Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question often phrased, "Will the AIDS virus spread to the 'general population'?" is really a poorly stated mix of two other questions. First, what are the characteristics of a population that can sustain infection with the AIDS virus? And second, who--besides gay men and intravenous drug users--shares these characteristics...
...birth-control device (as they have been on cable); and the ads must be in good taste. Tastes vary. The LifeStyles ad that will air on the Midwest stations, for example, is quite direct. "Because of AIDS, I'm afraid," states a young woman. "AIDS isn't just a gay disease. It's everybody's disease. And everybody who gets it dies. The Surgeon General says proper use of condoms can reduce your risk . . . I'll do a lot for love. But I'm not ready to die for it." In contrast, the Trojan commercials accepted by KRON...
Richard Dunne, executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis in Manhattan, takes issue with Caplan. "I don't think researchers understand at a feeling level the predicament of a dying person who hears of something promising," he says. "Human beings have a right to make their own choices...
...WHEN Gay W. Seidman '78 won election to the 30-member Board of Overseers last spring, she prevailed over a recalcitrant administration and initiated gradual but perceptible reforms in the governing body...
...have purposely clogged his lines. First an Atlantan who objects to TV ministers programmed his computer to dial Falwell every 30 seconds. Before Southern Bell stepped in, the stunt cost Falwell $750,000. Then it was homosexual periodicals egging on readers to act against Falwell, an enemy of gay liberation. Late last year the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ran a column advocating "telephone terrorism" and listed the 800 numbers of several targets, including Falwell...