Capitol Ideas/In the Castro
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS P^,, A --7--__—_------:.-- --r__.--, - ' "---.,,„ IN THE CASTRO by Tom Bethell "use condoms," say the ads on office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns It was only in May that the...
...T here could be no better demon- 1 stration of political power and social acceptability of homosexuals than the recent tribute to Dr...
...In many cases, state and federal funds supplement this effort...
...Whips were everywhere," acAgain there was a circled picture of the human immunodeficiency virus cording to the Bay Area Reporter...
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...CAPITOL IDEAS P^,, A --7--__—_------:.-- --r__.--, - ' "---.,,„ IN THE CASTRO by Tom Bethell "use condoms," say the ads on office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns It was only in May that the last gay printable, and numerous display ads of San Francisco's buses...
...cases of AIDS were diagnosed, ninety- two owners plan to retire, believing that fortunately large number of obituThe Hemlock Society advertises for five of them homosexual men, six of they succeeded in providing "a service aries," the paper explains, "Bay Area members on the bulletin board of the whom also used intravenous drugs...
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...No Date City LibertyTree Network c),<0° caState 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1987 Tom was a caring person, and from the mannish Mary Dunlap, Esq., lead counsel, San Francisco Arts and Athletics, who spoke bitterly of "this disease which picks on our leadership and our fellowship in the most insidious way," and we heard from the widow, Sara Lewinstein, herself an athlete who had met Waddell at the first Gay Games...
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...He said the Pope should "stay home and send us a videotape...
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...Finally we heard from the Associate Director of Health, Dr...
...A the Pope, with a diagonal bar across his that causes AIDS...
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...Block and his friend Gilbert Baker (Sister Chanel 2001) applied for and received a license to do business as the "Official San Francisco 1987 Papal Welcoming Committee," complying with the law by publishing their intentions in a local paper...
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...Women in drag sitting in the rotunda of City Hall," she said as we left, "memorializing a man who died of a venereal disease, and nobody seemed to think it was odd...
...I attended this ceremony with a friend...
...Ladies and gentlemen, the Lesbian and Gay Chorus," someone said, and they came solemnly down the stairs in white shirts and black bow ties while the piano played "Hand in Hand...
...The Pope is in for a big surprise when he gets here," said Father John...
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...And please, no cle (witches, as they used to be called) the disease from a blood transfusion in Gay activist Randy Stallings said poetry...
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...That man is coming here in September," said Wahl, 53, who was attorney to slain San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk (shot in 1978 by Dan White, a "closeted gay man," accord-ing to Wahl...
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...That's not what I'm going to do," Wahl went on...
...You've never had a sex John Paul II releasing a dove from the About 3500 AIDS cases have been late 1970s there were thirty such call this hot, nasty and sexy...
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...Waddell recently died of AIDS, aged 49, leaving a wife and a three-year-old daughter...
...Remarkably enough, this tribute was organized by the city's Department of Public Health, for which Waddell worked as chief physician until he came down with AIDS himself...
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...Tom Waddell, the founder of the Gay Olympics (now called the Gay Games, in the wake of a Supreme Court copyright ruling...
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...We heard from Health Commissioner James Foster, who said that Waddell wanted to heal the diseases not only of the body but also of the soul—diseases that "divide gay from straight, men from women . . . walls of oppression . . . we in public health are grateful...
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...He told me that he gave up alcohol and drugs in September, 1985, quit the Sisters, and since then has started to go to church (Catholic) "seriously...
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...But the gay bars like they were beginning to get lax in archaic religious assumptions and as- test, and there was even a case in Los on Castro Street still seem to have a their duties...
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...cisco with AIDS can't be fired for that Li trict, gay mecca, is much more a pope-mobile pulled by the Sisters of A news clipping pinned to the board reason, nor can they be denied or subdued than it was at its heyday in the Perpetual Indulgence...
...However, existing clean coal technologies—stack gas scrubbing and coal washing —are limited in their ability to meet future clean air requirements, because of cost and applicability...
...Back in the Castro district, I spoke to a Catholic priest who was comingout of Most Holy Redeemer Church and who visits dying AIDS patients in the Coming Home Hospice opposite the church...
...She and Tom had lived apart...
...attorney John Wahl, who has been mobilizing a coalition "to express the united outrage of Californians at the Pope's public condemnation of gay liberation, women's right to choice, and liberation theology in Third World countries...
...Commercial demonstration projects are moving at an exciting pace...
Vol. 20 • September 1987 • No. 9
