Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY – MAY 18, 1981: DR. LAWRENCE MASS BE THE FIRST PERSON TO REPORT ABOUT AIDS.
- POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS
- 39 YEARS LATER, THE NEW YORK TIM’ 1981 ‘GAY CANCER’ STORY CONTU TO DISTORT EARLY AIDS HISTORY
- CONTROVERSIAL GAY MAGAZE SHUTS DOWN
GAY HISTORY – MAY 18, 1981: DR. LAWRENCE MASS BE THE FIRST PERSON TO REPORT ABOUT AIDS.
The seventh issue of New York Native newspaper, one of New York Cy's premier gay newspapers the 1980s. * new york native gay newspaper *
Admtedly, was about the Centers for Diseas Control’s (CDC) nial on May 18th 1981, that a ‘gay ncer’ was velopg:.
“Last week there were mors that an exotic new disease had h the gay muny New York. But, November 1982, the Native published an article by Richard Berkowz and Michael Callen We Know Who We Are: Two Gay Men Declare War on Promiscuy. In , the two men argued that AIDS was not ed by a sgle ative agent but was down to the batn of factors associated wh gay men’s ‘promiscuo’ liftyl – dg e, multiple sexual partners and repeated exposure to other sexually-transmissible fectns.
It was wily cricised – not least bee had no scientific basis and also bee assumed that all gay men wh AIDS had lived so-lled ‘promiscuo’ liftyl. The "Carbon Copi" rrponnce nsists of pi of letters sent to the edors of the d-visual and prted media mentg on issu and events affectg the gay muny and s social and civil rights. The Prted Ephemera (Seri 3) nsists of prs releas, newsletters and flyers issued by gay and other anizatns which were sent to the edors for their nsiratn for news stori.
POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS
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But actually, the first published report that mentns the myster and adly disease appeared New York Cy’s pennt gay newspaper The New York Native three weeks earlier by Dr.
Mass, who wrote a regular health lumn for the small weekly had heard mors of a new disease strikg down gay men New York Cy.
39 YEARS LATER, THE NEW YORK TIM’ 1981 ‘GAY CANCER’ STORY CONTU TO DISTORT EARLY AIDS HISTORY
Police named three spects late Friday nnectn to the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year. * new york native gay newspaper *
There were also a host of other odd diseas that gay men were g down wh, but so far nobody had figured out that there might be a sgle e to lk them all together. Mass was assured by the Centers for Disease Control Atlanta that there was no evince of an emergg “gay ncer, ” Mass wrote an article tled, “Disease Rumors Largely Unfound, ” which began:.
CONTROVERSIAL GAY MAGAZE SHUTS DOWN
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Last week there were mors that an exotic new disease had h the gay muny New York.
’” But Mass reported that there was not enough evince (yet) to make a clear nnectn between the new disease and the gay muny. Mass followed up on his origal article July 1981 wh a piece lled, “Cancer the Gay Communy, ” on the then-new HIV/AIDS epimic.
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In 1982, Mass joed Larry Kramer, Edmund Whe, Pl Rapoport, Pl Popham, and Nathan Fa -foundg Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the world’s first and still largt AIDS rmatn and service anizatn. Begng the late 1990s, Mass extend his public health terts to the bear subculture of the gay muny.
Police named three spects late Friday nnectn to the homicis of two men who were dgged, robbed and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay bars last year. Umberger and Ramirez were both found ad after visg gay bars the cy’s lively Hell’s Kchen neighborhood last sprg. However, they add that the New York Cy Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is assistg the the months after Umberger’s and Ramirez’s aths, more gay New Yorkers stepped forward wh eerily siar acunts to Ramirez’s and Umberger’s.