Hold Tight Gently (67 page)

    
and self-empowerment,
92–93
,
131
,
132

quarantines,
60
,
61
,
121–22
,
138–39
,
153
,
154

Queer Nation,
215

“queer theory,”
205

Quest
(white feminist journal),
28

QW
(NYC gay weekly),
254
,
259

racism

    
and ACT-UP,
189

    
and federal response to AIDS crisis,
153–54

    
Hemphill’s responses to,
39–40
,
79–83
,
141–42
,
169–70
,
212–16

    
and homophobia,
71
,
101
,
170
,
171

    
and needle exchange programs for IV drug users,
138
,
191
,
213

    
and white gay liberation movement/gay political movement,
76
,
79–83
,
115–16
,
141–42
,
169–71
,
212–16

Radical Fairies,
253

Rafiki
,
28

Randolph Street Gallery (Washington, D.C.),
172

Rapoport Foundation,
196

Ray, Clifford and Louise,
122

Reagan, Nancy,
153

Reagan, Ronald/Reagan administration

    
AIDS crisis response,
14–15
,
49–50
,
83
,
121
,
140
,
149
,
153–55
,
223

    
conservative agenda,
14–15
,
49–50
,
83
,
153
,
223

    
Koop report,
113
,
153–54

    
and Rock Hudson,
121

    
social welfare cuts,
14–15
,
49–50
,
83

Reagon, Bernice Johnson,
165

Reed, Rex,
60

Reel Inn (Santa Monica restaurant),
245

Regency Baths (D.C. bathhouse),
81

Religious Right,
57
,
58

RENAMO (Mozambique),
155

retinitis (CMV),
161

ribavirin,
53

Rickman, Herb,
60

Riggs, Marlon,
175
,
180–82
,
203–9
,
235–37
,
294–95

    
Anthem
,
209

    
Black Is . . . Black Ain’t
,
237
,
294–95
,
300

    
on black representations on mainstream television,
236

    
and
Brother to Brother
anthology,
180
,
181–82

    
Color Adjustment
,
236

    
Ethnic Notions
(film),
180
,
203–4
,
205

    
illness and AIDS death,
294

    
and interracial gay relationships,
207
,
209

    
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
,
236–37

    
and racial identity/gay sexual identity,
181–82
,
204–5
,
209

    
Tongues Untied
,
34
,
175
,
180
,
204–9

Rist, Darrell Yates,
186–87

Robinson, Allan,
190–91

Robinson, Colin,
42
,
115–16
,
209

Robinson, Marty,
58

Robinson, Max,
175

Roby, Jasper,
17

Rodde Center (Washington, D.C.),
172

Roman, David,
327n3

Root-Bernstein, Robert,
317n14

Roots
(TV miniseries),
236

Rosen, Mel,
62
,
134

Rosett, Jane,
121
,
160

Rubenstein, Arye,
161–62

Rubin, Gayle,
218

Russo, Vito,
156
,
223–24

Rustin, Bayard,
207

Rutland, Jimmy,
203
,
327n8

Sadownick, Doug,
250–51
,
282
,
283–85
,
286
,
287–89
,
328n17

Safer Sex Committee (New York),
93

safe-sex guidelines

    
Callen and,
63–71
,
93–96
,
162–64
,
201
,
218–21
,
231
,
260–61

    
Callen’s call for “sexual alternatives,”
56–57
,
65
,
70

    
Callen’s tour of New York bathhouses,
93–97

    
and the Catholic Church,
184

    
and condoms,
x
,
69–70
,
163–64
,
219–21
,
231
,
260–61

    
GMHC,
63–64
,
93
,
219

    
and group-based sexuality,
251–53

    
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic
(1983 pamphlet),
68–71
,
90

    
Koop report,
153

    
lesbians and,
98
,
260

    
oral sex,
219–20
,
231
,
260–61

    
Whitman-Walker clinic,
162–64

    
See also
sexual practices, risky/dangerous

Saint (NYC disco),
60

Saint, Assotto,
36
,
42
,
110
,
115
,
178–79
,
302

Salsa Soul Sisters/Third World Women,
28
,
79

San Francisco AIDS Foundation,
50
,
92–93

San Francisco Bay Times
,
203

San Francisco Department of Public Health,
93

San Francisco General Hospital,
146

San Francisco Sentinel
,
66

San Francisco’s city-level response to AIDS crisis,
93
,
119
,
146

    
closure of bathhouses,
93

    
community-based research (the CCC),
146
,
147
,
150

Sapphire Sapphos,
28
,
30

saquinavir,
304

Schlafly, Phyllis,
154

Schomburg Center for Research in Black
xii
, Culture,
294
,
309n6

Schulman, Sarah,
189

Sear Sound (Manhattan studio),
276
,
278

Seitzman, Peter,
58
,
70

Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE),
224

Sergios, Paul A.,
311n9

Sex/Love/Stories
(Miller solo piece),
251

sexual liberation.
See
gay sexual liberation

sexual practices, risky/dangerous,
260–61

    
bathhouses,
6
,
11
,
48
,
69–70
,
93–97
,
122

    
oral sex question,
219–20
,
231
,
260–61

    
and promiscuity,
49
,
51
,
56–59
,
62–65
,
126–27
,
219

    
S/M,
47–48
,
69–70

    
unprotected anal sex,
46
,
69–70
,
162–64
,
220–21
,
231
,
324n3

    
See also
safe-sex guidelines

sexual promiscuity,
49
,
51
,
56–59
,
62–65
,
219

    
Callen and Berkowitz’s 1982
New York Native
article,
56–59

    
Callen on,
59
,
62–65
,
95
,
126–27
,
219

    
and gay sexual liberation,
56–59
,
62–65
,
95
,
218–19

    
GMHC position on,
62–65

    
and group sex,
251–53

    
group-based sexuality,
251–53

    
and
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic
(1983),
68–71

    
Jurrist’s “In Defense of Promiscuity,”
58

    
Kramer on,
51
,
58
,
59
,
63

    
post-AIDS panic,
251–53

    
schism in gay activist community over,
59
,
62–65

    
Sonnabend’s moral disapproval,
51
,
311n8

    
and Sonnabend’s multifactorial theory of AIDS,
13
,
46
,
51
,
62
,
97–101
,
126–27
,
311n10

shark-cartilege protocol,
272–73
,
327n3

Shepard, Matthew,
193

Shilts, Randy,
188
,
192
,
256

Signifyin’ Works,
294

Silverman, Mervyn,
113

Simmons, Ron,
206
,
292–93
,
300
,
325n13

    
and
Brother to Brother
anthology,
180
,
181
,
292

    
and D.C.’s black gay and lesbian community,
32
,
40

    
and Hemphill’s AIDS,
291
,
292–93
,
300

    
and Hemphill’s funeral,
302–3

    
Riggs interview,
180
,
181

    
Us Helping Us,
292–93
,
300

Simone, Nina,
157
,
204
,
264

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
66

Smith, Barbara,
89
,
204
,
234
,
269
,
325n12

    
and
Black/Out
,
111

    
and Hemphill’s funeral,
302

    
and Hemphill’s work on
Brother to Brother
anthology,
168–69
,
182

    
Home Girls
,
77
,
105

    
and Joe Beam,
76
,
77
,
115

    
and NCBLG,
17
,
80
,
111

sodomy laws,
122–24
,
193
,
223

Sonnabend, Joseph,
9–13
,
45–51
,
162

    
and ACT UP’s T&D,
195
,
228

    
and AIDS in Africa,
314n11

    
and amfAR,
73
,
96
,
309n3
,
312n17
,
318n1
,
323n14

    
and AZT controversy,
128
,
130
,
317n15