Sexual Predator Honored With U.S. Postage Stamp

[Darnell 8,479]

I don't think anyone here is being homophobic.

Poor Mr. Milk, not chasing after age-appropriate liasons and willing partners.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I don't think anyone here is being homophobic.

Danno hasn't shown up yet.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Sigh

It was asked what he was convicted of

The same thing GZ was, which is..................................NOTHING

Convicted being the key word here, not accused of

Clear now or shall I resort to the ####### and jane for liberals reader.

But that same is true of almost everyone. Most people I know were convicted of nothing.

It might have been a better choice to have said Milk was convicted of the same thing as Elvis.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Not only that... I think the 'sexual predator on stamp' season was opened when they put Elvis on a stamp...

your not playing fair now...Reported. That's elvis

But that same is true of almost everyone. Most people I know were convicted of nothing.

It might have been a better choice to have said Milk was convicted of the same thing as Elvis.

My point was so many on here screamed for GZ's head and still etc etc

[JohnR! 5,495]

your not playing fair now...Reported. That's elvis

Touche!!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Touche!!

The only intelligent thing i ever heard come out of Al Sharpton's mouth

When asked how black people could still love M. Jackson so much after all his weirdness

He answered , well white people still love Elvis, right.

Made perfect sense.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The same thing George Zimmerman was convicted of

But Zimmermann was indicted for murder. What was Harvey Milk indicted for?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It is concerning. However, there were US presidents who were known to have sexual encounters with teenage slaves also.

No it isn't. People don't view past eras in the same way as the now. If we did we wouldn't celebrate any historical figure before the 19th century.

[himher 634]

But Zimmermann was indicted for murder. What was Harvey Milk indicted for?

I believe one of his hiv-infected pals wrote a biography about him and these stories were in that biography

[decocker 7,198]

I believe one of his hiv-infected pals wrote a biography about him and these stories were in that biography

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

No it isn't. People don't view past eras in the same way as the now. If we did we wouldn't celebrate any historical figure before the 19th century.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I believe one of his hiv-infected pals wrote a biography about him and these stories were in that biography

I wonder if it's the "Christian convert and former homosexual"

[himher 634]

What's the source of your outrage? Author's name was Randy Shilts. He was a SF reporter. Died of AIDS in '94.

The stories are in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mayor-Castro-Street-Harvey/dp/0312560850

PS he also wrote this book:

http://www.amazon.com/And-Band-Played-On-20th-Anniversary/dp/0312374631

They made a movie from it.

Cool stuff from his book:

The doctors at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta called him "Patient Zero." A stunningly handsome French-Canadian airline steward, Gaetan Dugas had over 2,500 male sexual partners on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean by the time he died at age 31.

It was in France, the doctors think, that he picked up the AIDS virus. Thence he brought the virus to both San Francisco and New York, where he infected partners through anonymous bathhouse sex and pickups from gay bars. At least forty of the first 248 homosexuals diagnosed with AIDS as of April 12, 1982 had had sex either with Dugas or with someone who had. ("Typhoid Mary" Mallon, by contrast, had fifty-three confirmed cases attributed to her, of whom three died.)

Long after his diagnosis, Dugas would sodomize willing partners in dimly lit cubicles, then turn up the lights and point to the purplish Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions on his skin. "I’ve got gay cancer," he would say. "I’m going to die, and so are you."

Rock Hudson

No one will ever be certain whether Dugas was the one who began the AIDS epidemic in the United States, but it would be fitting if he was. For the way he continued business as usual — or pleasure, as it were — even after his diagnosis is representative of the larger tale of miscreants and fools told in Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On, a remarkable feat of investigative journalism that traces the AIDS epidemic from the death of Danish physician Margrethe Rask, a lesbian who contracted AIDS in Africa in 1976, up to mid-1985 and the death of Rock Hudson.

An openly homosexual writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and the nation’ s first full-time AIDS reporter, Shilts names names, slams reputations, and yet poignantly testifies to those few who fought desperately to get the band’s attention and those who died horribly while it continued to play.

Introducing the members of the band:

"Fast lane" homosexuals. Some homosexuals racked up as many as a mind-boggling 20,000 sexual partners, engaging in high-risk (receptive #######) acts long after it became apparent that a fatal illness was spreading through the homosexual populations of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Scoffing at advice to limit partners and avoid such activity, many homosexuals continued going to bathhouses, readily infecting themselves with the AIDS virus and passing it on to others.

Homosexual leaders such as Konstantin Berlandt, a columnist for the Bay Area Reporter, shed new light on the debate over whether homosexuality is genetic or acquired by stating, "I didn’t bccome a homosexual so I could use condoms." Later Berlandt wrote: "Advice on safe sex, while perhaps well-meaning, is actually collaboration with the death regime that delights in blaming ourselves and would pin the blame onus." Berlandt also used his column to make a pitch for "rimming," known in other circles as oral-####### contact and then considered to be a high-risk activity for contracting AIDS. According to Berlandt, the practice could be "spiritually uplifting."

Other homosexuals saw profit in the epidemic, as did the San Mateo doctor who promised to cure AIDS with massive doses of — you guessed it — Vitamin C. Still others made desperate efforts to pretend that the syndrome was not sexually transmitted, such as the homosexual psychologist who wrote a series of articles maintaining that AIDS victims all had suffered an "emotional emergency" as children that was now manifesting itself as fatal immune suppression.

The bathhouse owners. Even before AIDS, notes Shilts, "the bathhouses were a horrible breeding ground for disease... A Seattle study of gay men suffering from shigellosis [a parasitic disease most efficiently transmitted by ingestion of feces], for example, discovered 69 percent culled, their sexual partners from bathhouses. A Denver study found that an average bathhouse patron having his typical 2.7 sexual contacts risked a 33 percent chance of walking out of the tubs with syphilis or gonorrhea. . . ." All of which prompted one doctor in 1980 to remark, "If something- new gets loose here, we’re going to have hell to pay." Yet even after hell broke loose, bathhouse owners refused to close up shop or even display safe-sex posters. Instead, they treated the AIDS epidemic in the way Amity businessmen treated news of the shark in the movie Jaws the less said, the better. As one callous owner explained to Dr. Paul Volberding, "We’re both in it for the same thing. Money. We make money at one end when they come to the baths. You make money from them on the other end when they come out."

The San Francisco Health Department, which recently forbade all smoking in government offices on public health grounds, delayed putting restrictions on the bathhouses for several years so as to not offend the homosexual lobby. It wasn’t until 1987 that the last bathhouse closed its doors.

Blood bank operators. Like the bathhouse owners, blood bank operators faced the AIDS problem by ignoring it. By late 1981 there was reason to believe that AIDS was a bloodborne virus like hepatitis B and that it would turn up in blood transfusions by mid-1982 the CDC had reported that hemophiliacs had contracted AIDS through clotting factor. Yet in December 1982 an officer of the American Association of Blood Banks went on network television to say flatly that there still was no evidence that transfusions spread AIDS. It’s not that there was no way to screen blood. One method, rejected as too expensive, was to test for antibodies to the core of the hepatitis B virus, antibodies ubiquitous in the blood of AIDS patients. Another method was to ask members of high risk groups to exclude themselves voluntarily.

Edited November 1, 2013 by himher

[decocker 7,198]

What's the source of your outrage? Author's name was Randy Shilts. He was a SF reporter. Died of AIDS in '94.

it wasn't what you said, but how you said it.

[himher 634]

it wasn't what you said, but how you said it.

OH well I have little sympathy for the free-wheeling and irresponsible 1970's and 1980's San Francisco gay community.

With that cleared up if you or your lib pals have a problem with the sexual predator label I was giving y'all a heads up over who you need to hold a seance for and take it up with.