Hold Tight Gently (65 page)

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

    
interracial relationship,
207

    
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