ARTICLES & FICTION
14 "THE BIG 0"
By Troy Mckenzie
28 "CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL CURZON"
By George Heymont
34 "VANITY: GAY AND STRAIGHT"
By Felice Picano
45 "GETTING LAID IN MEXICO"
By Vincent Traughber
50 "COUPLE COUNSELING"
By Craig Rowland VISUALS
8 "TARGET PRACTICE"
By Torrey
23 "WATCH IT!"
By Naakve
37 "PERSONAL DAY"
From Malexpress Studios
65 "STRAIGHT SHOOTER"
By Daniel Alan
73 STRANGE PLACES, STRANGE THINGS
From Surge Studios MONTHLY FEATURES
4 QUICKIES
19 ROUNDUP (Films, Books, Theatre, Music)
55 LETTERS TO CASEY
58 CONTACTS
70 VIDEO VIEWS EDITORIAL
Promiscuity is not as de rigeur as it once was. Hearth, home, and other traditionally
heterosexual values have appreciated considerably of late. The problem facing
so many homosexual men, of course, is that maintaining an ongoing relationship
is a lot more work than maintaining a one-night stand, or a matinee, or a twenty-minute
quickie. Still, more and more gay males are entering into permanent, semipermanent,
or quasi-permanent relationships.
Is romance in the air? Or panic? Should one "get married" (to borrow
a heterosexual phrase), in order to load the deck against death and disaster?
Or, looking at the situation another way, has the AIDS contagion merely encouraged
the homosexual male to pull back from immediate, transient gratification and
more carefully consider the alternatives to "trashing around"? However
one views the current state of affairs, the fact is that as far as sexual encounters
are concerned, quality is rapidly becoming more attractive than quantity.
Acquiring a mate, rest assured, is much easier to accomplish than keeping him.
With a monogamous relationship come all sorts of problems. Learning your partner's
last name is only the beginning. Monogamy forces one to learn tolerance, negotiation,
compromise, consideration — and they are not always easily come by. As
homosexuals once again begin to function not so dissimilarly from straight couples,
however, they should be made aware that help heretofore only available to breeders
is now available to them. One of these aids, of course, is marriage counseling.
A relatively new field, gay couple counseling is being utilized by more and
more same-sex partners to salvage faltering relationships, strengthen wobbily
ones, end disastrous ones, and provide guidance through the mind-fields of monogamy.
Ideally, a gay couple counsellor has at his command both the tools of the straight
marriage counsellor and the insight of the gay therapist.
We take this opportunity to call your attention to this great boon for gay couples,
to thank the two professionals who sat for our article on the subject (see page
50), and to urge those of you who may need such assistance to consider the possibility.
Couple counseling can work, although not always in the way you expect it to
— and that endorsement comes from first hand knowledge.
Jerry Douglas
Editor
