Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DuPont said ethical questions surrounding abortion, gay rights and AIDS belonged at the state and local level and not in Washington. "Roe vs. Wade should be overturned," he said. "Abortion should be sent back to the state level. That is where murder is decided, and abortion is sort of the same thing...
...thought that the commission would get so far so fast. Both the chairman and vice chairman of the original presidential panel resigned last October amid reports of internal bickering. The same month, in the largest gay-rights demonstration ever, 200,000 marchers in Washington protested the Administration's handling of the epidemic. Even so, the 13-member commission, now led by retired Admiral James Watkins, produced a 25-page report that decried the lack of resources and information needed to combat AIDS . "It is the firm belief of the commission that there is much to be done," the document concluded...
ANOTHER very natural human activity is going to the bathroom. Unhappily, ours is a culture which encourages people to shut the door when they defecate, as though it were an unspeakable act. How sad. Until all people--Black, white, gay, straight, fat or thin--realize that they all shit alike, as co-equal members of the human race, how can we truly be free...
Efforts already underway to stymie the sexual spread of AIDS may have rendered moot the need to widely disseminate condoms. Educational programs in the gay community and elsehwere are turning AIDS into less and less of a sexual disease. A recalculation of New York City's AIDS statistics in October found that contrary to prior (and popular) belief, the disease is killing far more I.V. drug users than homosexual and bisexual...
Previously it had been thought that 55 percent of the city's AIDS dead were homosexual men and 31 percent I.V. drug users. Under the revised statistics, it turns out that 53 percent were I.V. drug users and only 38 percent of gay men. Only in San Francisco do the majority of AIDS cases involve homosexuals. If they don't know by now what they have to do to stay alive, nothing anyone can say is likely to help. And condoms aren't of much use on dirty needles...