4 — Friday, October 8, 1993 ~ Nerth Shore News The THE BEST current story you’re likely to see of the distorted politics of AIDS is in the September issue of Reader’s Digest. -Here it is, folks: how homosex- . “uals made the most preventable of killer diseases into a slick political vehicle for advancing their (I hate this word) agenda by working on the crowd’s pity and fear. Pity: Yes, the descent into death by AIDS-related disease is hosri- ble and horrifying. _ ., Fear: It could happen to you. And to you, you, you and your loved ones. Sure it could — if you engaged | in ‘unprotected anal intercourse” -or, to use the term that some smart-aleck gays themselves use - mockingly, sodomy. (As in the ‘Sodomite Invasion Review,. . distributed during the Gay Games © held in Vancouver in 1990... ... . (That's the one that ran a filthy “Stan Persky short story about two ~ homosexuals seducing a virgin . .*, male. Had it been about two'ex- | perienced males seducitig a virgin ‘ femaie, written in the same . , "disgusting Filthspeak, do you ‘think Persky could have kept his” . Capilano College teaching job? 0 Or “would be lionized by the BCT Try toi imagine.) But a heterosexual, unless prac- ue ‘tising sodomy with‘a so-called “ bisexnal (especially a “recipient”? woman) or. unless a disty-needic:; down-the-alley drug addict or. e _ partner of such, has scarcely, fjore « ‘chance of acquiring the AIDS, : virus than he or she has of being hit by the proverbial flash of. lightning. : cote ; ; The major, and truly tragic, exceptions are those infected with tainted blood before the relevant “authorities began screening ‘blood donors, : “They deserve all the sympathy ‘and whatever recompéiise the. - community can gives! s -> : win a few years apo gay pro- agandists were puciping out the- Fear car fictions that “everybody’” was at risk... And, in ‘the face of this ap- -parently new and bewildering . isease, some respected organiza-. tions and doctors spread the. alarm, | a, o Celeste McGovern neat ly com- piles the figures that illuminate the \ reality in her Reader’s Digest arti- °} “cle — ard shows how gay politics CORRECTION _. NOTICE j Oct. 6 ‘93 Flyer ‘Page 7 A (1-2) Sewing “ Machines: should have ‘read: “Brother Sewing » Machine, Reg. 197.00-Sale ’ 167.00;Singer «Sewing Machine, Reg. 187.00- Sale 157.00.” We apologize . for any ‘inconvenience this may . have caused our Woolco customers. istorted Trevor Lautens GARDEN OF BIASES have brilliantly distorted and eXx- ploited that reality...” For instance: in 1992, car- diovascular diseases killed about 44 In 1992, cardiovascular diseases killed about 75,000 Canadians AIDS? Just 909. 99 have died of AIDS-related disease since 1979 — and more than . 60,000 from breast cancer. But research on the fatter is given only $4 million a year by Ottawa. Furthermore, the federal gov- ernment has pledged $42.2 million a year for the next Five years toa national AIDS strategy plan — and was sneered at for its stinginess, Homosexual Member of, Parliament Svend Robinson, who tee of Toronto Project. It publishes a brochure on “safe”? sado-masochism, including whipping, branding, and electric torture. To a group promoting - safer sex for those who patronize Montreal saunas. And so forth. As McGovern notes, homosex- uals, bisexuals and drug users make up about 84% of AIDS cases, and their partners a further - 4%. Yet AIDS was and is sold to the public on the basis of its . the anniversary of his death every year for more than 30 years. I delight in the work, the artis- try, the intelligence, the wit of , many people who are or were homosexuals, and don’t pretend to know if or to what degree their homosexuality influences their contributions. | But the political and social aims and actions of bully-boy gays are something else. Nor do f accept the “