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Contents

Vol. 6, No. 13

FEATURES

Issue 150

CUTBACKS AND STEPS FORWARD The Reagan administration and AIDS funding. Political manipulation for special interests. Gamma globulin: an AIDS vector? Ribavirin: remarks by its inventor. Spontaneous remission of KS in patients. By Ann Giudici Fettner.

A HERITAGE OF BLACK PRIDE: LESBIAN AND GAY VOICES OF THE DIASPORA A special supplement celebrating Black History Month.

INTRODUCTION

By Craig G. Harris.

CONQUERING THE

FEAR OF GOING HOME A young activist calls for grassroots organization. By Robert F. Reid-Pharr. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG BLACK DYKE Coming to terms with racism, sexism, and the past. By Anita Cornwell.. WORKING FOR LIBERATION AND HAVING A

DAMN GOOD TIME

A black lesbian feminist takes

BGM

HAITI:

A MEMORY JOURNEY

A personal odyssey-and

a public revelation. By Assotto Saint.. BLACK GAY AND

LESBIAN ORGANIZATIONS A list of service, social, and spiritual organizations which Afro-American lesbians and gay men may find of interest... NATIVE FOCUS ON VIDEO

LETTERS

CARBON COPIES.

March 3, 1986

GERTRUDE'S FOLLIES

BARBANES.

STONEWALLING

By Thomas J. Jackson.

By Tom Hachtman..

CITY DESK

By Barry Adkins..

.35

CAUSING TROUBLE

By Laura Cottingham.

NATIVE GUIDES

CONSUMER AFFAIRS

By Bill Cullum

By Dee Sushi and

Michael Lassell.

.30

VIDEODROME.

SEX

By Terry Helbing.

.40

Edited by Boyd McDonald.

PORN

BOOKS

.23

By Ed Sikov..

.40

By John Gill..

.42

THEATER

NEWS

By Michael Sommers and

Tish Dace..

.43

NATIONAL NEWS

MUSIC

.24

Edited by John A. Fall... NEWS

By Ivan Martinson.

.45

By John A. Fall, Barry Adkins, Johnny D. Walsh, and

SECOND SECTION.

Albert Martin

25 COLUMNS

a hard look at gay liberation. By Barbara Smith..

INSIDE GAY AFRICA

For the first time, the truth about the emerging gay

subculture of Africa. By Cary Alan Johnson...

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