Word: gay
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...stemming the spread of AIDS. Educational campaigns directed at homosexuals, urging them to limit their number of sex partners and adopt "safe sex" practices, have already paid off. A study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley has shown, for example, that the rate of new AIDS infections among gay men in San Francisco fell from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about...
...first AIDS seemed an affliction of drug addicts and especially of homosexuals, a "gay disease." No longer. The numbers as yet are small, but AIDS is a growing threat to the heterosexual population. Straight men and women in some cases do not believe it, in some cases do not want to believe it. But barring the development of a vaccine, swingers of all persuasions may sooner or later be faced with the reality of a new era of sexual caution and restraint...
Some middle-class whites think AIDS only infects gays and poor minority- group members. "People believe that the higher the cover charge at a bar, the less likely they're going to run into AIDS," says Anna Gomez, 29, in South Miami's Parallel Bar. Says Playwright (Torch Song Trilogy) and Gay Activist Harvey Fierstein: "It's very hard for straight people to understand what the hell this is. The ugliness of the disease is that every stranger has it; everyone you like doesn't have...
...married men come in this bar," says Jason McCoy, 30, a bartender in an Atlanta gay bar. "They're part of the afternoon cocktail ; crowd. They come in, talk, fool around and then leave. I doubt many of their wives suspect anything at all." Dooley Worth, a leader of a Manhattan discussion group for women exposed to AIDS, says men do not like to admit their bisexuality: "If a relationship is really rotten," she advises the group, "change the assumption that there is another woman. It may be a man." Aurele Samuels, a researcher working with Dorothea Hays, a nursing...
...Minnesota, for example -- protect privacy by destroying the lists, but Colorado's health department is preserving its files on all contacted partners. "You can't do this stuff anonymously," explains Beth Dillon, manager of Colorado's AIDS-education , program. "If I could have contacted, traced and counseled the 150 gay men in Denver in 1981 who tested positive, we wouldn't have 20,000 infected in 1986." Yet critics counter that such actions may send AIDS victims underground, thus undercutting the effectiveness of programs that still rely on voluntary cooperation. Says Nan Hunter, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney...