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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (31209)	2/19/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Tommy Moore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Sooo what your saying is, if it doesn't fit your mind set it isn't true. How can a lifestyle that more frequently than not results in emotional and physical damage to the participants be recommended to the majority as a norm. Excuse the interruption I'll be on my way now.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (31209)	2/19/1999 11:38:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Respond to of 108807

Hairdresser or an ostrich Facts that differ from our beliefs are not to be believed.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (31209)	2/21/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Do you remember some years back an ace reporter for the Washington Post did a human-interest story on a young child in the projects. It was a heart-wrenching documentary on the lot of the poor inner-city black population. The series won the Pulitzer for its gritty incisive nature. The upshot was all the attention led to the articles being exposed as a fraud. The child was without a real-life counterpart, and the interviews were fabricated. What am I saying? Just 'cause it's in the front section of a national caliber newspaper doesn't make it so. I'm not suggesting that this sort of libel is the norm, but there is a continuum between the straight story and this sort of piranha reporting. Y'all make the call.>> I do remember several inaccurate major news stories by American journalists, Lather. I am not sure this is one of them. As I pointed out to E, if you reread the article, it is filled with statistics from usually reliable sources, and also makes it clear that the really bizarre practices are way off in the fringe of gay life. I have not heard or read any negative responses to this article, and I do live in San Francisco. I can tell you that Tinky Winky got a huge response, but no one I know has mentioned this one. Do you remember that post I wrote about gay "survivors' guilt"? I think that one aspect of that is that gay men are just tired of practicing safe sex all the time, something heterosexuals are also really bad about doing. That theory fits in nicely with the information in the article. And I can tell you from just being exposed to the gay community, that rampant promiscuity still is a factor. I have watched friends die of AIDS not because they were themselves promiscuous, but because their partners in a "committed" relationship couldn't keep it together. So this is a very serious problem in the gay community here. It was a very long time ago, but I believe the local papers also covered the issue of whether the public bath houses, where gay men could have sex with multiple partners anonymously, should stay open once it was realized that AIDS was spread this way. These are controversial issues, and deserve serious coverage in the press. Isn't the press supposed to be objective, even in areas with lots of homosexuals? These debates occur within the gay community, as well, so why shouldn't there be journalists writing about them?