Both Larsen's column of December 7, and an Associated Press dispatch of the same day, made references to what Larsen called "disturbing and documented accounts of ceaseless gay bar hopping, and orgies of anonymous gay sex."

On that same-day, an AP dispatch, replete with photos of muscled crowds lingering on Miami Beach, quoted OUT magazine columnist Michelangelo Signorile to critique the famed South Beach AIDS fund-raiser known as The White Party: "People are coming from around the country having unsafe sex and then dispersing around the country."

Health Crisis Network, the largest AIDS charity in South Florida, dependent, in part, on White Party support, admitted that there might be improvements needed, but its development director, Keith Cromley, insists that "the good outweighs the bad."

A spate of gay authors, including Signorile, is being blamed for unleashing controversies that are damaging not only the reputation of gay males nationwide at a time when fundamentalists are seeking ammunition to do so, but are threatening the financial well-being of AIDS organizations that depend on circuit party contributions.

Such criticisms—drugs-risks-unsafe-sex-- have become part of a reign of media hoopla that was deliberately introduced in a New York Times Op-Ed by Signorile, who claims that big-name AIDS charities are hosting unsafe sexual practices, thus suggesting hypocrisy rampant in the charities themselves, and, apparently, providing anti-gay pundits such as Leonard Larsen with ample ammunition.

Tales of substance abuse at such fundraisers (with drugs Signorile's New York Times essay carefully cataloged), as well as bouts of unsafe sex, appear to have become a source of anti-gay, anti-AIDS propaganda picked up by mainstream media as when the Associated Press tells how Gaydar, a South Beach novelty store, stocked up on lubricants, the store's best selling item during the six days the South Beach party remains operative.

Many newspapers running AP coverage of the White Party included a separate AP story describing the effects of Extasy, Special K, GHB and Crystal Meth.

Leonard Larsen's hate column ridicules AIDS for what he says activists call its "specialness," assisting right wing propaganda machines that paint equal rights for gay men and lesbians as "special" rights.

He says that people with AIDS feel "entitled," and he accuses AIDS activists of cleverly turning the spotlight away from the plight of gay males to that of children, teens and mothers. Calling gay males "a loud, affluent and demanding constituency," Larsen claims that AIDS contagion has far less to do with moms, children, and teens, and far more to do with "gay men performing unprotected anal sex with each other."

Larsen's column also ridicules the spending of federal monies to combat AIDS through either a cure or through prevention.