Bay Area Reporter, Volume 27, Number 4, 23 January 1997

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Vol. 27 • No. 4 • 23 January 1997
Serving the Gay & Lesbian Community for more than 25 years
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he day came with
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claimers: “Lou
Sheldon of the
Family Values
Coalition is in this building. If you by Jesse Costello-Good alternative movie theater (by Sacramento tural activity or good weather, and therefore
see him, just ignore him. He would standards) located a few blocks from the hasn’t attracted a huge gay population.
love to incite a riot today.” “In the capital. Looking and feeling like a scene from
event of an accident in which I am injured, the dark and misty morning of January 15. an all-gay high school, youth registered in¬ The new AB 101
I give LIFE Lobby permission to transport Plus, as an out San Francisco Youth Com¬ side while more spilled out onto the street. First on the agenda was a legislative
me to a hospital or triage unit.” “There are a missioner, my high school’s Gay/Straight Al¬ Rumors of Page Hodel DJing an end-of-the- briefing from Laurie McBride of LIFE
lot of people in the capital who don’t like us liance founder and president, and an all- day party circulated outside in a crowd that Lobby, the statewide lobby for lesbian, gay,
because we’re queer.” “The bus is leaving around queer youth activist, I couldn’t get displayed the wonderful diversity of queer bisexual, transgender, and HIV-affected
promptly at 7 a.m., we cannot wait around communities, and the organizer of the day’s
for people who are late.” ked like scene events. We were briefed about AB 101, a bill
So why would anyone want to rise at 6 b introduced this session by Assemblymem¬
a.m., venture out of the safety of queer San ber Sheila Kuehl, a lesbian from Santa Mon¬
Francisco, and risk personal safety and an ica. If passed, the bill, called the “Dignity for
encounter with the devil incarnate? Because All Students Act,” would simply add “sexu¬
it was Youth Lobby Day, the one day of the al orientation” to the long list of character¬
year when gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, away with not going. The other 450 youth youth for all of Sacramento to see. istics that California schools cannot dis¬
supportive straight, and (yes, Philip and An¬ who took part in the day similarly justified Sacramento looked with cautious eyes. criminate against. Our mission for the day
drew) questioning youth from all over Cali¬ skipping school, rescheduling finals, lying to Though we probably outnumbered any hos¬ was to meet with our Assemblymembers
fornia converge on Sacramento to lobby, their parents, or flying in from Los Angeles. tile group, even the Family Values Coalition, and State Senators and get them to agree to
learn, cruise, and conquer. Upon arriving in downtown Sacramen¬ there was a slight understanding that we vote for AB 101.
That was how I motivated myself to get to, admittedly the only time I have ever vis¬ were out of place. Sacramento, after all, did First, however, Youth Lobby Day took
out of bed when my alarm clock went off on ited, we disembarked at the Crest Theater, an not become the state capital because of cul¬ page 23 ►
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ACT UP 25
BAR Talk 52
Bazaar 50
Classifieds 27
GLAAD 11
by Cynthia Laird Office to review a copy of the prevention vention Planning, Policy, and Health Edu¬ Mailstrom 7
plan, which is available at the reception cation Unit, said the prevention council will
desk. Gene Copello, chief of Health and discuss the new plan when it meets Thurs¬ Obituaries 24
ot off the presses and nearly 700 Prevention Services Branch at the AIDS Of¬ day, February 13. Open Forum 6
pages thick with an eye-catch¬ fice, told the B.A.R. that a copy will be de¬ As with the last prevention plan done in
ing cover, San Francisco’s 1997 livered to the San Francisco Public Library 1995, the focus of the new document is on Our Man Friday 9
HIV Prevention Plan was un¬ on Monday, February 3. 12 behavioral risk groups identified by the
veiled Friday, January 17, two days after “We don’t have enough to give to every¬ council. Copello explained the shift to be¬ Out & About 48
members of the HIV Prevention Planning body,” Copello said. havioral risk groups started in 1995 when Out There 35
Council met with AIDS Office Director Dr. The plan does not contain a specific the council emphasized behavior. This
Mitch Katz to voice concerns about the al¬ chapter or section on condoms. However, year’s plan takes previous plans and adds to Personals 54
location of prevention funds. [See story, Copello said condom use is discussed in them, Copello said. Sapphistication 10
page 19.] sections of the plan. “We know certain behaviors put people
People are welcome to come to the AIDS Valerie Kegebein, chief of the HIV Pre¬ page 19 ► Sports Complex 26
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g| troversy surrounding a pro- facilities were instructed to re¬ and party operators on the one
11 posal to establish legislation to move doors and monitor their hand and representatives of AIDS
Every smile regulate San Francisco sex clubs, spaces in accordance with a judi- ^ service organizations on the
community members have raised rial order imposed in 1984 at the other. CUSP discussed ways to
the stakes by called for a reopen¬ behest of then-DPH director make the CHS more responsive to
ing of bathhouses in the city. Mervyn Silverman. The order fol¬ community concerns, including
Community United for Sexual lowed a contentious debate be¬ encouraging new members to
Privacy - CUSP - held its first tween those who believed bath¬ join. CHS member and LINKS
meeting Friday, January 17. This houses promoted the spread of party host Edward Goehring
meeting followed last Tuesday’s AIDS and those who believed that pointed out that sentiment within
meeting of the Coalition for closing the baths was a homopho¬ the CHS was hardly unanimous
Healthy Sex (CHS), at which a bic affront to civil liberties. At the in favor of the guidelines, and that
majority of non-CHS attendees time, the worsening AIDS crisis some members were “compliant
redirected the focus of the meet¬ and uncertainty about how the rather than supportive.” Klein
ing to the bathhouse issue, with disease was transmitted - Reid stated that “the reason for the ex¬
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partment of Public Health (DPH) people thought just entering a now that fear is a red herring...
,490 Post St., Suite #520 • Union Square, San Francisco standards that would prohibit pri¬ bathhouse was dangerous” - had Sex clubs don’t have to run scared
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environments. was a final straw. want.” Steve Johnson noted that it
About 30 people gathered Fri¬ In the late 1980s, new sex was not just city officials and
day to discuss ways to make pri¬ clubs began to crop up, distin¬ AIDS educators who were likely
vate spaces available in public sex guished from bathhouses chiefly to oppose reopening bathhouses,
Perennial Beds to establishments. Meeting facilita¬ by their lack of private rooms. In¬ but also “chicken littles” within
Estate Master Plans tor Jonathan Klein framed the terestingly, public hot tub facili¬ the gay community who “brought
issue by stating that recent pro¬ ties - which share most features in city officials in the first place.”
posals to regulate sex clubs did of bathhouses - are not generally Klein stated that the people who
415-695-0955 not come from the community, considered to fall under the 1984 oppose bathhouses are generally
LIC#4126 and that “a community poll injunction or the recently pro¬ basing their beliefs on bias and
Richard McPherson, Landscape Architect would not reflect the position of posed sex club standards. Several “have no idea what they fear,”
the CHS.” Noting that the CHS CUSP members who remem¬ pointing out the irony that to
guidelines were voluntary while bered the debates of a decade ago many “a sex club seems more be¬
the proposed DPH standards pointed out that while bathhous¬ nign that a bathhouse.”
would be mandatory, Tortuga Bi es played the role of scapegoat in Attendees agreed that al¬
Liberty accused the DPH of being the early years of the epidemic, though Mayor Willie Brown has a
today’s differing situation calls legacy of promoting sexual free¬
for reappraisal of old rules. dom legislation, he wants to avoid
negative publicity. Mike Powers,
Monitoring does not equal
Sayonara owner of the Power Exchange
responsibility club, stated that “the mayor is out
As was discussed at the recent of his mind if he thinks he’ll leave
CHS meeting, there is little evi¬ office without bathhouses becom¬
dence that unmonitored private ing an issue.” Goehring noted that
rooms promote unsafe sex. Paul the mayor likely wants to do
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by Dennis Conkin my job to call all the witnesses. I case was out of town on a three- The witness says now that he tice process” by providing advoca¬
really am a very nice guy.” day weekend, and a private eye knows the investigator has a legit¬ cy, information, and referral.
What Meola left unsaid is that was on his doorstep, he didn’t imate function, he’s less intimi¬ Perhaps CUAV will fill the gap
f| n order to tell his story, the the defense wants to talk to wit¬ know who to call or what to do - dated, but he still has reservations. when it comes to victim services,
B.A.R. had to agree not to tell nesses and victims in order to find so he called the B.A.R. “Who is looking out for the big the witness/victim says. However,
II his name or where he works, gaps and inconsistencies in their “I felt very intimidated. He’s picture, here?” he asked. “There for now, “They haven’t called me,
but he’s a gay man living in San stories, with an eye to impeaching part of the defense of the guy who needs to be someone who has got and I haven’t called them.
Francisco who happened to be a them on the stand when the case owns the dog, and part of what hold of all the threads here and is “That’s one of the things I
material witness to a pit bull at¬ goes to trial. I’m feeling is these people have sewing this into one cohesive case. need to do,” he said. “My supervi¬
tack on two gay men at Market “At the very least, the police sor at work recommended I call.”
and Church streets. And he’s Officers offered him the option should have a little ‘So You’ve “We’re absolutely interested in
frightened. Been a Witness to a Crime’ pack¬ assisting him through the
Three suspects were arrested in of putting a paper bag with cut-out et they could hand out at the process,” CUAV executive director
the December 15 incident after scene of crime. Lester Olmstead-Rose told the
they knocked over a motorcycle at eyeholes over his head when he “All I got was a case number.” B.A.R. “He’s a witness who saw a
St. Francis Lutheran Church on Huberman also said that Com¬ horrible gay-bashing and he
Church Street and then severely made the identifications. munity United Against Violence stepped forward and has been
beat, and ordered a pit bull to at¬ “walks victims and witnesses threatened. We would be very in¬
tack, a bystander and the motor¬ through the whole criminal jus¬ terested in working with him.” T
cycle’s owner, all the while using But the witness, who didn’t threatened us,” he said. “It’s a way
virulently anti-gay epithets. know at first that the investigator of saying, ‘We know who you are
When the witness to the attack was just doing his job, told the and where you live.”’ Cathedral Hill
went to Mission police station on B.A.R. he felt violated and very
the night of the incident, to iden¬ worried when he discovered the Right to silence
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Meola, who left the card, told the
B.A.R. that he was “just doing his
job” as a defense investigator try¬ Omid Oriental Rugs, San Francisco's premier oriental rug dealer, of handmade rugs imported from Pakistan, China, Turkey,
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Meola is paid by the court, as
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“The police report has a list of
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I s| | ell, the inauguration came and went ple on Medicaid already have no form was going to mean a Manhattan
PBoUbB RLoIsSs HER like Graduation Day at a reform devices left. What are they to do? Project on AIDS and greater access to
school: no amount of promoting This is a totally unreasonable situa¬ services. This time around it’s a war on
EDITOR the damn thing as a joyous occasion could tion for any person to be in while living People With AIDS, and access to ser¬
Mike Salinas dispel the palpable sense of shame. Com¬ in this land of such plenty. And vices only until your per capita
ARTS EDITOR pared to the cool blast of optimism that blew if anyone thinks it couldn’t cap ends and you’re decapitated.
Chris Culwell through Clinton’s 1992 ceremony, this year’s happen to them, the evidence Of course that isn’t all the
event was muggy with mendacity and com¬ points to the contrary. It al¬ president’s fault. The GOP Con¬
WPOayLnIeT IFCriAdaLy EDITOR promise. ready has. Telling a PWA there’s no more gress has been driving this heartless agenda
Even President Bubba seemed sort of out money forthcoming for his protease in¬ forward, but it is sad to see a Democrat giving
ASSISTANT EDITORS of it, which isn’t surprising; he must have hibitors is no less reasonable than informing in and giving up as he has.
Dennis Conkin been chastened to see what his first four years a helpless five-year-old that she has exhaust¬ We still can’t really imagine why America
Roberto Friedman in office have wrought. The speech he gave ed her welfare allotment for life, so there will sentenced itself to another session of a presi¬
Patrick Hoctel this year was completely different from the be no more checks for her. Or is there a dif¬ dent and a congress that can’t or won’t even
Cynthia Laird
one he delivered his first time around, and ference that we’re not seeing? speak civilly to each other. Perhaps it’s be¬
INTERN there was no uplifting Maya Angelou poem If we made the rules, there would be a cause so many voters grew up in what used
Claudia Figueroa to stir the nation’s soul. Too bad. limit on the amount of money people would to be called “broken homes.” Have we elected
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Certainly the American people could have have to spend on healthcare. The government a broken house, divided against itself, just to
Diannne Aaronson • Rene M. Astudillo used the balm that Angelou’s “Morning in would automatically kick in before a whole watch it battle over custody of us? If that’s the
Erin Blackwell • John Blanco • Jaime Cader America” opus provided four years ago, when family lost everything - college education ac¬ case, can’t we stand up and demand that they
Philip Campbell • Jesse Costello-Good her fervent “Good morning!” at the poem’s counts; homes; businesses; burial funds - pay attention to our needs and stop sacrific¬
Jim Coughenour • M.R. Covino' end made everyone think a better day was over one member’s catastrophic illness, as ing us for their momentary ego gratification
MLiza rHiaingnhele Dymreasns e•r •R oBbeethrt EJullliioatnt •• CJohhand FJo. nKesa rr coming. But we now know better, so she’d routinely happens in America these days. The and greed? Yes, we can. And we must.
Jeffery Kennedy • Matthew Kennedy have to add a coda. Now it would be some¬ notion of that kind of per capita cap is now Before Clinton reveals his plans about
I.A. Kisselman • Karl Bruce Knapper thing closer to “Good morning! Now get the considered unthinkably Liberal - in the dirt¬ Medicaid in early February, anyone who cares
Jennifer Maerz • Daniel Mangin • Mr. Marcus fuck up and look fora jobl” iest sense of the word - here in this country, about the future of PWAs had better contact
Jerry Metzker Gary Morris • Karen Ocamb For as dreary as this Inauguration Day although it is the policy in virtually every the White House about the unacceptability of
Deborah Peifer • Jim Provenzano • Mary Richards
Adrian Roberts • Bob Roehr • Shan Schwartz was, these - here and now - are going to be other world power. per capita caps. Phone [phone]; FAX
Doug Seto • Marv Shaw • Robin Sweeney remembered as the Good Old Days very, very And that explains why there was that dank [phone]; e-mail president@white-
Rick Thoman • Paul Thomason soon. By the middle of summer we fear there embarrassed feeling at the inauguration. house.gov or write him at 1600 Pennsylvania
Stephanie von Buchau • Dick Walters will be hundreds of thousands who have no Everyone kept thinking about how, when Clin¬ Avenue, Washington DC 20500. But however
means to support themselves or their fami¬ ton was sworn in four years ago, healthcare re¬ you do it, do it while you still can. ▼
ART DIRECTION & DESIGN lies - and those who do have jobs will be liv¬
Adrian Roberts ing much more in fear of those who do not.
AD PRODUCTION & LAYOUT As the crime rate escalates, remember that it
Jorge Alonso is the natural effect of “welfare reform” as im¬ WELL here it is1, our
plemented by Clinton and other conserva¬ national aids strategy:
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Gregory H. Fleischer horrify anyone with HIV. AND A DOLLAR SHORT!
Marc Geller The next “reform” on Clinton’s agenda (SEVERAL MILLION, but
Rick Gerharter seems to be of Medicaid, by (among other who's countin
Phil Migilarese, Jr. things) introducing a cap on the amount of
money the program must spend on any given
EDITORIAL CARTOONIST
Joe Hoover Aabmoeurti cthaant .o ver the course of a lifetime. Think !
Medicaid, with the meter running.
GENERAL MANAGER Every prescription, every doctor’s visit,
Michael M. Yamashita every emergency room visit and ambulance
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT ride would be tallied and subtracted from
Chip Murray your account, as if you were withdrawing Yt>u KNOW WHAT
DCaLvAidS MSIcFBIrEaDye r ADVERTISING finrogm w itthhe yMouorn hoepaolltyh bisann’kt eerx, aecxdcye pa tg tahmate p, laanyd¬ XVTTIR*H UEMSY OTSHTATAYMT, EKAIILDLSS --
when the chits run out the game ends in
BAR TALK & death. Presumably, when people get to the
GENERAL INFORMATION end of their allotment they will be abandoned
Jason Snyder
to their own devices. But presumably the peo¬
DISTRIBUTION
Andy McConnell
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by former San Francisco on the Board of Supervisors, I fought hard nies, citing the high cost of research and
to make sure that AIDS programs were put manufacturing in pricing protease in¬
Supervisor Angela Alioto
into place and were properly funded. I made hibitors, have priced the drugs beyond the
sure that the list of AIDS drugs was kept up reach of the vast majority. They assume in¬
his past month we recognized World to date so those in need could get the best surance companies will cover the cost for
Bay Area Reporter AIDS Day, a day dedicated to increas¬ available treatment. Willie Brown can en¬ people - and the buck is passed on.
395 Ninth Street, ing worldwide awareness of HIV and dear himself to me if he continues to follow A universal guarantee of access would
San Francisco, CA 94103 the devastating impact it has on our lives. through with his early promises regarding solve the problem, but welcome to Ameri¬
415.861.5019 • 415.861.7230 Every year I face this day - for it is one to be ADAP (the AIDS Drug Assistance Pro ca, folks. “Universal” is a dirty word. Few
faced - with stroftg emotions: a sense of gram) and other drug programs. measures guaranteeing any help to every¬
deep loss and sorrow, but also a strong feel¬ This is crucial. HIV is spreading one ever make it past the chuckling stage.
A division of Benro Enterprises, Inc. © 1996 ing of optimism and hope. most rapidly among groups of peo¬ And as long as pharmaceutical
Published weekly. Bay Area Reporter reserves The optimism is from the recent devel¬ ple who do not have access to the companies are making money -
wthhei crhig thhte t op uebdliits hoerr rbeejelicetv aens yi sa dinv eprotoisre tmasetnet or opment of protease inhibitors and the im¬ “cocktail party,” since the cover which they are, I assure you:
which advertises illegal items which might provements these new drugs have made in charge to this party exceeds gobs of it - their incentive to
result in legal action against Bay Area Re¬ people’s lives. For the first time many people $25,000 a year. The poor and the find an outright cure for HIV is,
porter. Ads will not be rejected solely on the with HIV are getting healthier. By taking the uninsured are left stand¬ to put it delicately, a little
basis of politics, philosophy, religion, race, age,
or sexual orientation. new drugs in combination with existing ing out in the cold. dulled.
medications such as AZT, these multi-drug We are relatively for¬ There is no easy solu¬
Advertising rates are available upon request.
‘’cocktails” have dramatically reduced the tunate in San Francisco. tion here. This is not a
cOounr fildisetn otifa sl uabnsdc riisb enrost asnodld .a dTvheer tsiesxeursa li s automatic death sentence once associated Although the effects of the disease have rav¬ question of a few elected officials laying a
orientation of advertisers, photographers, and with an HIV diagnosis. There’s a good aged the city, the gay population here wreath on the AIDS Quilt or paying lip ser¬
writers published herein is neither inferred nor chance that people with HIV now have a brought attention early and effectively to vice to “longer, more productive” lives. The
mimapnluiesdc.r iWptes aorr ea nrtowt orreks.p onsible for unsolicited better chance of living long and productive AIDS when it was seen as only a gay-specif¬ only thing that will work - the only thing
lives. The whispering has begun that the end ic sexually transmitted disease. Now that we that has brought about changes in the past
L?J VERIFIED of the HIV pandemic is nigh -1 wish could know better, we in the city have cutting- - is the voice of the people, speaking loud¬
^ AUDIT CIRCULATION be that optimistic. edge programs to deal with the disease. ly. Louder than the sound of national lead¬
I still believe that the politics surround¬ But the situation is different in other ers doing nothing. Louder, even, than the
ing AIDS is a formidable enemy. Corporate parts of the country, not to mention the sound of pharmaceutical cash registers
greed and government apathy stall our ef¬ world. No one should be denied access to ringing.
forts in preventing the spread of HIV and any medical treatment that will prolong life, Let’s get everyone into the cocktail party
The Bay Area Reporter is printed on 100%
recycled paper using soy-based inks. ultimately finding a cure. In my eight years let alone save it. Yet pharmaceutical compa¬ - and make it a better party. ▼
23 January 1997 BAY AREA REPORTER 7
Sexual choice and responsibility Dover dispatches 'eAhas m\ ffij
Private rooms in bathhouses offer gay men op¬ Clearly, much about San Francisco annoys Ron
portunities to make love, even fall in love, fantasize, Sapp of Dover, Delaware, as he dispatches a negative
and communicate in a private and intimate way. Most review of each of his visits, in a letter to the B.A.R., up^WyqQwns
people want privacy when engaging in lovemaking, several times per year. Mr. Sapp’s latest note (Mail-
including many gay men. Gay men need more op¬ strom, Dec. 26) whines about flyers and coupons, but
portunities to meet, socialize, and make love, not he has in the past lamented a wide array of other
fewer. things, from the homeless situation to a perceived
Private spaces present better opportunities for shortage of suitable places to pray. Gay Men’s ^ An association of
smafaen ys egxa ys tmanedna rtod sc.o (mOmrauln sicexa tem aanyd n noetg boeti astaef et hfeoirr comAes vai sSiatonr Fs.r Aansc ai shcuamn, aIn k bneoiwng I,’ mI m suupstp wosoendd teor wwehl¬y Therapy Associates ^ w ind5epe6ngdae1yn tp -psry1icvhaot4el opgr0iasctts4i cine
everyone. Decide for yourself.) Not all gay men have any visitor who is so easily and consistently disap¬ Over 25 years of service to the gay community
the luxury of bringing partners to their private pointed in our city keeps coming back - unless his
homes. There are issues of safety: violence, robbery. main purpose in visiting is to accumulate things to
Some men are hiding their sexuality from family, grouse about. I also can’t fathom why the B.A.R. 20 years Experience & Really Caring
friends, roommates, or lovers. deems Sapp’s prissy critiques worthy of publication. Blue Shield Provider
The vast majority of gay men are practicing safe In the spirit of neighborly assistance, I suggest that
sex by taking responsibility for ourselves. We are not Sapp spend his next vacation in his home city, where 4I0USER- s
going to change the behavior of the minority, who are I’m sure he won’t be bothered by most of the things
having unsafe sex, by restricting and monitoring the that upset him here. And if he were to find himself
majority. The issue is to encourage and empower all dissatisfied with anything about Dover (such as its ■ ■ CHIROPRACTIC ipiN
gay men to respect ourselves and always be safe. Pro¬ utter lack of gay life), he could then complain to his
hibition did not work with alcohol, and it does not local gay newspaper (if there were one). 470 Caitro Sheet-Suite 205
work with drug abuse. Isn’t that why we support nee¬ Newsflash, Ronny boy: San Francisco is a city, not 552-9B00
dthlee esexxc hcalunbges ?a rIet igs onienggl itgoe tnatk teo r eimsppolny stihbailti tthy ef oDr PmHo no¬r are tcheeivmeed pfaorrk y. oIfu yr oaud hmaivses icoonm fpeela, iynotsu amboiguht tt hwea vnatl utoe D♦ r.C Lhoirwoepllr aHctoours e♦r PorGfoicft tf oCr EeVrBtRiYf ioccacatesiso n1
itoring our sexual behavior. reevaluate your expectations. If you’re not enjoying
Having lived in the gay community in San Fran¬ your visits, it might just be your own fault.
cisco since 1975,1 am proud that in the early ’80s, it Wills and probate
was gay men in this city who empowered ourselves to Paul M. Gonzales
take responsibility for ourselves and be safe. Our mes¬ San Francisco Experience, Family law
sage then and our message now must be one of self- Criminal offenses
respect: Getting the facts, and owning the responsi¬ Mud in Paradise Personal injury
bility. Let’s reach out to the minority of people who The feeling of letdown Brian Curtis (Mailstrom, sensitivity
are being unsafe, but do so in creative and sex-posi¬ Jan. 9) describes on finding that San Francisco is not Barry Schneider
tive ways, rather than in controlling and restrictive Gay Paradise is, I think, symptomatic. Most of us who Attorney at Law
ways. There are bathhouses in Berkeley, San Jose and are gay have migrated here from places less toler¬ concern. 400 Montgomery St.
hundreds of cities in the U.S. and through¬ ant, or, to put it more truthfully, less indif¬ Suite 505
out the world. Let’s follow the lead of our ferent toward homosexuals. We come here San Francisco
Bay Area neighbors, and use the bath¬ I' with baggage from negative events that oc¬
house environment to reach out, educate curred to us in those places. Naturally, we [phone]
and empower sexually active people to be also come with expectations, vague or
safe. specific, realistic or not, about the way this
Stop wasting valuable resources city should be, since, after all, it is the ALL COMMERCIAL LINES ■ HOMEOWNERS & APTS. • EARTHQUAKE ■ BARS
around monitoring: be creative, sym¬ Mecca. When those expectations collide In California [phone]
pathetic, and non-judgmental to those with reality, we react with varying de¬
who have difficulties being safe. And grees of astonishment, revulsion, anger,
allow the majority of us who are safe to do so in pri¬ bitterness, alienation, and, ultimately, resignation. Schmidt & Schmidt
vate rooms in a bathhouse, where the intimacy that But since a community is, in the final analysis, the
can be created enhances safe sex negotiations, and collective expression of the impulses of its individual INSURANCE
where educational information and condoms can be members, how is it that this city should be any better
provided. than any other urban area where gay men have tried
San Francisco is perceived as the gay capital of the to carve out space for themselves? All of the depress¬ Since 1970
world. We should have a bathhouse that exemplifies ing problems that Curtis describes are undoubtedly
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and provides educational services about STDs to its ness in the gay mating dance; the bland sameness of 18th Floor Palm Springs, CA 92263 Ste. 275
patrons. Not just sex clubs with only monitorable club music and club life; the desperate ritualistic ma¬ San Francisco, CA 94104 [phone] Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Allow a bathhouse to open. Education produces stroom in the Embarcadero Center. But is it so dif¬ TRAVEL • LIFE & MEDICAL • LIABILITY • FIRE • CRIME • WORKERS COMP • BONDS
better results than prohibition. As the DPH does in ferent in any other American city? Is gay life any bet¬
restaurants, regulate the cleanliness and safety of the ter in New York, richer in Denver, less numbing in Attorney at Law
facility, but don’t try to monitor the eating practices Boston, freer in Seattle, more romantic in Washington
of the patrons! D.C., truer to whatever ideal we fantasize in Miami?
Richard Carrazza What we carry from our pasts and how we address Boone Callaway
San Francisco that accretion of experience help decide the shape of
Cattiness our lives as they unfold in the extended present. If we Personal Injury
grow up hated, if we grow up hating ourselves, if we
Your January 2 articles by Cynthia Laird and Den¬ grow up hating our identities, our bodies, and our Discrimination
nis Conkin were fair and balanced, going beyond sexualities, being suddenly transplanted in our adult- Medical Malpractice
rhetoric to explore the complex reality regarding the hoods to an arbitrary setting called “the Castro” is
services and expenses of the SF AIDS Foundation. But hardly going to better us in and of itself, nor is it like¬ Relationship Agreements
if one had failed to read the articles, the headlines and ly to prevent us from inflicting further ugliness on
Wrongful Eviction
reprinted flier depicting Pat Christen as a cat con¬ our surroundings or on those we meet. We throw
veyed a very different position - that Pat Christen and mud on our paradises because we have had mud Wills & Estate Planning
the foundation are somehow evil. That’s not fair. thrown at us all our lives.
I know it wasn’t the B.A.R. that depicted Christen It is natural to conflate the bad behavior of the
as a cat. Others did. But the imagery is blatantly snotty boys in the bars to the community as a whole.
misogynist and adolescent. It didn’t deserve to be But I have found in my few years in this city that the
reprinted. It’s one thing to depict the real enemies of more I cling to my imagined script of what a gay
our community in such an unfavorable light. But utopia should be, the more disappointed San Fran¬
whether you agree with everything she has done or cisco is going to make me. I have dropped my de¬
not, Christen has been working tirelessly and effec¬ fenses and assumptions and taken the patience to
tively to address this epidemic for many years. sweep through the neon boutiques and overbearing
Far be it for me to criticize too much. I’ve had my chain stores and the plastic cups with unfinished beer
issues with the foundation. But I’ve learned that it is dregs strewn on the sidewalks and the oversized mus¬
crucial that we keep the tone of these important dis¬ culatures and the fashion manifestos and the pretty- ADVANCED &
cussions as professional as possible, and avoid per¬ boy sneers and the perpetual attitude-throwing and
sonal attacks. the trashy cynicism that passes for wit and the per¬
I have one question regarding the salary issue. sonal advertisements placed by insecure self-loathing AGGRESSIVE
Why, if our community expects to be treated as first men looking for idealized fulfillments of visions they
class, do we expect our community-based agencies to have concocted alone in their bedrooms at night
operate as second-rate organizations paying below watching mechanized white boy porn stars with MEDICAL CARE
market salaries? The epidemic demands that we are smooth chests and shaved balls suck and fuck and
more serious than that. moan meaningless rote catch phrases to each other. • Board Certified
And I have found, buried in the heap of garbage that • Harvard Honors Graduate
Dana Van Gorder is urban gay life in a disoriented, transient, capital- • Specializing in general and HIV care
San Francisco driven, information-saturated, antispiritual, and (it - reversal of wasting disease
should not be forgotten or minimized) homophobic
[Editor's note: Although not a widely-known fact, American society, nuggets of gold. Yes, I might have - combination and triple therapy (protease)
Mr. Van Gorder is the Health Department's gay and les¬ found nuggets of gold in other places. But they would - resistance testing by comparison PCR
bian liaison. This letter defending a straight bureaucrat not have been the same. And I would not have had
is the first we've received from him in nearly five years. the opportunity to live in the city of Harvey Milk. DAVID R. SENECHEK, M.D.
By the way, to put it in context, Christens salary two
years ago was two-thirds of President Clinton's, and al¬ Frank Martinez Lester
most six times that of a San Francisco supervisor. ] San Francisco 450 Sutter #1400, SF • 415-788-4535
8 BAY AREA REPORTER 23 January 1997
AFFORDABLE BANKRUPTCY Protesting too much No dream date
Get A Fresh Start-Wipe Out As someone who has been practicing in the I was sorry to read the criticisms of ACT UP/Gold-
Gay/Lesbian Buddhist Community for the past 12 en Gate in Laura Stack’s “Dissident Information” let¬
Credit Card Debt, Old Back Taxes, years, I am confused by the front page story you ran ter January 2.1 personally welcomed Laura to both
Old Student Loans. in the January 9 issue of the B.A.R. regarding the ACT UP/Golden Gate and to the Immune Based
FREE CONSULTATION Dalai Lama’s teaching position on homosexuality. Therapy Breakfast Club.
I think Steve Peskind protests too much. A self-ap¬ ACT UP/Golden Gate meets Tuesday nights at
241-9093 pointed leader of the Gay Buddhist Community, Pe¬ 7:30 p.m. Meetings frequently last past 11:30 p.m. The
Abraham Camhy, Atty. skind certainly does not speak for me, or for The Gay meeting agenda is made up from the people attend¬
Buddhist Fellowship or its members. No one individ¬ ing the meeting, at the meeting. Attendance is fre¬
ual person does. In fact, I’m wondering who this guy quently over 40 people. Agenda items are allocated a
thinks he is. And why all the consternation and hand- certain amount of time for discussion by the person
wringing about what the Dalai Lama says or doesn’t putting forward the item. There is a facilitator who
say? Negative views, or our perception of them, about makes sure that everyone has an opportunity to
homosexuality, heterosexuality and sexuality in gen¬ speak, and that no one monopolizes the meeting.
eral in Buddhist scripture and teaching are nothing Laura was welcomed to our meetings, and partici¬
new, and I imagine that the Dalai Lama is as misin¬ pated under the same conditions as all other partici¬
formed as most folks about who we are as gay men pants.
and lesbians. The Immune Based Therapy Breakfast Club meets
Creating a dialogue with the Dalai Lama through every other Saturday morning at the AU/GG offices.
appropriate channels is a more compassionate way to This meeting is open to people interested in increas¬
deal with this situation. Challenging him on the front ing their knowledge of immunology, and this is in¬
page of a gay publication is arrogant, self-promoting, tended to be an advanced forum for people who al¬
manipulative and self-serving. I think Steve Peskind is ready have a solid foundation in basic immunology.
beginning to believe his own hype. People who do not have a solid foundation are also
It’s more important for gay people who are Bud¬ welcome, but are encouraged to obtain a copy of
dhists to support each other’s spiritual practice, to Kuby’s Immunology, the textbook by Janis Kuby which
care for those among us who are suffering, and to be the club has found to be the most readable reference
a compassionate voice in the larger community, than book for self-study - it is the foundation text shared
to create a phony ruse to confront one Tibetan Bud¬ by the group. New members are encouraged to call
MEN Gatherings for gay men dhist monk. group members for assistance in learning the basics,
age 40 and older As the old Zen phrase goes, “If you see the Bud¬ outside of the formal meeting structure. Assistance is
dha (or the Dalai Lama) on the path, kill him!” available for people with AIDS who cannot afford to
• One-day retreats on buy the book. In addition to mentoring, the IBTBC
Saturdays in SF Daishin David Sunseri also holds an all-day Immunology 101 seminar peri¬
Forty • Three-day weekend San Francisco odically. The most recent one was held on Saturday,
retreats in a beautiful September 28,1996.
rural setting near SF Precepts and prescriptions Laura came to us because she had had a dream
• Ongoing therapy/ In response to your article on the Dalai Lama I did where she envisioned the virus and immune system
intimacy •aging support groups some checking. According to The Word of the Buddha, cells to resemble a “lock and a key.” She felt that there
sex*loss*change David Silven, Ph.D. the Five Precepts are: “to abstain from killing living was a way to stop the virus based on this vision. I per¬
priorities* support [phone] beings... to abstain from taking things not given... to sonally offered to help Laura, outside of the group
abstain from sexual misconduct... to abstain from meetings, to learn basic immunology. She told me
false speech... to abstain from intoxicating drinks and that she was an “idea” person and not much interest¬
drugs causing heedlessness.” ed in the details. She was invited to the Immunology
WALLBEDS
The Anguttara Nakaya prescribes “no intercourse 101 seminar to learn the basics of immunology, but
with such persons as are still under the protection of did not attend.
and space saving furniture father, mother, sister or relatives, nor with married If anyone believes that AIDS is going to go away as
women, nor female convicts, nor betrothed girls.” As a result of a vision alone, they are sadly mistaken.
Patented there is no reference to homosexual acts in this inter¬ Thomas Edison once said that Genius is 1% inspiration
pretation of “sexual misconduct,” I assume the Dalai and 99% perspiration. This recent letter to the B.A.R.
Wallbed System Lama is speaking based solely on his own authority. regarding “Dissident Information” is one more example
• No Bolting to the Floor Anyway, I was wondering if these days “sexual mis¬ of a dangerous demagoguery. Unfounded criticisms do
•All Sizes Available conduct” would be defined as having “unhealthy sex.” nothing to help people with AIDS. I would suggest that
ALSO. people do some academic homework.
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Clintonian naysaying
• Desks
He loves a man in a uniform
• Dressers When the question becomes how to deal with a
ALL WOOD majority of voters in California and Arizona who be¬ As an avid admirer of men in uniform, especially
No Particle Board lieve in the right of sick folks to use marijuana if it police officers, I fail to see why a small handful of out¬
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In the course of his presidency, Bill Clinton has Has anyone forgotten the fact that Mr. Bannon is a
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press would be present. for hiring anyone just because a few pro-potheads
To certain other folks he has a far harder time an¬ disapprove of that particular individual. I am proud
S swering in the negative. F-16 bombers for the bloody to admit that I do not smoke marijuana It is a crying
government of Indonesia to use against their own shame that more than ninety percent of the popula¬
people? “No” seems too difficult a word to use when tion of San Francisco cannot say the same. I have so
large Asian campaign donations abound. Or when a many friends that feel they need to smoke marijua¬
potential rival, the Attorney General from California, na. One should only partake of the act when the use
AMVY DIFFERENT threatens to make him look weak on drug law en¬ of marijuana has been prescribed to them by a doctor
GROPES forcement, Bill is quick to slide in under the conserv¬ for urgent, medicinal purposes.
Kl ative platform. What a great stealth ticket for the GOP As for anyone who is against Officer Joe Bannon,
nomination when he crawls out again: Lungren and I just have one thing to say: “Leave him alone. He was
Clinton in 2000. only doing his job.” That’s something most people
WEEK who like to get high don’t even have, a job.
Mark Freeman
in Whistler, British Columbia San Francisco Ben Julian
FEBRUARY 9-15, 1997 Foster City, CA
Word up
Kudos to the Oakland School District for intro¬ [Those who look past the bulging thighs in that uni¬
ducing Ebonics as a language. I suggest that the San form, at why it connotes such power, find it is because it
Francisco School District do the same for “Quonics” implies that the officers are themselves “uniform,” and
RATED NO. 1 SKI DESTINATION IN (i.e. queer phonics), as many people in the Bay Area part of a larger machine that protects us. As long as that
have grown up with “fag hags,” dykes, and others is the case, cops have a right to the respect they need to
NORTH AMERICA LAST FOUR YEARS using “Quonics” as such: “Mary, if that swish doesn’t do their jobs. When they violate that understanding by
call me soon, I’m going to read her beads. I haven’t undertaking actions against the intentions of their su¬
dished the dirt with that Auntie in a queen’s age...” periors - by not just “doing their job” - they lose that re¬
Words like “camp,” and “out of the closet” and spect in the eyes of some people. ]
“butch” have become commonplace in hetero sit¬
WHISTLER SKI ACCOMMODATIONS coms. We own our language, so let’s claim it - for
Harvey Milk, for Sylvester, and for Divine. Send signed, original letters to the Bay Area
A people, united, will NEVER be defeated! Reporter, 395 Ninth Street, San Francisco CA
Basic to Luxury Condos & Homes Language is a virus... Quonics is the vaccine. 94103. Do not even think of faxing them. Please
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San Francisco be published. Letters may be edited for space.
Whistler is 1.5 hours from Vancouver
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and wants to get out of the way of Checci.) due to cancer, was fond of telling
others who are waiting on her de¬ The Democratic Party is hun¬ audiences that “I grew up in a dis¬ office
cision, or she has decided to run gry for a chance to take back the advantaged home - both of my near
and make her intentions known statehouse after 16 years, and with parents were Republicans.”
earlier than previously planned. Dianne Feinstein clearly the fa¬ A reader writes me that “Gov¬ Union Square
This last would discourage other vorite candidate to accomplish ernor Pete Wilson isn’t so mean-
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office, has made an announced cently gave NYC Republican 20%
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tion in her no later than spokeswoman Ann Lewis, the sis¬
personal life (she and her hus¬ mid-June, whips Gray Davis in ter of Rep. Barney Frank (she has
band have separated), she is still the Demo primary, and kicks Dan many friends among San Francis¬
thinking of seeking the Demo gu¬ Lungren’s ultra-conservative, co Dems), will soon be named ii
bernatorial nod. Indeed, the con¬ right-wing, homophobic, born- deputy White House communica¬
troller is said to have raised over again ass in next year’s general tions director.
$1 million for that purpose. election. Hey, you guys down at City
Connell was busy telling re¬ Hall, give Supe Barbara Kauf¬
porters this week that she was get¬ Politics and people man a chance. I mean, Sue Bier-
ting “a lot of pressure” to enter the Senator Barbara Boxer’s staff man is one of my favorites, too,
governor’s race. Some political is hoping against hope that Di¬ but Kaufman won the board pres¬
observers believe that perhaps the anne Feinstein, probably the most idency, didn’t she? Besides, there
“pressure” comes mostly from popular Democrat in the state, is were too many board committees,
Connell’s family and maybe even on the ticket when Boxer has to anyway. Damn, could some peo¬
herself. It is not thought that the run for re-election next year. ple at City Hall already be getting
controller would enter a contest California State Treasurer nervous that Supervisor Kaufman
that might pit her against Dianne Matt Fong is telling friends that might just be thinking about the
Feinstein, since she would be he “expects” to battle San Diego mayor’s office?
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that she was “just coming back” ing, matching that of only Ronald Alioto. We miss you already, An¬
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Follow the money
by Beth Elliott the English language skills that to meet with Nolan’s successors, murder was all the more tragic into culturally appropriate be¬
will afford them a future while what its stand on tenants’ rights for what some consider his own havior for Ashkenaz, and acted
not making them feel inferior, is, heh heh. advocacy of violence - his call on an alternative moral code dic¬
: hat’s what Deep Throat are good ideas. This can be ac¬ Meanwhile, Back in the Jun¬ for using government bully boys tating a physical response to a
said to Woodward and complished without lining edu- gle (ah, ah, ah-ah ah!): Our to confiscate the wealth of any¬ public dissing (as even New
Bernstein, which advice crat pockets for special pro¬ group’s next excursion in Nepal one with more than others. York’s Republican Mayor Giu¬
unraveled the Watergate scandal. grams. (Anyone for “Phonics, was made more comfortable (at It’s one thing to demand a fair liani says, open immigration
In catching up with the local not Ebonics?”) But that may not least for your correspondent) share of the cost of having brings America moral benefits).
madness, I’m finding this tactic be the point - follow the money. by some Western hiking gear: government do what we Meanwhile, Back in the Jun¬
helpful in many ways. Applying And to throw a curveball (an¬ the Sani-Fem™ Urinary hire it to do: keep us gle: I’d hoped to bring to Kali’s
it to recent local events helps bal¬ other continuing lust), here’s an System, a wonderful funnel secure in our persons, altar a lock of hair from a re¬
ance writing about my experi¬ item that has nothing to do with and tube device that made property, and liberties. cently departed crone friend and
ence as a Western lesbian in money and everything to do tapping a kidney while Using government to con¬ teacher (yep, literally a “crony”).
Nepal with my continuing lust with other forms of clout: traveling much less fiscate property - ab¬ But having gone to Dakshinkali
for pulling the rug out from No Irish Need Apply Dept.: awkward, messy, and sent serious violation on a major sacrifice day, there
under knee-jerk groupthink. This space is mightily miffed to exposure-intensive. of another citizen’s was no way to make my dark-of-
Actually, this latter pursuit has have learned the Women’s Build¬ The only thing person, property, and the-moon offering in the quiet,
gone global anyway - I first read ing is evicting the Dovre Club, mind about liberty - is in contemplative way I’d envi¬
of the Oakland School Board’s especially so soon after the death squatting to Sapphistication itself such a sioned. There was an assembly
Ebonics caper in the daily Kath¬ of proprietor Paddy Nolan. I pee behind a serious viola¬ line of locals carrying critters to
mandu Post. Follow the money. guess multiculturalism and sup¬ bush is that I tion. Failure the altar to have their throats slit;
My Alameda County tax money port for the politics of national can never manage without some to “share” wealth that is fairly Kali gets the blood, her pilgrims
has gone to spin doctors trying to liberation don’t extend to people of it running down my leg. So, created - in effect, failure to exist take the carcass home for a ritu¬
convince us the School Board of Irish descent (like myself); the on the road to the Kali shrine at and labor for others - can be al meal. Indian movie music
didn’t really say what their reso¬ Dovre Club has been a “neigh¬ Dakshinkali, up in the hills construed as such a crime only blares from a tinny PA system all
lution, as reported in Bay Area borhood living room” for diverse above Kathmandu, I gave this lit¬ by denying that human beings the while. Kali’s grove felt very
newspapers, says in plain stan¬ Mission District folk, and an tle gizmo its baptism by, uh, are endowed by nature with cer¬ powerful, but this Western pagan
dard English. outpost of support for a united whatever. I am happy to report: tain inalienable rights such as could not have focused there.
Follow the money. Recogniz¬ Ireland (i.e., free of British occu¬ We have the technology! Or, as I life, liberty and the pursuit of We spent the afternoon in
ing that Ebonics-speaking chil¬ pation). Perhaps someone said at the time to the other happiness. Make such a denial, Patan, across the river south of
dren come to school with lan¬ should ask Women’s Building women taking advantage of the and you undercut the entire Kathmandu. Two gorgeous Bud¬
guage skills, and teaching them management, which has refused pit stop for more than the gor¬ moral and philosophical basis of dha shrines (accessed through
geous views of the Valley with our struggle for lesbian/ gay obscure, narrow passageways).
Himalayas in the background: (etc.) rights. Another stunning Durbar
Dr. Christopher Amore it’s a good thing this works in the I’m sorry Nadel was mur¬ Square, and a rooftop cafe from
field, because you can?t exactly dered. I’m especially sorry he be¬ which to enjoy it. The music on
CHIROPRACTOR
give it a dry run. came an martyr to (not for) his the restaurant stereo sounded fa¬
CERTIFIED CHIROPRACTIC SPORTS PRACTITIONER Meanwhile, Back in the States Berkeley “progressive” political miliar. Turns out it was a local
• Neck and Back Pain • (Bomp, doo-ooo wop! Bomp, theory. It would appear his killer musician with Jerry Garcia sit¬
• Auto Injuries • Whiplash • doo-ooo wop!), or Poetic Injus¬ flouted immigration law to hang ting in. Go fig. At 120 rupees
• Sports Injuries • Work Injuries • tice Dept.: I’d bought my Sani- in Berkeley, refused to assimilate ($2.18), I bought a tape. ▼
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4411 Geary Blvd., Suite 100, S.F. Ashkenaz and its banner read¬
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no more rich.” Shortly after re¬
• Open until 7 p.m. • Open Saturday • turning from Nepal, I read of the
Ashkenaz’s owner, David Nadel,
being murdered by a man he’d by Dennis Conkin San Francisco Job and Career Fair
expelled from a dance that night this Saturday, January 25 is just
for unruly behavior. The suspect for you.
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ico) returned with a gun, a better job than many Muni daylong job fair at Moscone Cen¬
knocked on the door, and shot drivers - and who doesn’t? - or ter South, where employment po¬
Nadel in the head. you merely want to land a civil sitions are open for bus drivers
I’m sorryfor Nadel, his fami¬ service clerical job in a city de¬ and gardeners and custodians,
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