Capitol Ideas/Trojan Army
Bethell, Tom
Trojan Army by Tom Bethell 4 4 ueer Army will be conducting a fabulously fun condom giveaway at the University of San Francisco, which has a policy of prohibiting condoms on campus," said a campy...
...and they all breathed out...
...Some were vociferously admiring the students...
...The gays were giggling and hooting, calling out "National Condom Day...
...Elias Farajaje-Jones, announced that "heterosexualism" was killing us and that he had earlier been arrested at an ACT-UP demonstration...
...Protest time...
...Over seven years she had served as a "primary care-taker" for nine dying friends: "I've been there during their spinal taps...
...Thank you, Queer Army...
...Why does June Allyson do all those Depend Diaper commercials...
...He survived for a year, though, "and one week before he died he walked six blocks to Haight Street for coffee...
...Marge, an alumnus of USF who runs a women's clinic (a "very safe space"), wished us a happy Bisexual Awareness Day and said, "Hullo and love you to all my bisexual friends and lovers...
...In the event, the university was unable to keep the condoms out, because the Queer Army had its own collaborators on campus, who could not be prevented from distributing them...
...The condoms looked like Mardi Gras doubloons, encased in golden tinfoil...
...to give them to my friends, neighbors and strangers...
...Catholic students are engaging in unsafe sex...
...Because they're faggots and they don't want to admit it," he said...
...Blow out all that negative energy from the administration . " and they all breathed out...
...Victory Number One...
...The money had been raised at a Castro Street Halloween party, he said...
...A small contingent of the Sisters, dressed in religious habits, white-chalk clown-face, army boots and military webbing, were clustered under umbrellas Tom Bethell is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent and a media fellow at the Hoover Institution...
...She herself became a "substance abuser," but her message was: "I will never have to suffer through these physical horrors...
...one sign read...
...I'm entitled to bring any guest I want into any student building," she said, producing her ID...
...They wanted to take up their blasphemous crosses, taunt the USF administrators and, perchance, seduce a student or two...
...I've cleaned up their messy beds and puke...
...According to an undergraduate junior, two of the four hall (dorm) directors are openly homosexual...
...No doubt local gay groups get to dispense some of the money, with foundations acting as intermediaries...
...I tell you, we'll see them in the gay bars when they graduate," said Mother Butch...
...responded the Joker chorus...
...Twin Peaks, a couple of miles to the south, was shrouded in misty rain clouds...
...They stood in a solemn witches' circle, held hands and adopted a prayerful mien...
...Jimmy, head of radiology at NIH, "had the access and means for euthanasia," but was unsuccessful "and eventually he developed sores in his legs so severe that bones in his legs were visible...
...The Centers for Disease Control states 72 percent of high school seniors are having sex...
...Stop Crucifying Queers...
...Ignatius Church (the largest church on any U.S...
...T he rag-tag army of homosexual activists and camp followers returned to the parking lot next to Fulton Street...
...USF is a Catholic University...
...The university had issued a "position statement," its position being the familiar defensive crouch of liberal Catholicism confronted by liberal secularism: "We ask that you respect our religious principles and values as we try to collaborate with the many agencies and ministries involved in care-giving, research and education evoked by the AIDS epidemic...
...Breath in the good energy . . . " and they all breathed in...
...Yay, but more muted this time...
...A third-year law student tried to bring the entire Queer Army platoon into the student cafeteria, but was blocked by police...
...Repeat after me: I shall forever promise . . . to use this holy condom .. . uh, how's the rest of it go...
...I found myself in an unsanitary abortion hotel in Harlem, New York...
...Blasphemy was masquerading as hilarity...
...As a condom-using "minority," she would be able to "live and enjoy a long, wonderful, risk-free life...
...Education alone can dispel the myths and fears associated with AIDS and HIV infection...
...You may enter but not the others," she was told...
...which is odd in a way, because such people rarely get pregnant...
...The president, John P. Shlegel, S.J., was quoted as saying: "Education willpromote understanding of the human as well as medical dimensions of this epidemic...
...The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (local homosexuals who dress up as nuns) would be on hand for the occasion...
...Women were herded into cubicles, given general anesthesia, and scraped with sharp knives...
...I have a freedom of association that this school supposedly upholds, and I believe that I'm allowed to associate with whomever I want and bring those people on campus...
...It just takes courage...
...Hi...
...campus), a visiting professor from Howard University, Dr...
...Finally she railed against the suffering of women, mentioning: Caesarian sections, damaged uteruses, chlamydia, internal bleeding, and pelvic disease...
...T he University of San Francisco, founded in the mid-nineteenth century, was long supported by middle- and working-class Catholics, at a time when the Jesuit order was more resolute than it is today...
...My abortion was the summer before Roe v. Wade," she said, her voice ringing out...
...After a few moments' silence, they broke up...
...said Sister Vicious...
...Is anyone here from the Milk Club, or from Outrage, or from ACT-UP San Francisco...
...Hey, cutie, let's you and I go out together...
...Doctors wanted to amputate his legs...
...struck an Orwellian note...
...Okay, hold them in the air...
...Yay...
...Nonetheless, sex does pose health hazards, about which we need frequent reminders...
...The day before, at St...
...I use condoms...
...he called out...
...Pro-abortion extremists, who show up with bullhorns and shout insults at those blocking abortion clinics, are usually either lesbian or homosexual...
...The Monterey pines were dripping...
...Where was the fabulous fun...
...It's interesting that revolutionaries don't hesitate to invoke conservative legal doctrine when it suits their purpose...
...But one couldn't help wondering about the vast tax revenues now pouring into AIDS causes...
...I asked Mother Butch how he knew they would be seeing the students in the gay bars...
...We're going to consecrate them before we hand them out...
...They are obliged to perpetuate themselves by re-education rather than reproduction, and it is the whole of society they seek to re-educate...
...The whole Queer Army maneuver was beginning to look more and more like a recruitment drive...
...The rain kept coming and the chorus was getting restless beneath the umbrellas, shuffling about in their army surplus and gaudy headgear...
...It doesn't take a lot of people to change things," said Sister Gladass, "or to do some good work...
...Across the street the security guards were peering over at 20 The American Spectator April 1992 our odd little group...
...Students were milling about and coming out of classes...
...Condoms Equal Life...
...And who do you think pays for all these condoms now flooding educational institutions in the guise of safe-sex promotion...
...The rate is presumably higher among young adults . . . To 'Just Say No' is not enough...
...But first we heard from Sister Mysteria, a real female (unusual for the Sisters to allow such equal opportunity...
...Trojan Army by Tom Bethell 4 4 ueer Army will be conducting a fabulously fun condom giveaway at the University of San Francisco, which has a policy of prohibiting condoms on campus," said a campy recorded voice on the Queer Army Hot Line...
...demonstrating condoms on bananas and shaking their signs lofted on makeshift crosses...
...With them were a couple of dozen supporters, hooting and joking and carrying signs, one reading "A Few Good Queers...
...But Sister Mysteria wasn't through yet...
...Come join the fun, and the assault, at 12 noon on Friday...
...Success...
...All right, girls, go get 'em...
...Yay...
...Sister Vicious, wearing khaki tights, crimson shoes, an army officer's jacket, and a peaked military cap, stood up in a parked pickup truck and announced that the Sisters would be handing out checks totalling $5,000 to AIDS "outreach" groups...
...A campus guard from Public Safety told the Queer Army: "You're welcome to come on the campus but no condoms may be distributed...
...Blow out all that negative energy from the police...
...Queer Army's press release said: "The Roman Catholic Church opposes the use of condoms and the concept of safer sex...
...one shouted...
...Let's close our, eyes for a few minutes," said Sister Vicious...
...The clown-faced homosisters were playing the role of jokers, about to prance across the Catholic campus like some doomed chorus in a medieval morality play, distributing their naughty little goodies to the innocents...
...also the Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue—the radical pro-abortion crowd...
...You can distribute literature or whatever the case may be . . ." The concealed purpose of these safe-sex condom-giveaways is to establish that sex itself (as opposed to sexual harassment, which is serious business) is trivial and inconsequential, and certainlynot worth moralizing about—hence the "fabulously fun" reference...
...Gold coated are the strongest...
...Grappling with her soaking script and her umbrella, she announced she had slashed her way "through the jungle of other people's dogmas and survived...
...Her bladder's shot...
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...Haw, haw, haw, went the nonplussed sisters...
...Silence from the jokers now...
...How are you...
...T he rain was slanting down...
...at the corner of Fulton and Cole, across the street from the campus...
...Okay, I'd like you all to pull out your condoms," said Sister Vicious...
...There's a good looking one...
...The former nun who heads Campus Ministry welcomed members of the Trojan army...
...H0000...
...I'd like us all to think with joy about the sacrifices in lives that were made for us, so that now we have power to do this today—to save maybe only one life...
Vol. 25 • April 1992 • No. 4
