETWORK (OF BUSINESS & PRO-FESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS) 81hAnnual Holiday Party, with a sump-tuous repast Inlcudlng whole roastVermont turkey, maple-gl82;ed curedham, salads, cheeses, pastas, breads,pastries, coffee, tea, wines, cham·pagne, beers, lulces, soft drinks; cashliar, cocktail plano; at the BroadwayBallroom In the Holiday Inn CrownePlaza, B'way and 49 St; 6:30·9:30pm; $50 advance/$60 door; Info &,

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last-minute availability, 517-om

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSIN BUSI-NESS Discuilion Circle: H''Iln, •'Ulln,,, on III, BIde; with network-Ing and "the Business Clinic"; at thecenter, 208 W 13 St; 6:30-8 pm; $5;Info 718/237-2399 (E~ltor'S note:WEB meets tonight and every firstTuesday.)

GAY MEN'S HE~l:TH CRISIS HIVHe.nh S'JIIlnarr. Bln.nts Infoma-tlon .nd I.Igil IIIUII, tonight andevery 1st TueSday;129W 20 St, Ben-efits on the 3rd Roor, Legal on Lower.Level C; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOD:645-7470

OPEN CIRCLE gathere to Cellbrat.the God/d'lI on the Full Moon, atthe Center" bring percusSion Instill"ments; 208 W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm(begins promptly; arrive early); $2(OC, Box 4538, Sunnyside, NY11104) (also NOV2)

,LAMBDA INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS C.ndlll.t.Nlglit!EndoFllmlnt "Itlng to gl18tand grill the candidates vying In the29th City Council District's specialFebruary election, encompassingmuch 01 Park Slope, Br<!oklynHeights. Cobble & Boerum Hills; atPark Slope MethOdist Church, 8 St &6th Ave, Bklyn;7:30 pm; 718/384-1285

BEACON THEATRE presents IndigoGirl. 'In Concert; 74 St & B'way; 8pm; $22,50; 496-7070

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NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN TASKFORCE and THE MAYOR'S OFFICEFOR THE LESBIAN & GAY COMMU·NITY present a Community Forum onCreltlng Ch.ng.: A N,w Yoii' P,r-,p'~/'I' on N,,'on.' LIIIII.n .ndB.y Or,.nlzln,., with Dr. M.rJorleHili. 8usan All •• ; B.rry Dougla'.Kathy Acey. Rlch,.rd Bum •• G.org.B.lllnger. Sandy Low•• M.n Fore-man. Jacqul. Bllllop. Ken Dawaon.Llil Wlnt ..... Yv.ttl Burton. Rob.rtVallluez, Others; at the Center, 208 W13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMU·,

NITY CENTERDlsOlllllon .nd 80clllGroup for I.IlIIlIn. In Hilith care;675 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead,L1;8 pm; $3 more Ill1ess If; 516/483-2050 .

WEDNESDAY.DEC.5

CENTERFirst-Ever Orl.ntallon In theBron~, "your best Introduction to

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New Yorle's lesbian and u.y commu-nity"; Clty·wlde, and Bronx-basedgroups will send' representatives;Spanish and ASL interpreted. HostosCommunItY College. 500 Grand Con-course at 149 St., Room 513 (WCaccessible). 7 pm, 620-73'10.

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COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMApresent 81nk or Bwlm; wlthSu 'Frl.drlch's Sink or Swim, J.nnllerMonlgom.ry'i Lovs With a Llttls I,and S.dl, B.nnlng·s Ms andRubyfrult, A N.w Ysar and LivingInsldl; Ms. Montgomery will attend.$6 (members free). 41 White St.(btwn B'way/Church). 7 pm. 925- '2111.

A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTOREpresents fill 180 R•• dlng 8.rI.s:B.rblra WII.on: B.udl AII,rnoon.Free, but seating Is limited. 548,Hud-son St. (btwn Charles!Perry Sts), 8pm, (212) 989-4850. '

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THE KATHRYNBACHEMILLER THE-ATRE presents Mlcltl.1 Cunninghamreading from his novel, ;4 Hom. attill End 01 Ills World, Also leatured:Mary Caponegro (St" Cafs.and'Other Storl.s) a~d Patrick McGrath(Splds,.,. $7 general admission. $5students and seniors. Dodge Hill.Broadway at 116 street 8 pm, (212) ,854-n99.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANSPool I Ping !»tng Night, bllll.nII at7th/FIatbush Aves, Park Slope, Bklyn;8 pm; then drlnkl/.oclallzlpg. TheRoost. 7th Ave. at 8th St. ,0 pm-Ish;SAL Info/rSvp (718) 965-7578

GLAAD presents Lllblln Invillblilty,a 'panel leaturlng women In themedia. The Center,208 W. 13th St. 8pm, (212) 966-1700, '

WOW CAFE R.adlng: po.t M.llnd.Goodman and fiction wrll .... DorothyAlchllon. Phyllis Flchtenholtz.lucinda Zoe and L.lII Ron.n. $6,59 E, 4 St, 8 pm. 480-8067.

EAGLE BAR Movll Night: Pre"yWom.n, -wIth Rlch.rd Ger •• 142Eleventh Ave. (at 21 8t). 11 ,pm. 691·8451.

THURSDAY,DEC.II

CENTERMUSEUM OF LESBIAN ANDGAYHISTORYAND ARCHIVESopensIm',11 From th, Front:PhoIO,,.-phy Chall,n,ln, AlDB,various workswhich all Incorporate photography Insome way, lurled by artists, photogra-phers, a~tlvlsts; .work by Morgan

Gwenwald, Mark Johnson, TraceyLilt, Robert Mignon, RobertVazquez. The Center. 208 W, 13 St. ''(212) 620-7310. Through Jan. 18.

SOUTHERNERS Dinner at Levee,entrees from $7-$13. Limited to tenpeople, rsvp now with David Gilbert.Rrst Ave. at 1st St. 7 pm. (212) 674·8073-

THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONALFESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND GAYFILM presents a Women's HOlidayParty, featuring food, drink and hotvideos. $l5. 80 VariCkSt., 14C, 7 pmto midnight. (212) 966-5656

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMU-NITY CENTER 8peclal Evenl: Tup-per~are Book Party Fundral .. r,where you can get some holidayshopping done without all the traffic,, 675 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead,LI. $3-more It/less If, 7·8 pm,(516) 483-2050,

CENTERWomen's Program: Cele-brallon of Bulch/Femme Identltl .. ,with writers and activIsts speakIng

, from their own experience, IncludingJewelle Gomez, Jill Harris, AmberHollibaugh, 8ue Hyde, Joan Nestle,others; open mike (or audience par-ticipation. $3 suggested, 208 W, 13St; 8 pm, (212) 620-7310.

CENTERSTAG~ sees Flddl" on th.Roof.$64. Gershwin Theatre. 222 W.51 St. 8 pm, (212) 620·7310.

QUEERNATION Town Meellng: TheCenter. 208 W. 13 St. 8:30 pm; 242·6334.

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FRIDAY,DEC.7

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pre·sents a three-day Grief and HealingWorbhop for volunteers. Follow·upon .Jan. 10. For Info or registration, 'contact Joseph Ripple at (212) 337·- 2586.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIAN~presents Dining Out: M!dtown, Joinus before the Holly Near concert(even If you're not goIng). 6' pm.Info: (718) 965-7578,

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sees HOlly Near at Town Hall. 123 W,43rd St. 8 pm. Info: (718) 965·7578.

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SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANSpresents Game Nighl: Charades,7:30 pm. 267 9th SI., #4L BrOOklyn.

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IDENTITY HOUSEWomen's FridayDiscullioil Group: Po"ry/Wrltln,

, Ev.nln" bring your personal expres· ,slons of coming out: poetry, jour-n,als, SCUlpture, song, art, etc.; aweekly rap group, all women wel-come; 544 6th Ave (14115 StS);6:30-8:30 pm; $7; 929-7178

COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMApresents Jerry Tartaglia'S Eee.Homo, R.msmbranes, and FinalSolutions; 41 White 'St (btwnB'way/Church); 7 pm; $6 (membersfree); 925·2111

GAY MEN & LESBIANS IN'BROOKHAVENWomen's Group Dis-GUllion. Old South Haven Church (S.Country/Beaverdam Rds), " WOW presents N.r~/"•• nd th.Brookhaven, LI. 8 pm. (516) 751· Mond.y Mob, a new play by Elise2901. (meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays). Trl~ble, Directed by Claudia Gior-

dano. "A romantic comedy set In thebohemian 19208," [Also Dec, 8J $6,The WOW Cafe. 59 E. 4th SI. 8 pm.(212) 460-8067.

GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE pre-'sents Deborah Ann Light, 55,Hedgewltch, with an MA In ReligiousStudIes, a presenter of wOri(shops atwomen's festivals and pagan gather-Ings, on Th. Tlm.I." Wom.n: Th.(Joddsll .nd OUflslvll, for womenonly. $5 (Includes refreshments),Universalist Church. Central ParkWest and 76 st. 8 pm (doors open7:45). (212) 595-8410. (GWA meetsthe first Thursday of every month,Oct.-June). ,.

NATURAL HISTORY GROUP ThsGrI.n Clollt: lesbians and gaysacllve In worldwide ,prof88slonalhortlculure and landscape; slidepre~entatlon lecture by Prof. J: C.Raulston. $2. The Center, 208 W. 13St. 8 pm. (212) 620-7310. '

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, am, $45, 982-4138 (advance ticketsonly, none sold althe door) ,

AIDS CENTEROF QUEENSCOUNTYAID8 Information Exchange: M.dl·c.' Upd.t.; 97-45 Queens Blvd,Rago Pari(. 9-11 am. Rsvp necessaryat (718) 896-2500

GAY FATHERS FORUM ReunionMeeting and Dance; at the Center,

. 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; Center 620-7310; member Info, 979-7541, 288-3236

\SAGE Women's 5~+Rap Group:A,ln, """", at the Center, 208 W13 St; 1:30 pm; 741-2247

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMU·NITY CENTER Dilcullion and80clal Group for 81ngle Lelblanl;675 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead,L1; 8:30 pm; $3 more It/less It;516/483·2050

8ATURDAY,DEC.8

BI·WAYS NEW YORK HOUle Party,459-4784

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pre-sents a two·day Grlel and HealingWorklhojl for volunteers, FOllow-upon Jan, 10, For Info or registration,contact Joseph Ripple at (212) 337- ,2586,

ADVANCED HEALTH SOLUTIONSHealth 8emlnar lor HIV POllllvean~ the Worried wen, "learn selt-hypnOSiS,mental Imaging and howto visualize recovery to promote ahealthier Immune system and sup-port greater health and well-being";853 B'way, Suite 1511; 10 am -noon; $60 (Insurance reimbursable,advance regIstration gets a dis-count); 677·8734, 877·8017 (alsoJAN 12)

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SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBI~NSpresents Gooly Indoor Spo..... Mlnl-golf, thumb-wrestling arena, dartsand more. 267 9th St., #4L. Brook-lyn, Info: (718) 965-7578, ,

GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISIS Dancl-a·thon; five hours of dancing withhourly fifteen· minute breaks forentertainment; dancers register andfI~d their own sponsors (starting at$2 per hour, COllect money Inadvance, $250 or more gets Dance·a·thon sweatshirt); Javlts Cemer, 36St & 11th Ave; dancers arrive 6 pm;dance from 7 pm to midnight; 807-6310 (TOO 645-7470)

STEPHENBAYNEpresents his Deca-dent Lawye,.ln Heat, a multl~medlasatire. [See Dec, 14 and 15] TheKnitting Factory, 47 E, Houston St.7:30 pm. (212) 219-3055,

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANSpresents a 30+ 8om'ethlng Potluck.Food and fun. In Pari( Slope for les-,blans over 30. 7:30 pm. ,267 9th SI.,#4L. Brooklyn, Into: (718) 965-7578,

BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SIS-TERHOODp~ents a Winter BLUe8Potluck Cabaret, featuring a flurry oflesbian poetry, entertainment anddancing, $10. The Women's Coffee-house at the Center. 208 W. 13th SI.7:30 pm to 1 am. BLUeS Into: (212)409-2692, . . /

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GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT ' CENTER KID8 Winter Holiday Get-8afer 81x Pllyshop: '.xl '.xl '.xf,with discussion and exercises to"explore IdeaS/Waysof keeping safersex saUsfying and enjoyable"; at theCenter,We'stWing II, 2nd f:loor, 208W 13 St; 8 pm; 62q-7310,

GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUELast DIY to Buy Titkets for theChristmas Party at the Center, Satur-day, Dlc. 15, 208 W 13 St, 8 pm - 1

WOW presents N"~/... ,.nd, Ih.Mond.y MDb,a new play'by ~lIseTribble, Directed 'by Claudia G!or-dano. "A romantiC comedy set ('n'the,bohemlan-1920s," [Also Dec, 7] $8.The WOW Cafe, 59 E. 4th St. 8 pm.(212) 460-8067, '

GAYMALE SIM ACTIVISTSLllth.,.,,,,, .wIth a flea market 01 leatherclothing and s/m gear, auction of

IDENTITY HOUSE Men'l 8aturday homoerotIc artworks (IncludIngDiscuilion Group: Flndln, Frllnd· some by Tom 0' Finland), raffle,

, ,hlp In Our Community, a weekly contests, snacks, lots of leathermen;rap group, all men welcome; 544 6th admission Includes buffet and oneAve (14/15 Sts); 11 am • 1 pm; $7; , drink, all men and wom~nwelcome;929-7178 , at the Eagle, 21 St at 11th Ave;,6-10

pm, auction at 8 pm; $12 nonmem-bers/$8 members (with card); 727-987,8Toglther In the East Village, an

Indoor picnic, bring lunch for yourfamily and maybe some holidaysnacks for the kids; 12:30 pm; leavemessagewith 620-7310

SAGEHOliday Brunch at Rogers andBarbero, 149 8th Ave; 3-course mealwith soup or salad, dessert, drinks;ons ssating only at 1 pm; $15; rsvpearly at 741-2247

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT'TORAHGIla Champagne Preview 01Ihl 3rd AntlquIs 8how, a benefit forCBST's AIDS Outreach programs; a 'show today and tomorrow with 25

,metro area antiques dealers, with artglass, art potterY, ,sterling sliver flat-ware and holloware, fine jewelry, col-lecUbles; at CBST,57 Bethune St, In,

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JASON presents a MOl:lthly DlncI,,late-night dancing at Octagon; OJWlrrln Gluck, IIg~ts by RlchlrdSlblll; 555 W 33 St; midnight .' 9am; .15; 947-0400

SAINT AT LARGE -Sllnl',' Siturday> Nightl II Thl Rlti, with OJ, lightsby RlchlrdSlblll; cash bar; freesoda, Juice,cookies, fruH; 254 W 54St; 10 pm - 11; $15 at.the door;674-8541" '

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THE GIRTH & MIRTH CLUB pre·se,nts Brunch It Ihl Dugout. $7,95price Includes ',one drink. TheDugout. Christopher ,and Wee·-ha~ken streets. 12 pro.

SLOP~ ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS, presents Brooklyn BQtlnlcl1 Glr·dlnl DIY. 12 pm. SAL Info: (718)

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, Information must be received by Monday to be included in the followingweek's issue. Send items to OutWeek Ustings"l59 W. 25 St, NY,NY 10001., '

,_ (Arts a.Ern, 5IIi Fifth AVe, llkh A. NYC 10017;661-4500)CCIY (Rick X. Box 7!IJ, NYC,101111) ,•• (Gay Broadcas1ing System, BlIII:h PeaSlDn, 1787th Ave,,', Ste.A-3.NYCloo,,;243-15701 'GCN (Gay Ca,bleNibMI/1(, Lou M~IeIta, 3Z Union Square &st;,

S,uit81217;471-4221l)', ' ', CMIC (Gay Mail's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W 2l) St,

NYC10Q11;1117-7517) ,, R8 PROD (Rob,n Byrd Prod., Box 3m, NYC 101121;9118-2973)

,=~~A~tf~J~~~WCII$olY(51 W52 StSt,'NYC 10019;9J5.43Z1I ,

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 39:IIIIPM GBS Outin the Wi: convnui1ity news, discussion"

Interviews. BQ Cable, CH 5& (1:00)11:11PM Tomorrow/Tonight I.lvel: entertainmen1; Manhattan

and Paragon Cable, CH om (1:00)IIdJIIgIII CClV The Closet CISe Shaw. Klosflt KDps;Manhflt·',tan /Paragon Cable, CH C/1~ (:30)

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1O:m PM RB PROD Thella6l. BrnIShaw. male and female, strippers; ~anhattan Cable,1:H V/35 (1:011)*IIPM WBAI·FM The ~ Stuff. Featuring Dr.lIwrMIce

D.MIll, author of Dialoguils of theSexual Revolution,Vots. land II. and KaaIIII LWoodwwd, NfIWSWfIfI[(sreligion editor and author of Making Saints: How the .C6tho/(c Church Dfltflmines Who Becomes a &int Who 'Doesn'tand Why.As a bonus, Judy Garland I1Icordswillbe played in honor of VrtD Russo.

10:30 PM The Brend, ,nd G/end, Show. Manhattan/Pa-ragon Cable. CH 0/17. (:30)

11:ao P.,.· GBS Out in the !!D's: news, information andInterviews; Manhattari/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)

..WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5Mldllgllt RB PROD 'Thellobl. Bn Shaw. male and female

strippers, live call-in show; Manhattan Cabla, CH V/35

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6 '1:ao PM WBAI-FM This Wsy Out; the intllrnational gay!les·

blan news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)1:30 PMWBAI·FM An Aftemoon Outing. local news and infor-

mation about1he gay/lesbian community with Lany G.......l~ _

2:311PM WBAI·FM AIDS: P/Iths toSe'-EtrfJowermBnt treat-ment and health issues with BGII~NIck CillanllII,Belly lIIb;99.5 FM (:1:00)

I:aI PM The G,y Dring Game Showwith T-r SeeII and........v.~Manhattan Cable, CH C/16(:30)

_ PM (lCN BeOur Guest entartainmentfor and about1helesbiari/gay community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30)

10:30 P~ GMHC Living With AID~ healtb and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30) .

. 11:ao PM GCN G,y U.S.A.: news and entertainment fromaround 1h& country; Manhattan Cabla, CH V/35 (1;00)

Mldllgbt GCN Men in RIms. male erotica, Interviews withadultfllmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)

12fJDAM RB PROD Men ForMen:RHln Byrd presents gaymale porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 72fJDPM WBAI·FM Rompiendo " Silenclo: todos los

vier!!es, GoaIIo AltIIlD con tarnas y noticla. para lacomunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)

MIPM ~AI·FM AlPS In Focus. ...... AIcIIey, produc-er; politlcs/cultura pf,1he AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:15)

1. AM RB PROD The Rtitl. BynI Show. maleand femalestrippers; Manhattan Cable, CHV/35 (1:00)

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•• rg;iive call-)n; 99.5 FM(2:00)7.PM GCN,~,yU.S.A~ news e?d I!ntartainment fromaround 1he country; Bo, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:011)(For Manhattan Cable, saa TlIURSDAY)

11. PM Gay rnmale porn; Manhattan Cable; CHV/351.AM RB PROD ThellobldJynI Show. ,male a. female·strippers; Paragon Cable, CH ('J16 (1:011)

1:30 AM RB PROD Thellobl" BynI SI!ow. rnale a. femalestrippars; Manhattan Cable, CHV/35 (1:00)

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lesbian entrepreneurs crl8C~g hciw1Dbe1ha boss in }'Our0INI1 business;altemal8Swith ThfIG.tySllow;99.5FM (1111)

10:30 PM RB PRODMen ForMen:lIoIIinBynIpresems gay. male porno stars; Manhattan Cabla, CHV/35 (:30)11.PM GBS Way Out/; entartainmentfor and about1heles·biari/gay community; Rich VoIo, producer, 254-7685; Man·hattan Cable, CH ('J16 (:3»

Hollda, Tea DancI, with hot horsd'oeuvres, open, bar, dancing. 4-8pm. $35. rsvp (718) 353-3006

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DYKES AND LEZZIES FEMINISTTHEATREAND SCHOOL presentsDyke Repl, staged readings of stu- 'dent works which ,deal with tiomo-phobia, racism, self-pride, powerplays and ecology. [Also Dec. 10.]$7. TheAlexander Room at the Cen-ter, 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm, (212)807·8017.

helm's film); Snug Harbor CulturalCenter, In the Galleries, 1000 Rich-mond Terrace, Staten Island; 3 pm;·free; 718/44&-2500.

BISEXUAL PRIDE Dilcuilion. ' Group:' I.f. '''~at the Center, 208 .MOSAIC BOOKS Fill Rladlng

W 13 St; 3-4:30 pm;'459-4784 Serlll: Clnen. Will SIIII & LOlt, ' POIII wHh Merchlntl of JIzz. 167

NEWHOUSECENTERFORCONTEM- .Ave. Bat 10 St. 4 pm. 475.8623. PORARYART presents A Vlru, HII, .

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PrlV~e Eyes (~ar.c Berkley ~ Kool.Komrads;stnpp.ers; do~ntown:" - , Karin Ward, W pm -308m; $5) EarJH,~I!, 116 5t/B'way;629-"989' crow~, ~de~, p,tofesslonals, $7)12 W 21 St, club ,2067772 , ' ' 41.9419 N,Highway, Southampton; U;,516/283-5001 •. ' ..' , . _

" 1µesday'., ..', , ,.' Low zOne (dancing & performers)'70 !;leach St,Statilrllsland;'7f8l442:5692+~Club Edelweiss ("1Vs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples"; TUES espe- I Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Safurday; g&-go boys, videos; opens' ciallyfor lesbians; but open to all rUE-SUN night) 167W 29; 868~6989 , 10 pm;S5)'l32 W 14St; ~-3866'-U, " • ,,' .'.,

, + Grand Central (women's night is TUES,also open Wed~Sun)210 Mer- ',+Private Eyes (ShesGape Saturday Night Parties fo; Women, opens 9rick Road, Rockville Centre; U;516/536-4800 ' pm; $8 before' 10/$10 afterl12W 21 St; info '645-647,9: club 206~7772 '

b~Mindbender (Larry Tee & Lalloma)27 St & 11th Ave '. *ROlW (Locolflotiorr, gayboy~, gUvs, men; non-'gayw,onien, s6m'eles~:IRoxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515W 18St; 645-5156', bians; mix depends ori"pal:tv) ~15W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156Wednesday , ',' ,,' " I Saint At Large ('Saint' SaturdayWights, cash bar;Jre,e soda & fruit; 10*Be,tter Davs (primarilY gay men of color) 316W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925, pm - ??;$l~;rieict ~e.c 8) ~iThe Ritz~2~ W 54;67+'8'541 \, ,'"IThe Building (Dallas' The Boys' Roori'r,House music, downtown crowd,' ", +Silyer Uning(yvdrile,n's $at) ,115Cherry Lane, Aoral Park;LI; 51,6~9641 "

,go-go boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $101$7with invite) 51W 26 St; 576-1890 "Sound FactOry (mostlv gay; serious HQus~/Club dancing, nOl!.lcohol"+ Excalibur (Ladies Nig~ $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind foot- ,',: opens] 1 pm) 530 W-27,Sf(1Oth/11th Aves);' 643-01:28, ' ,

ball stadium Hoboken NJ' 201-795-1161 " ' .' 'bStingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else' 't. '.. ( .

*Umelight (Disco 20D0with Michael Alig, Larry Tee &'lahoma;10 pm, , ';isa surpris~e:$8;) ~1 "Y..51st St. (212) 664-866h , " , \~~O;Coo~ no longerselVedJ) 6th Ave at20St; club 807-7850 , " ' "",', " ' "'.' ," '," \

+ Private Eves (Shescape AftefWork Patty, 5-10 Pm; $5 before 7 pm/$7 ,Sunday"', ; "", " '. , .' '. ,,', " .' ", after; 2-4-1 drinks before 7)12 W 2fSt;, info 645-6479, club 206-7712, '-t\-Better Days1mostry gay men of cplor, OJ Joh~ Hall) 316W 49 St; 245-8925

Private Eves (YM.VANight; students, prof Is, woinen; performer:!; $7; ',IThe Building (D:allas'TheMen's RQom,stude/lt!i, professiohals;rnen;'d.oor often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) 12W 21 St; 206~7772 ' go-go boys ,&60-ft .•ceiling)5fW 26 St; 576-1890 "" '

Silver Unilig (2-4-ldrinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry , -ceCateSociety,(Society Suri'iJaysTea Danrie, Hi NRG DJs, SocietyLane, Floral Pk, U; 516/354;9641 ." ,Dancers; 5 p,m-n; $10) B'way at 21St; 529-8282.'/ ","

Stutz (2~4-1drinks, also open d~ily)202 Westchester Ave,White Plains;' Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; danCing also on' btherriightsfrO'm914/761-3100 " , \ ' '. 10 pmf80 Grove $fiat Sheridan Sq.; 92H557;', "", ';

Thu.rsday , , ' " . '. 2O/ZO (Michael Fesco's'Tea Dance"opens 4 pm; $6; free Mirnos,as & BMs-ceCopacabana (/!lst Thu. o.fthe month Susanne ,Bartsch party, next is' , from 4-6"buffetat 7:30)20 W 20 St; 727-8841

N~vember 2~; iffy door) 10 EGOSt, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010 ' , Every Night (or almost). ,"*, ';,;."

Excahbur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 1OtI\fJef- + Bednick (lesbian club,closed MON & TUE) 121Woodfield R~,W., 'f~rs~n behind ~otball stad!um, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795~1161' . Hempstead; L!;'516i486-9516, ,"., '" i ' , , "

H~tfleld s (2-4-1 dnnks, female Impersonators; also open mghtly, wome~ ,,*~Iub E.lweiss'("1Vs~ TSs,gays, bi's, singles, <;ou!!l~s ,all welcome":on TU!: & FAil 126-10 fiueens Blvd; Kew Gardens,fiueens; 7181261-8484 Tt,JEfor lesbians,'butope'n to all TUE-SUN nigbt) 167W'~9; 868-6~

*Roxy (Disco lriter'!ljJt~s, DJs P~.trick"Butts & Sister Dirile,nsion and, " ·.Duc~ss IIlS:-nialj da~ce,f1obr) Sheridan Square' & 1fh,AVe;;242?1408 ,~erfor~ance artists In,entertalnment breaks; $10)515 W 18; ~5156, 419 (niQhtly Gay HOt{sep,atty,'opens 6 pm).419 N, Highway, (Ate 2'],), ':i:::

b~mgrav s ~Bra,ndnew club, .brand new sound system, everything else "Southampton, LI; 516/2~-5001' , " ' • '. '",' '.~I~ a surpnse. No covertomght.)641 W· 51st St. (212)664-8668,,' Grand Central (closed (lJJon,2-4-1;driljks Thu[sday)210,Me~Fi,ck Road,'

Friday ',' , ' , ' Rockville Cimtre; 1.:1;'516/536-4800,' ',,; i"" ',' ,"ABC (Chip Il'uckett's,ABC Fridays, OJ Merritt ballroom, balcony, ~illiards, " r " .,'~ '.' ' "', ,", ,'., "

boogying; $lW$] w. invite; opened Nov. 16)17 living Place at 15St ' 'Starting.:)O Wednesday; Dec. 5, 10l Avenue A-r.-the,space fo/mer.",-Better Davs (Michael Patterson's Fridays, catering to niulti:raciar'cr'owd", , Iy known as the Pyramid-eome,sunder,new management' '. .

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serious,House/Club dan"cing, OJ Robert Owens) 316W 49; 246-~976 ' which will throw for queer$ seven days a wellk.' The.highlights:''-Clit C'ub (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday P~tty, go-go girls; lesbo videos; , ' Ch!lnnel &9 (Wednesdays, beginning Dec. 5), Back by popular, '

opens 8 pm, billiards &$1 drinks till'10 pm; $5)432 W 14St;4m-1114' .', ' demandl Hostess: Linda~lmpson. OJ: Dany Johnson, $5.Columbia Danees (1st Friday of evelY month, Earl Hall, 10 pm - 2 am; next . Cheap (Thursday, beginning'Dec. 6). Cheap drilJk$' and,cheap' ,

is Decemb!lr 7) 116th St& Bway; 854-3574 days ' ' , ql!eers. No cover:, ,~' • •. '''. "':' ','; ';".' ,"+ Hatfield's (women's nights ara TUE & FRI)'12&-10 Oueens Blvd., Kew Meston Frida,V(Fridax~, begj!,ningDec.~). DJ: Nqbody.'sJlussy. 'All

Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484 '., the meat you c;an eat'and all the,mosic YQuc,an'swalloVi/,' $5. ,'r,

*Mike Todd Room (Sister Dimension's Panty Girdles) 123E 13st 473~7171 " ~ntroversv (Saturdays"beginning Dec. 8) Host; Pat(ick Butts,and '+ Millltnnium (Ladies' Nightll770 NY Ave (Rte 110), Huntington, U; , the p,!ople Who ~rihQ you Disco Interruptus. ~AIIthe scandal

516/351-1402 •.• , youcan,handle. $2.99., : ' .' .,,' , ...,Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, 'professionals, men) 12W 21 St, FUCKI (Sundays, begimling Dec. 9), nAggresive, progressive;

btwn 5th/6th Aves' 206-7772 queer and obsessive. Ruff musjc for ruff dykes and fags, "b$tingrav's (Brand n~w club, brand new sound system, everything else·' Cag~d~o-go a~im~ls. DJs: Craig and Victor. Opening night

is a surprise. Free, 7':"'10pm, $] after.) 641W. 51st St. (212)664-8668 admlsslon:'$O.99. ", ," ,+ Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; .info T~ple (Mondays, bIl91~nI~g Dec. 10). Host: BllhKlub, . .'

718/846-7131 club 718/899-9031 CUt Clu" (Tuesdays, beginning Dec. 11). Hostesses: Jocelyn,and"S t 'd'· , , Julie. Hot lesbian go-go action on the Lower East side, $5.a ur ay, .Barefoot Boogie (2nd & 4th SAT; adulll1/kids,smoke & alcohol free; 8::11pm _ ,

12:30am,$4; next is Dec 8)434 6th Ave (btwn !Vl0 SIs), 4th Roar; 832-6759'Center (2nd & 4th SAT,9 pm -1 am, $8; next is Dec 8)208 W 13St; 620-7310

• Center (Women & Friends, 1st SAT; 9 pm - 1 am, $8; next is Decem- ,Send inf~rmati~n,corrections,& complaintsto OutWeekUstings,159W25St, NY,NYber 1)208 W 13St; 620-7210 10001.Youmayalso fax the Listings Editor at 212/337-1220 .

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.S!'Pportive.housil'!g forhomeleas fa~andpa~~,tacing 'prob- : Spiritual iupPort and wring in a' :'. " " , . " polilicil a~d iocia.l~c~ncil~na.PWAs (Ball~y Hous~ andapart- ~ofapeyllhOlogics!ormadic~I'gay/l.lbi.n affi!inalive group; _ ~FIIONr,RU~' AI~cUP,cl.!e~~nta".pea~rsmants). NlJI114dgen;l8llbl1,pastorsl ki,rfd.We also ~,~ those,ln" 'Waat-r>alk~ 12Iun:h IE' A III,WIIl9 dub ~ I88Iian and IIIYIi!lre~u"worka!iopl, ,demos,carefurP\NAs~~d 1ow!IQ118S. VoI-, ,dou~ ~~~r S8lCU8li1y:,Confi-' w..t8I1tiSbaet,Wad:Wonhip18'" IIhIaIaadal.biliea.IUt .... d1- 'ffinlty IIro!lp~, n.ewaletter,ul1t88ropportIrities. (212)481-1Z1O, ~lII1IIall\y18 prolBCIIIdby ~. For' ,,;ce 831 pri"pmpn 1.3). MeI1llia '8 niles held ~ Sat at 101m indmore. GMS~ -D~pt. 0, 498A24 We8t_,~ NYC llDl1 infolll\8tionphona:l21,2)~,- 1212I3IH373Dlalilil2121I1111-711& W8da. at 7pm n «;;arml Plik It1d Hudaon Street ,'Su~ D23 ,NYC--"-~':"""':'-, -,--"-:-, - ' , , ',.'" _ryT .... at7pmIlI'nlapectPillc.~100l4.l212)727-8878.

,,", ALOEo/API14.NY " , BISEXUALPRiQ~ , ,COM.O OUr r-o.:~cal(212)~ '.,' '. " • " " '-*(A',ln ~~'~I'~' ~f t~a E'st ' _ DIS~.ON GR~"TO PAIIE~ , ' '. ' , , '., " ~IGAYIBII'ARIICAN '1~Asilin Pacific~,,! ~, Topical dl8cu8llons on IIlIU8I of .. Let .. help ,)'l!Jn!'r'!lu' faniy deal, I ','. ,.~ .', .' ,1&woik~Yorkl VVe ~re a politi- inIa~~1ha COlllllumyiillii:on- ' NIh fiallJlha-L PAH:N1'li~ ,TIlE Q4YAfRICANAIEII&MI 'eo VanekSbaet,NYt,1~ a.~p-l.cal'S?,clal a~d 8up'~e n~lk. .g8l1lalatmoap/lelll, foIIooNed bY an RlIENIISOF l£SBIANS,ANDGAY.S ,.11' '., G.A.A.I' port group of Gay''''' d~can'i~

" of Asi,anPacific 1,Q8llians.Planning' infonnal,dinner at a friBrl!ll'lI~1 ~ ~on" ~ &n1a!13111 ..I~ a commu~ity bil~ed support D~ ~aci~to cOll!ClOUs-.::m9~ting8 o!,1he 1st ~und~y and, raataurant. Every Sunday; ~,IIO:- ',' pm, in DUlrie,l2Iurch, 201W.,131h. ,!!fOUP~~.~Cc!m- _11I~Ind,1ha~ ?soclall!Wnts on th,e l.ast Friday ~, ~ ~t the Comrml'lity CBi1t8r , SIraet Wo pal ....... , (212) 41&0129, • '\¥ VaIlOl;lS actMta8 .al8 plalllid for d!he ~ ~.GayCor!II!1I1I¥ .~9ach!"onth,~an,(212)5F-~for,2IBw.13Sbaet"NYt.PartOf1he, .. ' "",', , " 1haCOll1ll!!~Plalilcal91+ 'G~AD l'III~lu!lIV' of,Afnc.an,II1Orelllfurmation.~, " .. ",NawYork,AraaBiiaxuaINa1WoJt. COMIlUNITYHEAIJII '~formoreno.· A!"csn-~~n,~nllbli!Jn,ind f,

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for Dutch9aa,.~rang,9, .P~~am" , Bi88l\ual..eommunity and'frienda. !nformation (212), 875-3559 ' fi1har's, the!r~rs, ~nd oChers In csl71&a12.,G182. ';. i ~ -,$..,Rockland, Sull)Van, ~I!,~r .and,' '~a" NYABN·fordataila of upcorn-', (TJ'YNojcl)PROVlDlNG'CARlNG,,' oh~~n.., ~ ~ , ," ,,:1,W9st.c~a$ta~ coUntla,8., ~'~~,ingewntt' (212)4Ii94184 , . ", ',SENSITIVE AND, LOW COST- ,lymeatingsmclude a podu!lk~ GAYlIEN'S ~ CRISIS' ,,~ ..education, chant 8ej'VIC,!8,_c[l-, d "",,' , " ,HEAlJH CARE SERVICESTO nt:, "per, I"pport,groupa on vaned ' HCnUNE _'" '.,' ":4:",sis intervanlio~, 8UPIl0rt'grqul!S, .' .,' BfPAC(BISEXUAL,POUTICAi.·' . LEsBIAN ANDGAiCOMMUNf{Y ,.Spe~.~torJo:CI!, .peakers,. and RIR ItmI.WXIN ON SAIBl'SEX ,,;~.08le. ma~a.g,,~m~nt,.buddy and , . ,'AcrJON COMMITTEE)' _. ,,' ,lOclallzlng.Meetings: 1it Friday AND HIV-IBAI'ED~11!,S~:•.i:(i,!.Y-h08pital vlsitbr program. p:';'" ~I'""-' ~. . , COMMUNITY '.. •.. oh mon1h, 7pm, at The c.rtai; IJIB,NtlRlRNUItWIONON.' ';'214CentralAle. WI\ita Plai1s;NY." ,,"uoa a.... ,:on - ~ IIIIJIC!I", . " .' 2IBW; 13th St, Waatd 7Ih 1Mi.' ONE-T1~WAlJ{~JAID~:COIiN-' ,"!.i'11811(914/- """" ."" . ~nCllto 1h,,~VLasbialVGay, . " RESEARCH INI1IATIVE, , 'C' t'b '. . .............. lII'ft' ,-< " ', , ...,......,,,..' ,:, "', COI1J1Uity.MinHv~ CRJ _ exp.rimantal,drugs)nd . on nution: Bnng a main ,~~.~ , :' ,,.-'"1138Broadway, ",ew:burgli, NY, ,hald'lI;OOprpon fourthThursilay of: ~forAiDS ~ IIVraInId '. COUII8for 4 pe~e (orP:lY 8'$5 , 21~~2~7f1D ,TDD12250('!141582-lmi. , ",'... 1hamoil1hatmamberahQI_C8B, illnBllel.M!II!JhIytreatmantand ,foodcharge.)Forlilfoiniationcsl: 1Fw"~""""'·";AlDShna (914/183-Q11Q7 ' , ,NYABNfor~mon'h1s~ •. ' ,reuarchgroupforllV+incMIuaIr.' ' 212-9l&-7541or~12-2II8-3DI Mon..fri.1CI:3DlJII.to8p.m ,, ,~ ((212141i11-47e4 ' .' .. ,Tlllltl\antandreel8rch~" 12:00,to3:00,'~ &~IJS.:N,~ Y~RK "'. , , , - , , : fOnjrnaand pubicll8llliriara. Cal ~" • ,.." "A ~oHor~proflt ..orga~lz!!I,~O" :BlSEXUAL,YOUTH,,' '" Alice Sp8C!rsor Kan Fomitaro,a.t ~&.IMIIiMAII..,.... . .- Glmt.M~,;ym!ch PI'Of!!~s friend8h!~ ~ Infunnalsoeial &support,group (212)481-1caJforillOandmaii1giclt.". .... ~ . CWBOF NEWYORK .'Asla"!,P8ciflC 18Iall~er,:,\slan,~, foJ; Bisexual kiclrlYouih.tJlcin1I1Iy .. ,,' ", ' ,eoVanek~.~10013 (212) , Soc'll club for h~avy,c~,!bbyAmencan, and .non-Asla!!, gay, 'ineetirfg/potlu'ck lunch held CONGREqAlION,E1H, !III8-~'1I:1'!i~~batahomo- . g.y men a: !hllr, ~dm,l.r8rl.

,m'".'1hr~ughsoclal~.c,ultura!,~~u-. l:011pmon fourth Sunday·Ot1h, .. " ,SIMCHAT " "phQbian1h8l1)1Cia __rid~I8', Monthly aocl!!l. ~t~he .Cln-.'" cationa~,and 88rvlc ..eaCtiVj~a8mcinih at members. home •. Call ..' , TORAH:'",. .'. bv(lnJlllClilg_lIilYcif1ha:~n ter', weekly. bar nlglitaT"~r.-and programs, ~al!9ur HotUne:, ' .Ny ABNfor1hia month'.localion. NYs Gay aildLaabian S't'I!agogue. ,~gay COII1IIIII1ly al)d orvar:omnu day .. t tile Ch.la~~ :rr~n"e(,212-874-S!&t,or writI\ to::~Q:Box .Tllii group ,is part of th •. New. S,8rvi~ei ,Friday at, 8:30pm ,57 , g~,1'8IpOn88 to ~nti-gay monthly .Fat Appll !tevlew, bl-8628,NY,NY10183-:6Q23. " 'YoikAraa'Bis8X11al NatWoik,'. ' ,Ba1hunil Street For info. cal: (212), ~ Do you have 31.11111~I mon1hly F.A:!l pe~pII!. "

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~TR IAID$TREATM.ENT, "'BWS-BRONX LEsBiANS ." " .. GLAAD.Phone~I'88ICal (212Hl118- Emi .. UI4-,,-7735or write: ,.'j;JI. . RES~~R~,:'N~')":UNrrED IN SISTERH.cioD CONGREGATION': 17mfor~ ,,', ' Ga:MlNY, Dlpt. 0, P.O. ~Olt10" .,,~tPubli8h81a bi-mOn1hl'f DI~ d S· I 'politi I d rt _ rNA! " Pelham, NY 10803., " , ';'[g

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" " lias ~~c,~tio~a~ l!Ia~tan,atli/sllllll . '/Il881iri on the finnnd1hini Fri- free ca1Brecj ~ IWlohll!ll1lfor ~~~CSIl8.rs ,i!)vi181. yuuJl!tune, .." ~ ~ .. ,1JaiI!an} ", ,~," I1I!rsfur'bial pertiCI(l8.u:,~.aIeo:day8 "awrY rnantit At Th8'eorr; 'ah People Wth AIDS'ttieir'11MIIII inI!I otnlOOKSCII wrw:NY. ~ 'WeaklY, Info. Ind .~ppqrt.g~up '\t't>" a~ca1lls,filr"'im~iit'thellllrily'r .. ntB~2IIIW.·13S1ra8t.fn:in and familie'. Progr~m'il!clud.. FM every ~t!'er Sunday, 7:30-' for~for AI~S wh!oh do :,rl

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,HERRAGE OF PRIDE. INC.

Organizers of New YolI(s Lesbianand Gay Pride avan1B: 1I1eMarch.1I1e Rally and 1I1e Dance on 1I1ePier. Can'(212) 891-1774 for meet-, ing schedule or more information.201West 13111Slraet, NY,NY10011.

HE1RICK-MARTININSTITUTE

for lesbian and gay youth. Coun-seling, drop-in center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milklfigh School, AIDS and safar saxinformation, nafarrals, profession-al ed u cati on. (212) 633-8920(voice) (212) 63U926 TTY for deaf

HISPANIC UNITEDGAYS. LESBIANS

Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and socialactM1iea in Spanish and Engliih byand for 1I1eLatino lesbian and (>ay'

" , CO""lIunily. General meetings ampm 41hThuR!day Of svery month at201West 13111S1raet.Call2Dl-& 7824 or writB H.U.G.L,P.O. Box 226 Canal Sbaat Station,New Yorlc.'NY10019. ,

'IDENTITY HOUSENow in our 70th yaar, we providepeer counseling, therapy rafer-rals and groupa for,1I1e lesbian,gay and, bisexual community.Callus at (212)'243-8181. Visit usat 544 6th Ave., batween 14111-15111Strealll,lIiIanhatbin.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANIDENTITY

Sliding scala feas • Insurancaaccepted. Gay & Laabian Pay-chotherapy (212) 799-9432,

INTEGRITY/fft'lesbian and Gay Episcopaliansand friends. Eucharist and pro-gram every Thursday, 7:30pm.St Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O. Box

5202, NY NY 10185(718) 720-3054

LAMBDAI£GAL DEFENSE

AND EDU,CAnON RINDPrecadem-setling litigation nation-wide for lesbians, gay men andpeople wi1l1 AIDS. Membership($40 and up) inc. newslattar andinvitations to special own1s. Volin-I8ar right on Thursday&.Intake calla: 2., Mon thru Fri

(212) 996-8!iB5.

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lAVA(LESBIANS ABOUT

, VlSUALART)\Call for slides for lesbian Artists'Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Com-munity Center, NYC. For moreinformation, send SASE to : Miri-am Fougere, 118 Fort GreenePlace, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

THEI£SBIANAND GAY,

BIG APPI£ CORPSGet your instrument out of-thecloset and come play wi1l1 us,Symphonic, Ma rching. Jazz. Dix-

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indoor league. Gonie play wi1l1, usl For information: MTG, SuiteK63,4!J6.A Hudson St., New Y!)rI!:,NY 10025. (718) 852-8582.

, MOCA (Men of Color AIDS, Prevention Program.)

Provides safer sex and AIDSeducation information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordi-nates a networl!: of peer-supportgroupa for gay and bisaxual Men, of Color in all 5 boroughs of NewYork City303 Nirlh Ave,"New Yorl!:,NY100010r call (212) 23&-1796.

NAnONAL GAYAND I£SBIANTASKFORCE

is the national grassroots poI'l1ical,organization for lesbians and gaymen. Membership is $3OIyear.Issue-oriented projects addressviolence, sodomy laWs, AIDS, gay PEOPLE WITH AIDSrights ordinances, fammes, media,. ' HEALTH GROUPetc. 1I1rough lobbying. education, Underground buyar's club inportingorganizing and direct action. not-vat-approved medications andNGllF 1517 U Straat tNI,Wallh- nutritional supplements. 31 Wast, ing1Xln,DC2IXXl9.(202)332-8483.' ZOIhSt. 41hRoor (212)!m«l8O

aYlYORKAIMRTlSINGJ\fI) PINK PANTHER PATROLNEIWOIIK ComrmIity a1reat pe1IOI in East and

NYACNis 1ha 'co""lIunity'slergest Wast Wage dedical8d to da1Bninggay and lesbian, profassional group, violent crime a!l\lM gays and I..welcoming all in communica- bienS. Wast Village weakly Inaet-tion&-llnd 1I1eirfriends. Monthly ingsatTues.~ngsatCOliTIlI.litymeetings, 3ndWed 6:30pm at 1I1e Canter. Can for time and Info: 212-Community Center. Members' 47S4l63. For East'dlage pe1IOI info,newsletter, job hotline, ann.ual cal 212-24&a1l1., '~irectory. Phone (212) 517-«lOO,formore info, Mention OutWeek forone free nawsleUilr.

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I£SBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES N.Y. FEMMES

P.O.Box,l25B NewYorl!:, NewYorl!: Support and discussion group for10116212/874-723i2Since 1974,1I1e lesbians who self identify asArchives has inspirad, shaped and Femme and are primanly attractsd'reflected Lesbian lives every- to butch women. For membershipwhana. CaDto arrange a visit or to information can Lisa (212)629-9817.volunIBarforlhursdaywor1<ni!t1ts., '

N.y. \\'OlEN'S SOFIBAU.GUIlDFor experienced, serious SoftballPlayars, Coaches and Managers.We play mod/fast pitch week-ends in Manha~n and Qu8llns.Try-outs begin Feb. ll111ru April-or until filled. (212) 25!>-1379Janet

ieland, Rock, Rute Ensembleiland Woodwinds. 123 West 44111St. Suite 12L New York, NY10036 (212) 889-2922.

LESBIAN & GAYCOMMUNITY

SERVICES CENTER208 Wast 13th Street New York.NY 10011 (212) 820-7310 9am-11pm everyday. A place for com-munity organizing andnetwooong. social services, cul-,tural programs. and S\lcial eventssponsored by the Center andmora than 151 coornunity organi-. "zallons.

I£SBIAN AND GAY lABORNETWORK

An organization of Lesbians andGays VIf10 are active in their laborlIiOllswodci1g IJ1 domestic per1ner-slip benefits and AIDS issues. Formore iiormatia1 cal(21~

LESBIAN AND GAY RIGKrSPROJECT

of 1I1e American Civil Liberti ..Union KNOW YOUR RIGKrSIWE'RE EXPANDING TIEM (212)944-9800, ext. 545

I£SBIANS AND GAYS OFRATIUSH

Brooklyn's social organization forboth gay men and lesbians. P.O.Box 106, Midwood StationBrooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 85&-9437

LONG ISlAND ACT-UPMeets Tuesdays atBpm at 181 Post~ inVllastbury, NY.Support us forchange on Long Island. Mailingaddress: PO IIol\ 514,Vllastbury, NY111m 516-338-4862.

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LSMis a ~ IIld i1orma1cn ~ b'IasIialsIlld tislDlliai WQ,s, i'Diras\-edi1~~mdaga.cia-ciJh,!WM. iBshas, IIiBr1nI ganderindantitias, costumes and sO forth.Membership is available only towomen 18 years and older. ActualIDCp8riance is not raqU.ad bit gni1ai1Brastllldlllopll1ni1dara.Formr-maiI1 peaseVIdI: 1n1b9B, MI'-rayHi SIa1iIJ1,NaN'roik,NY11l1!i1

, MENOFAU. COLORS -TOGETHER NY

A multi-racial group of gay menagainst racism. Meetings ev'!ryFriday ni!# at 7:45 at 1I1elesbianand Gay COlilliunity Services Can-ter,208 W. 13th Street For more'info. call:,(212) 245-8386 or (212)222-9794.

METROPOUfAN TENNISGROUp(MTG)

Our 200 member lesbian and gaytennis club includes playars frombeginning to tournament level.Monthly tennis parties. Winter

. NtmI SI1IEETCENIBISince 1973, a community dedicat-'ed to demonstrating that a homo-sexual lifestyle is a rational,daairable choice for individualsdissatisfied with 1I1e rewa rdil ofconvantionallivilg. Psychologically- focussed rap groupe. Tues., Set, 8to 10 pm, peer counselling ava~-able. 319 E.9 Street, New York, NYlam.for info cal (212)22&-5153.NORTH AMERiCAN MAN/BOYLOVE ASSOCIAnON (NAMBlA)Dedicated to sexual freedom andespecially interated in gay inlBr-generational relationships. Mon1h-Iy Bulletin and regular chaptermeetings on 1I1efirst Saturday ofeach month. Yearly membership is$20; writs NAMBlA PO Box 174,Midtown Station, New Yorl!:, NY·10018 or call (212) 807,8578 forinformation.

NORTHERN UGKrS,ALTERNATIVES

Improving Quality of life for PeD-. pie with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERY WORKSHOP: Explor-ing !he possibilities of a powerful,

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, and creative life in the fa ce ofAIDS. Call (212) 25&-8554

NYC GAY. LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT

Counseling. advocacy, and infor-mation for survivors of anti-gayand anti-lesbian violence, sexualassault, domeatic violence, andother types of victimization. Allservices fraa and conlidential.24hour hodinel212) 807-0197

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(212)532~I~ot-lina (212) 532-«111BMondaythru Fri-day 10am-8pm Meal programs,support groups, educational andreferral services fo( PWA's andPWArc'&

, PROFESSIONALS INRlMIVIDEO

338 Ca nal Street, 8th Roor, NYC10013212-&-3351

, ,QUEER NAnONThe Lesbian and Gay directaction group dedicated to fight-ing homophobia and Gay indLesbian invisibility. Anyone ~ansuggest an action and shouldcome to meetings prapared toorganize and implement it QN,Box 1524, Cooper Station, NewYork, NY 10003. Call 212,463-7208 for meeting info., "

• SAGE: '(Senior Action in • Gay

Enviro, •• 18IIt)Social Service Agency. providingcare, activities, & educationalservices for gay & lesbian seniorcitizens. Also serves over 180homebound seniors & olderPWA's .208 West 13th St'NYC10011, (212) 741-2247

SET1IAN GAYs.lESBIANS AND BISEXUALS

For all of us interested inreaching out to each other in,e)(uberance to spontaneous-'Iy explore and expand uponthe Seth/Jan" Roberts ·Phi-losophy· as it realtes to ourlives, personally, sexuallyand politically, Call AI (212)979~5104 ,

SUNDANCEOIRDOOR ADVENTURE

SOClEIYA non-profit club offering Out-door activities'for every seasonincluding hiking, biking, skiing,water activities and o1l1er out-

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COMMUNAL HEAUNG- (TOUCH)

Community volll1l8ars providing aweekly buffet supper for the,BrookIvn AIDS community. TOUCHmeets Monday eves. 5pm to6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn .Friends Meeting House (1 IIISchermerhom St near BoenimPlace).llnltad 1ransportation maybe arranged. Info: (718) 622-~756:TOUCHwalcOmas conllibutions offilJds, food and volll1l8ars.

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Meats first,and 1I1irdMonday ofeach month at 7:30 pm at 11111Uni-tarian Church on Sawkm Road inKingston. For Information, call914-826-3203 .

WHAMIWomen', H•• 11I1Action And

Mobilization.A direct action group commit-edto demandi!1g, sec~ring anddefending absolut~ feproduc-.,tive freedom and quality liealthcare for all women. We ml!etevery Wed. at 6:30pm at 105, E22nd Stre~t; 4111floor, 212-713-5968Mailing addr888: WHAM I,PO Box 733, NYC 10009

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Barbary COBS!,64?th .Ave. (14th St.), 6?5-0385 , Du.gout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly Gents, 360 W 4iSt. (9th ~~el, '967-0659, . '; .•.. the Ramrodl ,'~," .The Brea~ 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072., . . ;.,/;,' ; , ' , Sally's HideaWay, 264 W. 43 St, 221-9152

"i " " Eighty Elghts.228 W 10 St., 924-0088 .. ,Chelse~ Trclnsferi 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th), , ' Town & ,Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503,929-7183 ' " . . The Hangout (J sl, 675 Hudson St" 242-9292 , . . ' ' ' ,,. ',-' ' , ' '. 1irlx 246 w"'48 St (8'wa'y,~8thAwl 664-8331," " .' ".'!'.. , " ," . • • - ',. ., .~•

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Eagle's Nest 14211thAve(21stStI691.a451 . Juhus, 159W. 10th St, 929-9672 , " ,", l' . ~ , .. ;' '", . ' ", . ' ,'The Works, 428 C.olumbus Ave (at 81stl,

Private Eyes, 12.W. 21St St. (bet. 5th & 6th), .' Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907 799-7365

206,mO ~ ; KellY's Village West, 46 BejlfordSt., 929-9322. 'i ;"' , ,_, ,~ . I .\,

ijaw~t~e, 2n~h Ave., (21st St.), unlisted: >; Mar!e's Crisis, 59 Grove St 17thAve}, 243-9323

, S~Ik,e,;J,2o.)1th,Av~.,t43-9688 ,.' : :,'. The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th A~~.I, 924-3558, J '~,_J'\:' •

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," .' . . Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St., 243-9204Badlands, Christopher &WestSt., 741-'9236' ,

;, ' ., , . .. .,' " ,Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.Boots & Saddle; 76 Christopher St 929-9684 To PC"

, "," < , . ".: ' .. 'wo otato, 145 hristopher St., 242-9340.Cellblock 281 2B 9th Ave, 733-3144 0.0..' club" .,qperi ana limited basis, call for info) " Tys, 114 Chnstopher.741-9641.

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, Crazy Nanny's,'21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312(Women) "

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Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559,

CHELSEA 318 W, 22nd St., NYC 10011

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Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688,.8534, ,

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944

G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752I

Johnny's'P!lb, 123 E. 47th St" 355-8714,

NY Confidential. 306 E49 St, 308-8390

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593~0807,

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave (at 29 St)., 684-8376,

Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710 '

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649',

Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686-8299

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The Bar, 68Znd Ave. (at4th St.), 674-9714

The Pyramid, 101 Avimue A. 420-1590

Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), 777-9232,•

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After Rve Plus, 5 Front St:, 852-0139

Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611 ,,

Sweet Sensations, 632220th St., 435-2580,

QUEENS (718) ,

Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,236-0300

Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave., JacksonHgts, 397-7256

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Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 657-4585

Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670 '

Magic Touch,73-13 37th Rd,Jackson Hgts,429-8605

STATEN ISLAND·

Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave., (718) 447-9365

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Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave" Yonkenl, 965-6900 ..

Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave,White Plains, 761-3100

LONG ISLANo.:-NASSAU (516),

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,486-9516 (Women)

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906 "

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SilverLinirg, 175C1"erry Lane,New Hyde Parlc,li4-0041

Station House PUb,3547 Merrick Rd, Seaford,785-9808

LONG ISLAND SUFFOLK (516). \

419, 419 North Highway (Rt. 27), Southampton,283-5001 , "

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Bunkhouse, 192 N; Main St. Sayville, 567-2865,

Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, Rre Island,597-6820-

Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, MontaukHwY, Wainscott, 537-3332

Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Rre Island,597-6600

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Kiss, 161 Fannardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma,467-9273

Club 608, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580

Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402,

Starz, ~6 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857, , .

Thunders, 894W. Jericho Tpke.,SmithtQWn,B64-1410

NEW JERSEY (201)_, _

Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002, '

Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,342-6410

Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895

Excaliblir, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 795-1023

Nite Lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515

Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518'

Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson,697-9780

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REAL ESTATE; COOP/CONDO, CLOSINGSBANKRUPTCY; INCORPORATIONS;

, WILLS'11 E.28TH STR~ET,SUITE 700 NYC(212)-447-0636

, NY BONDAGE CWBExotic, Sexy New Meeting PlaceMeets Thurs Dec 11,25 8PM-12MWatch Demos, For Xprts & Novice.For details write to John Strongat POB 457, New York, NY 10018Info: call NYBC at 212-767-(1329

R~EMBER llfE MINESHAFTI'm doing re.earch for a book on the

'Mineshaft. Anyone with info. (memorie. and memorabilia) abouttheir experience. at, and opinions Oil;the old days et the Mineshaft, pleasecall Walter at 337-1245 or 228-1070,

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Office open Monday through FridayCleaners available 1days.• 212-475-2955

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$700. '" 212-727-9675

FREDERICK JAMES, D.C•CHIROPRACTOR

Praventive and rehabilitative care, 853 Broadway, Suite 1717

New York. NY 10003212-473-2273

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Ullian Rosengarten, MSW(212) 787-0208

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ARTHUR LOVEJOYUCENSED ELECTRICAL

CONTRACTORRepairs and New Installations.Commercial and Residential.

CourtB'OUS,Professional Service.,

Available Eves. end Weekends.(718) 782-4735Women and

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The Introduction Service for Professionally-Oriented Gay MenServing the Tri~StateArea Since 1985 '

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seasoned personal trainer will helpyou begin an exercise program and, achieve your fitness goals at yourhome. Free consultation/evaluation .

Call Bill at 718-789-8219

HllPIlllllOFFlCE'MANAGER

AIDS/HIV community based organi-zation seeks highly organized, self-motivated, energetic individuals with c

superior interpersonal skills tohandle day-to-day operations ofsmall office. Responsibilities:

coordination and supv. of amdmin,operetions, maintenance of accounts.and budgets, procurement expense, control, as well as some secy andclerical duties., Some knowledge ofAIDS 'and HIV infection preferred,Computer literacy absolutely

essential, prefllrably both Macintoshand IBM, Salary $23,000. Excellent

banefits. ',

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Michael Stanton, Executive Director, 'Body Positive of NY2095 Broadway, Suite 306New York, NY 10023

r--------------~--------,AIDS Writers :OufWeek has several :

freelance pOsitions for talented :reporters who ~an explafnAIDS-related medical issuesand the politics, behind them in

"AP-objective" style for ageneral gay and lesbianreadership. Journalism

experience a plus. NY basedI or out-of-town is ok. I

: Interested reporters should :I send a resume and': non-returnable clips: c(nophone calls) to:f P,R. Coleman/OutWeek: 159 W. 25 St.l' NY, NY 10001

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III1II1IQUALITY DENTImV AT AFFORD- '

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Airflow Technique /I.B. ProbeCOMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDPRIVATE GR. VILL OFFICE

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AWARENESS Call Ross Ja~obsITRAININ,G (212) 929.()661 I

GAYIAIIIIGISWISS WIFE

Wanted for Gay American Profes-'sional Man- in his mid 40's. Write to,

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GIIIPS 'VACUUM PUMPERS

Int'I non-profit network for big tools,bodybuilders and vacuum pumpars,for free info SAS~ to: BIG, 584 CastroSt, #601, San Francisco, CA 94'114

c COMING-OUT GROUPfor WOMEN and MEN and a gay malecouples group now forl!ling. CallInstitute For Human Identity:

(212) 799-9432

The cluslfteds worklSend your ad intoday" ..or fax it to212-337-1200

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We begari in 1988, in. response to IIRITIthe lack of a visible and organized .presence of lesbians in the Bronx. The Center for Anti·Violence Education!The group is dedicated to outreach, Brooklyn Women'sMartial Artseducation, and the identification of A non·profit organization teaching self·'the unique needs of the Bronx lesbian defense and martial arts for 16years ,

community. We have targeted the Classesand workshops thr~ughout the NYCareafollowing needs: • 5·Week Self·Defense Course for Women

• Karate and Tai Chi Chuan Classes for Women• EStablishinga proud and. • Self-Defense Workshops for Lesbians and Gay Menpositive identification as • Children's Self Defense Classeslesbians witWOour community I I • Workshops in the Community and the Workplace

• Distribution of information Sliding fees Free childcare '

about existipg services in other Call for more info and to register (718)788-1775boroughs, and an assessment 421 5th Avenue, Park S10 e, Brooklyn 11215of needed services for thegay and .lesbian communitywithin otir borough.

• Organizing activities and agroup which fosters educational,cultural and political awareness,

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,JOIN US!Wemeet InManhattan 6; the Bronx atThe lesbian &: Gay Community Center. tat &:3rd Fridays of every. month. 6:lIO-8:00pm

, 1 Fordham Plaza. 8th floor.. BroD AIDSSenlces,Room.

2nd Wed. of every month. 6:30-8:00pm.

Contact 212/829-9817 or 2121409-1131BLUS P.O, Box 1244. Bronx. NY 10462

HllilTIG HIAlTHENERGY 'BALANCING

To promote vitality and reduce stress.PWA's and partners especially

welcome. CAll TOM:,(212) 741-1683

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M8i1 order catalogue of fine art .celebrating the male form - photos,oil, sculpture, pen & ink, acrylic$9.95 pGr copy, Ganymede GalleryPru Box 66-W, Boston, MA 02199.Must be 21. Tel..617-437-9598.

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Professional and Reliable.Serving the Gay Community 15

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PIIITIIGPERFECTIONISTS I

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Spectrum painting'718-768·7729

PUBliCATIIISUViNG A GOOD UFE WITH AIDSBased on over,7 years of living.Send $9.95 to T.M. Publications

P.O. Box 310743Tampa, Fl 33680

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Help with• Relationships • Depression• Sell·Acceptance • Addi.ctions ,• Anxiety • Disorganization

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DISTINCTIVE DECO APARTMENTS.Fullyrllnovated apartments in the, artdei:o·distri~ of Miami Beach. Perfect, full time resid'enc~s or the best in. '; .. .!Iffordable

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Gay Affirmative Therapy• 'Individuals / Couples

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Supportive 'indiyidual & coupletherapy by institute-trained

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GAY COUNTRY. INNWith 20 chlirming rQoms, 10Qscenicmountain acres, hot tub, x-country ,skiing, peace + privacy, we're yourperfe,ct vacation chQiceJI Downhillnearby, mid·week, discoui1ts.

Highlands Inn, aox"1~01<' BethlehemNH 03574 (603) 869-3978, Grace,

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DISCOUNTED AIRUNE TICKmPlanning to go to Rio, Paris, Nairobi,or anywhere else in the world? We'llget you there for less, Contact NUVU

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activists found themselves staring at a group ,that includednot one new face,representing' an organization that bad notyet signed onto the list,of boycott supporters. Nevertheless,presQrning the lack of response constituted something of animprimatur or, at worst, a dearth of opposition-the coali~ti,on, composed ofa group of mostly male, entirely whiterepres~ntatives from the orgaflizations that have joined theaction, forged ahead. ' ,

.While no one contacted for comment contends thatChannel· 13 is doing a superlative job representing the broadspectrum of lesbian and gay concerns, a number of individu-als spokeagairist the boycott. ,

"Th~re's a tendency for ~he initial breakthrough toalways be bland, bOring and white," remarks Robert Garcia, a

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multiculturalism, so far, efforts to diversify the project's pri-mary proponents have been unsuccessful., ' Other a~tivists point out that since the boycott is focused

on convincing lesbians, 'gay men and their supporters towithhold fmancial contributions from Channel 13 unless anduntil the station airs a gay and lesbian public-affairs' progr.im,it provides w~thier, ·less ~ibility-oriented queers with theopportunity to use the pledge drive as a referendum forumto reject the, activists' agenda and undercut the credibility ofthose who boast that 'a .united lesbian and gay communitysupports the, activists' demand for a weekly multiculturalqueer public~affairs progr.im. Although the boycott obviouslyalso offers more affluent queers a unique chance to partici-,pate in an activist-directed effort, the political and tacticalgulf that haS lorig separated community-oriented lesbians and,gay men from' queers who do not rabble-rouse may notprove so easily br:idged,'

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But perhaps the most potentially troublesome problemor8lIDizersof the boycott face is indifference even withinthe group of activists that tend to enthUSiastically embraceevery proposal that comes up on the floor of Qu~er Nation,While a media release stated that Queer Nationals have gath-ered over 3,000 signatures on a .letter in support of the boy-cott proponents' demands, among the people surveyed forthis article, the overwhelming response to the impendingaction was formidable detachment. Even ACf UP, which hasendorsed the boycott insofar as the floor voted to put thegroup's name on a press release, has made no substantivecommitment to the action, "We agree, but we're not going toactively participate," explains David Chestnut, ACf UP's rep-resentative to the Channel 13 coalition.,

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tIowever,. Ronald Reagan was elected, and the Corpora-'tion for Public Broadcasting, which, according to Scagliotti,was close to putting nearly $1 million into the project, "gotcold feet." Without funding, Channel 13 soon dropped theproject altogether.

Nor is it the first time that WNET executives have under-stood how serious some activists are about forcing the stationinto a position of substantive negotiating. Just a few monthsago, as GLAADneared the conclusion of nearly three years -of communication with Channel 13 executives, word cainethrough WNET's Chancey that, severa] programs fitting,GLAAD'sdescription of progress, were under development.But when GLAAD tried to verify the Claims, GLAAD'sSchwartz recalls, it turned out that Channel 13 was againstall,ing. "Chancey ha,d misrepresented his level of commit-ment to lesbian and gay p~ograming," Schwartz concludes.

In this most recent episode, Channel 13, with such apoor record of response to queer applications in ,the past,could hardly fail to offer something enticing to activists,should th~ station decide to take up negotiations in goodfaith. And considering that the lesbian and gay communityhardly has a stellar history of resolving boycotts with graceand unanimity, it would seem that the' coalition of organiza-tions, committed at this time to a singul~ goal, might alsodiscover that there is, still room for compromise somewherebetween where we are now arid the attainment of a weeklymulticultural queer public-affairs prop. T .

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: , AITRACTIVE MALE who it.lli!I, 36.~ 10 .llIOJbo.mtoBD.1ja~,do I~ 5:10· _to meet Wfof. 18-30. GWM STUDENT IN NJ,W~SEXY .LATINO T,OP sql!GHI' by !TOIIC., 3S accb.liqJ., mIMe." .~ &I~ ~ mcm or .......... br/&r.o~'wm;:it.:n.~a , •cute OfiFnta1.bottom. 25. 5 1!..13O Jb8, YOUllJlOrBlack or LaliDOor OiicDtal for HOTSEXYMUSC 5'11. 37 1551bo' UlldCrwcar,lW1 bOdy ..... I<JDOlIO. ~ ,o,bot _'" mnExl.11llS(or bo!-. fuo·,tnml. You: 20-~ y.O., 110 bot puaiooarc Iior-. Ext. 1225 1 IOYCto dance .-l ~~ ·1001,.; .... (of Ext. 1221 CWM SEEKS fRIENDILOVER!22,tn'UiI1tmcnll»CCiII&IY, butdiJcicct. - I, &.1 ' ..... ..!. 11M"" MANY ~ACETED GWM ' &.1 "". l"lbo brlbl un, • \0.:1•.:_ ..Ext. 1260' ". COLLEGE I1JNI Smooth '- 18-"",' ."""""w -.. "'IY "lI'" .,. ~ .• , o"""",!w. U'. "".' " ~ '-, "!\JO)'II ......... '

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ouobottId be .imila"t..... 35 y.o.! ):,0" ioh aDd elcati .ha .... for good • JIODlIo. iD .hapc for oafe 11m 'EXt'.llof7 actico, poooiblc II>latiOllObip.Ext: llllZ12S6 ',\. times. 0 Cema!Ext.ll?l • ". . .' , .' , GWM, 43, 5'U", 185 Ibo 1ookin2 for DADDY IS !JEREl Tbio 6' I·. 230 Ibo.BIG J;WM,:24.IN N',NJ, 6) .• hat~,.,EVERYDAY COMPANION! GWM. lovoiniilltho_plaoco, bOyoumow bmdoomo" I""PPY. 44 y.o. _b

~~g;,ryof,. ~D buddlilc.~,or (rielldolbip' 30, 5'10'. 1~5,lbo, prof, ....... r, !'"'!' iD the; ria/ll ptaa.? You: JO.50 yn .• JaOC r,:."'lI"!. trtml~~ to ohare bot -. funaDIl ou~:vcrsa ~·cunOUll. am. ~botDOOy balCst.aIIi.mnatilJc wo ' lR1"'qilJrtaDl..Ext.1081 _ CI.tUI& r..a50119G295 l~bmIbm; vol)' hatJy. ' movicO. diDOr. ~, ''''''''''iD&" , _,'Ext.l . ""'. • , " workin&out, Nollmdoifti'olithioalooo: DADDY WANrS BOY' GWM 50 'YO! 1BM'S, Je131, M~._,.ARE YOU roR EXAMPLE INTO' Y'!":O."!".lI"/intc t;i""me~..u. .lim, 6', 150 Ibo,~otadtc, hatJy: red.! ~_~3E'ilO<Nrt,t, o._to ...Bcacjo, birds ODd ' FrieIIdobiplC..... mon, tho buiIdin& blooil, 01.... _ -. _b __~,;..;...:::;;~l~;""=:-:=."..=-,,hoaIti.lY'll}:",:""tCODd' ou t~ blocb to. futuri. Ext.U70 bot,,",,~ra~ :l.<>iotm'.... VERY AITRACTIVE GBM 21 6'.1ccoiiut u.noy:l:mo or 1~):""!"? I ~ from .... ug, ..... Call.gam!EIIIOll2 165 lbo. iD &ood .ha~. ,.... ~. jOOdWM; from N., Eurooe,~6'[ 4O't "WIth .. - , heal~ DCD-ImOEtldrinkl::r, ambiucu",.I>(immcrbodn;.Y:::;Hcincoear:iD&'ODd AU. INFORMATION WUL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL - AVAIIABLE lHROUGH TOUCH TONE !'Orin&..... i\i"".intclli&CDl &oad.. £<01

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ARTSY BUT NOTFLAKEY,

yuppie but not. 'square...but "detinitelyartistlc-lookl ng, so not 'really yuppie, but, could pass at thecounl!Y cll,lb andJUST LOVES,MONEYI AMBI-TIOUSIButspi,tltual ...vegetarlan ••:klnd,sWeet, sensitive,youngish, pretty, :long-haired, yetstrongl.lcqnoclastlcand absoliJtely origi-nal. Very smart:(both In the wayyou'd clescribe a,handbag and aschol,ar). Ali youhave to be Is wildlyclever, as to~yas they come, over '30 and' not too'tenninally cynical orchicken to for "heaven's sake writeinstead of gl!esslng,Outweek BOx 3659 ,

LESBIAN (SPELLIT OUT,SISTERSI)24, out, single,together, alive.Seekingplaymate(s) to gowhere the wildthings growl Drug!alcol1olfree body.Ali letters an-, ','swered. Isn't itabout time already?Outweek BOx 3622

SEMI-NORMAL,GWF,31

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"A" and "B",are,frlenc;ls.We arelesbians. We wanttodoJJ~ledate'withyou and your friend. '"A~seeks fuzzy-' ,headed, boylsh,out'of the,ordinary dyke ,for frolic; she's tall,and fun. Very cute,"B"like~ all)<inds,buthlgl'1-energy,secure, sexy a "mu.st; she's shortIilnd fun. Also cute'.as ,hell. Let's .allmeet. You plan thedate. Write soon.We, mean tills.PlOto bOOth photogets same,Outweek Box 3614

ADORABLE - RO-MANTlC - SEXUAL. '

slender, petite, in-telligent, thlrtyish,Italian, GWF, ~e-scribes me to a T,Searching for thewoman of mydreams to' fulfill myconstant fantasies 'of a whirling 1'0-, .mance. Are you out,there? I knoW youare. Write to me.,

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more. I'm profhlmed ~slgnerlmodel, pi-efer'fu!1loving people'watchers, artsenthus; beachgoersto Intellectuals &sports maniacs.2170 Bway Ste137NY 10023.

"'-FIGHT FANTASYStrip down to joCk,pull on gloves, getbeat up goo(fby5'10"39165beardedhotmanthen give him adickb4th. I wal'lnawatch' you go downman. Unless you'reawilling punchingbag whoSe dick gothard reading this, ,.don't reply.Boxl'loldet Box 124,151 First Ave NYC10003.

HOPELESSROMANTIC?

Love to cuddle,make love bycandlelight, takelong walks In thepark? I'm 22; 5'6",150#, Italian"attr8ctlVe and 'REAL. Try 'me on, Imight be t~,loverthat fits. PIliPh ...Outweel<'Box 3688

WRESTLEEx-college jopklacks,opponentsand floor space.Slow a~ easy orrough and sweaty.Ring, mat, ormattress. Or do youjust like to watch?Photo, phhone, ~ndfantasy to OutweekBox 3687 ,

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tea, long walk InProspeCtPaik.Your eX-lover's ex-lover 'is my ex-lover's ex-, ..roominate. Youknc:i\y.OutweekBox 3685 '

"1 WANT WIHM,PASSIONATE~

smooth, dark, halrleyes, chest'l-canlay my head on,strong arms tohold me. tight. :Alternate topslbottoms;'SS only ..I'm 5'4", 32, brJbl,b-,lt,~.rdj110 Ibs.Pnotolphone.Outweek Box 3682

WHITE JEWISH'MALE36 .

5'6" 140warmviable Intelligentmuscled from •weights healthydiscreet sks onespecial decentbuilt M 30+ fOJ sateone-one relation-ship P.O. Box1730, NYC NY10011.

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ME: CHUBBYGWM,38

5'5', 200, cln shvn,brlbr U/C hairy chest&. gut YOU: 45 Oryounger, any race,hot bod hotter mlndlUS': safe, sweatY'times In mymidtow~ apt. day or 'night. Photold~rlption 2 TJBox 112; Executive ,,",Suite, 330 W~4200'St'NY, NY l0d3~:'GOMlBBllivlQstlersall pluses.

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'GWM365'9" '1451bs.wants tomeet other healthy,.funny; responsibleGWM. ACtivists andgardeners encour-aged. Write me atPO Box 353 NY;NY 10159-0353.

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CAN YOU TOPTHIS?',- ,

Habitual top seeks, stronger, taller manto pUt me Inmyplace. Me":5'11",160,,,BtlGr, stache;gym bod, 26. You: '25-45, bulJt,toughyet mustache aplus. Not tender.Leather a mustPhoto/phone to,'0utWeek Bcix3696

GWM, 39, 5'10",, 175, BlJBL

Enjoys arts, opera,,• O!Jtdoors,Walking,.'swimming, biking;skssame'in NEQNS &lortl for fun,frdship, &lorposslbl~ relation-ship. SertOlis only.

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"10000ng to build a 'lOVingrela? I'm 36,6i, 167, handsomew/downtown look (I 'shave my head)seeking to meetattractive GWM,late 2O's-earfy O'sfor d8tJng,Jriend-ship, hopefully .

WANTS TO FALLIN LOVE '

Oown;to-eailh 'redhead actor '.dancer'looking for;sorneoneto sharemy life with...Mysterious eyesand an unfo.g~"table smile are-'"definite requlre- ,..nients - alsaa '.senseof who youare, fun, adven-hire, witty. able tblaugh;ln-shapebody, romantic, 'spo$neous,sta.acting, 'no drugslNS. I'm 5'10"'145Il:)s.,30 yrs;' old' ,and want to datesomeOne who Willbe both a best,friend and a lover..Send photo &letter to OutweekBox 3684

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Interested Inmeeting with a GMIntO this; yourexperience, positiveor negative,methods. Your

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FAT MANGWM, 38, 5'11",265# hairY chest &back. Looking tomeet a G~ who'sInterested In me

I" not Just for my bigbody. My Interests:mo.vles, theater,televISion, sex, 'dining In or out,travel. Reply withphotO letter, tel #gats the same. To:F.M. 20053 LTSNYC 10011-9993

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CLASSIC DATEGWM, 30, 6',140,brlbr, hndsm, prof,HIV-. Secure,bright, sensitive,good sense othumor. LiKesdinner, movie.,arts, exercise.Seeks GWM, non·smkr/dNgs, 28·3, w/ilmllar desc,&likes. Fr1endshlp1'st, we'll talk sexlater. Ltr/ph/ph.OutweeK Box 3677

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EXECUnVE _GLADIATORS

Chubby GWM, 38,5'5", 200, cln •.shv.hry. chest & gut, u!c, seeks well built,Imaginative studs45 - to explorewrestling/combatfantasies (non·comp) Midtown,momlngs, 'lunchhour after wo.rk.Photo/descr1ptlon '2: TJ, Box 112,executive Suite,330 W. 42nd, NY10038

COCK ENLARGE·MENT I

GWM, 38, 5'11",245# 6 Inches,

SAFES~XGWM 40 wants tomeet men for hottimes on coldwinter nights. Let'stalk, touch, feel,,show off, massage,J!O. Photo~phone 'to

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I'M A PRiSONERIN FLORIDA

26 year old bodybuilder looking for along lastingrelationshIp orfr1endshlp with ,female or m~e. Agedoesn't matter, just 0

be sincere peoPle.A lonely guy like me!leeds someone likeyou. Please wr1te:Freddie Heron,072103,0·128,500Orange Ave Circle,Belle Glades, FL33430 .

STRAIGHT BUTBENT

Good·looklng,masculine, healthyGWM, 39, 6', 185,brown hair,moustache,conservative butkinky, looking forother attractiveguys, 24-44, Intofantasies, bondage,teasing, blindfolds,head trips (safesex only), Give upor take control.Let's explore. Send \letter, photo, phone,to P.O. Box 20386,Columbus CircleStation, NY NY10023.

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I'M GAY, 31,5'11",160

Ibs. brown hair!eyes consideredhandsome. Tired ofbars/discos. I wantto meet someonewho's responSible,fun and considerateand finding it not aneasy task. OU,tweekBox 3666,

18 YEAR OLDGWM, 6'2",170#dark bl~nd hair,blue eyes, ,somewh.at hairy.Seek$ 18. lover.Very submissiveand eager to pleaseYQUIn any waypossible. Intoanything you like.Write to S.U" Box1-729, Kingsland,GA31548.

FELLOW SELF·SUCKERSI

Let's'meet, I havevideOs & stills '.Let's share our hotgift. Special note toDean: Met you atthe Hideout In Sept.I missed you onColumbus Day.Contact me.Outweek Bcix 3663

THI$IS MY FIRSTT1ME,

running ~n ad, So" please be genUe -GWM26gradstudent 5'6" brlbr,140 kind of mascnot neurotic seekssame 24-29 ph/phnot explicit, I'drather exploreOutweek 8Qx 3660

ASIAN SEEKS WMBUDDY

fQr cozy talk coolwalks fllrn !heatremuseums somemusic art maybetravel and maturediscreet tendermale bonding. Yourcool good looks ,nice build would be

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,I .younger but mature.No drugs bars HIVetc. Write Box 361847A 2nd Ave NYNY 100'17 '

•MUSCLE MAN '

Colt-type 200 veryhandsome big harddefined aggressivesmart mustachedhung 8" 33, lookingfor a man who lovesbig muscles + lovesto suck + worshipand praise wwho IsIn shape, goodlook·Ing mustached 26-40. Photo & detailedletter to PO Box480501, LA;CA90048 .,

GAM STUDENT,HANDSOME,

5'10·, 150#, Intoaltematlvellndustr1a1'ORE music; I'm,

well dressed,fr1endly,& outgoing.YOU: a handsomeconsiderate,IdeallsUc dreame.rnot afraid of apossible relation·ship. Brpwn halrldeep set blue eyes& long side bums a+ NofatsJ)r facialhair. Foto If. ,

possible. CPO 3571POB7oo .New BNnswlck, NJ08903. "

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DOUBLE YOURFUNI

Hot, cute, GWM's,33 & 35, seeks 'similar ~ingl9s,couples, tr1os, orany combination formutual fyn,fr1endshlp, andfantasy· fulfillment.Send revealingletter, 'photo, phoneto Box 540 NYC '10159·0540

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TWO CUDDLYBEARS INORLANDO

39, 5'11-1/2", unqut,bearded, Seek,

,others with hairybodies for cuddlingmassage, safeencounters, phoneJO. Photo ex- . ,• change, pen pals,visits. George andLee. P.O. Box533154, Qrlando FL32853.

HOT AND HORNYIN CT.

Interested In ,ri1eetlng hot men

'. who are versatileand creative whocan get into mostscenes, top.orbottom in a safe,sane way, whoknows .what hewants and Is not .afraid to show 'It. Ienjoy being top orbottom as long as It'Is hot. i:njoy oralsex the most. Giveor take, Sol1'lekink.Besides homy,looking for somehonest, lovingsincere, adVentur-ous, hot sexualMEN. Write BOBP.O, Box 6140Whitneyville, CT06517, I'm 45, 6', 'hot I,tallan. AIUettersanswered.

HANDSOME, LEAN'& SMOOTH

33yr., 6' B~.IBI. .150lbs. want ,8 hot •top to keep mewarm. You,: allAmer1can Boy Ne~Door. Sexy, easygol ng al'.1~loves hotbeautiful times.Inexper1en9ed? I'llteach~ Unhappy,unsociable,unhealthy, under-acheivers need not'apply. Ph/Photo!letter a must. P,O,Box 1300 NY, NY10009 Just do It I

TWENTYSOME INCT.

Westchester, NYCThis guy Is GWMfr1endly, outgoing, I '

active, healthy,emotionally,physically, stableand Independent,5'10·, brlbr 158 25describes me,Seeking 20-30 fOf

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. friendshlp;datlng.common interests,Enjoyrea~ing,music, ~In'goutside, beaches,forests, pools,eating QI fresco •. 'You mu.st enJoy.being around'people, If you dosend photo!telgets mine POB231 GlenvilleStation,Qreenwlch, CT ' '06831.,

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BIG MEN? • BIG, ·FUNIlf.'Hot duo -BM30/ '6'1"i 3'00# WMc271. 5'7·/~rlblue h'alrysks M cpls4.fUn.,Chub ..blLATMs &hairy WBe8($:a +.Ltr/ph/ph# ~o::'POBox 8878 JAF'Sta. NYC 10118,,

YOUNG MENFinan. seoure WI,Min movieIndustry sks men18-29 with smooth, ,

shapely bodies"Inexperienc~ ok "-thiscqu)d be a_great opportu!'lityfor the rightperson. AI! races. ,Send letter,address, phone & '(photoapprec'd) ,to Ferrts27758Santa Margar1ta ' .#124, MissionVieJo, CA 92891,

HEALTHYJ/OPARnES

Safe Sex, noalcohol, drugs orsmoke, Noncholesterol non fatsnacks,. Age 25·

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FUN, CUTE, GBM34,5'7"

138 Ibs, mous·tache. Enjoysworking out,dancfng, good 'conversation,movlee, music,homellfe. Lovee tolaugh and cuddleseeking man SO·40sImilar Interesta forfun and poeelblerelationship. 'Outweek Bo)( 3628

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HEREQWM, 38 5'9" 150brlbr moustacheand trim beard, 'hairy, defined,muscular build, .handsome, masc.,Intell., unpreten-tious. Enjoysmovies, theater. 'photog.; cooking,bicycling, nature,Seeking other rarefind who Isgoodlooking,masc., very health-conscious, Intell.,

" well-builtw/musc.arms & pees,. sense of humor,_enjoys the arts,mature, honest,affectionate. non-cig. smoker. Let's "exchange letterand photo.

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QUEER MALE,23, TIGHT BOD

seeks othercompatible guys.for urban frolic. I'myoung, mature,need to laugh.Ready for somedates and somesweaty dancing,Good kisser amust. Sendaletter and photo tome. Get myattention. OutweekBox 3621

MASCULINE. BOTTOMHot & sexy 32 y,o,WM 6'11"180 Ibsgoodlooklng wellbuilt straight acting

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GWM goodlooklngIemooth 1555'11"dart<hair green .eyee Ivy Ed. eeekemanly fellow ardentand tNe to be myhero enjoy ,fullrange Of urbanactivities love dogsbooks being astalwart stand upguy and taking aprotective malestance and can'adore a smart(aleck) funny guywho will lean onyour shoulder andtreat you like a king,,I'm HIV neg a photoletter to Outweek ,Box 3618

ROMANT1CITALIAN GUY'

This handsome,healthy 37yr oldItaJlan man Islooking for acommittedrelationShip with ablack or hispanicman who is In touchwith his feelingsand not afraid to. express them ,I'mshort 5'2" stocky

. 155 Ibs, have blue, eyes dari< brownhair with amousl$che amhonest & sincere nodNgS. no smoke ,and a nice guy.Outweek Box 3616

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I won't accept the.' Impoeelblltlty Qffinding' a decenteeneltlve, man who, Is warm and funnywith a fully ,functtonal brain. Amlooking fora secureIndependentcompanion to sharelife's pain andwonder, willing to '.wort<towardpermanence whenthe ~ntlalls real.Am 35, profel~slonal, tall, elll\1,arid attractive.Enjoy world travel,nature, people 'watchlng"f1fm,beautiful Music andcreating goodkarma. Are you akindred eplr1t?Outweek Box 3806

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REGULAR GUY 37SEEKS

understanding,Intelligent, recover-Ing reflection tosupport explorationof big Issues:Intimacy, Isolationand thinning hair,Helps If you canlaugh and cry, likecats and theatre,have some sense ofGod and stili havetime to dream of abetter wor1d. Wr1tebox # Outweek Box3603

FURRY BEARDEDBLOND OR ,

red beal-? Hand-some, articulatebruin (37, 5'9",stocky, HIV+,beard, bubble butt)seekssexuavIneliectual equal,25-50. I'rna wr1ter(cultural activism),scholar (German,Dutch, RUSSianLlt.), Into books,film, bondage,Ideas, travel. Iremand my Russianstudents of TzarNicholas II. Replywith photo: CodyAdams Box 14278,San Francisco, CA94114

GWM, PROF,41,seeks Similar fordat~s. I enjoy travel,

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WINNING COMBI-NAnON

handsome All·Amerfcan auy-next·door 39, 8'2~,190, It 'bnfolue, eln ahvn, 'mue, alncere, "athletlo. EnJoy'sucecareer In advertll-Ing and lporta,trav.l, beach, arts,photog & cooklng.Seeks blight, ,.eensltl.ve All AmerlPrep 26·40 wIthsimilar Interests tocreate winningcombination. Photoand phone a mustlOutweekBox 3587

PROFESSIONAL- GBM

Flna.nclally secure41, 5'9" 152 healthyHIV+ wishes to .meet men 30-50race unimportantenjoy sports theatre, reading wr1te·detailed letter wiphoto 606w. BarryBox 149 Chicago,IL60640

LUST LOVINGWriter, 52, wants tomeet pro-pleasure'buddy for m.!Jluaiaffectionate 'exchange of flesh,no fluids. Photo

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GWM, BRNlBL,, 6'1 ",'1651

late forties, averagelooks and build haseve~hlng but thatspeelal someone. I

Like to meet 35-40 'masculine, clean·cut with a sense ofhumor af1dwilling tolie about how wemet. No fats, femsor freeloaders.Photo and phonenumber apprecl·ated. P.O. Box067515. West PalmBeach, FL 33405-7616.

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Are you It capabI.of applying thestrap It you are of ,lubmlttlng to It?Gdlkg 42la. Bx 744Long Beach OA90801

38 YO CULn-VATED

European se.ksfrfendlhlpcontactawith active, culturedCiWM (max. 5,5Yr).Wr1te (photol only)to CiUHAlOber1an·derStr.338000 Munich 70/Ciermany. MUlt 0,

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CUDDLEAS'WANTED .

- . f 'WM, 40, 5'7",140#,seeks mature 'guy,25-45, willing todevelop lastingfriendship or' 'relationship. Hairychest a plus. Call707-553"9242 orwr1te Ray, POBox962 EI Cerrito, CA94530 safe sex .only.

BIG DADOY TOPGBM 40, 5'11",205Jbs., seeks a BigDaddy Top. NodNgs, smokers.Stache a+. Race,unimportant. I amfun, exciting; highstandards & unique;Sense of humor a.mustl POB 400073,BkJyn, NY 11240-0073,

HOME FOR 10"GWM 50 wanta littlechicken 18119 withx·blg, uncut cock forlive-In lover. Sendyour nude photo forreply. Vj.White1905 Wilson #2A ,Chicago, IL 60640

RUABODY'BUILDER?

I'm 5'11· #170athletic, 23 yrs stS 'acting, vrygcllklng.In shape. Brlbr. NotInto Gay tcen ••

Looking formUlcufar CiWM forv.ry dllcreet rei. 'Write Jay P.O. Box1834, RoseineadCA91nO.

GWM,47, !TAL,5'10",1701,

prof, etght appear.lng, s.nsltlve, skeynger to share qual •rei. MUlt_outgoing, lI~re,mature with .. na.of humor. Gino,131-1 CountryOlubDrj Union, NJ07083.

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GBMlnexp.; 22, 5'7",1fi5lba, avg. Ikg.,Ike muc CiMbtm,18·25, 111m ormedium bll, avgIkng or better forsafe 'discreet timet, ,bgn w fr1endshlp,"Snd photo/ph to J.SCOtt, 211 E 86th,SUite 205, NY Ny10028. Photo willbe returned.

QUALITY MANSEEKS SAME

for friendship & lotsSS. Ego's &Hamptons. Masc,ripe, affect. Bx 871Sag Harbor,NY11963

ATTN: BEAR-LOVERS

I'm a bearded, "husky, somewhathairy 40 yr. oldclean & sober non·smoking Bear witheari KS. 5'9","versatile and a bomcuddler, I'm seekinga man of ANY racewith HIV, ARC, orAIDS whO Is liberal,. affectlon!lte, hornyand as unafraid ofAIDS ae I am. Let'scuddle, make love,and watch "TwinPeaks" together. HInterested Inexplor1ng the ,posslbllitlea, wr1te toMichael Drennon,1330 Bush St. #7F,SF CA 94109-5860.

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handsome blueeyes, 6', 175#,masculine, healthy,athletic body, hairyblond legs a plUS, Ilike to travel. Reply

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'elOure, older whitemale who will givehim the love andeecurlty he wanteand ncit be dumped, at eh drop of thenext pair of jockeyehone the cornesdown the pike. Amtired of playingbullehlt with aeerl ..of con artl.t. whothink their headgame. are originaland th.lr cook I. the,keYtofl~aI.ecurtty. Am gay,49, 8'1 1/2", 220.,blTflbrn, averagelooka, hairy, hu.ky,mu.tache, .e1f·emplOyed businessowner. Am kind,underatanplng,hone.t. .Incere,and value a true'rela~onshlp. Lostmy lover In an autoaccident a few

HIY·, FURRY years back so, soPANDA although alone, not

Hairy. bearded, 6'4" ionely, just looking ,200 Ibs, blue-eyed for someone tobear. Enjoys good share a hol\'18,old fashioned business, and ME.toUching, playing, No fems, fats,JO jusst fine. On ,druggles, streetthe prowl for other runners, cultured orfurry bears, college types. I'd

• preferably In'- ' rather you be a highSouthem California, schOol drop o!rtto nibble, cuddle, ' than an eggbead,and be affectionate SO!TleonewhoWIth howeverl appreciates awherever we are. If chance at lOVeandyou're like me, we ' security. If,thisneed to bel Drop a sounds like you,llnel Drop a line to rush me a letter and, Mr. Chuck, #101, photo to let me5009 Woodman know you exist IfAve. Shennan we decide to getQakS, CA 91423 together, I'll take

care of yourrelocation. Chuck,6539 Heather, Court, Harrisburg,Penna. 17112

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1251b1... ekingattractive unlnfectedguy for a wann,honest, and sincererelaUonshlp. Photohelpful but notrequired. Pleasewrite to : Richard,P.O box 4842, EattLan.lng, MI48828.

HEY WESTOOAST BEARS I

8'1", 215Ibl., 45 yr.old .nema bear willclean out your buttwith warm loapywater from my.turdy" red I\Ibberene,mabag.)'eah .... tanc:t thereWIth three quaneS1o.h'n In yo bellyand I'll rub It 'slow'n'easy. Hoser,POBox 421791 ,San FranciscO, CA94142·1791

-HEY WISEGUYS IErudite palslvestallions tum on thisvery hot BM (6',17511)$,30's),looking forstimulating ,encounters withhorny smartasses.P.O. Box 786 NY10028 Photol .phone.

NATIONWIDESomewhere, there'sa young (18·28)mature gay guy, seeking a penna· ,nent, monogamousrelaUonshlp with a

SEE~S MASSIVECALVES

Seek GWM withmassive calves.Age and body typeunimportant. POB2874, Southamp·ton, NY 11968.

NICE GUY, WANTED

GWM 48 5'9",155Ibs, brlbr, averagelooka, enjoys arts,theatre, nature

frlendshlplrelationship. POB1248, Union, NJ07083·9998

IHAYEGREATTASTE ...

and .0do you;That'. why w.'11getalong. Our firstdate, you'lI.ay howmuch you'd like tokiss me...and ofcourse, we'll kle.,etc. I'm a 23 y.o.queer, Ju.t back InNY, great tightbody, fine faoe,mind, humor. Senda picture and 3reuon.why Iehould respond.Outweel< Box 3493

NEW FRIENDS 'WM, 35,6'1·, 185,handsome, .masculine, WONout, and sincere.Career-or1entedbusiness profes- ., slonal. but hot &creative; humorous,probing, andsupportive. Seekssimilar very tall guyfor explosive action,intense fr1endshlp,and/or caring, long-term relationship.Call Art, btwn Spm-12mld, ,t (212) 675-7352.

FAT MAN ,GWM, 38, 5'11",265# hairy chest &back. Looking tomeet a GM who's 'interested In me notjust for my big body.My Interests:movies, theater,television, sex,dining In or out"travEil. Reply withphoto letter, tel #gats the 88me. To:F.M. 20053 LTS 'NYC-10011·9993

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CLASSIC DATEGWM, 30, 6',140,brlbr, hndsm, prof,HIY·. Secure,

, . br1ght, sensl~ve,good sense ofhumor. LIkesdinner, movies, arts,exercise. SeeksGWM, non·emkrldrugs, 28·3 w/similar desc & likes.

Frlend,hlp 1at, we'lltalk SIX later. Ltrlph/ph. OutweekBox 3877,

EXEOU11YEGLADIATORS

Chubby GWM, 38,5'5·,200, cln. shv.hry. cheat & gut, uJc, leeks well built,ImaginatIVe stud,45 • to explorewl"t,tllng/combatfantul .. ,(non-comp) Midtown,momlng., lunchhour after wori<.,

. PhotOldelQJ1pt1on2: TJ, Bo)( 112,Executive SUite,330 W. 42nd, NY10038 ' . ~

COOK ENLARGE·, MENTGWM, 38, 5'11",245# 8 Inches,,

Interested In ,meeUng with a:GMInto this, youreXPElrience,positive orn$QatIve, methods.Your equipment ormine. Respond withphoto (before &after) letter tel #too: C,E. 20276LTS NYC 10011-9993

SAFE SEXGWM 40 wants tomeet men for hottimes on coldwinter nights. Lars

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I'M A PRISONERIN FLORIDA

28 year old bodybullderJooking for along lastingrelationship orfr1endshlp withfemale or male.Age doesn't matter,just be sincerepeople. A lonely ,guy like me needssomeone like you.Please write: 'Freddie Heron,072103,0·128,500 Orange AveCircle, BelleGlades, FL 3.3430

STRAIGHT BUTBENT

Good·lookIng,rnucullne,healthyGWM, 39, 8',1815,brown hair,mouatache,conlelVatlv. butkinky, looking forother attractiveguys, 24-44, Intofantule., bondage,teaslng,bllndfold"held trip" ( safe ItXonly). Give up or .take control. let',explore. S.nd letter,photo, phone, toP.O. Box 20388,Columbu. CircleStation, NV NY10023.

MOYIES· FILM •CINEMA

GWM,285'6"'. 1451bs bl'tlWn/mustache seeksmascullne'sanehone$t GM 25-35 to,cO-star In life photo/phone and favoritefilm to POB 2522WNY, NJ 07093 Nosmokers/drugs orfakes.

I'M GAY, 31,5'11",160

Ibs. brown hair/eyesconsideredhandsome. Tired ofbars/discos. I wantto meet .someonewho's responsible,fun and considerateand finding It not aneasy task. OutWeekBox 3666

18 YEAR OLDGWM 6'2" 170#, , ,

dark blond hair, blue 'j

eyes, somewhathairy. Seeks 18+lover. Verysubmissive and, eager to please youIn any way possible.Into anything yoI.'like. Wr1te to S.u.,Box 1729,KIngsland, GA31548.

FELLOW SELF·SUCKERSI

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THIS IS MY FIRST' •11ME,

running an ad. Soplea~ be genUe •GWM28gradetudent 5'8" brlbr140 kind, of mascnot neurotic seekssam. 24-29 ph/phnot explicit, I'drather exploreOutweek Box 3880

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ASIAN SEEKSWMBUDDV

for cozy talk coolwalk& film theatre .

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country? No. Nor does the tt:ack record of either body'indicate ". thar they will, without considerable pressure. One resolutegroup, a coalition of indepe~dent film- and video-makers, hasdelllonstrated'that well-organized pressure can reap results.Independ~nts have repeatedly appealed to Congress for recogni-tion as a source of programs that would realize public TV'spromise of dsking controversy and building new audiences, Inthe late '70s, and early '80s, after vigorous .lobbying by indepen-dent producers for increased funding from the public TV system

, ' ,and another act of Congress (in 1978) granting that demand,CPS supported production of many now-claSsic independentfums, including Befqre Stonewall. But, 'as outlined earlier, PBSoperates with no obligation to distribute the work CPB pro-duces. And like most independent rums and videos they pick up(usually without paying an acquisition fee), PBS has hardlyadvertised the rare lesbian or gay projects, although several ofthe shows established by co?S0rtia of public TVstations-the

I . 'dramatic series American Playhouse and the American Mastersproflle series have underwritten'a couple of films with gay

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Over time, Independent prod\lcers became impatient with end-',less broken promises made bY. various public TV representativ~and dedcIed to return to Capitol Hill to restate, their case--success-fully, As a result, the 1988 legislation directed CPB to aeate anautonomous "Independent production service,· with an annual bud-get of at least $6 million to be "used exclusively In pursuit of [CPB's]obl~tion to expand the diyersity and ,innovation of programingavaUable to public broadcasting," Now on the veIge of announcing

Ian initial funding cycle, the St. Paul-based Independent 1Y Servicehas yei to declare how it Will interpret "diVersity and innovation."However, the involvement of gay men and lesbians in the indepen-dents', campaign underscores our interest in this project.

, Still, nowhere in the entire spectrum of public TV institutions .can we locate a consistent, unambiguous commillllent to lesbiansand gay men, Notably, public TV series that are supposed to treatcontroversial public affairs and cultural events that exceed theboundaries set by the conventions of network TV have eitherexcluded lesbian and gay content (the trendy perfon'nance seriesAiive From Off Center is a prime example, along with the left·lib-, eral independent documentary, series POV) or blatantly ,fueledhomophobia, as In the case of the 1987 Frontline program AIDS:APublic Inquiry, which' portrays a destitute, African-American gayman with AIDS as a witting inenace to public health,

We might look to the example set by the British lesbian and,

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indicator of "culture" so beloved by PBS--and without a compara-ble commillllent to the issues and viewpoints articulated. by l~bians and gay men in this country? Can an organized protest inNew York City achieVe more and better lesbian and gay progrlun-ing on public TV? In the wake of OutWeek's July editorial, meet-ings to forge a strategy along these lines have culminated in a callfor a boycott of Channel 13's upcoming membership drive, ButWNBT's reSponsibility is to approach its viewers as constituencies,not consumers. The boycott's emphasis on Channel 13 members'rights to influence program content neglects members of the pub-lic without the means to write checks durlrig Pledge Week.

An alternative issuggesced by; reCent events In LOs Angeles, .when KCEl', their local PBS station, decided to cancel the inde-pendently produced news magazine South Africa Now, Inresponse to the announcement of the station's plans, members ofKCET's own community advisory board, community activists andothers banded together to demand its continuation. They won., .

The community advisory board structure was designed to allowinput in the dedsions 1liade at public TV stations. Marjorie Hill, NewYork City's director of the Office for the Lesbian and Gay Community,has recently joined WNET's New York Community A~ Board,and a gay and lesbian show should be at the top c;i her agenda fathat body. In addition, Channel 13'8 three other advisoryboard&-New Jersey Community, triIS1lIeS and Priends of 13 (130 peo-ple)-and corporate officers can be targeted. Other public oftlcIals;elected representatives at all levels of have an 1nterest·1nthe . of public lV,They, too, should be enlisted In a cam-paign to enhance gay and lesbian prosramIng, And, mindful c;i theIntricate relations between PBS and the local statI<)ns.-Qswell as theleading role played by WNBT on a national Ieve1-PBS's programchief, Jennlfer lawson, should hear &om 'the lesbian and gay lobby.Already, lawson has told the press that sexual preferences will beincluded in PBS's . to mul . . She and her col-leagues need to tum these words into action Given their concernwith the decJ.ining audience figures, PBS would be M;e to make a. '

~oncerled effort to serve its potential gay and lesbian audience.On yet another front, public 1V's obligation to work with ,inde-

pendent producers suggests that WNET should be pushed to recog-,

nize the expertise of independent lesbian and gay film. and video-makers, Indeed, it Is often the work c;i this group· that has filled thehours set islde for the inevitable June specials, This ml8ht suara;rtteethat whatever Channel 13 offers the lesbian and gay public in responseto current aitldsms will not be just a baing talk show, IfNew York'slittle public 'T.V station, WNYC, can engage Independent Jo1m Scaglioaias co-producer for a gay and lesbian magazine series-which' willshowcase perfonnance, politics, health repons, short fihns and docu-mentaries, with a liVestudio audience-why can't big WNET fund andbroadcast an ambitious lesbian ~ gay series? Or more? T•

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