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Chicago collegiate games
include gay baiting
Answering personal ads has led to
harassment of Chicago-area gays. An ad,
which ran in the Chicago Reader, a free
weekly, read “ Attractive GWM, 24, shy,
and U of C Hyde Parker, wishes to meet
discreet students and locals only for close
friendship.” Men who responded to the ad
initially received no further communica
tion. However, weeks later, the
respondents were the subjects of a well-
coordinated hate letter campaign directed
at employers, co-workers, and family
members.
The phony personal ad was apparently
placed by a group called the Great White
Brotherhood of the Iron Fist, who claimed
in a letter to the Chicago Tribune that they
would “ be the complete ruination of
homosexuality.” Included in the packet
received by associates of the gay men was
a photocopy of the original letter written in
response to the personal ad, and a letter
written on Great White Brotherhood let
terhead threatening the reader to “ AVOID
THIS HOMOSEXUAL AT ALL COST. ”
At least Fifteen respondents were vic
tims of the phony ads.
Organized anti-gay violence again sur
faced in Chicago shortly after the ad inci
dent. Two men entered tf^e offices of the
Windy City Times, a Chicago gay news
weekly, and attacked those present. Three
staff members were injured.
Anti-gay incidents have been increasing
at the University of Chicago and observers
believe that right-wing groups on campus
are behind all the activities, according to
the Advocate, and Gay Chicago magazine.
Priscilla Martin opens mouth,
receives suit
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A local man employed at a Portland
abortion clinic has Filed a $250,000 defama
tion suit against an anti-abortion protestor
who allegedly accused him of having
AIDS. In his suit, Tim Shuck, who is em
ployed by Lovejoy Surgicenter, contends
that the statements made by Priscilla
Martin were false and caused him severe
emotional distress. Martin, a veteran of
anti-abortion and anti-gay protests, told
the Oregonian that it was inappropriate for
Shuck to be working at a medical facility.
Let there be testing in our time
The Peace Corps has announced a new
testing policy that requires applicants to be
screened for HIV antibodies. Applicants
who do not supply a negative test result
will be disqualified from placement. Ac
cording to the internal memorandum, vol
unteers already overseas will not be re
quired to take the test unless they show
signs of AIDS-related diseases.
The memorandum says that health con
cerns for volunteers are an important
reason for implementing testing, but
“ political consequences” are another.
“ The health of our in-country hosts is a
crucial consideration and it is important, in
terms of the credibility of our programs,
that host country governments know that
we have done everything we can [to curtail
the spread of AIDS)."
A Peace Corps spokesman stated. “ The
Peace Corps is a well-meaning organiza
tion. like a family.” according to the
Washington Blade.
Love sans condom = assault
Individual health insurance
policy and HIV testing
The AIDS/HIV Policy Committee,
which proposes Oregon state policy
regarding AIDS, last month accepted the
recommendations of its insurance sub
committee regarding health insurance risk
pools and individual health insurance
policies. The subcommittee recommended
that the legislature enact Senate Bill 583,
which would establish a risk pool to pro
vide coverage for those unable to obtain
insurance in a conventional manner. With
the risk pool in place, the committee then
recommends that insurance underwriters
be allowed to require HIV antibody tests as
a condition of application for individual
coverage, and inquire about positive test
results in the past.
These recommendations affect only
health policies of individuals; insurance
companies are not allowed to require anti
body tests in most group insurance policies.
Essentially, the risk pool would offer
coverage, at rates from 130% to 150%
above normal health insurance rates, to
those individuals that the testing program
would winnow out of conventional cover
age. However, the committee recom
mended to allow testing only if the risk
pool is enacted. If the legislature does not
enact the risk pool (and several committee
members felt that the bill’s chances were
slim) then the full committee will again
address the question of testing as a pre
condition of insurability.
Fundraiser beats activist in
San Francisco
Harry Britt, San Francisco Supervisor,
was defeated last month by Democratic
Party fund-raiser Nancy Pelosi in the race
for the California 5th Congressional seat.
Britt had hoped to be the First open gay
elected to Congress.
Final returns showed Britt losing to
Pelosi by about 4,000 votes (3.8 percent of
the vote), a much smaller margin than
many predicted. Britt's supporters said
that his candidacy had united gay voters
and showed the gay voting block was a
force to be reckoned with.
However, from the outside, the sound
and the fury brought up by Britt's candi
dacy was more like gay tribal warfare,
than coalition politics. Pelosi prevailed by
simply remaining above the fray.
An Army private has been accused of
aggravated assault at Fort Huachuca,
Arizona, for reportedly having sexual rela
tions with two soldiers when he knew he
had tested positive to the AIDS virus.
Counsel for the solider claims that the
Army is attempting to characterize “ the
AIDS virus [as] the weapon in our
assault.” A Defense Deparrnent
spokesman said that the military had the
power to discipline soldiers who failed to
protect the health of other soldiers.
Neither of the soliders “ assaulted,” a
man and a woman, had developed anti
bodies to HIV, but the woman was
pregnant from the encounter.
In a related story, a New York man has
pled guilty to manslaughter after he was
forced to drop his “ heat of passion” de
fense in the slaying of a male sex partner.
The defendant initially claimed that he
killed his long-time friend in the “ heat of
passion” after the friend revealed he had
AIDS.
Evidence in the case revealed that the
defendant had sexual relations with his
girlfriend seven hours after the slaying,
and neither used a condom nor told the
girlfriend about her risk.
Entertainment, briefly
She Alway Said, Pablo, an “ intellectual
vaudeville” by Frank Galati, opened in
March at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.
With music by Virgil Thomson and Igor
Stravinsky, sets in the style of Pablo
Picasso, and text from the writings of
Gertrude Stein and Picasso, the show is
advertised as a fusion of painting, litera
ture, art, and biography. A new ballet by
Derek Deane, based on Oscar Wilde's
Picture of Dorian Gray, premiered in
Birmingham, England, in March.
Composer Philip Glass is collaborating
with novelist Doris Lessing on a new opera
based on her novel The Making of a Rep
resentative for Planet Eight. Playwright
Eric Bentley’s play Round2 opened in Los
Angeles. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s
La Ronde, Bentley set his play of romantic
interweaving in the 1970s within a circle of
ten gay men. Has anyone noticed, in the
title of Stephen Frears new movie about
Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears, that
‘ ‘ears’ ’ is an anagram of arse? ”
Here a rubber, there a rubber,
everywhere a rubber, rubber
A roll in the hay that results in a condom
in the hay may be dangerous to farm ani
mals, report animal welfare groups in Bri
tain. The resilience of latex. Fine for its
intended usage, poses a threat to cows and
pigs who may ingest used rubbers left in the
countryside, and then choke to death. A
British Veterinary Association spokesman
said, “ Cattle and pigs are very inquisitive
and will eat anything.” A fanner
observed, “ It really is time that some gui
dance on the disposal of these things was