Bay Area Reporter, Volume 26, Number 3, 18 January 1996

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VOL. XXVI No. 3 January 18, 1996 395 NINTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’
Appealed
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by Bob Roehr Circuit Court of Appeals which
sits in Manhattan. The hearing had
he Clinton administration originally been scheduled for De¬
was back in court January cember but was postponed when
16 defending “Don’t Ask, one of the judges withdrew over a
Don’t Tell” (DADT), the possible conflict of interest.
policy which bans gays and les¬ Deputy Solicitor General
bians from serving openly in the Edwin Kneedler, the second rank¬
military. Last March, after a three ing litigator in the Department of
day trial of Able v. USA, a circuit Justice, argued that Article I
court judge ruled the policy un¬ grants broad latitude “within the
constitutional because it restricted constitutional framework” to pro¬
the free speech and equal protec¬ vide for the common defense. The
tion of homosexuals. court traditionally grants “great
The government was challeng¬ deference” both to Congress and
ing that decision before a three to the military in implementing
member panel of the U.S. Second Continued on page 30
The Right Reverend Walter Righter, a former Episcopal bishop of Iowa who is facing a church Supes Fund
heresy trial next month for ordaining in 1990 a gay man who has a domestic partner, knocks on the
door of Grace Cathedral to begin the Inauguration Service of Oasis/California, the gay and lesbian
ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of California.
Salvation Army
SF Resolution Against
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by Dennis Conkin Although Salvation Army
Major Jerry Gaines later repudiat¬
he San Francisco Board of ed Southard’s comments, saying
Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Supervisors voted by an 8- they were unauthorized and that
1 vote on January 16 to au¬ the Salvation Army does not dis¬
thorize the release of an criminate against clients, Ammi¬
estimated $65,000 in federal ano urged the Board to reject the
I homeless shelter funds to the Sal¬ funds.
by Mary Ann Swissler vation Army. Supervisor Carole Migden said
The funds had been withheld at she believed the Army was sin¬
n response to a State Assembly bill which would the request of Supervisor Tom cerely and absolutely committed
outlaw the recognition of same-sex marriages Ammiano after an anti-gay letter to non-discrimination. The Army
performed outside California, the San Francisco by Salvation Army Captain agreed to monitoring of its con¬
Board of Supervisors passed a resolution oppos¬ Samuel Southard appeared in an tractual compliance, will publish a
ing the measure. issue of the Bay Area Reporter. statement that lesbian and gay
In a unanimous decision, the Board voted in favor Southard wrote the B.A.R. that people have full rights as social
of the resolution introduced by Supervisor Angela the Army believed that homosexu¬ equals to be given to all Army of¬
Alioto, opposing AB1982 introduced by Republican als were immature and psycholog¬ ficers, will undertake sensitivity
Assembly member Pete Knight and co-sponsored by ically disturbed, and should be training for Army staffers to be
29 other Republican members of the State Assembly. counseled to convert to heterosex¬ conducted by the Human Rights
Alioto called Knight’s arguments absurd. “Mar¬ uality—or celibacy. Continued on page 22
riage is not exclusively about procreation or tax
breaks. If we believe Mr. Knight, all heterosexual
couples without children would not qualify for legal
marriage.” Willie Brown
The Assembly bill is scheduled to go before the Ju¬
diciary Committee in the beginning of February, ac¬
cording to Andy Pugno, legislative aide to Knight.
Pugno told the B.A.R. that the bill is expected to end up Appoints Gays
in court over constitutional issues, but added that he is
confident that existing case law will bolster their case.
Jennifer Pizer, an attorney with Lambda Educa¬ Supervisor Angela Alioto
tion and Legal Defense Fund, told the B.A.R. that her
group will take the case to court if the bill passes, and by Dennis Conkin
proving their case won’t be easy for fundies. “It cer¬ erty rights.
tainly is the kind of litigation that Lambda has been Full faith and credit is a very complicated area of JWBk mong the more than one dozen appointments announced by
preparing for quite a long time,” Pizer said. “They the law, according to Pizer. “That’s part of our job as MR Mayor Willie Brown this week is Carole Cullum, a lesbian
may think they’re carving out this one aberrant thing, a community, to do some of the education around it,” MJBk attorney who is vice president of the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian
but it would affect other areas under the (U.S. Con¬ she said. and Gay Democratic Club. Cullum was appointed to the
stitution’s) full faith and credit clause,” such as prop- Continued on page 25 Board of Permit Appeals. Brown also reappointed Steve Coulter to
the Library Commission. Coulter spearheaded fundraising in the les¬
INSIDE THIS WEEK bian and gay community for the New Main Library during his previ¬
ous tenure, but was fired by former Mayor Jordan.
Brown also announced the appointment of former city hall staffer
BarTalk.48 GLAAD.12 Open Forum.6 under Mayor Art Agnos and political operative Larry Bush to the
Ethics Commission. Bush declined because he is currently Director
Calendar.50 Letters.7 Out There.39 of Media Relations for the Western regional division of HUD.
Brown previously announced the appointment of lesbian activist
Classifieds.31 Mr. Marcus.52 Personals.55 Pat Norman to the Police Commission (see interview, p.16) and Bay
Area Non-Partisan Alliance activist Russell S. Roeca to the Fire
Sapphistication.. 10 Obituaries.26 Wayne Friday.9 Commission. ▼
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▼ Community Dental Update ▼ hypodermic needles and other kind in the country,” Wingate said.
sharp medical instruments such as And, she said, the proactive effort
lancets can pick them up at either is very popular in the Castro
Walgreen’s or the Castro Village neighborhood.
Pharmacy on 18th Street, or at the With 800 containers given free
Richard A. Barrera Health Department’s District to customers by Walgreen’s, the
D.D.S. Health Center Number One on pharmacy holds the record for the
17th Street. most number of containers distrib¬
490 Post St., Suite #520 The containers are part of a uted.
Union Square, San Francisco four year old program to reduce The Safe Needle Disposal Pro¬
needle stick injuries and the possi¬ gram is also launching education¬
986-4534 ble transmission of HIV and He¬ al programs to physicians in spe¬
patitis B to garbage collectors, ac¬ cialties where prescription of nee¬
cording to Meredith Wingate of dles to patients is common, in
A Bridge To A New Smile the San Francisco Safe Needle order to remind them to educate
Disposal Program. their patients to dispose of needles
A bridge is a restoration which replaces or spans the space where The successful program has re¬ Disposable container for needles. correctly.
one or more teeth have been lost. Replacing missing teeth is important duced the number of needles Diabetics and users of illegal
to your appearance and to good dental health. found in the garbage by seven injection drugs are primary
There are two types of bridges; fixed and removable. Fixed bridges times from the number found in sources of needles in garbage, ac¬
are cemented into place and provide more stability. A removable bridge, 1989, but recent surveys conduct¬ injury. cording to epidemiology staffer
also referred to as a partial bridge, can be removed for cleaning. ed by Sunset Scavenger and Gold¬ Home care disposal of needles Kevin McKinney of the Health
A fixed bridge is attached to the natural teeth next to the space left en Gate Disposal Companies have is a more serious hazard than hos¬ Department’s AIDS Office.
by the missing tooth. Crowns which are cemented to the natural teeth are found that an estimated 40 percent pital disposal because hospitals With an estimated 13,000
the most common means for attaching the bridge. In some cases, a of garbage collectors find needles are required by law not to dispose recorded cases of HIV infection in
resin-bonded bridge, frequently catted a “Maryland Bridge”, can be used at least once a week in city of such- solid waste, but are re¬ San Francisco, 1,690 people are
tuos er eopfl accroew onnse oor re mxteonres ivmei stosiontgh tpereetpha. rTathiiosn b briedcgaeu sdeo eits isn oatt tarecqhueidr eb yth ae garbage— and an alarming 64 quired to incinerate the material. reported to have contracted the
bonding procedure* When there is no natural tooth to support a bridge, percent find needles at least once a Under current contract regula¬ disease solely through the shared
tooth implants can be considered as long as your general health and month. tions, Wingate told the Bay Area use of needles. 1,820 gay and bi¬
bone support are good. Your dentist can help you determine which type “The program has been very Reporter, garbage collectors are sexual men who have contracted
of bridge is best for you. effective in keeping needles out of required to pick up all solid the illness reported that the shared
If you have any questions about bridges or would like to set up a den¬ the garbage. When residents real¬ wastes, but when a garbage col¬ use of needles was a major risk
tal visit, please call us today! ize they are putting their garbage lector discovers a needle in the factor in addition to unprotected
collectors at risk, they want to do process of trash collection, they sex. ▼
Richard A. Barrera D.D.S. 986-4534 the right thing. Our program is contact the residential customer
safe, free and convenient,” and make them remove the haz¬ For more information about
Wingate said. ardous material before collecting obtaining a sharp's contain¬
LOOKING TO PUT YOUP Although Wingate declined to the waste. er, call the Safe Needle Dis¬
state the number of the local Staffers of the Safe Needle posal Program at 330-1400,
BEST FACE FORWARD? garbage collectors who have been Disposal Program follow up with or drop by Walgreen's, Cas¬
Whether It’s wrinkles you'd Uke injured in needle-stick incidents, the customer and provide informa¬ tro Village Pharmacy at 4122
to eliminate or just a change In she did say that no garbage collec¬ tion about safe needle disposal. 18th St., or District Health
appearance you desire. tor in the United States has ever If the used needles are found in Center Number One at 3850
Dr. Michael Echavez can help. contracted HIV through such an a curbside recycling box, the pro¬ 17th Street.
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selling your life insurance policy by: “Oral Sex: How Safe Is It?” a community forum sponsored by the Stop AIDS Project, was listed with
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In a January 4 news article, the Bay Area Reporter incorrectly attributed a statement to San Francisco
▼ Selecting from the most qualified viatical settlement Administrative Coroner Herb Hawley that autopsy findings of cardiac hypertrophy were an indication
funding companies that the late Dr. John Watters had a long history of using cocaine and amphetamine type drugs. San Fran¬
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Last week’s B.A.R. incorrectly identified Oregon legislator Gordon Smith as a former State Assembly-
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An article on a benefit performance of Phantom of the Opera incorrectly stated that the proceeds
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by Mary Ann Swissler bashing Migden for backing
Mayor Brown, and more of a fight Friday. January
BabScaonc kF rsaynnctihsecsoi zreeds idtheen tp uPrhpiollsipe pagolaiicniests ththate kemepi cqruoamliafnieadg ecamnedni¬t 7:00-9:00 pm
behind a meeting of the Progres¬ dates like Williams from running.
sive Voters’ Network (PVN), held He added that he’s not even
at the Women’s Building on against the fact that a large politi¬
Wednesday, January 10: “Despite cal machine exists. “I’m not so op¬
what it might look like, this is not posed to the organization of it,” he
the ‘I hate Carole club,”’ Babcock said. “I’m just opposed to the fact
said, referring to Supervisor Car¬ that people get blacklisted for not
ole Migden. He added, “If we supporting their candidates, and
wanted to make it an ‘I hate Car¬ then they’re not supported by any
ole club’ we’d need a much larger of the trickle down.”
room.” Weiss denied that PVN was a
While sounding a bit like tradi¬ PAC, but characterized it as “a
tional post-election sour grapes, campaign waiting to happen.” He
it’s Migden’s March 26 primary commented, “I think one of the
election to fill Willie Brown’s things that makes our organization
open 13th State Assembly seat special is that we are all dedicated
that is keeping political tongues volunteers from a very successful
wagging. Accusations are still campaign, and therefore, as a
running high in the San Francisco group, if we are particularly at¬
gay and progressive communities tracted to one candidate over an¬
that Migden got a sweetheart deal, other, we have resources and peo¬
garnering her place in the primary ple to go to work for them.”
in exchange for her stalwart sup¬ PVN started after the Novem¬
port of Willie Brown’s successful ber 7 primary as the Achtenberg
mayoral bid. Voters’ Forum, to try and funnel
Moreover, Migden seems des¬ support for Achtenberg over to
tined to run unopposed. “I’m just Mayor Brown’s campaign. After
disappointed that any seat goes un¬ the run-off, the group met again
challenged,” commented Babcock. and changed their name, but not
During the PVN meeting, their reasons for forming, said
nearly 50 people listened to one Weiss.
would-be candidate, Kevin He added, “I think liberals
Williams, whose petition to quali¬ need strong organization. I think
fy for the ballot fell short by just there should be a distinction
six votes. He plans to appeal that drawn between the workings of
decision. the machine as we know it here in
The meeting’s main organizer, California and San Francisco, in
Michael Weiss, told the B.A.R. particular, and a structural organi¬
that it was less an exercise in zation.” V
BAY AREA REPORTER-January 18, 1996-PAGE 3
COMMUNITY NEWS
'W'SSS
PWAC's survey asks the musical question
Are You Being Served?
thomas r. burns
Attor,onery At Law
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by Dennis Conkin the beneficiary of two benefits by HIV and AIDS in decision making
^Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys Marga Gomez at Josie’s Cabaret. means that many agencies are now
Barely six months old, the Peo¬ An estimated 50 people attend viewed as insensitive and unre¬
* ^XHMENTS,REP05ANDfOREaOSURES ple With AIDS Coalition, a new the monthly meeting of the group, sponsive to the needs of people
group by and for people with AIDS, Calvanese said. There are also a they were designed to serve.
is gaining steam and may turn out variety of committee meetings. The subsequent “demoraliza¬
to be a major voice for people with “So far a core group of PWAC tion and alienation” of PWAs from
AIDS in San Francisco. members has been primarily in¬ the system of services designed to
The group has already sparked volved in the committee work. support them undermines efforts
interest with its innovative “Are Since the general membership to manage health, continue to en¬
You Being Served” consumer’s meetings are primarily introducto¬ gage in safe sex practices and par¬
union-style survey project, which ry and informational, most of the ticipate in the fight against AIDS,
Offenn9P^^D?L^^—— succinctly queries people with work is happening in committees, say PWAC members.
AIDS about their satisfaction with and it is very important that mem¬ The next PWAC membership
FREE TELEPHONE CONSULTATION local AIDS services, according to bers get involved in the work of meeting is scheduled for Thurs¬
spokesman Tom Calvanese. the committees,” Calvanese said. day, February 1 from 7 p.m. to 9
1554-0588 The group is collecting com¬ PWAC committees include the p.m. at Eureka Valley Recreation
ments and plans to contact every Consumer’s Union (consumer ad¬ Center, 100 Collingwood (right
64 Gough St., S.F. service group mentioned in the sur¬ vocacy, Kaiser viral load working behind Cala market). T
vey for responses to and action on group, “Are You Being Served”),
the issues and incidents raised by organizational development (non¬
Convenient Civic CenterLocation consumers with AIDS through the profit status, decision-making To participate in the "Are
comment postcards. PWAC will process, PWAC workspace), and You Being Served" survey,
also issue a report on its findings. Outreach/Fundraising/and Media. clip and mail the consumer
Calvanese told the Bay Area With more than 28,000 people comment card to PWAC at
Reporter that the group organized with HIV living in San Francisco Post Office Box 423048, San
last spring because people with according to Health Department Francisco 94102-3048. To
AIDS have been excluded in the estimates, Calvanese said that the contact PWAC by phone call
COSMETIC AND PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY planning and implementations of lack of inclusion of people with 552-2341.
Michael W. Blevins, D.D.S. HIV services in San Francisco,
and because there are few openly
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agency, says Buddhism is a 2,500- vices.”
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when Peskind and others saw a 1997 by Parallax Press, which
need to connect Buddhist practi¬ publishes a variety of spiritual lit¬
tioners involved in caring for peo¬ erature including the works of
ple with AIDS with each other and well-known Vietnamese Buddhist
also to provide a way of connect¬ master Thich Nhat Hanh.
ing people with AIDS with Bud¬ “We’re seeking articles that
dhist caregivers. connect Buddhist practice with is¬
“All the varied streams of Bud¬ sues of life, death, grief, life-
dhism such as Theravadan (Thai threatening illness, and AIDS in
and South Asian), Zen and others, particular.” Submissions will be Nioxin
including Tibetan, were not con¬ accepted through March 1996, Pe¬
nected. We knew what was going skind says.
on at San Francisco Zen Center The group is also considering
and at Spirit Rock (a meditation exploring the possibility of offer¬
center) in Santa Rosa, but there ing two eight-week support groups
were so many great resources that this year, one for people with
were not connected,” Peskind AIDS and one for caregivers. ▼
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ASSISTANT EDITORS And all my hopes for Giovanni’s
Dennis Conkin Room - The Film are gone with
Patrick Hoctel you and laid to rest in your grave.
Roberto Friedman Thank goodness.
Mary Ann Swissler I know it’s still there, somewhere in the
files of your estate, the screenplay I wrote
ART DIRECTOR so many years ago and on which you laid
Adrian Roberts EDITORIAL your blessing.
It was to be my grand debut in film-
AD PRODUCTION & LAYOUT
Kurt Thomas Willie bmeackaiunsge; II lwoovrekde dy ohuarr db ooonk t,h tahta st cbreeeanuptilfauyl
PHOTOGRAPHERS book of lost love that made me cry. I put
Darlene/PhotoGraphics all I had into that screenplay. It was not
Jane Philomen Cleland just words and action. It was a working
Gregory H. Fleischer the Shake screenplay, like Hitchcock’s, and included
Marc Geller every shot, every angle, as I saw the com¬
pleted film in my mind’s eye.
Rick Gerharter
And I mailed it to you from my college
Phil Migilarese, Jr.
dorm in Salt Lake City, across the Atlantic
CARTOONIST Strikes Again to the coast of France where you were liv¬
Joe Hoover ing, never expecting to hear any more
about it. But you wrote and said you liked
POLITICAL EDITOR it. I was so happy and cheerfully made the
Wayne Friday revisions you suggested. It didn’t take
long before the new version again winged
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS hey don’t teach us about think of as a homosexual attach¬ its way to France. And you liked it too,
Diannne Aaronson, Rene M. Astudillo, it in English class, but ment to the youth.” you said. We’ll do it, you said. And I be¬
Erin Blackwell, John Blanco, queer Shakespeare lovers As further icing on the literary lieved you.
MPhiiclihpa eCl aCm. pBboetlkl,i nJ,i mJa iCmoeu gChaedneoru, r, have long counted the cake, the poem “expresses skepti¬ But it never happened. There were let¬
M.R. Covino, Marianne Dresser, Beth Elliott, Bard in our comer, as at least an cism about what was then a wide¬ ters, then silence. Then you wanted to meet
Chad Jones, Robert Julian, John F. Karr, Elizabethan bisexual. After all, ly accepted Christian belief in me in New York. I got there and you were
Jeffery Kennedy, Matthew Kennedy, the first 126 of his 154 sonnets bodily resurrection in heaven. It there but we never ended up in the same
I .A. Kisselman, Karl Bruce Knapper, are love sonnets clearly ad¬ refers to that belief as ‘the weak place at the same time. I was uptown, you
Daniel Mangin, Mr. Marcus, Jerry Metzker,
Karen Ocamb, Hakeem Osenii III, dressed to a young man. The cre¬ comfort of the hapless.’” were downtown, then we switched places.
Deborah Peifer, Elissa Perry, Mary Richards, ator of genderbending roles in As We get the feeling that if the Your sister was very nice to me. She was
Adrian Roberts, Bob Roehr, John Ross, You Like It and other plays surely Bard were alive today, he’d be just never quite sure where you were. So
Doug Seto, Marv. Shaw, Rick Thoman, knew how fluid sexual affection regarded as a dangerous radical we kept missing each other and soon my
Paul Thomason, Stephanie von Buchau,
Dick Walters could be. by the so-called Christian right. money ran out and I had to fly back to the
The New York Times reported Not only did he evidently have university and say to my friends that noth¬
this week that a Professor at Vas- lust in his heart for a young actor, ing happened, nothing at all.
NMaEtMioBnEalR Gay Newspaper Guild sliatrt leis- kandovwannc inegle gthye, cplariimnt etdh at ina hage noopsteinc!ly Tdheactl arseodr t hiomf seselfc ulaanr NewA nYdo rikt . hYaopup ewneerde na’tg atoin b. eI foruetnudr.n Aedn dt oI
United Press International 1612 by Shakespeare’s publisher open-mindedness still rates as couldn’t figure it out. If you really wanted
I« and signed with the initials W.S., too modern for the pernicious to make the movie, why wouldn’t you see
me? Why was I doing all the work tracking
is the work of Willie the Shake fundamentalists in our midst. If
you down from friend to friend, from bor¬
himself (so dubbed by a poet of Willie the Shake were making art
ough to borough? Why wouldn’t you stay
our own time, Joni Mitchell). in America today, we’re sure his
in one place long enough for me to meet
Prof. Donald Foster “argues that NEA funding would be in jeop¬ you? There was never any answer to that.
RNRAEivPTeRInOdENeSlAEl LNM TSaAArkTLeIEVtiSnE g laanragleylsye s tohfr tohueg ahu thhoisr’ s ccohmoipcue toerf ard“yW. hen in disgrace with for¬ to Sfoor gI ept uatb tohuet sictr euenntpill ayyo ua wcaaym aen tdo trmieed,
words, he has proved that the tune and men’s eyes years later. Actually, you came to the uni¬
LEGAL COUNSEL 578-line elegy is Shakespeare’s. “I all alone beweep my outcast versity as part of Black History Month.
Thomas E. Horn, Esq. And many Elizabethan scholars state, But where did your all-white novel fit into
in the United States and abroad “And trouble deaf heaven with black history? Is that why, again, you re¬
AUDITOR/ACCOUNTANT are inclined to agree.” my bootless cries.” (Sonnet 29) fused to see me, even after I went right to
Chas Wesdell If it all pans out, the poem will The news about the newly-at¬ your hotel room and confronted you? You
be the first new addition to the tributed poem comes just as San were in such a rush as you passed me in
Shakespeare canon since 1871. Francisco is poised to experience the hallway for another reception, lecture,
AC odpivyirsigiohnt o©f B1e9n9ro6 . EnPtuebrplirsihseesd, Iwnce.e kly, Bay Area But the real pay-off for lesbian another round of Shakespeare or something.
Reporter reserves the right to edit or reject any ad¬ and gay lovers of literature is how fever. This month you can catch Were you ashamed of the book? Race
vtaesrtteis eomr ewnht icwhh iacdhv tehreti speusb illilsehgearl biteelmiesv ews hiisc hi n mpiogohrt the heralded piece supports our the Royal Shakespeare Compa¬ was not the issue there, it was love and
result in legal action against Bay Area Reporter. Ads reading of William as Gay Blade. ny’s production of A Midsummer sex and lust and relationships. It was ten¬
wloisllo npohty b, ere rliegjieocnt,e dra scoel,e layg oen, othr es ebxausiasl oofr ipeonltiatitcios,n p. hi¬ The elegy was written as memor¬ Night’s Dream and the A.C.T. der and hurtful and I wanted to see it on
ial to a youth from the London production of The Tempest. See the screen as I visualized it inside me. But
Advertising rates are available upon request. theatre world who was killed on our fabulous Arts & Entertain¬ I filed it away again and then you died and
aOnudr liiss t noof ts usoblsdc. riTbheer ss aenxdu aald ovreiretnistaetriso nis ocof nafdidveernttiisa¬l horseback after a day of barhop¬ ment section for more details. thaHt wowas sittr. ange, then, to come across the
ers, photographers, and writers published herein is ping. The young Oxford student, That’s also where you’ll find our
fnoeri tuhnesro ilnicfeitrerde dm naonru ismcprilpietds . oWr aer tawreo rnko. t responsible William Peter, could well have interview with Sir Ian McKellen, sincgre tehnrpoluagyh s ob omxaens yi ny emarys plaatreern wts’h iglea rsaogrte¬.
been the mysterious “dark man” the proudly gay British actor It was like looking at the remains of a lost
of the love sonnets. Professor whose star turn in a new film of civilization, distant, impersonal, emotion¬
LOCAL 583 Lars Engle of the University of Richard III opens this week. Now less. Only a mild pity remained for the un¬
Tulsa agrees that the elegy could there’s a distinguished man of the born child, the thought of what could have
The Bay Area Reporter is printed on 100% support the thesis that “Shake¬ theatre we can definitely count on been. Then 1 laid he script aside and went
recycled paper using soy-based inks. speare had what we would now our side. ▼ on to other things. ▼
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LETTERS
Ight I needed a
A healthy thing to do Rosicrucian enlightenment illy needed a te;
I was flattered to be included in B.A.R.'s 50 most I read Mr. Glenn Schmoll’s letter in the Jan. 4 issue
“out there” movers and shakers list - even if among with interest, and I would like to expand on his state¬
the 60 or so who tied for 50th place. The list includes ments. With regard to the Church of Religious Sci¬
a wide variety of survivors who exemplify political, ence (not to be confused with Christian Science), my
intellectual, and/or artistic excellence. Many names partner and I have been attending the Religious Sci¬ Gay Men’s association of independent
could be added if some of us were out of the closet, or ence church on Claremont Ave., near the West Portal private practitioners with
if “the community” were more aware of those con¬ MUNI station. Not only are gays welcomed (not just Therapy Associates doctorates in psychology
tributing to its rich history and diversity. “accepted”), but gays and lesbians even comprise a
At least 25 additional names occurred to me of significant proportion of that church’s board. Interest¬
people as influential and “out there” as those already ingly, my partner says that Ernest Holmes, the founder
mentioned. Tommi Avicolli-Mecca, Robert Barnes, of Religious Science, was himself gay!
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nizing leaders of our own choosing (and not those se¬ about the “alternative” spirituality that has always
lected for us by mainstream media), those who been present even in the West, though this spirituality Schmidt & Schmidt
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While I wonder what school of journalism you at¬ Students of gay history will quickly recognize that
tended, I surmise probably none at all. Your cutesy all of these movements welcomed gays; some, such as
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anyone else who may have misunderstood the point of their attitudes toward alternative sexualities. This
the headline.] should be very interesting, to say the least!
German lessons David M. Sanders
San Francisco
SF gays who say “Nicht Deutsch Bier Hier” - as
your headline put it - might well be cited for flagrant The needs of the few
abuse of the German language.
Bier is a neuter noun, and the adjective used with Newt and his extremist cronies run Congress like a Dentistry
it, deutsch, must carry the same gender with then end¬ Nazi prison camp, instead of as a chamber of voices
ing -es. So “Deutsches Bier” would be correct. to be heard equally and validated as well as represent¬
I seriously doubt that a German would say ed in the name of Democracy. General & Cosmetic
“Nicht,” which means “not.” More likely the protest¬ Newt and his actions with GOPAC, a political ac¬
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fully into English as “German beer outta here!” counsel by vote of the House Ethics Committee, are
And which might have made a more effective clearly actions of a man interested only in himself and
headline than the enfeebled German one the B.A.R. the over-represented. 982-2250
ran. If B.A.R. wants to spice its pages with a dash of This man takes money to the tune of tens of thou¬
German, it might do well to send a few staffers to the sands of dollars and then fashions legislation person¬
Goethe Institute - once the beer-letting is done - for a ally or by some self-appointed lieutenant to suit the
course in the fundamentals. needs of the “few or the one.” Rudolf V. Isch, D.D.S.
John H. Zaugg After all, the creed Congress is supposed to live by
San Francisco is “the needs of the may outweigh the needs of the few
or the one.” A Professional Corporation
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EMPOWER YOURSELF NOW LETTERS
Hypnosis can help you to:
• Stop Smoking • Get in shape Apt ‘Fanfare’ does the same thing in front of City Hall, you report it
as a “show of support.” Come on now, get your act to¬
• Sleep Better • Manage stress My heart was warmed as I watched, on that chilly gether.
• Learn self-healing skills Monday, the events surrounding the inauguration of I used to admire the B.A.R. as representing the gay
• Enhance sexual pleasure Mayor Willie Brown. How open and inclusive were voice in San Francisco. When I came out of the clos¬
the ceremonies and parties! And how apt to have the et three years ago, your articles gave me support for
Call now for free brochure playing of Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common my decision. Yet your recent one-sided and amateur¬
[phone] Van R. Ault Man.” Copland, a Jewish gay man from Brooklyn ishly written article only served to tell me and hun¬
Certified with left wing/socialist leanings, composed this work dreds of other concerned readers what the B.A.R. real¬
e-mail: [email protected] Clinical Hypnotherapist for the Montreal Olympics to bring all people togeth¬ ly stands for.
er during World War II. I think Copland would have You don’t really care about professional journal¬
been pleased and proud to hear his piece performed ism and its code of ethics. You also don’t care about
here. And, despite the protestations from that wacky being a clarion voice for the homosexual community
(half)wit Tommy M. Edwards, Copland would have in San Francisco. All you care about is boosting your
Gold Country-Sierra Foothills had no problem with renaming it “Fanfare for the own circulation and ensuring your own survival by
Common People.” stepping on others.
Marc Herman If slam dunking the Salvation Army or Mayor
Oakland Willie Brown or Glide Memorial Church is going to
Call Tim Dials
Funding the Army get readers, let’s do it! There are no ground rules in
for tabloid journalism!
The problem between the San Francisco Board of I would like for you to consider one standing prin¬
Calaveras County Supervisors and the Salvation Army is a good exam¬ ciple in journalism: What goes around, comes around.
ple of why the principle of separation of state and
Real Estate church makes sense. Joseph Miranda, Ph.D.
The government has no business telling any reli¬ San Francisco
gious organization what they should believe or teach.
[phone] On the other hand, the government also has no busi¬ Unacceptable behavior
ness supporting any religious organization.
The present funding crisis has brought to light for Re: “Watters Autopsy Confirms Morphine Over¬
Coldwell Banker many just how much federal funding goes to religious dose” (Jan. 4 issue):
Fikes & Associates institutions. Organizations such as Catholic Charities It is irresponsible and unacceptable for the B.A.R.
Calaveras County, CA get most of their funding from taxpayers. to allow its “community news” section to be used as a
forum for airing personal gripes. For those in the com¬
Dick Hewetson munity who don’t know, reporter Dennis Conkin was
San Francisco an outreach worker who, having worked with Watters
After Watters and Dr. Harvey Feldman, knew of their falling out.
Unfortunately, Feldman and Conkin used your news¬
I was troubled by Dennis Conkin’s January 4, 1996 paper to openly discredit Dr. Watters and his work,
BURNEY O. ALLGOOD, EA, CFP article about John Watters’s autopsy, and Conkin’s fulfilling old and long-standing personal agendas.
* Enrolled Agent skewed views as he attempts to lay open Dr. Watters’s None of the concerns expressed by Dr. Feldman
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Harvey Feldman’s musings on the nature of death, and community or to Dr. Watters while he was alive. Also,
reflections on any “mess” left behind by Dr. Watters. to print remarks from Dr. Feldman such as “The way
I have worked for both Dr. Watters and for Harvey they die is descriptive of the way they live” in a com¬
EXPERT, COMPLETE TAX SERVICES Feldman. In fact, I worked for Feldman at the same munity that has suffered the stigma of such moralistic
time Conkin did, in the early 80s. I have “cleaned up” and judgmental statements for years was inappropri¬
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Feldman, through his megalomaniacal combative¬ complications are somehow descriptive of how PWAs
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San Francisco, CA 94104 Fax: [phone] AIDS, there was nothing to clean up. Feldman was only, then its subjective nature is obvious. So much
finished. for “scientific inquiry” and “the search for truth.”
“Cleaning up” after Dr. Watters means doing the This kind of biased and indiscriminate reporting
work he left us to do - testing and counseling injec¬ will not solve any of the problems faced by those
tion drug users (IDUs) for HIV and TB, assessing working in the HIV/AIDS community. It contributes
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Do you want me to create the right NF (D PT 1st Class Certified Affiliate I am bothered by Harvey Feldman’s statement that San Francisco
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The Most [phone] Two of these are birth and death. The circumstances Conkin about John Watters’ autopsy. First of all, I
Professional of John Watters’s death are certainly part of his story don’t understand how in good conscience a journalist
Guidance Available - in this way he is no different from anyone else. could knowingly use the subject of the article’s worst
What stands is the rest of his life and work. Feldman enemy as the only source. Mr. Conkin knew both Dr.
cautions us to not romanticize John Watters’s life, but Watters and Dr. Feldman. I do not know either Feld¬
he demonizes John’s death in the same breath. I hope man or Conkin. I did, however, know and work for Dr.
How to be Dr. Feldman is able to have the kind of death he seeks. Watters. He was as imperfect as we all are and far
more wonderful than many. He was brilliant, heartfelt,
Loved Rose May Dance extremely loyal and cared for the value of human life.
San Francisco Feldman’s statement, “The way they die is de¬
scriptive of the way they live,” is nothing but hateful.
Knows the truth I’ve had very close friends die in car accidents, of
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I have never believed any of Dennis Conkin’s sen¬ of cancer. Tell me, Dr. Feldman, what should we say
Tired of one-night stands? Looking for deeper connections? sational articles because I have known the truth re¬ about their lives? We wonder what folks will say
garding much about what he has written. Now, with about your death, Dr. Feldman. If you are so con¬
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The Salvation Army has done more to help those fighting the good fight to be allowed to go on without
To enroll, call: Adrian Tiller; MS, MFCC 415/ 252-9085 suffering from alcohol and drug abuse than any other these kind of hateful, hurtful, ugly comments from
program offered in this city - and that includes 18th those who need to feed their own egos by stomping on
Street Services. The Salvation Army has never judged someone’s grave.
its clients as to whether they were gay, and the Salva¬ Sybil Marcus
BODYZON tion Army has been host to AA meetings which were San Francisco
obviously primarily gay and lesbian. I would gladly
FITNESS refer anyone to the Harbor Light program. [Dennis Conkin responds: For the record, I was
* I have been clean and sober and a productive mem¬ never an employee of Feldman’s. In my very brief 5
ber of the gay and lesbian community for over 16 month stint as an AIDS outreach worker ten years
years now. I think the B.A.R. and our community ago, I was an independent service contractor for the
would be better off if Dennis Conkin were silenced Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, a member agency of the
for good. MidCity Consortium.
The piece was not meant to be an obituary or a
• build muscle Jim W. (Last name withheld by request) tribute to Watters, it was meant to be a news report
San Francisco about the final autopsy results in the context of other
• lose weight published reports in which some suggested that Wat¬
[The editor responds: Request denied. The effort to ters was merely injecting prescription migraine drugs,
“silence for good” people who oppose the Salvation had a bad heart, high cholesterol, or that the cocaine
• tone / define
Army is typical of its supporters’ intolerance. The story found on the spoon by the syringe on Watters ’ kitchen
we reported happened, whether you like it or not. If it table was really just sugar or salt.
• have fun hasn’t happened to you, be grateful, not vicious.] No question Watters was “brilliant and beloved, ”
no question that he was “wild, mercurial and bold
Upset stomach and brave ” —or that he made major contributions to
AIDS research and the care of human beings with in¬
call david: a I was sick to my stomach when I read your slanted jection substance abuse problems. No question either
article (“Supes Postpone Vote to Defund Salvation that his death and its manner were tragic and untime¬
Army,” Jan. 4) ridiculing the Salvation Army. It ly. But, with all due respect, the fact that the leading
552-9364 showed “yellow journalism” at its finest. You said AIDS/injection use expert died of an apparent heroin
they came out like a “dog and pony show” at the or morphine overdose is news.]
get into the zone! Board of Supervisors meeting. Yet when ACT UP
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