Gay Times and Diseases
Muir, J. Gordon & Buchanan, Patrick J.
Patrick J. Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir GAY TIMES AND DISEASES Whom the Democrats would embrace, they may be infected by. Gay Rights is no longer a debatable issue within the Democratic...
...Hollywood and the media under the tutelage of the Gay Media Task Force have done their part, portraying gays in programs like "Dynasty" as allAmerican types with boy-next-door good looks...
...The chapel of this new faith has been the bath house...
...Early this year, San Francisco homosexuals themselves took the lead in demanding a municipal decree outlawing sex in the city's baths...
...3Shigeilosis: a bacterial bowel disease which can cause severe dysentery...
...Might not these "complications" be "consequences...
...and the fact that nearly all the GBS groups of diseases have symptomless carrier states...
...Contaminated food is the usual cause...
...Most of the homosexuals I have known have been pretty miserable, unhappy misfits...
...only be sure that the form of enthusiastic activity you-choose yields the fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness --and that you can buy clothes and equipment for it...
...Patrick's, and their conversion into a "reviewing stand" for the parade...
...In removing homosexuality per se from the nomenclature we are only recognizing that by itself homosexuality does not meet the criteria for being considered a psychiatric disorder...
...one of his admonitions was, "Always try to live like other people...
...Of the movie Partners, Richard Schickel wrote: "Like all the other pictures, in what looks like a t r e n d . . , it shows homosexuality neutrally, as just another fact one is likely to encounter...
...I'm sorry...
...All it requires is unclean hands in contact with food or water...
...the tendency for persons to be infected with two or more organisms at once...
...However, talk of a cure resulting from this research is nonsense...
...Gay people constitute a large and varied group and they are capable of providing new kinds of personal full'aliment and social vitality...
...John Maddox, editor of Nature, describes the situation as "chilling...
...Many gays visit these bath houses two and three times a week, where ten contacts a night are not uncommon...
...Another equally serious type of hepatitis, for which there are no tests or vaccines, is hepatitis non-A, non-B...
...Among gay men attending a venereal disease clinic in Seattle there was evidence of previous hepatitis A infection in 30 percent...
...In one large survey of U.S...
...What now threatens this attitude of benign neglect is the alarming and deepening health crisis inside the homosexual community--especially in cities like New York and San Francisco, the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Sexual Revolution...
...gays, 40 percent reported known infection with gonorrhea...
...Common sense suggests that sexually active gays have no business in any of these occupations...
...4Hepatitis A: a viral liver disease (less serious than B or non-A, non-B) spread by fecal contaminfftion: e.g., food, water, and close person-to-person contact...
...Village Voice put the figure at 1600...
...Hepatitis A is also common in homosexuals...
...The carrier rate among homosexuals is 20 to 50 times that of the general population...
...Currently, gays and Lesbians are routinely severed from the armed services...
...Other ways that AIDS may spill over into the general population would theoretically be similar to those applying to hepatitis B. Thus health-care professionals are at some risk as, conversely, are patients in the care of certain homosexually active health-care professionals...
...If this represents an early stage of AIDS (and there is evidence that it does and that it is infective), then, short of some dramatic behavioral change, the gay community may self-destruct...
...Might it be that our society's approval of homosexuality is an error and that the unsubtle words of wisdom of the Bible are frightfully correct...
...The yearly attack rate was about 22 percent...
...At a 1975 conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in Britain, the question was put 1,o a thousand gays as to how many would find child sex attractive...
...A giant banner was unfurled on the cathedral steps proclaiming, "Intolerance and Ignorance Taught Here...
...P l a t o observed that a democracy is a place where everyone conducts his life exactly as he pleases...
...The virus agent is carried in blood, semen, saliva, and possibly in mucus, urine, and sweat...
...Of the movie Making Love, he added, "the people who made this picture are determined to prove that 'nice boys' do, that homosexuals can be as welladjusted and as middle-class as anyone else...
...According to TV Guide, we can expect to see many more "almost commonplace" gay characters...
...It is "moralizing...
...Transmission through infected semen explains its prevalence in the gay community...
...The real story is that there are several epidemics running loose, not all of them permanently confined to the gay community...
...Causes dysentery and sometimes liver abscesses...
...Already, political collisions are occurring...
...A 1982 report by the American Medical Association's council on scientific affairs stated that "Any person, of whatever sexual preference, who shows a dominant pattern of frequent sexual activity with many partners who are and will remain strangers, presents evidence of shallow, narcissistic, impersonal, often compulsively driven genital- rather than person-oriented sex and is almost always regarded as pathological...
...Some research physicians believe the announcement of this finding was grossly premature, spurred by what the New York Times called " a private competition--for fame, prizes, new research funds...
...Whether or not it is the cause, it appears to be a reliable marker for infected donor blood--a positive finding, which could provide a means to protect the blood supply at the staggering cost of 23 million blood tests per year...
...Laboring under this selfgenerated delusion, hundreds of thousands of young men have been indulging themselves in what Newsweek termed a "carefree sexual adventure, a headlong gambol on the far side of the human libido...
...It may be that the AIDS agent underwent some change in 1979 that triggered the sudden appearance of the current epidemic...
...Nobody told that young man, now under a sentence of death, that his life style and his body were on a fatal collision course...
...God forbid that such a thing should happen...
...Kinsey, the average homosexual has 1000 sex partners in a lifetime...
...In a letter to Patient Care, Prof...
...This mechanism, developed in response to the microbial world around us, enables us to live in reasonable ecological balance with our environment...
...Robert Gallo and his research team at the National Institutes of Health...
...On the flip side, however, Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York, has written the New York Times that gays "make an enormous contribution to the commercial, artistic, and religious life of our city...
...women who have had sexual contact with infected bisexual males...
...the cathedral steps of St...
...According to Newsweek, Dr...
...The mockery of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the late Cardinal Cook has been commonplace...
...Then there is the "Gay Bowel Syndrome," a group of rare bowel diseases, previously considered "tropical," now epidemic in urban gay communities...
...Our one chance for success in life lies in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time," some new Walter Pater of the American decadence might rise to tell us...
...For HTL V-3 has been detected in 75 percent of patients with pre-AIDS and no less than 35 percent of symptomless homosexuals...
...An intelligent guess would be that this disease has been propagated in the homosexual c:ommunity the same way as hepatitis B. Two viruses are possibly involved: They are believed to be the main cause of chronic liver disease in hemophiliacs and of post-transfusion hepatitis...
...James Kurfees of the University of Louisville School of Medicine declared himself "appalled" at the way "this deviant sexual behavior is now dignified with more and more pseudoscience...
...And moralizing is wrong...
...Duberman did not indicate what scientific literature he had been reading...
...consider also that, in the modern age, blasphemy may be the last available experience of the numinous...
...three are usually required to be sure of not missing the diagnosis...
...The bizarre details of these parades are usually censored in the national press...
...They took intellectual comfort from harebrained psychologists who peddled nonsense in the guise of learning...
...As one gay writer told the Washington Post: "You can take away AIDS and you're still looking at a community that happens to be a diseased community...
...Quoting from the book Homosexuality and the Law: From Condemnation to Celebration, the author notes that "The law on homosexuality is changing rapidly...
...But when the Democratic Convention opens with fifty thousand Sodomites marching down Castro Street under the command of Sister Boom Boom--the transvestite who wears a nun's habit and rolled up 23,000 votes for city supervisor--the Democrats observing from home may consider it a "debatable issue" indeed...
...Even now, he points out, we have such' things as "Gay Pride Month, with notable politicians lending their support to gays by marching with them down public thoroughfares...
...It is estimated that there are 20,000 to 40,000 persons with pre-AIDS (i.e., with some of the early signs, such as swollen lymph glands), and no one can be sure how many persons with no symptoms are incubating the disease...
...No one has ever recovered...
...AIDS has occurred in Haitians (about 6 percent of cases) causing them to be listed as a risk group, but there is strong evidence that in these people AIDS had its origin in the gay clubs of Haiti frequented by young poor Haitian male prostitutes and vacationing U.S...
...Again, the blood supply has undoubtedly been contaminated...
...Call it nature's retribution, God's will, the wages of sin, paying the piper, ecological kickback, whatever phraseology you prefer...
...Again, very simple: They followed leaders who spouted slogans and clich6s about "rights...
...An element of that tragedy is that the victims were lied to--consistently...
...In New Orleans, Archbishop Phillip Harmon warned the city council a gay rights ordinance would be met with a diocesanled campaign for repeal...
...We're very pleased,' says Chris Uszler, chairperson of the Alliance for Gay A r t i s t s . . . 'there are [going to be] more of what we call "happens-to-begay" characters.' " Perhaps so, Chris...
...Common homosexual varieties of this disease (oral and rectal) are also more difficult to detect and t r e a t . Antibiotic-resistant gonococci are now making an appearance...
...The New England Journal of Medicine reported in 1980 that in San Francisco an average of 10 percent of persons reported as having amebiasis, giardiasis, or shigellosis were employed as food handlers...
...One activist has said that 10,000 sex partners in the lifetime of a "very active" homosexual would not be extraordinary...
...The general public has been grossly deceived about the gravity of this homosexually engendered public health menace...
...So, too, will high schools, grammar schools, nursery schools, and day-care centers that recoil at hiring homosexual teachers, counselors, or custodians...
...So far this problem hasn't materialized, but AIDS is a new disease with a long incubation period (up to four years...
...The question, usually met with thundering silence, is why was it only in 1983, after the AIDS scare, that homosexuals were discouraged from giving blood...
...This they achieved...
...Basic training of 18-year-old Marine recruits will include sensitivity training on the proper respect to be accorded the "alternative life style" of their gay comrades in the barracks...
...The suspected culprit is a virus designated HTLV-3...
...If homosexuality, or even just male homosexuality, is' 'OK," then why the high prevalence of associated complications both in general and especially with regard to AIDS...
...America is mentally under-taxed and morally underemployed...
...Soon it will be said that satanism "is becoming street-level...
...Gay leaders, while demanding massive government spending to find an AIDS "cure," are advising gays only to be more careful in their sexual practices...
...This agent may or may not be the sole cause...
...While there is a test which identifies carrier blood, it is not foolproof, and it may even be less accurate than we thought (maybe 60 percent at best...
...One study found that nearly 50 percent of homosexuals with a history of more than 40 sexual partners had evidence of previous infection...
...Ninety percent of AIDS victims are sexually active homosexual males or intravenous drug users...
...The military has always considered such severances essential to good order, discipline, and morale...
...The cause of AIDS may recently have been discovered by Dr...
...The reference is clearly patronizing...
...The bulk of enteric (intestinal) diseases is now within the gay community...
...In an attempt at explanation the APA said, "no doubt homosexual activist groups will claim that psychiatry has at last recognized that homosexuality is as 'normal' as heterosexuality...
...As a consequence of this jackrabbitry, young men living the gay life in America's large cities are infecting and re-infecting one another with a variety of diseases that suggests that the proper term to describe their behavior is suicidal...
...Can the Democrats have reflected seriously upon the ramifications of this latest pandering to a militant special interest...
...Two years ago, the featured float was a garbage can on wheels with a huge crucifix inside it...
...America is today only an T. John Jamieson is a counterrevolutionary living in Evanston, Illinois...
...They have been largely or solely caused, and perpetuated, by the growing urban population of active gays whose modal form of sexual behavior is impersonal, repeated, random, and anonymous sex...
...According to Dr...
...So was almost everyone else...
...Then there is the issue of children...
...The nation's blood supply also appears to have been contaminated by homosexual donors, though the present risk of contracting AIDS from a one~ or two-unit blood transfusion is low--about one in 100,000...
...Usually picked up from contaminated food...
...Although life-style changes for homosexuals appear to be difficult, there is good evidence they are not impossible...
...This isn't scare talk...
...But organized medicine has been timid to the point of cowardice in speaking openly about the health consequences ment...
...In patients with AIDS the immune system breaks down and the body can no longer effectively fight infection...
...John Maddox asks, "May [it] change again, becoming in the process a more generalized infection of people...
...A 1979 study of gay men in New York City turned up an infection rate of 39 percent for amebiasis or giardiasis (that was using only a single fecal specimen...
...There are few sadder or more pathetic human tragedies than the stories of young men trying to cope with the sudden crushing agony of discovering that they have this inexorably fatal disease...
...Amebiasfs and/or giardiasis are estimated to affect between 10,000 and 50,000 men in New York City...
...A public health debacle is here in the making...
...These are a particular cause for concern because they can be transmitted by fecal contamination...
...Where drug treatment can be used it proves less effective and more toxic...
...16 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 AIDS is a breakdown of the natural immune mechanism of the body...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 17 Back in 1977, a fourfold to tenfold increase in GBS-type diseases was noted in the San Francisco area...
...That realization is hitting the Gay Community...
...How did gays get led into this mess...
...In children, can be fatal...
...Among gays attending saunas in Amsterdam there was evidence of old or recent syphilis in 34 percent...
...Fortunately, there is now a hepatitis B vaccine...
...Most other victims have been infected by secondary spread from these groups: recipients of blood transfusions or blood components (e.g., hemophiliacs among whom AIDS is now the second most common cause of death...
...I recall reading the Forbes profile of one old geezer who pontificated, as old geezers are wont to do in their Forbes profiles, upon his formula for a "successful" life...
...the likelihood of active homosexuals repeatedly reinfecting themselves...
...Unusual forms of herpes, cytomegalovirus, TB, and toxoplasmosis may develop...
...The APA capitulated...
...Quite simple...
...is a medical researcher...
...they will have to be admitted to West Point and Annapolis, the Air Force Academy and VMI...
...The writer adds that "from an empirical medical perspective alone, current scientific observation seems to require the conclusion that homosexuality is a pathologic c o n d i t i o n . . , certain cause and effect data are convincing--so convincing that health care providers, in this age of unbridled enthusiasm for preventive medicine, would do well to seek reversal treatment for their homosexual patients just as vigorously as they would for alcoholics or heavy cigarette smokers, for what may not be treated might well be avoided...
...The council backed down...
...In the early stages the condition is characterized by weight loss, fever, thrush (especially of the throat), diarrhea, and swollen lymph glands...
...Homo democraticus americanus minimizes the time and emotional investment in work and maximizes vacation time and "discretionary income" so that life can revolve completely around some hobby or particular form of sensual indulgence, putting a "bohemian hedge," as Tom Wolfe calls it, between the source of his money and his "authentic self"--and wrapping that self in iconographic costume...
...It is self-evident that gay sexual practices are an assault upon the ecology of the human body, that the gay communities of America's cities are polluted with disease...
...The incidence of shigellosis and hepatitis A in men 20 to 29 years of age is now six to ten times that of men or women in any other age group...
...Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying that had he romanced half as many women as gossip-mongers contended, he would be speaking from a jar at the Harvard THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984 15 Medical School...
...Within the homosexual community, there are today incubating pandemic, rare, and exotic diseases with a time-bomb potential of exploding into the general population...
...Well, the adventure is ending--and it is revealed for what it always was: an egregious assault upon the ecology of the human body...
...The AIDS epidemic has been the single most prominent factor in blowing apart the "natural alternative" myth about homosexuality--a myth that should have been dispelled before the first AIDS case came to light...
...In the microbial world there are precedents...
...Landlords who refuse to rent apartments or beach houses to homosexual couples will be subject to federal prosecution...
...That gay love stories be available in libraries and schools...
...Successful businessmen are an interesting American subculture...
...Hemophiliacs, deriving blood components from several thousand units at a time, are at much greater risk...
...Last year, there were men marching naked except for pubic pouches and floats proclaiming "Dykes and Tykes...
...A microcosm of this conflict is the annual Gay Pride march in Manhattan, where the strategic objective of the marching homosexuals has become capture of Patrick J. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist...
...The main conditions normally considered under the GBS are amebiasis,' giardiasis, 2 shigellosis, 3 and hepatitis A. From a public health" viewpoint there are several alarming features in these diseases: the rapidly expanding pool of infection in the homosexual community...
...In affluent, trendy Montgomery County, Maryland, a gay rights ordinance goes on the ballot this fall because 25,000 voters signed a Christian Fundamentalist preacher's petition demanding a referendum on repeal...
...As a consequence of this "conspiracy of silence" in the medical community--one physician's phrase-tens of thousands of young men joyously embarked upon their pleasure cruises, ignorant of the fate awaiting them at journey's end--while the science pages of the fashionable press were given over to learned discussion of the medical consequences of exhaled cigarette smoke upon the nonsmoking passengers of United Airlines...
...Froude: "One lesson, and one lesson only, history may be said to repeat with distinctness [and that is] that the world is built somehow on moral foundations...
...The author proceeds to ask the key question: If we act as empirical scientists, can we not see the implications of the data before us...
...Spread in a similar way to amebiasis...
...Some of the most profound rot on the subject was penned back in 1975 in Psychology Today by San Francisco psychologist Mark Freedman (a founding member of the Association of Gay Psychologists): _9 . . homosexuality in some cases can lead to better-than-average functioning and to Gay Rights promises to become for the eighties what busing and abortion were to the seventies...
...The problems visited on hemophiliacs by homosexual blood donors through AIDS, and possibly through hepatitis non-A, non-B, have yet to evoke any large measure of contrition from the gay activists whose greatest concern has been with the ethical issue of anonymity attending blood-screening procedures...
...the difficulty of laboratory diagnosis...
...they like to read about themselves in Forbes...
...Inside a population of sexually active gays where oro-anal contact is reportedly practiced by 70-75 percent it is hardly surprising that the increase in these diseases has been described as "explosive...
...A year ago, a co-author of this article was denounced as a "homophobe" by Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch for suggesting that Gotham's bath houses be shut down as a health hazard during Gay Pride Week...
...Back in 1974 shigellosis began to turn up as a common homosexual infection, first in San Francisco and later in New York, London, and elsewhere...
...They will be wrong...
...As one 28-year-old AIDS victim from New York City told Newsweek: "The belief that was handed to me was that sex was liberating and more sex was more liberating...
...With this sort of science-fiction in vogue, gay liberation became clamorous...
...Health-care workers in contact with body fluids or secretions of carriers are at risk, as, in some cases, are patients cared for by carriers...
...Mondale, Hart, and Jackson have all signed on to the non-negotiable demand of the movement: that "sexual preference" be written into the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to designate another category, homosexuals, against whom it will henceforth be a federal crime to discriminate...
...only half the men were aware of their infection...
...eventually most patients will c o n t r a c t Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia...
...Moreover, gay men are more comfortable engaging in group sex than nongay men, and group sex in my opinion offers pleasures that are impossible for couples...
...Donald Abrams of San Francisco General Hospital "estimates that 25 percent of gay men in San Francisco now have lymphadenopathy...
...The bulk of your venereal diseases now reside within the gay community...
...Picture, if you can, the vaulted gothic chapel of the Union Theological Seminary in upper Manhattan with speakers for the Gay Men's Health Crisis standing below a large carved crucifix, graphically explaining the elements of low-risk sex and distributing pamphlets advising the assembled to "shower with your partner as part of your foreplay to check for sores, swollen glands, etc., of which he may not be aware...
...hence a democracy tends to exhibit every possible type of human character, and resembles " a garment of many colors, embroidered with all kinds of hues"-a pleasant sight to women and boys...
...It could be wind-surfing, flash-dancing, non-polluting vegetarianism, occidental guru-worship, voluntary pedophilia, sadomasochism, or satanism...
...The APA had probably never before seen such pressure, but that is a story in itself...
...and a few children born to such women...
...The result could well be the real "final epidemic" (the description given by a group of physicians to the effects of a nuclear exchange between the U.S...
...No effective treatment exists for this' liver infection, which can progress to cirrhosis and cancer...
...Gay Rights promises to become for the eighties what busing and abortion were to the seventies, the social issue that sunders the Democratic coalition...
...The main culture that the sixties counterculture was countering no longer exists...
...As Dr...
...One-third responded in the affirmative, according to the Daily Telegraph...
...H e p a t i t i s B, once uncommon in this country, has become epidemic among active homosexuals...
...J. Gordon Muir, M.D...
...Gay Rights is no longer a debatable issue within the Democratic Party--Ann Lewis, Political Director, DNC...
...Between 60 percent and 70 percent of these persons were homosexuals...
...Shortly thereafter, gay history professor Martin Duberman, challenging the view that homosexuality was abnormal, wrote in Skeptic that "almost all the recent scientific l i t e r a t u r e . . , points to exactly the opposite conclusion...
...A previously rare form of cancer (Kaposi's sarcoma) may develop...
...To most Americans, however, a tolerant people, the prevalent attitude seems to be: So long as they don't bother us, lea~ce them be...
...A recent signed editorial in the Southern Medibal Journal refers to the homosexual disease epidemics as a "kickback...
...W e l l , Ann, perhaps...
...Selma Dritz of the San Francisco Department of Public Health wrote in the Western Journal of Medicine in 1982, "special precautions are required to protect the public from [carriers] who work as food handlers, bartenders, attendants in medical care facilities, and as teachers and aides in day-care centers for infants and young children...
...If HTLV-3, frequently found in preAIDS patients, is indeed the cause of AIDS, this is a truly ominous finding...
...2Giardiasis: a parasitic bowel disease causing diarrhea...
...The hepatitis B epidemic puts the general population at risk in several ways...
...Organisms normally resisted easily by healthy persons invade the body and cause serious diseases (opportunistic infections...
...Mayor Ed Koch was forced to terminate $4 million in program grants when the Salvation Army refused to sign a pledge not to discriminate against gays in hiring for its day-care centers...
...The question was raised by the editor of one of the world's leading scientific journals...
...This is not to disavow sympathy for those horribly caught up in the most highly publicized consequence of the homosexual life style--AIDS...
...In the same gay survey, 13.5 percent reported a previous infection with syphilis...
...One goal the gay movement sought desperately was removal of the term "homosexuality" as a category of mental disorder from the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association...
...Invasion of the brain by organisms usually never found there can occur...
...The typical AIDS victim admits to five different sex encounters monthly...
...In 1976 physicians at the New York hospital found that 57 percent of cases of shigellosis, not related to foreign travel, were in homosexuals, who made up only 2.5 percent of the patients...
...Gay activists vehemently deny there is a greater incidence of child abuse among homosexuals than heterosexuals...
...Warning people about the health haTa_rds of promiscuous eating or drinking is sound advice...
...We are told that S & M "is rising from the underground--it's becoming street-level"--as tight black leather clothing with studs and spikes is hitting the boutiques...
...F i n a l l y , gonorrhea is also rampant in the homosexual community...
...Increasingly, traditionalist religious communities and the Gay Rights activists are seeing each other as social and political antagonists...
...With respect to AIDS, there exists a potential for disaster...
...The fatality rate appears to be 100 percent...
...So far there are over 4,000 confirmed'cases of AIDS in the U.S...
...The facts are beginning to bear out the contention of one leading British expert, writing in the British Journal of Venereal Diseases in 1982, that the common mouth-anal contact of active homosexuals carries "the almost inevitable risk of transfer of bowel pathogens...
...9 Enterprises T. John Jamieson DRESSED TO KILL: THE CONSERVATIVE EXTERIOR You can spot a conservative by the raiment...
...the difficulty of clinical diagnosis (they all have common symptoms...
...What do you do...
...of homosexual practice...
...It seems to me that the sartorial image occurred to Plato because he knew that, in a democracy, dress is "optional...
...For many of the infections afflicting AIDS victims there is no treatment...
...Warning people about the health hazards of promiscuous or unnatural sexual activity is not advice...
...AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the killer disease that has claimed 4600 victims--40 percent of whom are already dead--is but the tip of an immense iceberg...
...When it comes to health, declares the Medical Tribune, the gay life is "no bed of roses...
...It is moving from condemnation to legitimatiot~ and n e x t . . , to sponsorship...
...When George Will, in a 1977 Newsweek column, suggested that homosexuality was "an injury to healthy functioning," gay leaders John O'Leary and Bruce Voeller screamed "outrage" at this "unsupported and totally false statea fuller realization of certain fundamental values...
...Declares NAMBLA militant Charles Snively of Boston: "[We at NAMBLA] attack a presupposit i o n . . , that parents have a hereditary right to their children, that parents have a right to their children that we do not have...
...That the APA was confused and defensive should be no surprise...
...Gay people.., commonly decide to have sex for the sake of s e x . . . The prospective partners don't have to feign love or any other emotion...
...1 predict that satanism is about to make a big comeback: Consider the antinomian zeal with which "avowed" sodomites are rushing to get themselves ordained to the priesthood...
...Time magazine called the APA's action "an awkward compromise by a confused and defensive profession...
...But the presence in Gay Pride marches of NAMBLA--the North American Man/Boy Love Association, which lobbies for repeal of laws prohibiting sex with children--is hardly reassuring...
...assemblage of subcultures, each having its own richly symbolic dress code to establish its identity before the public...
...Since then the situation has deteriorated...
...the pharmaceutical industry is only about one drug ahead of these strains, and there is no guarantee it will remain so...
...Its essence is random, repeated, anonymous sex--runaway promiscuity...
...The Catholic Archdiocese sided with the Salvation Army...
...The facts demonstrate that promiscuous homosexual conduct is utterly destructive of human health...
...Still, one is reminded of the observation of the nineteenth-cen~ry historian J.A...
...If the AIDS agent is indeed a virus, a worrisome possibility is that changes in virulence will take place, now that the disease is in the amplification system of homosexual promiscuity...
...the ease of spread to the wider public...
...and talk of a vaccine should await c o n f i r m a t i o n of G a l l o ' s research...
...By the precise way in which they define themselves, they are killing themselves...
...and the USSR...
...Syphilis, an old disease that was in decline, is also making a comeback...
...Truly these were words from another age, an age when bourgeois cmformism might have 18 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1984...
...Without descending into clinical detail, some concept of the "gay life style" needs to be understood...
...The continuation of human life on this planet would then depend on the rapid development of an AIDS vaccine to protect those not yet infected...
...Clearly, homosexuals no more belong irl the food-handling business than they do in the blood banks...
...But if Gay Rights are written into federal law, not only will homosexuals in the service come out of the closet...
...Despite intense pressure to recognize homosexuality (and its model sex practices) as normal human behavior, a few in the medical profession refused to capitulate...
...It never was-notwithstanding the mendacious propaganda of gay activists to paint homosexuality as a natural and healthy alternative...
...Another study of homosexual men in Amsterdam showed evidence of previous infection in over 60 percent--and an annual attack rate of about 30 percent among the previously uninfected...
...Amebiasis: a disease of the colon caused by parasites...
...gays...
...A study a decade ago found that more than half the active gay males (Lesbians have more enduring relationships) engaged in group sex at least once a month...
...The movement demanded all manner of reform: That sex education courses in public schools taught by gays portray homosexuality as a valid, healthy life style...
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