| By Jack Nichols
Organizations We’d Like to See
In the public interest, this message was paid for by the following
organizations, representing millions of average Americans.
- Citizens Who Think Trent Lott and Company are Full of Crap
- The Council of Americans Who Have Actually Read the Constitution
- Federation of Clergymen Against Using God's Name to Further a
Political Agenda
- Alliance Against Gary Bauer and Other Intolerant Little Twerps
- Organization of NFL Fans Who Think Reggie White Suffered Some Sort
of Head Injury or Why Else Would He Be Acting Like That, Inc.
----MAD Magazine-- #377
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Outed Skating Champion Brian Orser is…is…a Man!
. . …In sports, Brian Orser wins my vote for hypocrite of
the year. After his sexual orientation was revealed, Orser bravely proclaims
he can still be a role model because he always skated like a man, presumably
unique for someone who's gay.
Happy new year, everyone. It can't get any worse.
----Jamey Heath-- Ottawa Sun, December 31, 1998
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On Dr. Laura’s Special Web Site
I’m sorry, hear it one more time perfectly clearly: If you’re gay or
a lesbian, it’s a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally
to the opposite sex. The fact that you are intelligent, creative and
valuable is all true. The error is in your inability to relate sexually
intimately, in a loving way to a member of the opposite sex – it is a
biological error.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger—Dec. 8
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Special Web Site : Dr. Laura? Showing Us How?
Hustler magazine is publishing nudie photos of "Mrs. Conservative Family Values" in an upcoming
issue. For a look at the purported nudie photos, check out this Web site -- http://www.netzone.com/~cryptix/kat/undex.html --- It takes a while to
download, but scroll down right below the animated licking tongue, there
are about 11 pictures that the site claims are of Dr. Laura.
Forwarded by Wired Strategies’ John Avorasis—Dec. 29 to GayToday
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The Revenue Obsessions of a ‘Free’ Press
What happens when the press oppresses, becomes the power broker,
is tyrannical, untrustworthy and keeps the conflicts going?
What happens when innocence and reputations are purposely
destroyed, to create more and unnecessary confusions, as a diversion
from who or what is really making everyone's lives more miserable?
What happens when a ‘free’ press unethically turns on
someone, on purpose, and in doing so, becomes itself so corrupting and
contemptible, that it singes the very profession and leaves a stench,
that tags even those who haven't been poisoned by this greed and
nastiness?
Freedom is meaningless if it's just another cowardly platitude, and
without substance. So preaching it, but not practicing it, means that
its purpose is to disillusion, demobilize, and destroy a community's
soul and tamper with the very foundation of its beliefs. How else to
'control' it?
America’s free press is a myth. Its mediocrity now
threatens our very survival.
----Forwarded to GayToday by Miami’s veteran gay activist Bob Kunst
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Proclaiming the End of AIDS?
But the writer and editor Andrew Sullivan was fully justified, at least for
the moment, in declaring last year in the New York Times that we'd
arrived at the end of AIDS. He was severely criticized by some gay
leaders, especially those worried about continued fund-raising: will people
still donate to AIDS charities searching for a vaccine if they think the
danger has passed? Will young people stick with the onerous rules of
safe sex if they think the cure is at hand?
----Edmund White—"Proof Positive"-- in The Age newspaper. Melbourne, Australia. Dec. 26, 1998.
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Delusions: The End of AIDS?
Another delusion is an impression among some that the disease just isn't as
dangerous as it used to be. Carriers…surviving on regimens of
expensive new drugs, perpetuate that false notion.
But the final outcome, experts say, hasn't changed. For the young who
continue risking and contracting HIV, it's still a disease without a cure
that can still kill when life has barely begun.
Bill Delaney—CNN Boston Bureau Chief
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40 Million Makes it World War III
Over 40 million people will contract AIDS by late 1999, according to
the most optimistic forecasts. Five people aging from ten to 24 contract
the disease every minute on the planet, the World Health Organization
(WHO) reports.
(Itar-Tass) –Moscow-- December 29
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Reply to a Rumor about Cuban Origins
This is not the first time that I heard about the alleged "Cuban origin"
of AIDS. According to that theory, AIDS came over from Africa with the
Cuban troops that Castro sent to Angola in 1975.
And the tragic fact is
that the vast majority of gay Cubans who came over on the Mariel Boat
Lift were or became HIV positive. However, it is wrong to attribute the
AIDS epidemic in the USA to Cuban immigrants.
As blood samples taken in
connection with a hepatitis vaccine in 1980 later proved, a good portion
of the gay male population in North America already carried the "AIDS
virus" in 1979-80, BEFORE the Mariel Boat Lift. In fact, my impression
is the opposite; that many gay "Marielitos", once exposed to this
country's more free sexual climate, became very promiscuous, thus
exposing themselves to HIV while IN the United States.
There are many theories as to how HIV got into American gay
bloodstreams. So far, there hasn't been a consensus.
Jesse Monteagudo to "Mr. Un-named" offering "Proof" of AIDS Origins
Remembering Nureyev
A passionate dancer, he earned wild adulation—and learned that bad behavior (like giving an unreceptive audience an obscene gesture) only enhanced his celebrity. Solway (author of Nureyev: His Life) is a crack reporter and talented storyteller, and the Russian artist’s long romance with dancer Eric Bruhn and stage partnership with Margot Fonteyn are particularly well-wrought (in Solways book).
Nureyev wasn’t exactly a noble fellow—he routinely mistreated his friends, who worshipped him anyway—but until his death six years ago at the age of 54 from AIDS, he remained a fascinating one.
People magazine—Jan. 11
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