CHAPTER FORTY-ONE -- EUROPE ON FIVE MEN A DAY

(Did You Sleep With the Models?)

"Tours are for those who want to take a little bit of America with them when they go to a foreign country. If you have to take America with you, why go at all?" Wise words in Mandate, March 1985, from Bill Schoell, who contributed a bitter comedy grafted onto a cautionary tale with "Before You Board That Plane: Some Things Gay Men Should Know About Straight Tours." It was Bill's first trip to Europe. His partner was a more seasoned traveler who overcame Bill's hesitation with a promise that this group tour of London, Paris, Rome, and Madrid was a mere hors d'oeuvre. On subsequent trips, he vowed, they would explore the cities on their own