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Yet virtually overnight, after an impromptu speech about his sex life at the November 1997 Creatg Change Conference San Diego, this risg star of gay activism was reborn as a pariah of the movement.
Creatg Change is the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force (NGLTF)’s annual loveft of hard-re polis that Valenzuela, a lol lear, had helped brg to his hometown.
He not only nfsed to lovg anal sex whout ndoms but did so to a standg-room-only crowd of 2, 000 gay and lbian honchos, many of whom were veterans of the good fight at barris and boardrooms sce the ’70s. That eveng’s town-hall meetg -- nvened to discs recent attacks on public sex and promiscuy by gay marriage-and-monogamy neo-ns -- was guaranteed high theater: The rhetoril battl and personal attacks between the SexPanic! Activists (cludg me, a founr) and gay journalists such as Michelangelo Signorile and Andrew Sullivan had all the civily of sniper fire.
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We’re stg his room Ptsburgh’s William Penn Wt Hotel, and the halls practilly hum wh the words race, class and genr and lbian and gay activists gossipg and flirtg, batg the Millennium March and the Matthew Shepard murr. “There’s an tablished and reful disurse among many young gay men, ” he says.