The following article appeared under "Political Notes" in the
Metro Section of the Sunday New York Times of December 12, 1993.
It is reproduced without permission.

Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani will not take over City Hall for
another three weeks, but he has already adopted a familiar tactic
from his predecessors' playbooks.  He keeps a public schedule,
the details of which are passed out to news organizations each day,
and a private schedule, whose details are closely guarded.

Last week, for example, Mr. Giuliani quietly sought to reach out
to homosexuals, who are widely perceived to have backed Mayor
David N. Dinkins in the mayoral race.  Mr. Giuliani met on Monday
evening with 50 gay men and lesbians in a private home in Manhattan
to talk about issues important to them.  The meeting was not listed
on his public schedule.

According to several people who attended the two-hour session, Mr.
Giuliani talked informally and then answered questions. He was
generally noncommittal, especially on highly charged questions
like the emotional dispute last year at the Board of Education over
a curriculum teaching respect for homosexuals.  Mr. Giuliani has
often said that he would take under advisement many of the specific
points that were made to him.

"His framework was that he wanted to learn about our community a
little more,," said one person who attended the meeting and who
spoke on the condition of anonymity.  "He said the kinds of
things that you would expect from someone who has to heal the city,
generally positive things about working together."

Mr. Giuliani said that he would support the decision by Mr. Dinkins
in late October, just three days before Election Day, to extend
health insurance coverage to the live-in partners of all unmarried
city employees.

"The meeting was useful," said a social-service agency official who
was also present on Monday,  "I had never met the man.  I was
encouraged that he was thee.  He seemed to want to garner support."

"I will say, the Republican Party does not have a great history
with lesbian and gay people," the official added.  "We are forced
to be hopeful."