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Compiled By Jack Nichols Wecloming Gotham
Nick Mamatas—“Gotham Magazine and Me”—Greenwich Village Gazette, March 2 www.nycny.com Massachusetts Gay/Bi Teen Suicides at 40% The study also found that about 10 percent of Massachusetts high school students attempted suicide, according to a survey of about 4,000 students in 1997. Broken down by sexual orientation, about 40 percent of gay and bisexual students attempted suicide, compared to about 10 percent of their heterosexual peers…Ellen Connorton, coordinator of violence prevention and intentional injury at DPH, said gay students are not considered predisposed to suicide…“They are no more mentally unstable than other students, but they are susceptible to victimization by their peers,'' Connorton said. Patrick Healy –“ Suicides in state top homicides”--The Boston Globe, February 28 Wide Selection Tempts Marriage-Prone Bisexual
But the thing you're seriously conflicted about might be what
anyone -- gay, straight, bi, bewildered -- faces when staring down the
barrel of a lifelong commitment: Can those otherness urges be canned? It's
human sexual nature to crave something different sometimes, and so it's
normal to want to color outside the marital lines. You're just tempted by a
wider selection of crayons.
Carolyn Hax—“Tell Me About It-- Bisexual man torn between desire for family, men” advice column-- Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 4 Wall Street Finally Checks AIDS Drug Prices Now a growing alarm about the spread of the disease, and a widening belief by consumers that pharmaceuticals companies price their drugs too high, has forced Washington to reconsider its unyielding support for the industry's positions overseas. Helene Cooper, Rachel Zimmerman and Laurie McGinley-- “AIDS Epidemic Puts Drug Firms In a Vise: Treatment vs. Profits”-- The Wall Street Journal, March 2
If someone comes up to me in a bar and says 'I saw you on television,' that's it, I have no interest in having sex with that person. Andrew Sullivan--"Sullivan's Travels" by Michael Wolf, New York magazine, March 5 Public or Quasi-Public? HIV-positive men report engaging in unsafe sex in public sex environments Gay HIV-positive men in Los Angeles County have unprotected sex in public environments at an alarming rate, despite knowing that they are infected and that they can pass on the AIDS virus to their sex partners, according to research conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Advocate web site: www.advocate.com Weekend, March 3–5, 2001 Eminem: Elton's Gay?
Of course I'd heard of Elton John, I
didn't know he was gay. I didn't know anything about
his personal life. I didn't really care; but you know
being that he was gay and he had my back, I think it
made a statement in itself saying that he understood
where I was coming from. ... If I didn't make a
statement with Elton John tonight, I don't know what
else to do.
Eminem—on MTV Who Accepts the Legitimacy of the Pretension? America has become like a giant dysfunctional family. The hysterical demand, from both the mass media, and the party of the Usurper, is that we must accept the legitimacy of the Pretension, or suffer the consequences of instability. Wasn't this what the arguments made by Jim Baker III, in Florida boiled down to? "We must move on. We can't count the votes, because come hell or high water, we will have George the Pretendant installed, votes be damned (we have other methods), so best not to rock the boat?" And we, like the offspring of a drunkard father, are asked to ignore the elephant of tyranny stomping about the room…The media purred over the results of the 2000 election, marveling at how 'stable' our Constitutional system was, that we could suffer a blatant coup d' etat, and not have tanks in the streets. This was trumpeted as a sign of systemic strength. I see it as a sign of a disengaged and easily led public; more interested in their stock portfolios and who gets 'voted off the island', than whether or not the occupant of the White House has any business being there. Mountain Monk— www.coldmountain.net The Dean of the White House Press Corps Knows
Helen Thomas--Syndicated Columnist—" Justices engage in spin"- seattlep-i.nwsource.com/opinion/thomas2.shtml March 2 Baptist Web Page Prayer Caution: Demons have been reported as causing spelling and grammatical errors, misinformation and slow loading. If you notice this happening to you, you should say this prayer: 'Father God, Poppa Jesus, in the Name of Jesus, I bind the demons that are ruining the spelling and diction on this web page. They will stop attacking me, this most precious ministry, my computer, and I command them to leave me right now, in the name of Jesus. Sister Taffy's Friends of Baby Jesus— www.sistertaffy.com |
A new, huge and overstuffed magazine hit the stands this week, and its name is Gotham. Heralded in the pages of the Sunday New York Times Style Section , Gotham promises to be the magazine for three-page ads, party pictures of creaking socialites and their piggish boyfriends, and bits of fluff about flat-assed celebrities and their new Park Avenue digs.
Dogmatist Turns Down Brad Pitt-Look-Alike?
The U.S. Supreme Court justices might have to hire a slick public relations
firm to refurbish their image after the disastrous decision to hand the
presidency to George W. Bush. The court, always on a higher plane than any other
institution in the U.S. government, has fallen from its pedestal, and the justices must
be wondering what they can do to change that. It must come as a surprise to the court
that it no longer is revered or viewed as above politics…The 5-4 decision in Bush v.
Gore will stand in history not only as the first time that the court has elected a president
but also for the dramatic flip-flop of the conservative justices who overcame
their alleged devotion to states' rights and overruled the Florida
Supreme Court.
