August 20, 1981
New Viral Cancer Stirs Gay Fears
Cover line: A “Gay” Cancer?
Foresight: “The bright light at the end of
the dark Kaposi’s [sarcoma] tunnel is that if the
disease is in fact sexually transmitted, a vaccine
could theoretically be developed against it, as is
currently happening with hepatitis. ‘In the long run,
this may be the biggest thing ever in cancer
research,’ says [NYU’s] Dr. [Alvin] Friedman-Kien.”
Hindsight: “Researchers seem to agree that
butyl nitrite, the principal ingredient in most
over-the-counter poppers, may be a culprit.”
February 17, 1983
Coping With a Crisis: AIDS
and the Issues It Raises
The first time the word AIDS appeared on the cover.
Foresight: “These illnesses are not
‘gay’ illnesses,” said Steve
Peskind, head of Project Shanti’s AIDS Program in
San Francisco. “The media, both gay and straight,
have been very irresponsible in representing it as a
gay plague or an exclusively gay disease.”
Hindsight: “There’s absolutely no proof
that what has hit gay men and Haitians and drug
addicts…is the same disease. No proof at all.
It’s a scandal,” said pioneering New York AIDS
activist and physician Joseph Sonnabend.
November 26, 1985
Etiquette for an Epidemic:
What to Say and Who to Tell When Someone Has AIDS
Foresight: “If a friend tells you that
he has AIDS, keep the information to yourself, unless he
specifically asks you to pass it on. Let him be the judge of
who has a ‘right to know.’ Shocked by
the news himself, at first, he may have blurted it to
you. Don’t make him regret it,” wrote advice
columnist Robert Boucheron.
April 1, 1986
The Call for Quarantine
July 8, 1986
Sex in the Age of AIDS
July 7, 1987
Special Report: Your HIV
Status, Should You Take the Test?
Foresight: “The Advocate presents a
careful review of three questions faced by most gay men
today: whether to take the HIV antibody test; what the
future holds for those who test positive; how those
who test negative can stay that way.”
Hindsight: “A San Francisco gay man remarked
that he felt a ceiling had descended over him when he
received his antibody positive result. ‘I can
no longer presume that I have a future beyond many
months, or a few years.’ ”
July 31, 1990
The Politics of Death: A New
Coalition for the War Zones of the ’90s
January 15, 1991
Cities in Crisis: As the AIDS
Toll Soars, America’s Urban Centers Crumble
July 30, 1992
In the Dark About AIDS
Foresight: Jonathan Mann, chairman of the
Eighth International Conference on AIDS, hoped to create
“a new blueprint for a worldwide effort aimed
at transforming attitudes, policies, and behavior
related to AIDS.”
June 15, 1993
The Life and Times of Randy Shilts
Profiling the legendary AIDS journalist.
May 31, 1994
AIDS Education: Why It’s
Not Working
Foresight: “I remember my mom, who has
always been really cool about my being gay saying,
‘How could you have been so stupid?’ I
was asking myself the same question.”
September 6, 1994
Portrait of a Centerfold: The
Bare Facts About HIV-positive Lesbian Playboy Playmate
Rebekka Armstrong
May 16, 1995
The Real Patient Zero? Why
Scientists Don’t Care Whether a Man Died of
AIDS-Related Causes in 1959
April 13, 1999
Barebacking: Are We Turning
Our Backs on Reality?
Hindsight: “Those in AIDS prevention can get
sidetracked into a fury over barebacking even though
they know that most men aren’t barebackers
making a conscious choice but get blindsided by desire into
doing something in the moment,” said Sex Panic!
activist Jim Eigo—an observation that this
issue’s sex-party investigation undermines.
April 12, 2005
The New Sex Police
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