New York Native, gay news magaze that was creded early 1980's wh pneerg AIDS verage but more recently has been cricized as fom for nspiracy theori, folds this week after 16 years of publitn; publisher and edor Charl Orteb ments (M)
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.
POLICE NAME THREE SPECTS NNECTN TO NYC GAY BAR KILLGS
The first issue of New York Native newspaper, one of New York Cy's premier gay newspapers the 1980s. Featurg a rare terview wh Jam Baldw. * new york native gay newspaper *
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. 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.
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:. 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.
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 *
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.
NBC News has spoken wh several gay men who said they survived siar cints om December 2021 to October NYPD prevly nfirmed wh NBC News that there are multiple groups of crimals mtg the typ of crim agast men visg the cy’s gay bars.
CONTROVERSIAL GAY MAGAZE SHUTS DOWN
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * new york native gay newspaper *
It is unclear, however, if they were found ad after visg gay bars or whether they were nnected to the dicted spects. Gay men? Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
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. * new york native gay newspaper *
“Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.
” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic. Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.
And so are homosexualy, bisexualy and beg ’s been an objective crease the number of visible L. This is the first time Amerin history that gay and trans people have been able to live as themselv any real way, wh jobs and marriag and dogs and ts and visibily.