Hold Tight Gently (66 page)

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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)

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 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

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

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
,
120–21
,
125–26
,
131
,
151
,
198–201

    
and CRI,
146
,
151

    
and “Denver Principles,”
91

    
and drug deregulation issue,
230–31

    
and GMHC,
65
,
67–68
,
91

    
PWA Coalition (PWAC),
91
,
93
,
120–21
,
125–26
,
151
,
198–201
,
223
,
226
,
276

    
PWA Health Group,
133
,
190

    
PWA San Francisco,
67

    
PWAC’s
Newsline
,
93
,
121
,
126
,
134–35
,
194
,
198
,
200–201
,
320n12

    
PWA–New York,
68
,
91

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