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DEPARTMENTS

7

9

19

GREETINGS

Welcoming words from the publishers

IN

Focus

What would you

do

with a second chance?

AsK

DIVA

What to

do

when your man wears a diaper

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Metro

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Entertainment Weekly

CRYSTAL BALL S

HOROSCOPE

7

. May 5 -

11, 1994

Volume I

Issue 1 FICTION

Adventures of Hemlock Sholmes, Part

IX

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Cover Photograph of

Annie Adjchavanich

Ann jil lian

by

Richard von

Zimmer

BALTIMORE

DISH

OUT ON THE TOWN

Our

weekly calendar

of

events

HOTSPOTS

A listing

of

your favorite haunts

ESCORTS

PERSONALS

Top 10 s

li

THE

BACK ROOM

N

c Handy tips on how to keep

those pesky hormones in check

o

f

NTHE OVER

Photographer Annie. Adjchavanich s

portraits

of

female illusionists are big,

bold, drop-dead stunning.

In our

debut

interview,

Annie

talks

candid ly

about

her

show. Bio-

l o g i c a l

Men

cur-

rent ly at

Hemphill

Galleries,

the girls

she

shoots,

and explains exact ly

how to pronounce her last name.

,

NEWS OF

THE

QUEER

Prepare

to

Spring

to

Life; Frank and Ma

son get loud

and

ugly

at the

forum.

Metro

Arts

Enter tainment Weel


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GR TINGS

Marc SIYman

Randy

Shulman

IMAGINE LOSING ONE'S CHILD.

That s how th e staff ofMichael's Entertainment Weekly felt when, on April 11, 1994

the announcement

came down from above

that

themagazine would cease publication. We

were all heartbroken by

th e

decision, because we felt the magazine was finally starting

to

take

shape, that

it

was starting to have an impact on the gay

community

our community.

We bi d our fond farewells

to

th e previous publishers and, after licking our

wounds

for

a

minute

or

two; tur ned to

on e another and said, mimicking those

grand old

Judy Garland/

Mickey

Rooney

musicals of the '30s, Let's

p ut o n

a show

MW

or Metro Arts

Entertainment

Weekly-was

born. (We

won t

be

preswnptu

ou s

enough to

call ourselves a star yet, we realize we're still

in

our

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c u

s

SE ON H N E

byMark Schroeder

mi r r o r

morn

lng

n e

into

m g

looking

th e

f in ing you

re

the spit-

t g im e of

r d

it t

or

You chuckle at his paranoia, feeling infinitely

superior because, at least in spirit, you are older,

wiser

than

he.

You

have learned to enjoy life to

the fullest

without

compromising. You order a

double martini extra dry-and anxiously await

an order of Fettucini Alfredo. For dessert he

has lemon jello and unsweetened iced tea.

You

still very much in a celebratory

mood,

order

the chocolate moussewith a double helping of

whipped cream and a Bailey's Irish coffee.

Gosh, I wish I

could eat like that

and still stay

in

shape, utters the

blonde twinkie sit

ting

across

from

you. Again you

tsk tsk

away his

concerns and tell

him there's noth-

ing to it, it's

all

in 0

n e

knowing

how to

do

it.

He .hen asks

you

if

you'd like to

join

him for

a

game of racquet

ball after

work,

followed bymaybe

a little get together

in

his apartment.

The second rtof Tom C r u i s e

his offer sounds

great, but

the

thought of exer-

cise-especiallysomething as demanding as rac

quetball causes

your

middle-agedmind to re

coil in horror. Even he s notworth that effurt.

Three months later, you look in the mirror.

Gone

is

that

flat tummy;

your

recently acquired

firm pees have eroded back to their former state

of sagging tits;

and

your size 32 jeans lie

in

a

Goodwill collection box. You sit at

your

desk

chomping

on

a Big Mac and fries; you realize

you've blown it

again.

Dammit

maginewaking up one morning, looking into

the mirror and

discovering that you are now

the spitting image of Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise,

Ethan Hawke,

or whomever

else currently oc

cupies the

piece

de resistance of

your

lustful

mind Pretty awesome, right?

Okay;

so

after slapping yourself in the face a

few times to make sure

that

you're not sleep

walking, you stand

back

and

admire

your

new

image, vainly examining everyone of

your

new

physical attributes-attributes you've never had

but always wanted. And now here they are. So

nowwhat?

You get dressed and head into the kitchen

and prepare yourself a breakfast fit for a king:

two eggs, bacon, toast , juice (preferably

not

orange), coffee,

and

a glazed donut. Ah,

yummy What could be better? Life has just

bestowed on

you

a truly special gift, one per

haps

you don't understand

but are certainly

willing to graciously accept.

. You arrive at your office, everybody notices

you

and mentions how great you

look. The of

ficemail

boy

who you've been ogling for six

months now, butwho hasn't paid you so much

as a cross-eyed stare, stands before .you with

begging eyes and

mouth

longingly agape. Eat

yourheart out, boy F you think

to

yourself. YOu

didn t want me when I was

my

two-hundred

twenty

five

pound thirty

five-year-old self,

I ll

be

damned

ij you regoing to have me now h isn't

confidence grand? It's kinda neat being in de

mand, the apple of every guy's eye, the object

from which

wet dreams are forged.

Okay; so you're in a goodmood. Feeling chari-

table, you decide to condescend and give the

kid the thrill of his life: you ask him to lunch.

There,

sitting in the restaurant, the

twentysomething-year-old never takes his gaze

off your

well-defined, lithe body;

your

pearly

white smile, your full crop ofhair,

and

the glow

ing radiance ofyour youthful, bronzed skinned.

I think I'll have the Caesar salad

and

a bottle

of Perrier, intones

the

boy

somewhat

cau

tiously; I don't

need

the

extra calories.

.


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TURING

NOW

ACCEPTING

US

THE

L RGEST

SELECTION OF

LLM LE

VI OS

FOR S LE

IN

THE DC RE


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POLLY

H

Dedicated read-

OLLOW

ON THE NEWS

votes cast in the primary.

You re probably

wonder-

ing

who won

the

general

election. right?

Well, thanks to a recant

news story in the New

or

TImt ,

we now know

that. n HOUSton.

a trans

sexual

who

as a man 31

neither

she nor

her oppo-

nent won

a majori ty

of

ers

of

this column may re

call an rtem a few weeks

ago about a

transgendered

person in Texas forcing a

run-off electron because

years ago

was just

four

hours away from being ex

ecuted

for

murder,

lost

overwhelmingly

in her

third bid

to become the

HarrisCounty Democratic

chairman.

The tr an ssexual,

leslie Elaine

Perez.

was

convicted

of the fatal

shooting

of a Houston

businessman

in

1961 when

she was

a

man named

D.C.

SPRINGS

TO LI

ou've probably noticed the four-color, pop

art daisies cropping

up

on little postcards

everywhere. Well, those flowers can

mean

only

one thing: It s Spring

to

Life

time

in

Washington, a celebratory weekend

of

fun

and

fundraising for AIDS research.

This

is

not

just another

party, says

Spring

to

Life marketing director

Dan

Hazard.

The

people

involved are [staging it] for all the right reasons.

Hazard hopes the

event will, like daisies,

turn perennial, per

haps one

day

gaining

recognition

as

the

city s premiereAIDS

research benefit.

What

we re really

here to

do

is help find

a cure, he says.

Last year, STCs

efforts succeeded in

bringing in a half

million dollars for

the

Robert Map

plethorpe Laboratory for

AIDS

Research

at Har-

vard Medical School, as well as the Gay

Lesbian

Victory Fund. This year, STCs proceeds will once

again benefit

the Mapplethorpe

Laboratory,

with

hopes, notes

Hazard,

to

generate

at

least

100,000

in monies. Part of

the

reason for the reduced esti

mate is

crowd capacity. Last year s event, which

coincided

with the March on

Washington,

drew

well over

5,000

people. This year,

the main

dance

event will be limited

to

half that.


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ontinue

with Promise of Spring, a cocktail party and buffet

dinner at the Galleria at Lafayette Center. The func

tion

will be a little more laid-back

than

D.G s

typi

cally stuffy, black tie fundraising dinners, promises

David Franco, co-chair

of

STL.

The main event

is

the Spring

to

Life Dance,

to

be held at the

Old

Post Office Pavilion on Satur

day, May 7.

Mark

Tarbox, currently the house

DJ

at

L.A.'s Probe and recently featured at Palm Spring's

White

Party, will spin the tunes. Franco

is

keeping

mum

about

who

the

mysterious special live per

former will be, but we're secretly praying for

CeCe Peniston.

An

after-hours party (bring a

carafe

of

coffee,

it

starts at 3 a.m.)

dubbed

'1\fter

Life will be held at Club Zei and is scheduled

to

feature DJ Buc, whose light style, says Hazard, is

extremelywell-suited

to

the morning hours. .

Life's Blossom, a Sunday afternoon

r e ~

cue

and

tea dance will be held at Georgetown's

Halcyon

House,

a newly renovated historic mansion

overlooking the Potomac. According

to

Franco, the

place

is

monstrous, and the views, incredible. .

The cost of each event differs, ranging from

20 to

100,

with

most

hitting the nominal $40ish

range. Tickets can be bought individually

or

in

various packages.

If

you're interested in springing

with the rest

of

us and are willing

to

spring for a

I

few bucks (in the process helping

out

an urgent

cause) call Ticket Master at 202-432-SEA'f, or

1-800-551-SEA'f, stop by any Ticket Master

outlet, OffGear at 160117th St.,

well,

you get

the basic idea. Still, since we just adore

giving out phone numbers, here's one

more

for

e r o s e x u ~ r e m t ~ h o s t e d

high-priced dinner

at

her

house for

an

open lesbian

politician

running for a state

level offx e

CLOSETWATCH

Closet I -

Ellen

tions

in 1988

and

1992

Perez plans to run for

public

office again in

the

near

future

POLLY

LesUeDouglasAshley.

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PRESSURE

DROP:

6 2 ,

inlo

reading,

oooking and

II.e

outdoon.

Seeking

men

2330. Please be mature

and

we

oon

.Ior

e>ploring .. .22942

MD

VlRY

APPREQATM:

Cute

G .I

5 8 ,

seeks

a iPt

1840.

Into

lenni.

and

eblcing.

AI cds oppreciold.

23132

MD

ITSY

IITSY:

28 yr old Hispanic,

5 6 , 155.

Inlo bikini. and jodt

.Irops.

..

23149

MD

REDHEAD S

LUCK: 21

yeor old

Adoni. will do anything for redheads.

..

23191

MD

MECHANIC:

6 3 ,

SSM,

210,1

om - r

dam

and

need

service.

23234

MD

BIGGER

IS

BETTER: 81k

mole,

vers,

5 8 , 150

blk mosc

guys

CHef

2301. nyoge i. OK. ..

23099

MD

LOADS AND LOADS:

29

yr old

i. inlo

w r t r S ~ i n g

and someone inlo

load.

01

fun .. .23443

MD nRED OF THE lARS? Iom.

6 3 , 210, 33.

Inlo

dining in or out.

Hoping

for

on

LTR

. . .23472

MD I U

DIM:

5 10 , beefy, muse

WM.

Gm eyes and

- r

otIrodive. Inlo

sporn and quiel nme..

Seeking

a WM,

5 8

or shorter.

Please

be

wbmissive.

No s m o k e d r u g ~

23489

Bc6nore

Cl0SE-TAPEIlED

H Il Sexy

25

YO

bbi mole

seeks

on halllll

dix::.... .Biod

and

hoping

10 hear from

you.

..

19844

MD EJlHIIITIONIST:

10m ooming 10

Iown

and -king

blk

or IDtino

men

10

visit.

..20039

MD NETWORKING: 27

l old. 5 8 ,

dorl WHERIIT AU

BEGAN: Lean muse buddy

needed fer

a auise

tnru

Greek

Isles. CaR

and

1eI .

share

a great fime.

tr24685

IN>

TAU

GUY: 22,6 6 ,

192, seeks a muse man into

partying

and

quiet....,ings

at

home.

tr24816

IN> GOOD FIND: GWM

busines.1home

owner

seeks

o serious, sincere fII (. Into

camping, fishing

and the

beaches.

Race i

open.

I

am

in

shape

and seek

c:ampanionship and

possibly

more.

tr24856

IN> JUST

WONDERING:

45 yr old Bi-curiaus P I

seeks intelligent guys fer

goad

fimes.

I

am

a

Professional and would IaYo

10

tolk

10 you. tr25019

IN> HEAVEN

CAN

WAIT:

Blade male,

r

goad shope

world

IraI OIor anJ

~ i c Seeking

guys at

Ioast

6 ,

masculine

and

no

drugs.

Inlo

rallenkating and

a

sports.

tr25127

Seeking

a guy

who

likes fun a. much a.

Ido. I k ~ Call me at home.

tr24397

IN> DO

AS

I

SAY:

SSM, 220,

handsome, 6'3 .

SeoIcing

rem

guys

fer

service. I

am an aggressive p. tr24529

IN> LET'S smu DOWN:

GWM,

40, 6 1 , 205, grey haired pro/essianal

wrilor. SeoIcing

a GaM ar

GAM

who i.

prOIeuianal and ready fer a

monogamous relationship.

Inlo

the

meMes

and

theator.

tr24595

IN>

YOU

AU THE

SHOTS: Masc

~

submissiYe 38

yr

old

seeks

a mature,

em P Ito talco charge. tr25309

Baltimore RISE TO THE

CHAUlNGI:

5 11 ,

masc

9'11 i.

seeking a wrestIer/can.t typo.

Board

and stOcho ~ r e d tr22664

Spring ld

IICllI.NG POlNn

GWM,

24,

soolcs ~ men fer

hi&

tondor n tr24491

Washington WASHINGTON

MONUMENTTOO

SMAUI GWM,

onand guy seeksa blk lop

witn

a

big chal1ongt tr24687

Washington TINDER TOPS: 23 yr

old

professiOnal

GWM,

greallogs

and

a

tight

body.

Inlo

sports

and

the

cutdoon.

SOaki.ng a sensitiw lop

man.

tr251S1

BaIiimaro

FOOlUU.MYEl'S

28yrold,

5 10 ,190.

Blade

b;.

PI,

Iaw-wdont soolcs

prJ.,

iIWooSgent 25

35 yr aid. SooIang a

fPf

who

Iooli

..,;quo,

is into art,

citnuic,

paris. tr23232

IN>

WHERI ARE THE

ROPES?:

GaM seeks men 2530 10 show

me

the

ropes. Please, no sames. tr23554

IN>

HEY, BABE: B k male,

discreet

and 1TlQSC.

29 waist

seeks 2535.

Please

be

atlJodi-;e. tr23689

IN> GaM:

27,

5 9 , 145. SeoIcing

a

guy who

wants

10

party

and enjay the

9aod life. tr23771

IN>MATURI?: 38 yr

old

bIad< male

professional seeks m t u ~

men

fer a

possible relationship. tr23844

Wi

HOMO AlONE: 33 yraldWM

soolcs

bI< ar

Iispanie odes

33-40.

tr23934

IN>

S1EKlNG

BlACK

ROUGHNECKS: 5 7 150

seeks

a

brother witn a Iudty charm _you aN

long winded p/eaMl call. -23948

IN>

DAYnMI

PASSION:

BiWM,

50s, seeks lV.fer

daytime

action.

trU0Q6

IN>

THE

BIG

ONE: 45

yr

old, hry

and 290 pound.

Into

caoking,

and movies.

SeoIcing

a P I

25-45.

Must

like big guys. tr24347

IN>

GUARANTIED

TO

SATISFY:

Hot-Iooking

boarded b4m IaYos 10

safi.ly. Seeking woIlbuik lops fer

goad,

clean

fun.

tr

17460

IN>

18

YR OlD: High

schaal senior

Bi-guy

is .....

and gaOdlooking.

IN> UK

MY COfflE:

24

yr

old loll

and srnaal I guy

seeks

a

blk

male, 2().

35. tr26131

IN>

RID

IlIAD: 28 yr

old WM,

6',

168, red hair and striking blue 1l) M.

SeoIcing

a guy, 1832, aI any race.

I

am

a

lop

and

I

am waifing

fer

your

call. tr26127

IN>

WHATEVER YOU

SAY: Masc

38 yr old WM. Iwant

to be sub 10 an

in

chorgecrassdresserar

lV. tr25309

IN>Ml

PERSONAUTY:

SeoIcing

a

.inon

stable

guy witn a goad

personality.

Asians/Latinos A+.

tr26MARlIORO

MAN: Inlo

the

cutdoon

and seelcing a

PI, 1830, WM,

swimmer'.

build. Please

he... headon'

s I r a ~ 6 4 6 6

IN> RlADY FOR THE

FIRST:

29

yr old Bi

curious

WM i

dean

cut

and _n g a guy 30

ar)'CUll9Ol'

fer first fime

experience. tr26577

Washington TOOL

BOX: GaM,

5 10 .

Aggressive b4m seeks a

dom lop,

25-40.

tr26316

Washington

METRO

AlIA:

20

yr old

bIk

male seeks disaeol

fun fime. witn a

jock/proppy-typo. -26459

Washinglon MIUC

I'M:

Seeking

o

lop,

39

yn old,

97 . PleaMl

be

sIrang.-26527

Baltimore YOU COUlD MAKE A

SWlATU: 25yrold,6 3 , 210,

bmlblu and

r

hry

seeks

guys

fer

fun.-W55

Baltimore BlACKTOP

WANTED:

GWM, 26,

_ n g

a

bIad DARK SKIN A :

25

yr old blk

P Iseeks blks ar PRs

CHARISMA: Masculine GWM,

5 9 , dean shoven and muscular. I

am

inlo biking

the cutdoon

and am

goad

company. SeoIcing a

GWM,

25-35,

who i inlelligent and ~ n c e r e tr17462

IN>

OUT OF MY SHEU: 35 yr

old,

S S 140. S.akinga spociallriendship.

I

am

shy and

wauId

like you 10 10k.

charge.

Tall

A+. tr25676

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v y

o 0 m

by

Sean Bugg

near

uncon

h

e

a I 0 f

Spring m ost

uee r

boys

go th rough

ph ses

o f

h o rm o n l

R

you can t keep away from the cute boys, this

will

at

least keep

them

away

from

you.

With

the abundance

of

hyper-hygiene

in

boy bars,

most

people will consider you ripe ifyou miss

one shower and shave.

Eat, eat,

eat. Two burritos, a

BigGulp

and

a

box ofTwinkies twice a day for one week can

do the trick

nicely. The constant

question

You re gaining weight, aren t you? will do

wonders for killing your sex drive.

Ifyou start

running around

the bar

in

a tank

top and

hot

pants,

you

may kill ev-

t h t

eryone else s too.

Knock your-

a r r

I

v

self out. When

the urge has be-

come overwhelm

ing, masturbate

continuously for

an hour th t

should wear

you

out enough to get

some sleep. This

technique works

particularlywell

if

t

r

0

I I

a

b I

e

it s 4

a.m.

and

your sund ial

is

reading high

noon. Be sure to

a c

drink plenty

offlu-

ids.

But don t

re

sort to

drastic

measures like salt peter.

Why

try to avo.id play

ingwith

others if

you

can t playwith yourself?

In the end, there are a multitude

of

opportu

nities

to

avoid having sex. Still,

one

technique

stands

out

above all others

s

the sure-fire,

money-back-guaranteedway

to

avoid having a

guest

in

your

bed

...

When

there s

no one

left

in

the city

who

you

haven t done.

c

STOPP O L

T

SYOUR CREDIT

card begun to wilt from

buying the latest issue

of

troke

Fint

Ha nd

and

everyother pornomagazine in a ten

mile radius? Have you committed

to

memory

the names

of

every crewmember for-each Fal

con

movie

at

the local video store?

Do you get

frequent flyer miles

on

your trips

to

the bath

house?

Whether

it s a phase

of

the

moon,

a result

of

bio-rhythrns, the action

of thewdiac or

simply

just the

arrival

of

Spring,

most Queer

boys

go

through phases

of

near-uncontrollable hormonal

activity.

gone unchecked, your frenziedsearch

for sexual fulfillment will soon have everyone

crossing to the

other

side

of 17th

Street

when

they see

you

making your rounds.

Not

that

there s anything

wrong

with this.

Who

hasn t been in a relationship where you re

continuallytrying to stoke a dead

fire

But there

are nights (or weeks... or months) when you

lie on the couchwishingyour penis would

shut

the

hell up

and let you watch the Dolph

Lundgren Marathon in peace.

To

help you fight these impulses, I ve devel

oped some

techniques guaranteed

to

take the

fire out

of

your quest.

Clean

the bedroom. Being a bit

of

a pro

crastinator, I have been

known to

leave

my

apartmentwithout first takingcare

of

that three

foot stack

of

clothes surroundingmy bed, emp

tying the ashtrays or putting away the lube and

condomkit.

Because

of

this, I ve found

that

a

correlationexists between the state ofyour room

and

the potential

of

your trick.

In

other

words, the messier the room, the

hotter

the boy

who

wants

to

see it. The more

you

vacuum, dust

and

launder to

turn

your den

ofinequity into a husband trap, the less likely

it

IS to see a sUItor.

Hygiene? Who

needs hygiene? Try

go

for

three or

four days

without

taking a

shower

or using anyof those special gifts you received

with your purchase

at

the Lancome counter.

If


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