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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Form and Substance
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 11:41:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 11:41:44 1984
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Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University)
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Okay...I'll try it this way. Maybe Ken Perlow will try another disinfected
(de-Arndt-ed) version.

It looks for all the world like HLTVIII is the bug responsible for AIDS.
Its origins may be Nigeria (though the Kaposi's sarcoma stuff looks
similar, it's a symptom rather than a near relative) by way of the Carib.
Further, serum is the media that the little cyto-megalovirus lives in,'
but the transmission (read vector here) is *overwhelmingly* limited to
the seriously promiscous element of the gay community...with the exception
of those members of the popluation (usually hemophiliac) who cannot use
filtered blood, and those (usually bisexual) in direct contac with the
above mentioned.

What steps are being taken in the gay community to address the issue of
AIDS....control, spread, etc. I am personally inclined to view it in
much the same manner as any other venereally transmitted disease (save
for the obvious fact that gonorrhea isn't fatal, and doesn't have a similiar
etiology)...controlling the disease is a question of habit. To the extent
that the gay agenda for increased civil recognition *requires* a broad-based
coalition within the gay community, does the potential "self-policing"
of the gay community represent a an internal threat to the coalition
necessary for gay rights?

If Phil Ngai and the spokesperson on NPR for the gay/lesbian coalition 
last night on the bathhouse closings are to be believed, the issue
*has* begun to move into the political and judicial spotlight. Must the
SF department of public health move to close the bathhouses because
the gay community has for some reason refused to close the places
themselves?

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