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| Compiled By Jack Nichols
Saluting Royalty
As for that royal wedding, God save the queen--I mean Edward. Michael Musto—"La Dolce Musto"—The Village Voice, June 30-July 6 Blessed Assurance I've been a battler all my life…I have fought bureaucrats all my life. People say you can't do this and you can't do that, but all my life I've done whatever I wanted. Leigh Varis, male-to-female brothel madam and city council member in Kalgoorlie, Australia— The Sydney Morning Herald, July 3 How Democracy Works People are not fools. Once they reflect on the utter unreasonableness of insisting that homosexuals change their sexual orientation, or suppress and hide their emotions ... the irrational insistence and demand for legal sanctions tends to fade away. Once they know friends and family, children, sisters or uncles are gay, the hatred tends to melt. In the wake of the changing social attitudes inevitably come changing laws.'' Australian Supreme Court Justice Michael Kirby—at a legal conference (London) The First Post-Stonewall Historian Critiques Revisionists
There'd been a real failure to mention the real work-horses of gay liberation in those times, namely the Gay Activists Alliance. The well-meaning history readers (June 26) at (The Cathedral of) St. John the Divine had unintentionally overplayed the scattered contributions of the New York Gay Liberation Front mostly because of faulty accounts published a quarter century later by such poorly-informed historians as Martin Duberman.
Donn Teal—Author of The Gay Militants (published by Stein & Day, 1971 & St. Martin's Press, 1995)-- GayToday, June 30 How Gay Are You? It used to be easy. You were either gay or you were straight. Maybe certain oddballs belonged to that category known as "bi," especially in the 70s. But for the most part, you got to identify yourself as one thing (heterosexual) or the other (homosexual), and that was that. That was O.K. But how about this: Just how gay are you? What percentage? "I guess I'd have to be way down," said John Seabrook, a writer for The New Yorker, in a phone interview. "I guess 3 percent comes to mind. Three percent gay. Three percent means that when I was 12 years old, I had a crush on Phil Blanton for three months, who was like a kid in my dorm. At St. Andrew's. My wife's giving me a hard time, though. Do you think that's bad, that I'm saying I'm 3 percent gay? She's giving me dirty looks. George Gurley—"How Gay Are You?"—New York Observer, June 28-July 5 Evolving into Clout
The building that once housed the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street has earned a listing in the National Register of Historic Places, becoming the first site in the country to recognize the contributions that gay and lesbian Americans have made to national culture. This also marks the gay rights movement's evolution from a fringe activity to a well-organized effort with establishment affiliations and substantial political clout.
New York Times—"Editorial" June 29 Safer Sex in New York City Gay men in New York City have significantly reduced their levels of risky sexual behavior, and the number of men infected with the AIDS virus has dropped sharply over the last 15 years, city health officials said in findings issued yesterday from the largest survey ever of gay men's sexual health. Lawrence K. Altman—"New York Study Finds Gay Men Using Safer Sex"—New York Times, June 28 
Brad's Buttocks
Movie star Brad Pitt is exposed in a 30-page photo spread in W. The pictures show him with his mouth Wide open; lying on a cement floor, face down, with his naked buttocks visible; standing near a grizzly bear in a holding cell; with his hands in his pants; and making various ecstatic facial expressions. George Gurley—"How Gay Are You?"—New York Observer, June 28-July 5 HIV in Russia Figures released by the Russian Health Ministry suggest that the country could be on the verge of an epidemic of HIV, the virus that causes Aids. Stephen Dalziel, Russian Affairs Analyst—" Russia 'on verge' of HIV epidemic"--BBC On Line News, July 1 
Bushit Ethics
So we know that Jeb Bush's wife, for all her $millions still tried to 'cheat' the Customs/U.S. on not declaring $19,000 in goodies she bought in Paris. Bob Kunst—Oral Majority Director, E-mail to GayToday, July 2 |
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