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NATIVE

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ON THE COVER Photo by Ronald Chase

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SALVATION ARMY LOSES $4.5 MILLION IN CITY CONTRACTS/BY Steven C. Arvanette. 7 AIDS PATIENT SURVIVES INCIDENT AT NEW YORK HOSPITAL/BY Peg Byron... ..7 CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNOR VETOES GAY RIGHTS BILL/By Ron Baker UPSTATE SURVIVORS OF AIDS PATIENT FACE DISCRIMINATION/By Robert Moroney 9 FRED CANTALOUPE, WRITER AND CARPENTER, DIES

OF AIDS/BY Glenn Person

CITY SETS UP NEW AIDS LAB.

STATE GRANTS $600,000 FOR AIDS SERVICES/BY Robert Moroney. NATIONAL BRIEFS/Edited by George De Stefano

D.C. DESK...

Taking a peek at the conservative conference. By Larry Bush. CANDIDATES' GAY SUPPORTERS LOOK FOR THE BEEF/By Larry Bush. PRIMARY ADVICE: VOTE GAY/BY Peter Edmund .

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leadership rigged the process so that a front-runner (Kennedy or Mondale) could wrap up the nomination quickly. Kennedy passed; Mondale became the leader. The organized labor biggies climbed ponderously on board the bandwagon. Then Mondale's people tapped the big contributors and rounded up the usual endorsers (including the local gay county courthouse crowd).

All very neat, but no cigar. In fact, the Hart phenomenon is energized as much as anything else by the electorate's mistrust and contempt for the machinations of the party and labor establishments.

Former Vice President Mondale, the former front-runner, is no monster, but he accurately perceived as being too closely associated with the frustrations and defeats of the recent past. Moreover, the criticism of Mondale-the-promiser has taken root even with many members of the so-called special-interest groups he has courted. In any case, Mondale's old-fashioned ADA-style liberalism (which has surfaced since New Hampshire) turns off younger voters as well as independents. All of this will make it most difficult, if not impossible, for Mondale to defeat Reagan in the general election. And that's the name of the game for us because we suspect that Reagan, if reelected, will advance his reactionary, anti-gay social agenda to divert attention from economic and foreign policy problems.

We have had serious reservations about Reverend Jesse Jackson for some time, in spite of his premature canonization by the radical chic demimonde in our community. He isn't careful about money. He makes rude remarks about Jews. He covers up. Enough said.

It often seems as if our government is breaking down in crucial areas -the tax code, the arms race, the budgetary process, the criminal justice system, even the postal service. It's obvious that some meaningful changes and adjustments are urgently required. In our opinion, the next four years are too important for the futilitarianism of politics past, which is why we enthusiastically endorse Gary Hart. Hart has the spirit and the strength to make a real difference.

The Shortest No-Nonsense Editorial

on the Prayer-in-School Amendment

FEATURES

NEW GIRL IN THE OLD-BOY NETWORK.

A new gay and lesbian liaison for Ed Koch. By Peg Byron.

A GAY WEDDING

THE RIGHT STUFF(ING)

By D. Stone.

By John Abbott.

DANCING ON THE LEFT FOOT

Yves-Francois Lubin. By Charles Michael Smith.

BICOASTAL BOOKINGS

A new gay bookstore for New York. By Dorothy Allison.

THE NEW YORK NATIVE THEATER SUPPLEMENT/Edited by Terry Helbing

A LETTER FROM LONDON.

By Jan Stuart.

TAKE ANOTHER LITTLE PIZZA MY HEART, BABY.

Camille Saviola. By Michael Sommers.

HISPANIC THEATER.....

Coming out of the armario. By Lola Perez.

COMMANDING PERFORMANCES

Performance poetry. By Jewelle Gomez.

THOU ARTSMY SHEPARD.

By John Abbott.

EAST END WOMANIZING

By Dolores Klaich.

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While we would have expected no less from Mayor Ed Koch in the termination of the Salvation Army contracts (see News, page 7), we wish to commend the style with which he did it. It was lucid and forthright. The media coverage of such actions serve an educational purpose for the entire city, and on this issue the Mayor is an excellent educator. Sue the Hospitals

While there are many heroic stories about dedicated care of AIDS patients by doctors and nurses in our city's hospitals, there are far too many tales of mistreatment circulating in the city. We see a role for lawyers who have wanted to offer their services in the AIDS crisis: help mistreated AIDS patients and their families sue the hospitals. Nothing will wake up negligent hospital administrators in the morning better than a nice cold million-dollar lawsuit.

Babylon

We recently received this anonymous note from a troubled reader: "Help! I'm being held captive by the sociology-speak of AIDS. I feel I am a victim of information hotlines, educational forums, community outreach, and support services. I am being tortured by community agencies and volunteer organizations. I am being constantly accused of being part of a risk group, of having special needs, and people keep trying to disseminate information when I'm just trying to get some sleep. I am being told that I have something called 'public anxiety' and that everything that will be done for me will be done on a 'statewide basis.' I don't know what a 'public information campaign' is, but if I see it coming my way, I'm heading in the opposite direction.

"This is a very troubling time for me. Task forces haunt my sleep. Every time I cross the street someone tries to prevent me from having unwarranted fears and misconceptions. I have a friend who doesn't even have AIDS and last week he died of a syndrome which doctors blame on his 'chronic in-service training.' But I know better. It was the community-outreach and the disseminated information that killed him." CLO

EDITORIALS.

LETTERS

CARBON COPIES

URBAN AFFAIRS/By Martin McDonough.

THE TELLY/By Arch Brown.

SCIENCE/By James E. D'Eramo, Ph.D.

FEMME FABLES/BY Amber Hollibaugh

The night the front yard fell.

GALLERIES/BY Darrell Yates Rist.

The glory hole show.

THE FAST TRACK/By Ethan Mordden.

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FILM/By Andrea Weiss and Ed Sikov.

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BOOKS/BY Ana Maria Simo and Dan Bellm.

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THEATER/BY Terry Helbing, Kate Davy, John S. Patterson, and Michael Sommers.

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DANCE/BY John Alliotts and Dan Bellm

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MUSIC/BY Peter Brabson and Stan Leventhal.

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CABARETS/By Michael Shepard and Stan Leventhal

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RESTAURANTS/By Steve Trombetti.

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CAN WE TALK?/ By Dori De Galle

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UPTOWN/By Michael Grumley..

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NATIVE LISTINGS/Edited by Jan Carl Park.

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NEW YORK GUIDE/Edited by Jan Carl Park.

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SAN FRANCISCO GUIDE/Edited by Myriam Weisang CLASSIFIEDS

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