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| Compiled By Jack Nichols
Talking to Wyoming's Straight White Wusses
"So secretly, you're all wusses, and you know you're wusses, but you can't
let anyone know, even though you all know you know."
"You could say that." "Can you talk to girls about this stuff?" "Unless you know this is the one--like, you're going to get married, and then you're in so deep you can't help yourself--but if not, if you think she might break up with you, then no, because she might tell someone, and then it gets around, and then everyone thinks you're a wuss, unless you are a wuss, and then you know you're a wuss and it doesn't matter." JoAnn Wypijewski—"A Boy's Life—For Matthew Shepard's Killers, What Does It Take to Pass as a Man?—Harper's Magazine, September A Little Corner in Vatican Territory This month, San Francisco Archbishop William Levada begins the difficult task of rebuilding trust in a diocese (Santa Rosa) torn by charges of child molestation, embezzlement and extortion, and clergy sex scandals. Over the past decade, at least five diocesan priests have been accused of child molestation. One sits in state prison, another killed himself, and a third fled to Mexico. Pope John Paul II put Levada in charge after the man brought in to clean up the unwieldy diocese, Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann, resigned last month. Don Lattin—Religion Writer-- "Sex Scandals Bare Church's Sordid Secrets," San Francisco ChronicleAugust 14 
Father Knows Best
A FAN of cartoon series The Simpsons was yesterday cremated – in his favourite Homer T-shirt, shorts and underpants. Father-of-two Bryan Loach, 49, modelled himself on the head of the TV family. Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspaper, Glasgow, Scotland, 15th August 15 Mexico: 495 Gay Murders in 4 Years—Not One Case Solved Hundreds of homosexuals were murdered in Mexico over the last four years, but not one case has been resolved. Now, gay groups, intellectuals and artists, tired of criminal impunity, have joined forces to demand justice and fight homophobia. The gay victims, whose bodies were often found with signs of torture, hands and feet tied, stabbed to death, are evidence of the level of injustice and hate toward sexual diversity, said writer Carlos Monsivais, a member of the non-governmental Citizen Commission Against Homophobic Hate Crimes. Inter Press Service—Rights Mexico-- August 13 Moralist Newtie Had Own Cutie
Newt Gingrich, the former house speaker who led the drive to impeach US
President Clinton over his attempt to conceal his relationship with Monica
Lewinsky, was himself having a secret affair with a much younger member of
congressional staff, the New York Post reported yesterday.
Mr. Gingrich resigned last year after the Republican Party lost seats in mid-term elections while it was pushing to impeach Mr. Clinton and attacking him for his immoral behaviour. Now it has emerged he was apparently having his own extra-marital affair. The Times, August 14, The Australian newspaper Salt Lake City Headlines Popular gay night spot among first to be hit by tornado West Downtown: Sun Club Among 1st to Feel Tornado's Wrath Shawn Foster--The Salt Lake Tribune, August 13 Killer Not Going to Let a Faggot Kick His Ass
Servicemembers Legal AIDS Multiplies in Former Soviet Bloc Nations The United Nations says the number of people infected with the virus in the region has increased ninefold in three years. BBC Online News—August 13  Boy Scout Daddies
The Boy Scouts were frightened at the prospect of gay men joining the hallowed ranks of troop leaders, a job now reserved for drunk dads, failed-athlete dads, and dads who don't know they're gay yet. John Stewart on The Daily Show— Hollywood Hotsheet, by William Horn, GLAAD, August 13 Psychiatrist as Social Critic There is a disconnectedness between what we say we need as a society and what we do as a society. Dr. W. Walter Menninger-- to the American Psychiatric Association—quoted by Frank Rich in The New York Times, August 14 |
Murdered PFC Barry Winchell 
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