In recent days, a long-fterg fd between the ma batants over Proposn 64--gays and followers of Lyndon H.
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PROP. 64 FD BETWEEN GAYS, LAROUCHE BACKERS GROWS
In recent days, a long-fterg fd between the ma batants over Proposn 64--gays and followers of Lyndon H. But the largely gay ntgent was worried by anti-gay remarks and lls for quarante that have been rried var LaRouche publitns. ”Wh that the background, many gays assumed that they are the real target of Proposn 64, which would classify anyone fected wh AIDS as sufferg a “munible disease.
Proposn 64 backers say they do not nsir acquired immune ficiency syndrome a gay disease and have not aimed the measure at gays. But spicns among gays were heightened last week when New Solidary, a newspaper affiliated wh LaRouche, prted a lumn attackg the plans for Monday’s night lumn ran unr a picture showg gay protters and the ptn “Sodom and Gomorrah on the march--for the ‘civil right’ to spread AIDS. John Van Kamp, whose office is vtigatg the signature-gatherg procs for Proposn 64, was g a “Gaystapo” to harass the iative’s Tuday, the measure’s chief sponsor, longtime LaRouche follower Khhro Ghandhi, ma a pot of disavowg one ment that gays had taken as an Solidary said s Sept.
12 issue that the march by gays Monday night had been lled a “public health threat” by officials of the Prevent AIDS Now Iniative Commtee.
PAPER TIED TO LAROUCHE ATTACKS GAY MOVEMENT
WASHINGTON — Increasg the anti-homosexual rhetoric om Lyndon LaRouche supporters, a newspaper tied to LaRouche said this weekend that munist gangs of the “lower sexual class” ntrolled by the major parti are opposg Proposn 64, the AIDS measure on the California latt issue of New Solidary, a newspaper that is the most wily read of several publitns that poe LaRouche’s extremist polil views, clud the slur a story about gay activists who picketed LaRouche’s Los Angel headquarters to prott the iative. 4 the electn nears, ems attackg gays have bee more mon the paper, which is sold by LaRouche anizers airports natnwi and hand out ee sectns of Los issu of New Solidary published last week attacked the state’s Roman Catholic bishops--who strongly oppose Proposn 64--for aligng wh “the grad homosexual culture so pervasive California” and ma a vulgar joke about gays receivg Communn at a Catholic mass Wt Hollywood, a cy wh a high percentage of gay issue of the newspaper last week joked about AIDS, ma flippant referenc to actors Frank Satra, Robert Redford, Tony Curtis and Patty De and attacked Elizabeth Taylor, who has bee a equent LaRouche target sce she beme a visible champn of AIDS rearch. The groups nam are loose anizatns of gay paper ed the phrase “lower sexual class” to scribe members of those groups and about 2, 000 people, cludg clergy and public officials, who monstrated outsi LaRouche’s Los Angel headquarters the Los Feliz area Sept.
LaRouche and his supporters, who say they predicted the AIDS crisis a ago, have mataed that the iative do not sgle out gays but lls for strong measur to protect the new attacks on gays lend crence to crics who ntend that LaRouche and his followers are motivated by a long-standg hatred of homosexuals. LaRouche and his supporters also equently attack people they nsir enemi by labelg them as homosexuals prt, often vulgar slang his 1984 printial mpaign platform, LaRouche broke om prevailg medil opn and said homosexualy is a disease whose spread n only be stopped by law. When he clared a year ago that he would be a ndidate for the princy 1988, LaRouche wrote about the recment of “lns of Amerins to the ranks of AIDS-riddled homosexualy.
LaRouche and his supporters ntend that most AIDS s that are not classified as those of homosexually active men or fected blood exchange n be explaed by sect b and other forms of sual transmissn.