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Contents

Vol. 6, No. 15

FEATURES

FACTS, FEARS, AND FANTASIES

Issue 153

A new study reports no evidence for oral transmission of AIDS. Talking to sixth graders about AIDS. The evolution of a gay mythology. The Navy cleans a room. A new sexual revolution? By Ann Giudici Fettner.. AIMS AGAINST AIDS Sherwin U. Miller, the director of the California group that has proposed the military spend $12.5 million to prove AIDS is casually transmitted, despite evidence suggesting the opposite is true, defends AIMS's proposal.

By John A. Fall..

KEEPING THE COPS OUT OF MICHAEL

HARDWICK'S BEDROOM The time nears when the

U.S. Supreme Court will decide

gay sex in private

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Rejora O YOUTH!

show, Drinking in America. By Richard Laermer. TURNING THEM ON IN THE AISLES Hanif Kureishi, writer of My Beautiful Laundrette, set out to create a popular film starring gay lovers-and succeeded.

By Carlos Clarens..

NEWS

NATIONAL NEWS Edited by John A. Fall.. NEWS

By Barry Adkins, Charles L. Ortleb, Christine Guilfoy, Albert Martin, Ken O'Hara, and Ann-christine d'Adesky.

COLUMNS

Bill Cullum

March 24, 1986

CONSUMER AFFAIRS

By Bill Cullum..

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SEX

Edited by Boyd McDonald.

BOOKS

By Robert Boucheron...

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FILM

By John Morrone

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and Joel Weinberg.

THEATER

By Tish Dace, Michael

Sommers, and Terry Miller.......41

DANCE

By Robert Greskovic, Gary

Parks, and Robert Sandla.

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MUSIC

By Ivan Martinson. . .

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CABARETS

By Michael Shepherd.

.47

RECORDS

By Bill Hayes...

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CLASSIFIEDS

EDITORIALS

SECOND SECTION.

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FOR LOVERS ONLY

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LETTERS

THE PERSONALS.

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STONEWALLING

By Thomas J. Jackson..

CROSS COUNTRY

BARBANES.

COCKTAIL ASTROLOGY

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CAUSING TROUBLE

By Michael Jay..

By Laura Cottingham.

CITY OF LIGHT

ON THE COVER: Long day's journey

By Allen Ellenzweig.

LIMOSCENES

By Tom Gates..

into rights: moments from the City Council General Welfare Comittee hearings on Intro. 2 (see pages 4 and 8). Photos by Donna Binder.

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FIRE DOWN BELOW

Choreographer Milton Myers

wants to put passion back into dance.

between consenting adults is constitutionally protected. By Arthur S. Leonard.

SERIOUS BUSINESS: ALPHA AND OMEGA IN THE EAST VILLAGE A look at the Civilian

Warfare and Emerging Collector galleries.

By Robert Olivo.

By Otis Stuart.

THE DECLINE OF

CIVILIZATION

Eric Bogosian talks about his acclaimed, disturbing one-man

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