Hold Tight Gently (60 page)

Axelrod, David,
137–38
,
184

AZT antiretroviral drug therapy,
128–31
,
148–49

    
and ACT-UP,
129–31

    
Callen’s rejection of,
128–31

    
“Concorde” study (1993),
130
,
131
,
256

    
costs,
178

    
FDA approval,
128–29
,
148–49

    
and GMHC,
160

    
Sonnabend and,
128
,
130
,
317n15

    
trials,
128–29
,
130
,
148–49
,
256

Bablanian, Rostom,
9

Bachelor’s Mill (D.C. gay bar),
34

Bactrim (PCP prophylaxis),
53
,
145–46
,
148–49
,
227
,
228
,
229

Badgley, Christiane,
294

Badlands (D.C. gay bar),
84

Baldwin, James,
76
,
169
,
171
,
207

“Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo” (drag troupe),
249

Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.),
25

Baltimore Gay Alliance,
16

Baraka, Amiri,
180
,
292

Barnett, Allen,
223

Barry, Marion,
15–16
,
29
,
117
,
140
,
214

Bastard Review
,
264
,
265

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

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

    
debates about closure of,
93–97
,
122

    
San Francisco demonstrations and closure,
93

Bauer, Gary,
14
,
153

Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights,
45

Bay Area Reporter
,
160

Be Bop Books,
33–34
,
115
,
245

Beal, James T.,
320n12

Beam, Dorothy,
109–10
,
142
,
167–68
,
182
,
321n14

Beam, Joseph (Joe),
17
,
36
,
75–77
,
105–16
,
142–43
,
166–69
,
207
,
318n26

    
death,
142–43
,
166

    
declining health,
112
,
142–43

    
and Hemphill,
76–77
,
107–12
,
142–43
,
166–69

    
In the Life
anthology,
76–77
,
105
,
109
,
110–11
,
114–15
,
142
,
167

    
and the MOVE bombing,
107

    
parents,
109–10
,
114
,
142
,
167

Bean, Carl,
112

Belton, Don,
177
,
295

Bennett, Michael,
149

Bennett, William,
14
,
153

Berkowitz, Richard (“Rich”),
47–51

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

    
and Mass,
64–65

    
New York Native
article with Callen,
47–51
,
55–59
,
94

    
and promiscuity issue,
59
,
62–65

    
and PWA movement,
90–91

    
safe-sex education,
96

    
Stayin’ Alive
(memoir),
48

Bernard, Edward,
149

Berry, Delores,
17

Best Friends (D.C. organization),
139

Beth Israel Medical Center (New York),
68

Betty (rock group),
78

BGM
(publication),
32

Bihari, Bernard,
151–52
,
197–98

Black and White Men Together,
82
,
84

black churches

    
and AIDS crisis in D.C.,
85–87

    
and AIDS crisis in New York,
139
,
213

    
gay churches,
87

    
homophobia/attitudes on homosexuality,
17–18
,
86–87
,
139
,
172
,
213
,
241–42

Black Coalition on AIDS (San Francisco),
139

black community, AIDS crisis and.
See
AIDS crisis and the black community

black community and homosexuality,
79
,
87–89
,
170
,
171–72
,
179–82
,
209–14
,
291–92
,
295–96

black gay and lesbian community

    
AIDS crisis and,
ix
,
84–85
,
112–13
,
120
,
138–43
,
212–13
,
216
,
262

    
the black church,
17–18
,
86
,
139
,
172
,
213
,
241–42

    
feminists,
28–29
,
76–77
,
155
,
174–75

    
and interracial relationships,
207–9

    
NCBLG,
17
,
41–42
,
79–80
,
88
,
111–13

    
and racial identity,
17
,
172
,
181–82
,
204–5

    
and racism in the white gay movement,
76
,
79–83
,
115–16
,
141–42
,
169–71
,
212–16

    
Riggs’s films,
204–5

    
“second Harlem Renaissance,”
xi
,
32
,
141
,
172–75

    
See also
Washington, D.C.’s black gay and lesbian community

Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum (BGLLF),
233–34
,
295

Black Gay Men United (Oakland),
139
,
215

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

Black Men’s Network (Delaware),
215

black nationalism,
171–72
,
208
,
209–11
,
295

Black Nations/Queer Nations?,
303

Black Panthers,
10
,
81–82

Black Radical Congress and Principles of Unity,
87–88

Black Scholar
,
77

Blackberri,
52
,
157

Blackheart
collective,
36
,
42
,
107
,
111
,
115–16

Blacklight
magazine,
16
,
17
,
172
,
293

Blacklight Press (Washington, D.C.),
115

Blackmun, Harry,
122–23

Black/Out
(NCBLG magazine),
111
,
114–15
,
142
,
172–73

Blaxton, Reginald G.,
85–86

BLK
(journal),
172–73

Block, Adam,
159–60

Blue Dolphin (San Francisco),
157

Blues Alley (D.C. club),
35

Body Politic
(Toronto-based gay paper),
58–59
,
68

Bond, Julian,
87

Boozer, Melvin,
89

Borland, Peter,
244–45
,
325n12

Boston Globe
,
57

Boston Phoenix
,
6–7

Boston University (BU),
1
,
4–8

Bowers v. Hardwick
(1986),
122–24
,
154

Boyd, Randy,
235

Boykin, Keith,
87
,
210

Bradford National Corporation,
11

Brandt, Pam,
51–52

Brass Rail (D.C. club),
80

Brazile, Donna,
88–89

Brinkley, Sidney,
16
,
110
,
115

Brooks, Gwendolyn,
34

Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Men
,
115
,
167–72
,
175–82
,
232–34
,
240–41
,
292

    
Dorothy Beam and,
167–68
,
182

    
Harris’s poem “Hope Against Hope,”
179

    
Hemphill and,
167–72
,
175–82
,
232–34
,
240–41

    
Hemphill’s introduction,
169–73
,
321n14

    
reviews and responses,
176–78
,
240–41

    
Riggs and,
180
,
181–82

    
section on AIDS (“Hold Tight Gently”),
177
,
178–79

    
Washington Post Book World
controversy,
232–33

Brown, Rita Mae,
28

Brown, Sterling,
30

Bucchino, John,
281

Buchanan, Pat,
73

Buckley, William,
154

Buena Vista (musical group),
51
,
52
,
157

Bunch, Charlotte,
28

Burkett, Elinor,
317n14

Burrell, Walter Rico,
178

Burroughs Wellcome,
129
,
187

But Then, She’s Betty Carter
(film),
30

Butts, Rev. Calvin,
139

Cabrini Hospital (NYC),
286–87

Callaloo
(journal),
77

Callen, Barbara Ann,
2–3
,
7
,
43–44
,
259
,
276
,
287–89
,
328n18

Callen, Barry,
2–3
,
288
,
289

Callen, Clifford,
2–3
,
7
,
43–45
,
287–89

Callen, Linda,
2
,
7

Callen, Mike,
xi–xii
,
1–15
,
43–73
,
101–3
,
124–38
,
156–66
,
194–203
,
218–23
,
227–31
,
247–61
,
271–90

    
and ACT-UP,
129
,
164
,
192
,
194–96
,
222
,
257

    
AIDS status rumors/debates over,
134–35
,
279

    
and amfAR,
199

    
and AZT controversy,
128–31

    
book projects,
130
,
160–61
,
164
,
249
,
320n12

    
and
Bowers
decision,
123

    
clashes with GMHC leadership,
62–65
,
67
,
90
,
120
,
134
,
195

    
conversations with long-term survivors,
126
,
132–33
,
136–37
,
164
,
230
,
277
,
317n14