Gay Community: The Ultimate Battle
Facing Death, Gay Leader Strives to Make Life Count
For San Diego's gay community, he symbolizes respectability--an articulate medical doctor who has tapped the force of politics to give gays greater muscle in local decisions.For much of the rest of the public, he symbolizes the virtues of keeping a cool head in the midst of hysteria. As chairman of the San Diego Regional Task Force on AIDS, he has calmly tried to educate the public on the effects of the deadly disease.Now, however, Dr. A. Brad Truax stands for something...
Parade a sign of progress for gay community
GALVESTON — It may have only been a few cars and one float long, but to the island’s gay community, the first gay pride parade was a milestone. Cars in the parade blared dance music and dispensed beads as they wound through downtown. The float was decorated with rainbow flags and a female impersonator on top spurred the crowd on.The parade was part of a weekend full of gay-oriented events, including the beach festival First Splash. Some at the parade...
TWO CENTS
Gay community on AIDS
What is the responsibility of the gay community in curbing new HIV infections? . John Cailleau, 64, San Francisco My generation of gay men, who created the Castro in the 1970s, has lost thousands of friends, lovers and neighbors. We created the Stop AIDS Project and its current offshoots, Positive force and Q Action. All of these programs emphasize safer sex and the use of condoms. This next generation of queers refuses to learn from the past and therefore repeats it, as we see...
THE PRESSES ARE STOPPED GAY COMMUNITY NEWS PONDERS WHETHER TO RESUME PUBLICATION
At a meeting scheduled for this evening, staff members, friends and volunteers will debate the future of the financially troubled Gay Community News, one of the nation's first gay newspapers and one that many credit with helping to shape the agenda of the gay movement, both locally and nationally. At a time when many national and local gay media are implementing major changes, the Boston-based Gay Community News is $66,000 in debt. Its claimed print run is 8,500 copies. Founded as a...
SEATTLE GAY COMMUNITY CENTER IS IN THE WORKS
When Jim Munoz moved to Seattle 12 years ago, he quickly noticed that the gay community did not have a home to call its own.There was Broadway Avenue in Capitol Hill, he said, but no central place for services, support or social events for the city's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. ``You're new in town, and you don't know where to turn,'' said Munoz, 38, who moved here with his partner, Jon Scott....