Stallion August 1986

ARTICLES & FICTION 8 "GETTING LAID IN IBERIA" By Lance Fetterley 28 JERRY HERMAN By Alan R. Yoffee 44 "THE NEW BISEXUALS" By Doug Richards 48 "GLASS ACTION" By David Mitchell 52 "RYDAR HANSON" By Robert W. Richards 68 "TALKING BIG" By Tim Barrus VISUALS 15 "BETWEEN ENGAGEMENTS" From 9D Studio 23 "DOUBLE PLAY" From Malexpress Studios 37 "CLASSIC GREEK" By Kristen Bjorn 63 "GREAT SCOTT" From Celsius Productions 71 "TWO BY TEN" From Marksman Productions MONTHLY FEATURES 4 QUICKIES 11 ROUNDUP (Film, Books, Theatre, Music) 20 LETTERS TO CASEY 32 VIDEO VIEWS 58 CONTACTS EDITORIAL Sometimes we are so busy protecting and defending our own beliefs, we commit the same sins that are committed against us. Mainstream homosexuals,the closeted and even the semi-closeted, often disparage other subcultures within their own subculture. We who are "different" from the heterosexual majority, and are attacked for being so, too often turn around and attack those who are our "cousins," those who are "different" from us. It seems as though there is always a lower rung on the ladder, there is always a group to look down on. There are, I must confess, certain factiops within the gay community which I have trouble embracing. I am ashamed of myself for harboring Prejudices against them, but I won-Fier who among us is without some prejudice? Prejudice is absorbed as part of a child's education. As Oscar Hammerstein pointed out in South Pacific. "You've got to be taught/ Before it's too late/ Before you are six/Or seven or eight." And how do we reach the younger generation without appearing to be pederasts? One of the strongest arguments put forth by opponents of last spring's Gay Rights Bill battle in New York City was that such a bill would mandate "teaching children at an impressionable age that homosexuality and bisexuality are acceptable alternatives." The statement was made by a priest speaking for the Archdiocese of New York. How quickly a religious minority forgets its own persecution in the heat of persecuting others. The homophobes who make me the angriest are the Orthodox Jewish groups who vow, with fist upraised, "Never again," while encouraging another Holocaust with the other. In this day when discussions of registration, quarantine, and ghettoization of homosexuals are discussed openly, how Can Nazi Germany be so quickly forgotten? What we must never forget is that we are, each of us, a little bit "different," and what an uninteresting place this planet would be if that were not so. Jerry Douglas Editor