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Mar '02
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Salem Redux
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Massachusetts is known for its witch hunts and sex panics, and little seems to have changed since the 17th century, except that pious pigeons have come home to roost: now it's
the religious who are targeted and the secular critics who are the accusers. |
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Feb '02
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Pan Am AIDS
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"So far from God, and so close to the United States," goes the old saw about Mexico. Central America is a little further from the US, but judging by the thousands of people with AIDS who died needlessly last year for lack of medicine, no closer to God. |
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Feb '02
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Matters of Taste
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Perhaps you're a scrawny ectomorph, prone to have sand kicked in your face by beach bullies. Or maybe you're a dwarf who's a little potted in the belly. Perhaps you are big of nose, gray of hair, crossed of eye, or bucked of tooth. If as a result you feel that in the contest of sexual desirability, you're doomed to
lose, then new scientific findings show you could be an even bigger winner than those conventionally deemed beautiful. |
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Jan '02
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Who's a Terrorist?
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Thank goodness AIDS hit 20 years
before passage of the USA Patriot
Act-- the centerpiece of the Bush
administration's domestic "War on
Terrorism." Today, ACT UP is
remembered as the group whose
media-savvy,
in-your-face tactics forced America's
powers-that-be to address an
epidemic whose victims they were
content to let die. But if any future
ACT UP blocks traffic, invades
federal offices, and in the hurly-burly
of civil disobedience
accumulates raps for vandalism or
resisting arrest, US authorities could
pin on it a Scarlet T.
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Dec '01
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The Politics of Anthrax v. AIDS
By: S. Predrag
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Trade negotiators from 142 countries, meeting in Doha, the capital of the Gulf state of Qatar (November 9 to 14), have finally reached a broad agreement on easing patent laws to allow developing countries easier access to
drugs in health emergency situations. |
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Nov '01
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Calling God On 911
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Right-wing Christians-- some with their hands on the reigns of American power-- see September 11th's attacks as a sign from above. Sodomites, watch out. |
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Oct '01
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The Coming Police State
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The US is at war. Truth is war's first
casualty, and civil liberties--
ultimately society's means to getting
at truth-- are the second. |
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Sep '01
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Diary Crimes
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The state can't read its citizens' thoughts-- not yet, anyway. Its hands thus tied, the closest the government can come to prosecuting thought-crime is throwing people in prison for what they've written in their diaries. That's
what Ohio has done to Brian Dalton. |
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Sep '01
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Firestorm
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Emergency exits at the straight Mexico City nightclub Lobohombo were locked when the electrical fire broke in October 2000, killing 21 people. For some politicians and real-estate interests, tragedy has transformed
into opportunity. |
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Aug '01
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Hypocrisy at the UN
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The first UN General Assembly session on AIDS-- some 22 million deaths into the epidemic-- took place in New York at the end of June. UNAIDS, the UN's epidemic central, aptly invited a
gay human rights group to attend. The invitation launched an international cat-fight that offers an Alice-in-Wonderland view-through-the-looking-glass at the global politics of sexual identity
and human rights-- wherein nothing is as it seems. |
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Jul '01
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Choosy Gays, Selected Straights
By: Jim D'Entremont
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In New Orleans on May 9, near the close of the five-day annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer of Columbia University released the results of a study purporting to show that
"highly motivated" gay people can turn straight. |
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Jul '01
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Warning Signs
By: Gode Davis
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In Corpus Christi, Texas, state district judge J. Manuel Banales ordered 21 men convicted of breaking various Texas sex laws to post signs to this effect at their homes, with portable signs and bumper stickers for their cars,
warning the public of their crimes. |
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Jun '01
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Brit Sex Shocker!
By: Roger Moody
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If Britain's top cops are to be believed, the country is currently awash with "child porn." But if that's true, then it's largely the metropolitan police who put it there. |
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Jun '01
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Battles Ahead
By: S. Predrag
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African court victory against Western pharmaceutical giants doesn't mean meds for the poor. Less than a month after a landmark victory against several international drug giants in the Pretoria High Court, AIDS campaigners are warning the South African government and global pharmaceutical companies that the
battle for affordable AIDS medicine is far from over. |
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May '01
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Decent Art
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican mayor whose reign has been dedicated to the Disneyfication of New York City, announced on April 4 the assembly of an advisory board intended to ensure that "decency" prevails at
city-funded cultural facilities. To create the panel, Giuliani revived New York's recently inactive Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission and redirected its mission toward censorship. |
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May '01
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Kill the Queers
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Arkansas won't execute 39-year-old Davis Carpenter and his lover Joshua Brown, 22, but no thanks to lesbian and gay groups, which issued no call to spare their lives as they went to trial, starting last month, for capital
murder. On April 18th, Carpenter accepted a plea bargain of life without parole to avoid possible execution. His lover was sentenced to the same for rape and murder the week before. |
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Apr '01
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Beer Blast
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In a $100 million mega-deal, the Human Rights Campaign Fund and Liberation Publications-- the US gay media conglomerate-- announced April 1st that they've sold to Coors Brewing Co. rights to re-name the gay and lesbian movement as "The Coors Movement,"
and to replace the rainbow flag with a monochrome banner displaying the beer brand's trademark creamy off-white. Bisexuality is to be known as "Coors Lite." |
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Mar '01
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The Democrats' New Clothes
By: Bruce Mirken
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Everyone knows the Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Em
peror's New Clothes." Unfortunately, many seem to have forgotten how it ends-- especially the Democrats who are currently reenacting
it. |
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Feb '01
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Burning the Library
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In Berlin in 1933, a Nazi mob dealt the archive of homosexual rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld a speedy death by bonfire. The Nazis said they wanted to protect children and public morals. Last year, Dutch police seized the core of the Brongersma Foundation archive for the same reasons-- but instead of burning the documents, Dutch authorities are poring over them, compiling a list of people around the world to shame, arrest, and prosecute. |
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Jan '01
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Charges Denied
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Attorneys for 61-year-old Dr. Aubrey Levin are suing the South African newspaper, the
Mail & Guardian, and "Q" for publishing stories about his alleged human rights violations against lesbians and gays during the
apartheid era. |
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Jan '01
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Who Dunnit
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The former Jean Villaneuva, who became Steve Case's second wife four years ago, graduated from Westminster Academy in 1978. Two years later, she moved to Washington, D.C. as a Republican Congressional aide.
Her conservative bias is inherent in some of the policies she created as AOL's chief communications officer. |
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Dec '00
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Cum-Filled Sexy Young Boys Right Here!
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Can a roast turkey be "child pornography"? US federal courts can't decide. Within the past year, the sweeping Child Pornography Protection Act (CPPA) of 1996 has been struck down by one federal appeals court and upheld by another. |
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Dec '00
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Immunity from Promiscuity
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Q. What do fondness for orgies, testicle size, and number of white blood cells have in common?
A. They all correlate. |
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Nov '00
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Drowned in Piss
By: Jim D'Entremont
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After his September 19th visit to Mr. P's, a gay bar in Washington, D.C., John Paulk, 37, was suspended
as board chairman of Exodus International, the worldwide network of ex-gay ministries. |
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Nov '00
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Rabid Police Dog
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When a year ago, then-London, Ontario, police chief Julian Fantino was designated, under mysterious
circumstances, Toronto's next head cop, the city's gay community thought they were having a bad dream. |
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Oct '00
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Tuskegee II?
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In its notorious Tuskegee
experiment, US health authorities
from 1932 to 1972 let hundreds of
black men with syphilis suffer and
die without treatment just to see
syphilis's cruel effects run rampant.
Did the ghost of
Tuskegee return to haunt New York
City? |
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Sep '00
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Who is Lieberman?
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Because Lieberman is pro-choice, pro-gun control, supportive of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and opposed to barring gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military, Lieberman's candidacy has
been uncritically embraced by many left-leaning voters. |
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Sep '00
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Perverts on the Doorstep
By: Jim D'Entremont
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When the nude body of eight-year-old Sarah Payne was found in a West Sussex field in July, a wave of media-stoked revulsion swept across Great Britain. |
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Aug '00
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Gay Shame
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"Some gay people deserve pride. Others deserve prison." That could be the slogan of the Empire State Pride Agenda, which-- for those who don't get the name's discreet subtext-- is New York's largest lesbian and gay
lobbying group. |
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Aug '00
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Bringing in the Mail
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Of course you meant to, but did you ever actually dash off that e-mail to thank Gary for the lovely bondage
cum piss-play party he threw last month at his summer digs in Provinctown? You may not remember whether you sent the message, but chances are the FBI does. |
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