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Vol 1. No 3. December, 1997
Queer Quotes
"A study done in the Des Moines public schools showed that the average high school student hears anti-gay comments like 'dyke' and 'faggot' a stunning 26 times a day, and that teachers who witness such incidents do nothing a shocking 97 percent of the time. The results of this kind of behavior for gay and lesbian students is terrifying."
--Martina Navratilova addressing the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Oct. 25 in New York City.
"We listen to our HIV positive friends talk about how their lives gradually came together after their diagnosis. We watch as those on disability spend hours a day working out and pumping up until they look healthier than the uninfected ever did. Our community offers them people to clean their homes, listen to their problems, deal with their anger and pain, do their shopping, get their medication, help them fill out their forms, distract them when they're depressed, network with other people facing the same challenges, and to get on with their day to day lives. We see them meeting other positive men, negotiating consensual unsafe sex and leading a carefree lifestyle most of us haven't tasted since the early eighties."
--Columnist Brad Fraser in the Canadian national magazine Fab, winter 1997 issue.
"Because of insufficient federal funds, activists were forced to turn the disease [AIDS] into a commodity and sell it to the public like any snack food, compensating for the lack of government support with private support, with charitable contributions, which they extorted from the public by arousing pity for the victims, by packaging the epidemic in sentimental cliches that reduced potential donors to a state of maximum susceptibility."
--Daniel Harris, author of The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, in an interview taped by Visual AIDS for World Without Art Day, Dec. 1.
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