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Compiled By Jack Nichols
His Authorized Biography
"Nice Time for an Outing"-Sydney Morning Herald, July 7 Don't Pee Around a Piranha Two Papua New Guinea fishermen have bled to death after having their penises bitten off by pirahna-like river fish…The fish, which are attracted by urine streams in the water, have struck terror among villagers along the Sepik River in northwestern PNG… Authorities believe the killer fish is an introduced member of the South American pacu family, and a relative of the piranha. Port Moresby-"Two die in fish dismemberment"-The Age newspaper, Australia, July 6 Where Have all the Condoms Gone?
Local health officials and AIDS service organizations have inexplicably
abandoned the strategy of placing large jars in bars stocked with latex
condoms, water-based lube and prevention information. These life-saving
materials are instead available under a hit-or-miss program, whereby paid
workers from local agencies personally hand out safe sex packets, on rotating
nights, in various local gay bars and clubs.
Wayne Turner-" Where have all the condoms gone?"-Washington Blade, July 6 www.washblade.com Focus on the Family Promotes Ornamental Masculinity He offered the parents, teachers, and school counselors in the audience a list of the warning signs of "pre-homosexuality," which, for boys, included having a sensitive temperament, being aesthetically inclined, and responding strongly to either well- or badly dressed women. Janelle Hallman, a daintily attired therapist, gave a parallel accounting of tomboy red flags, which included wearing army boots…What to do with a fashion-obsessed sissy boy? Nicolosi recommended corrective nudging toward macho recklessness. When an audience member worried that such an approach might stifle a budding artist or performer, the therapist responded that a boy wouldn't necessarily have to give up piano entirely; he could simply tickle the ivories a little less and toss the football a little more. Sharon Lerner-"Straightness 101"-The Village Voice, May 2-to May 8 But Sadly, Last Fall…
U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)-"Election Reform"-June 21 Guns & Marketing in a Voracious Display Culture The society that Williams and Malcolm X inhabited in the sixties could still be confronted because it still knew how to be offended. But how much would any pose, however hostile, however threatening, however mocking, protect against a voracious display culture capable of seizing upon any pose and marketing it? What security would a brandished weapon offer once an image industry recognized the sales potential of black-male hostility that could be retailed as a style to suburban white teens? The gun then became but another glittery object drawing media attention and Hollywood interest. What got you arrested on the street was glamorous on-screen. Susan Faludi-Chapter 9-"Man in a Can"-Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, page 499 July's Circuit Party Boy
Friday, July 27 - UR & PURE presents Boy George
Boy George is one of Europe's hottest club DJs and now he's coming to
the US to spin and Circuit will the place July 27. This hot night
featuring the live mixing of Boy George is presented by UR Chicago and
PURE.
Chicago's Circuit Nightclub Calendar-" Boy George a highlight of gay and lesbian nightclub mid-summer calendar"--July Press Release What Bush Saw in President Putin's Soul On Monday Vladimir Putin's prosecutors brought criminal charges against the director of a small television station that has been a last-ditch refuge for independent journalists driven out of the NTV network this year. On Tuesday, his police raided the offices of Echo of Moscow, an independent radio station that is the final remnant of the NTV empire not yet crushed or taken over by Mr. Putin's cronies. While this was going on, Mr. Putin himself was delivering another defiant and dissembling statement about Chechnya, declaring in front of French President Jacques Chirac that the persistent Chechen resistance to his brutal military campaign there was the work of "foreign mercenaries who have large quantities of heroin." In New York, meanwhile, Mr. Putin's ambassador was single-handedly blocking a revamping of U.N. sanctions against Iraq, thwarting the Bush administration's high-profile attempt to stop the rehabilitation of Saddam Hussein. The Washington Post, July 5-"A Glimpse of Mr. Putin's Soul" Fiji's Murdered Gay Heroes
Naomi Larkin-"Shadow of gay phobia over 'angel of light' "-- New Zealand Herald, July 7 Detroit's Cruisy Cops Activists say more than 500 people have been illegally ticketed since February by officers they allege are profiling gay men at Rouge Park, even when the men have done nothing wrong and have not responded to prostitution decoys…In at least a dozen cases, men were ticketed for "being an annoying person," Jeffrey Montgomery, Triangle's executive director, told the Detroit Free Press on Thursday. WDIV Channel 4-- Detroit- |
He isn't soft on the one big scandal in Gielgud's life: his arrest for soliciting in a Chelsea lavatory and, wanting anonymity, telling the beak he is Arthur Gielgud, self-employed clerk. He became headlines. "Well, John what a silly bugger you've been," Dame Sybil Thorndike tells him. Noël Coward writes in his diary: "Poor, silly, idiotic, foolish, careless John ... how could he have been so stupid and selfish?"…Neither does Morley let Alec Guinness off the hook. He outs him as bisexual. Arrested for a homosexual act in a public lavatory, he gave his name as Herbert Pocket and the press never latched on. So why out him now, because he is dead and can't retaliate? "Oh, no, to show how stupid John was and how clever Alec."
The right to vote is a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy; indeed, it is the very foundation upon which our democracy is built. But sadly, last fall, that cornerstone was chipped and badly broken when millions of Americans were either ignored, disregarded or shut out of the democratic process.
Murdered Red Cross director John Scott 
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