High Performance (magazine), 40, 140
Hilliard, William A., 17
Hine Junior High School (Washington, D.C.), 303
Hinkle, Doug, 27
Hispanic AIDS Forum, 120, 183
Hispanics/Latinos
drug trials, 137, 148
and GMHC, 90, 93, 119–20
HIV/AIDS infection rates, ix, 137
PWAC support groups, 198
Spanish-language AIDS prevention materials, 93, 119–20, 148
HIV tests, 127–28, 225
calls for forced testing, 121, 122
ELISA test, 121
and seronegativity, 100–101, 127–28
Western blot test, 121
HIV virus, 97–101, 120, 126–29, 317n14
AIDS in seronegative individuals, 100–101, 127–28
and antiretroviral therapy, ix, 101, 128–29
Callen on, 97–101, 126–29, 230
denialists, 99–100, 127–28
discovery of, 97–101
and Sonnabend’s multifactorial theory, 97–101, 126–27
HIV/AIDS infection rates, ix–x
Africa, x, xi, 65, 98, 262, 314n11, 326n11
blacks, ix–x, 86, 113, 137, 139, 175, 262
heterosexuals, xi, 65–66, 95–96, 98, 262, 314n11, 318n1, 326n9
IV drug users, 65–66, 113, 137, 191
Latinos/Hispanics, ix, 137
US/worldwide (1992), 256
women, x, 66, 98, 137
HLA-DR3/HLA-DR5 (tissue types), 46
Holiday, Billie, 34, 204
Holleran, Andrew, 6
Holmes, Lois, 268–69, 329n15
Home Girls (ed. Smith), 77, 105
homophobia, 193, 253, 263
American Psychoanalytic Association forum on, 193
and black church, 17–18, 86–87, 139, 172, 213, 241–42
and the black community, 87–89, 170, 171, 176, 180–81
Brother to Brother and Washington Post Book World controversy, 232–33
and infringements on gay civil rights in wake of AIDS crisis, 122
and racism, 71, 101, 170, 171
as underlying cause of AIDS, 56
homosexuality’s equation with disease (pathology), 14, 49–50, 55, 58, 92
hooks, bell, 294, 295
Hooks, Benjamin, 89
Hoover, Herbert, 14
Houston-Hamilton, Amanda, 112
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic (1983 pamphlet), 68–71, 90
Howard University, 27, 28, 30, 85–86, 139, 292
HPA-23, 53
HTLV-III (retrovirus), 255
Hudson, Rock, 121, 149
Hudson Street Bookstore (Greenwich Village), 11
Hughes, Chi, 35
Hughes, Langston, 34, 118, 172, 179–80, 209, 239
Hughes, Walter, 145
Human Rights Campaign, 193
Hutchinson, Earl Ofari, 210–11
Hutera, Donald, 34
Ice Palace (NYC disco), 82
Identity House, 202
imipramine, 273
imuthiol, 53
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology (ed. Beam), 76–77, 105, 109, 110–11, 114–15, 142, 167. See also Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Men
Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, D.C.), 172
interferon, 53, 133, 190
and AZT therapy, 317n15
Sonnabend’s research, 9, 309n3, 317n15
International Conference on AIDS in Montreal (1989), 217
International Conference on AIDS in Washington, D.C. (1987), 145–46
Isaacs, Alick, 9
The Isis Papers (Welsing), 180
IV drug users
female, 137
HIV infections, 65–66, 113, 137, 191
mortality rates, 137, 229
needle exchange programs, 61, 138, 184, 191, 213
and racism, 138
Jacks of Color, 253
Jackson, Isaac, 42, 107, 208
Jackson, Jennifer, 2, 4
Jackson, Jesse, 87, 175
James, John, 130
“Jewel Box Review” (drag show), 42
John, Elton, 4, 262
Johnson, Cary Alan, 207–8
Johnson, Earvin (“Magic”), 234–36, 262
Johnson, Lyndon, 14, 83
Jones, Billy, 17, 29, 89
Jones, Wayson, 117–18, 204
Cinqué performances, 34–35, 140
friendship with Hemphill, 26–28, 32–35, 38–41, 140, 155, 296, 299–301
and Hemphill’s failing health and death, 299–301
and Hemphill’s funeral, 302–3
performances with Hemphill and Parkerson, 40, 77–78, 106–7, 112, 140–41, 155
Jordan, June, 76
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 261
Julien, Isaac, 118, 142, 171, 175, 179–80, 295–96
and Hemphill, 118, 209–11, 295–96
Looking for Langston, 171, 175, 180, 204
Jungle Fever (film), 176
Jurrist, Charles, 58
Kalmansohn, David, 160
Kameny, Frank, 58
Kantrowitz, Arnie, 156, 223–24
Kaplan, Helen Singer, 121–22
Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), 12–13, 45, 55, 56, 178
Callen’s, 134–35, 164, 200, 218, 249–50, 254–55, 257, 271–75, 286
genetic variables, 46
pulmonary, 254–55, 257–59, 271–75, 277, 327n3
race and, 119
Kaposi’s Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation, 50
Keenan, Joe, 177
Kelly, Patrick J. (“PJ”), 249–51, 278, 281, 282–83
AIDS, 251, 259–60, 282–83, 286–87
and Callen, 249–51, 282, 287
dance criticism, 249
death, 286–87
KS diagnosis, 251
relationship with Dworkin, 249–51, 259–60, 275–76, 282–83, 286–87
Kemron, 190
Kenan, Randall, 173
Kennedy Center Filmfest and Tongues Untied, 205–6, 209
King, Coretta Scott, 87, 89
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 15, 89
Kinsey scale, 8, 231
Kitchen (NYC venue), 141, 173–75
Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, 77
Klein, Elena, 317n15
Knight, Delmore, 2, 5
Knight, Morris, 58
Koch, Ed, 60–61, 122, 184–85, 187, 188
Kolovakos, Greg, 223
Kooden, Harold (Hal), 90
Koop, C. Everett (Koop report), 113, 153–54
Kramer, Larry, 50, 58, 62–63, 65, 152
and ACT-UP, 189
disapproval of gay sexual promiscuity, 51, 58, 59, 63
Faggots, 51, 58, 63
and GMHC, 63
Krim, Arthur, 95
Krim, Mathilde, 161, 198–200
and amfAR, 73, 96, 198–200, 309n3, 318n1, 323n14
and CRI, 146, 151, 198–200
and Sonnabend, 73, 95–96, 309n3, 318n1
KS/AIDS Foundation, 67
Kupona Network (Chicago), 139
LaBelle, Patti, 113
Lambda Legal Defense Fund, 76, 124, 225
Lambda Rising (D.C. gay bookstore), 35, 42
Lamble, David, 160
Lammas Books (Washington, D.C.), 42
Lancet, 46, 145
Lange, Michael, 151
Lanzaratta, Phil, 68
Lasley, David, 278–79
Latino Young Lords, 10
Lauritsen, John, 100
Lavender Country (musical group), 157
Lavender Hill Mob, 152, 184
Lee, Spike, 176
Legacy (Callen’s album), 160, 275–82, 286, 290
Levin, Richard, 284
Lewis, Bill, 58–59
Liberace, 149
Life Sentences (ed. Avena), 264–65
Lingley, Maria, 7–8
Liposome Technology
of Menlo Park, 274
Locke, Alain, 172
Looking for Langston (film), 171, 175, 180, 204
Lorde, Audre, 17, 76, 176, 204
and Beam, 76, 77, 105, 142
and Black/Out, 111
and Hemphill, 33, 261, 313n4
and March on Washington, 29, 88, 89
and NCBLG, 80, 88
Los Angeles Dispatch, 160
Los Angeles Times, 57, 215
Lost & Found (D.C. disco), 80, 81
Louganis, Greg, 202, 262
Lowery, Joseph, 87, 89
Lowlife (band), 51–52, 156–57, 158, 160
Lynch, Michael, 58–59
Lyphomed, 148, 151
Maccubbin, Deacon, 42
Madhubuti, Haki, 180
Maggenti, Maria, 189
Malamet, Marsha, 158
Maletta, Lou, 96
Manilow, Barry, 4
Mann, (Valerie) Papaya, 30
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 169–71, 239, 240
The Black Book, 170
Black Males, 170
Man in a Polyester Suit, 170–71
March on Washington (1963), 88, 89, 207
March on Washington (1979), 17, 29, 44
March on Washington (1983), 88–89
March on Washington (1987), 123, 155–56, 166, 263, 278
March on Washington (1993), 263, 278, 327n8
Market Five Gallery (Washington, D.C.), 37
Marks, Jim, 35, 41
Martin, Damien, 223
Mass, Lawrence, 57, 58, 64–65, 70, 156, 223–24
Masters and Johnson’s Homosexuality in Perspective (1979 study), 231
Mathis, Sharon Bell, 24
Mattachine Society (D.C. chapter), 16, 81
Mattes, Jed, 224
Maupin, Bernie, 27
Mayor’s Arts Awards (Washington, D.C.), 117
McCoy, Renee, 17, 41, 80
McCuller, Arnold, 278
McFerrin, Bobby, 165
McGovern, Terry, 189
McKay, Claude, 172
Meatrack (L.A. club), 220
Melrose, Ray, 36, 78, 88, 89
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 149, 151, 187
Mercer, Kobena, 171, 204
Merton, Vanessa, 148
Metropolitan AME Church, 85–86
Midler, Bette, 4, 221
military, gays in, 223, 256, 263, 326n7
Miller, E. Ethelbert, 30
Miller, Tim, 78, 250–51, 282, 290
Million Man March, 209–11, 295
Mineshaft (NYC orgy bar), 97
Minority Task Force on AIDS (MTFA), 120, 139, 183
brochure AIDS in the Black Community, 120
Moi, Daniel arap, 190
MOJA, 32
Mondale, Walter, 76
Monette, Paul, 223
Monster (Fire Island hangout), 158
Montanier, Luc, 97, 317n14
Moore, Paul, 138
Moraga, Cheríe, 77, 105
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 13, 45
Mosley, Leigh, 40
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 10
MOVE bombing (1985), 105–7
Moving Politics (Gould), 188
Murder on Glass, 37–38, 140
Murphy, Eddie, 181
My Queer Body (Miller solo piece), 251
Myers, T. J., 165, 203
Myers, Woodrow (Woody), Jr., 61
NAACP, 210, 291, 295
Najman, Ron, 146
NAL/Dutton/Penguin, 243–44
naltrexone, 164
Names Project (AIDS Memorial Quilt), 166, 202
Nasrallah, Tom, 67
The Nation, 186
Nation of Islam, 84, 209–11
National Academy of Sciences, 230
National Association of People with AIDS, 92–93
National Black Arts Festival, 240
National Black Feminist Organization, 28
National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum, 210
National Cancer Institute, 68
National Cathedral of African Methodism, 85–86
National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG), 17, 41–42, 79–80, 88, 111–13, 139, 142, 214–15
St. Louis convention (1985), 79–80, 111–13
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 184, 187
National Conference on AIDS in the Black Community (July 1986), 112–13
National Endowment for the Arts, 116
National Eye Institute, 161
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 75–76, 202
National Gay Rights bill in Congress, 89
National Gay Task Force, 10, 64, 75–76, 80, 88
National Institute for Medical Research (London), 9
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 97, 129, 145–46, 147, 150, 152, 194
National Institutes of Health (NIH), x, 50, 53, 97, 151
National Latino Lesbian and Gay Organization, 191
National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, 202
Denver (1983), 90–93
National Minority AIDS Council, 113
National Organization for Women (NOW), 88
National Public Radio (NPR), 57
Nava, Michael, 177
NBC News, 72–73
NCBLG. See National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG)
Near, Holly, 276, 281, 285
needle exchange programs, 61, 138, 184, 187, 191, 213
Nethula Journal of Contemporary Literature, 30, 33, 37
Network (Newark publication), 112, 216
New Age movement and AIDS treatment, 131–32, 272, 289
New England Journal of Medicine, 46, 49, 136–37, 145
New Republic, 177, 256
New York AIDS Network, 90
New York City Gay Community Center (Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center), 152–53, 164, 247, 303
New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, 51, 165
New York City’s Department of Health, 9, 61, 119–20, 221
New York City’s response to AIDS crisis, 137–38, 183–85
Dinkins administration, 61, 213
Health Department, 9, 61, 119–20, 221
Koch administration, 60–61, 122, 184–85, 187, 188
and minorities/people of color, 119–20
New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), 124
New York Daily News, 58
New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, 183
New York Native, 249
Callen and Berkowitz’s 1982
article (“We Know Who We Are”), 47–51, 55–59, 94–95
and early CDC reports, 45
February 1986 supplementary section “Heritage of Black Gay Pride,” 115–16
Jurrist’s “In Defense of Promiscuity,” 58
New York Office of Gay and Lesbian Health Concerns, 61, 90, 93
New York Physicians for Human Rights, 58, 70, 146, 163
New York Post, 73, 122
New York State AIDS Advisory Council, 137–38
New York State Senate Committee on Investigation and Taxation, 71–72
New York Times, 13–14, 121, 149, 154, 155, 183, 185, 262
New York University, 9
New York University Medical Center, 45
Newsline (PWAC publication), 93, 121, 126, 134–35, 194, 200–201
Newsweek, 263
Newton, Huey, 81
Nichols, Stuart, 68
Nob Hill (D.C. gay bar), 16, 81, 85
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (film), 236–37
Northrop, Ann, 189
Novak, Robert, 211
Nugent, Richard Bruce, 172
Nylons (a capella ensemble), 165
O Boys, 251–53, 284
Obsidian (journal), 77
Ocamp, Karen, 327n8
O’Connor, Cardinal John, 61, 138, 183–84, 187–88
O’Hara, Scott, 276
Olivia Records, 281
Omnibus Bu
dget Reconciliation Act (1980), 83
Operation Rescue, 187
oral sex (safe-sex guidelines and debate over), 219–20, 231, 260–61
Ortleb, Chuck, 115–16
“Other Countries” (NYC black gay collective), 36, 172–73, 303
OutWrite Conference (1990), 211, 213, 321n14
Owens, D. Lee, 86
Owles, Jim, 58
Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia), 40, 140, 215
Painted Bride Quarterly, 77
Pal Joey, 60
Parker, Pat, 76, 111
Parkerson, Michelle
collaborations with Hemphill and Wayson Jones, 37–38, 40, 77–78, 106–7, 112, 140–41, 155
and D.C.’s black gay and lesbian community, 17, 37, 41–42, 78, 175
film projects, 30, 42, 204, 245
friendship with Hemphill, 30–32, 37–38, 40–42, 77, 118, 302
and Hemphill’s Getty Center residency, 245
Murder on Glass production, 37–38
and NCBLG, 41–42, 80
Voicescapes, 40, 106–7, 140–41
Pauling, Linus, 64
PBS (television), 205, 206–7
Peabody, Judy, 161, 274, 284
pentamidine, aerosol, 145–52, 164, 229
People Like Us (D.C. bookstore), 172
Perry Street Theatre (NYC), 276
Persuasions (a capella ensemble), 165
Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship, 117, 241
Philadelphia (film), 202, 262, 285–86
Philadelphia Gay News, 75
Philadelphia Inquirer, 106–7, 143
Pier 9 (D.C. “superdisco” club), 27
Pillard, Richard, 54
Pilshaw, Elliot, 165
plasmapherosis, 164, 312n11
Plato’s Retreat (NYC club), 122
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), 12–13, 46, 99
and aerosol pentamidine, 145–52, 164, 229
Hemphill’s, 297
prophylactic Bactrim treatments, 53, 145–46, 148–49, 227, 228, 229
The Poet and the Poem (WPFW radio show), 33
Popham, Paul, 57, 62–63, 67
Ports, Suki, 112
Positive Force, 78
Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), 116
Poussaint, Alvin, 180
POV (PBS documentary series), 206–7, 236
Powell, Betty, 80
Powell, Colin, 292
POZ, 127
Price, Gene, 203
Priestly, Joan, 272
Prince, Chris, 41, 78, 296–97, 299–301
collaborations with Hemphill, Jones, and Parkerson, 140–41
and D.C.’s black gay artistic community, 30, 36, 140–41
and Hemphill’s personality, 41, 294
and Voicescapes, 140–41
PRISM, 253
Project Inform, 130, 227–28, 230, 255, 322n11
promiscuity issue. See sexual promiscuity
protease inhibitors, x, 225, 226, 227, 304, 324n3
PS 122 theater space (NYC), 250–51
psychiatric view of homosexuality, 14, 92
Publishers Weekly, 177
Puerto Rican Young Lords, 81