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Survivor Fan Comes Out

Survivor is the most liberating program ever broadcast in America! The CBS crowd is the "oldest" viewing audience (until survivor came along) and this is the crowd that needs to see real gay people like Richard (complete with an adopted son) involved in the ethos of life. It's a shame that they voted the last really good-looking guy off last week. I thought the dialogue with the women saying that Greg ( I think that was his name) was "playing up to Richard" because he knew Richard found him attractive (who wouldn't) was really a whole new world environment!

Richard (left) and Sonja on Survivor

When was the last time, your parents sat and watched a bunch of women, young enough to be their daughters talk about a good looking blond male "taking advantage" of a gay guy? Never in their lifetime! And they aren't watching all those liberated shows on HBO and other networks. Even the sexual politics of it all are fascinating. The women deciding to stick together against the men. Even Rudy, who I didn't like in the beginning, has grown on me. He is at least real.

Internet rumor has a story that Richard was arrested for being abusive with his son while out jogging, pulling him by the ear and saying "If I could go through all that, you can run faster!" But that just might be an anti-gay rumor. The black guy is such a freeloader. How has he lasted this long? I hoped for a showdown between the religious fanatic and Richard (great theater) but I'd hate to see this national drama become a showdown between a gay white male and a black man! Cheers for Richard!!!!

R. Wicker
New York City

First Impressions of Big Brother

Big Brother's Eddie

Not that I'm still watching this piece of trash or anything...BUT, when the votes started pointing toward Curtis as the next banishee, I thought he was going to be very surprised, and sure enough, he was. The guy didn't know what to do with himself afterwards. He just walked around with this nervous look--like no big deal on the outside, but falling apart on the inside.

Eddie lying around on the sofa cussing, drinking beer, and farting all day was funny. But what else are you going to do in a bare house with no outside communication and the same ol' people in your face hour after hour.

I don't know how anybody gets any sleep with all those beds crammed together. That would drive me nuts! What if somebody snores?

And what's with Brittany and the cuddling thing? God, I hate cuddling. It's a waste of time, and it makes me sweaty and claustrophobic. Josh seems to be enjoying it, though. I think he may be a closet hetero. So, again last night the focus was on the hostess, Dr. Drew, families, friends--everybody except the houseguests themselves. That's the main thing wrong with this show. They need to get rid of the audience, the hostess, the consultants, etc. and just let the cameras roll. It's like they're too obsessed with their own importance.

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Right Wing Campus Folks Obsessed with Fisting

Gay activists should be aware of the history of the right-wing campus group Young Americans for Freedom (YAFFER's) infiltrating gay speakers' presentations to ask embarrassing questions, especially about "fisting."

As a founder of campus groups at Arizona State, Long Beach State and UCLA in the 70's, our speakers were constantly confronted by YAFFERs posing as students who seemed obsessed with exposing fisting practices. At conferences we discovered that this was a national project of these Hitler Youth, one of many dirty tricks that date back to Watergate trickster Donald Segretti's leadership of the YAF.

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We already know that a right wing operative had infiltrated the GLSEN Tufts Conference in order to tape record potentially embarrassing discussion. That some of the questions could also have been plants is entirely possible, especially given a past history of exactly these kinds of tricks.

Incidentally, today Roger Hedgecock is broadcasting the GLSEN tapes on the national radio program Weekend from the Republican National Convention. I was able to call in just before the tape was played to raise these doubts and clarify that the Massachusetts GLSEN program was founded with support from Republican governors to provide remediation for the high rate of gay youths' suicide, and that the distinguished GLAAD advocates secured an injunction to protect the privacy of those taped after the tapes were distributed to the media by right-wing operatives.

Greg Carmack
Founder, Frontiers Newsmagazine