Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scenes from contemporary Manhattan life: a leggy choreographer, who can swing the rent on her funky loft apartment only by sharing it with two gay male roommates, sprawls and stares, momentarily graceless in grief. One of them, who was also her collaborator, has died in a boating accident; the other, whose solace she craves, is not at home. Her boyfriend shows up, and she tries to send him away. Their sexual and romantic intimacy cannot begin to compare with the bond she felt toward the dead man who shared her work. She has never had -- is not sure...
...much of anyone being afraid of AIDS. It blows me away, because I'm terrified," says one member of the Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Alliance at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "But most homosexual males are worried," says the student, who requested anonymity...
...People have to start learning that they have to talk about sex, and make decisions before they do it instead of just falling into bed," says Tufts junior John E. Orcutt, co-coordinator of the university's Lesbian and Gay Community...
...think [the AIDS scare] has increased homophobia that people have because the majority of students see it as a gay disease," Orcutt says...
...African victim may have been Margrethe Rask, a Danish physician who fell ill in 1976 while working in a primitive village hospital in Zaire and died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1977. At about the time Rask succumbed, Shilts began interviewing physicians about the health implications of the gay sexual revolution. Often, in private, they noted the spread of various venereal and gastrointestinal diseases and worried about what would happen if a new disease appeared. Dr. Dan William of Manhattan warned, "The plethora of opportunities poses a public health ( problem that's growing with every new bath in town." That...