Hold Tight Gently (66 page)
Authors: Martin Duberman
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)
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 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
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 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
Obsidian
(journal),
77
Ocamp, Karen,
327n8
O’Connor, Cardinal John,
61
,
138
,
183–84
,
187–88
O’Hara, Scott,
276
Olivia Records,
281
Omnibus Budget 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
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
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
Pauling, Linus,
64
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
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
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
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227
,
304
,
324n3
PS
122
theater space (NYC),
250–51
psychiatric view of homosexuality,
14
,
92
Publishers Weekly
,
177
Puerto Rican Young Lords,
81
Purity Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.),
86
Purple Heart
(album),
158–60
,
276
,
285
,
319–20n10
PWAs (People with AIDS movement),
12
,
67–68
,
198
Berkowitz’s GMWA,
67–68
Callen and,
12
,
67–68
,
91–93
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120–21
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125–26
,
131
,
151
,
198–201
and “Denver Principles,”
91
and drug deregulation issue,
230–31
PWA Coalition (PWAC),
91
,
93
,
120–21
,
125–26
,
151
,
198–201
,
223
,
226
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276
PWA San Francisco,
67