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Contents

Vol. 6, No. 4

Issue 140

FEATURES

BETWEEN ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

Marc Christian, Rock Hudson's lover during the final few years of his life, talks about their relationship, why he is suing Hudson's estate, and being lied to about AIDS, in the only interview he has granted to the gay press.

By Barry Adkins..

WHERE HAS ALL THE GOOD SEX GONE? On the prowl in the District of Columbia. How something invisible to the naked eye has changed everything. By Edisol W. Dotson.. JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM One man's confrontationsgood and bad-point a way to dealing with the truth. By Scott Jefferson..

NEWS

NATIONAL NEWS Edited by John A. Fall.

Tim Wengerd (p. 44)

AIDS NEWS

By Anne-christine d'Adesky.. NEWS

By John A. Fall, Craig G. Harris, Sarah Schulman, and Gerald Lebonati..

COLUMNS

EDITORIAL

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LETTERS

CARBON COPIES.

GERTRUDE'S FOLLIES By Tom Hachtman.. STONEWALLING

By Thomas J. Jackson.. BARBANES.

.25 CAUSING TROUBLE

By Laura Cottingham.. SPACE AVAILABLE By Darrell Yates Rist.. CONSUMER AFFAIRS .26 By Bill Cullum...

December 23-29, 1985

SEX

10 Edited by Boyd McDonald..

BOOKS

By Sarah Schulman and

Martin Foreman.

.37

12 FILM

By Joel Weinberg and

Ed Sikov..

THEATER

By Michael Sommers..

PERFORMANCE

By Tish Dace and

Stan Leventhal.

DANCE

By Otis Stuart and Allan Grey.

.43

By Ivan Martinson...

17 CABARETS

By Michael Shepherd.

.46

18 RECORDS

By Spence Rollin... 19 CLASSIFIEDS.

.47

.49

SECOND SECTION..

.54

.29

FOR LOVERS ONLY. THE PERSONALS. COCKTAIL ASTROLOGY.

.56

.62

NATIVE GUIDES By Dee Sushi, Myriam Weisang, and Michael Lassell....32 ONE FOR THE ROAD

.7 Edited by Bill Bahlman......

MUSIC

ON THE COVER: Marc Christian. Photo .34 by Bill Cullum.

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