Word: gay
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...threat of quarantine would be likely to have a profoundly adverse effect on attempts to control spread of the epidemic. AIDS will not be contained if the threat of reprisal drives gay men underground. The best hope is through openness and education. Repression will be as ineffective with this disease as it was with cholera in the last century and with several sexually transmitted diseases in this...
Today, in the public imagination, it is the homosexuals who define West Hollywood, which last month celebrated its first anniversary as America's one and only "Gay City." The mayor and a majority of the city council members are homosexual, as are a third of the city's residents, opening West Hollywood to frequent jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue. Most recently the council took heat for voting to keep city hall open on Christmas while declining to meet on the evening of Halloween, which in West Hollywood is celebrated with outrageous costumes, street festivals and debauchery comparable...
...gay Camelot label, though, doesn't do justice to West Hollywood, whose charm and eccentricity extend far beyond matters of affectional preference. Says Severyn Ashkenazy, who owns a string of small, elegant hotels in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood: "At night, downtown Los Angeles is dead and Beverly Hills is boring. West Hollywood is the place for those who are interested in night life and in meeting different kinds of people, creative people." He adds, in the ultimate compliment for one educated and accented in Paris, "It's the Left Bank of Beverly Hills...
Jake Stevens, an Undergraduate Council member and former president of the Gay and Lesbian Student Association, planned to return to Nicaragua, where he traveled this past summer, to study the political interaction of an English-speaking Black minority and the revolutionary Sandinista government...
...Paul Cameron, The Crimson can't seem to print enough about the Conservative Club, with most of the coverage bad if not downright offensive. In the case of Dr. Cameron, whom we invited to participate in what we hoped would be a debate with a member of the Gay and Lesbian Students' Association, The Crimson has distorted Cameron's remarks over and over, with the distortions getting worse each time. The truth is that Cameron advocated only a quarantine of victims of AIDS, and explained that the various practices of male homosexuals, prostitutes, and intravenous drug abusers tend to transmit...