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VOL. 13 NO. 3 DECEMBER 1,1995
Renée LaChancc
COPY EDITORS
Kelly M. Bryan
Jeff Boswell
FEATURE
REPORTERS
Lifting the veil
on love
Inga Sorensen
Bob Roehr
Rex Wockner
CALENDAR EDITOR
A new book on families is a
photo album to cherish
Kristine Chatwood
(p- 21)
PHOTOGRAPHER
Linda Kliewer
DEPARTMENTS
OFFICE MANAGER
World news
Teri Ventura
China begins to educate its
youth about HIV/A1DS
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
(P- 5)
Meg Grace
National news
ADVERTISING REPS
United Airlines grounds HIV
positive pilots; queers plan to
“ welcome ” the Olympic torch
E. Ann Hinds
C. Jay Wilson Jr.
(pp. 6-13)
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
E. Ann Hinds
Local news
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Is RTF ignoring transsexual
rights?; Corvallis group
After 8 has sign trouble
Rupert Kinnard
“Bids, Banter and Basic Rights, ” a Nov. 18 benefit auction fo r Basic Rights Oregon, raised nearly $60,000
in bids for items such as weekend getaways, dinners, unique gifts, art and professional services.
FORMATTER
Rachel Ebora
(pp. 14-19)
TYPESETTER
CO LU M NS
Jann Gilbert
guest editorial
DISTRIBUTION
Ambling Bear
CONTRIBUTORS
Poet Essex Hemphill dies
(p. 29)
Peach buzz
Chns Brady
Kristine Chatwood
Cathay Che
Stephen Chrysler
Rachel Ebora
Kevin Isom
Al Kielwasser
Lee Lynch
Richard Shumate
Floreid Walker
C. Jay Wilson Jr.
A bitter milestone
Dec. I, 1995—World AIDS Day—finds a global village reeling from tragic
losses and the grim realization that there are more to come
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half million people in the United States have been
diagnosed with AIDS— not HIV infection, but full
blown AIDS. The Centers for Disease Control an
nounced that bitter milestone in a routine, and largely
ignored. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
issued the day after Thanksgiving.
More than 60 percent of people infected have already died.
While the rate of increase among heterosexuals and injection
drug users continues to rise most rapidly, the single largest
group o f those infected continues to be men who have sex with
men.
Philip Rosenberg, a researcher with the National Institutes
of Health’s National Cancer Institute, noted that one in every 92
young people in this country (ages 27 to 39) may be infected
with HIV. He worried that "the threat of AIDS may become a
rite of passage" for young people. The report was published in
the journal Science.
Cornelius Baker of the National Association of People with
AIDS put the data in chilling perspective, "I don’t think most
young people really understand the potential for infection. We
have to make it very clear to them: If you contract HIV in your
20s, you are likely to die before 40.”
Thomas J. Coates, director of the Center for AIDS Preven
tion Studies at the University of California San Francisco,
worries that “unless action is taken quickly, we will lose a new
generation o f gay men."
He cited a recent study in San Francisco of gay men aged 17
to 22 that found a 9.4 percent rate of infection. That number
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soared to 21.2 percent among African American participants
studied.
“It is now clear that the AIDS epidemic never went away in
the gay male population,” warns Gabriel Rotello, New York
activist and columnist. ‘Transmission is continuing at levels
that guarantee what is called a saturation point, that virtually all
men who can be infected will be infected.”
He says the gay community “put all of its eggs in the basket
of the condom code" for safer sex, but he believes that approach
is flawed because of less than 100 percent compliance. Rotello
feels the refusal of the community to deal with issues of
multiple partners, anal sex and unprotected oral sex is respon
sible for "continuation of this catastrophe."
Ralph Bolton, a researcher at Pomona College, cites data
comparing men who go to bathhouses with those who do not.
The patrons “engage in less risky sex, are more knowledgeable
about AIDS, and have reduced their risky behavior to a greater
extent than men who do not go to bathhouses.”
Bolton places the blame for continued high rates of infec
tion at the feet of "failed strategies that emphasized monogamy
and bedroom sex over the simple message: Use a condom every
time, everywhere, and with every partner.”
While activists and scientists argue over where the blame
for the continued high rates of infection should fall, the trans
mission of infection continues because people do not heed that
message: Use a condom every time, everywhere, and with
every partner. It’s a matter of life-or-death importance.
Columnist Kevin Isom plays
the name game
(p. 36)
Amazon trail
Activists join in an effort to
save Sugarloaf from the saws
(p. 37)
Finance
Act now to save that ’95 income
(p. 38)
ARTS
Theater
Christmas gay L.A. style
(P- 31)
Music
Corigliano 's first symphony
remembers lost friends
(P- 32)
Tongue in groove
The Bleached One does
ballads like a virgin
(p. 33)
Cinema
When Night Is Falling is
hot and cold
(p. 34)
Media
Seventeen gives fair advice
(P- 35)