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The Face of AIDS Becomes a Child: Ryan White
While the 1980s televangelists were pointing at the “dirty gays” as a deserving target of God’s punishment for anal sex, children who contracted HIV/AIDS through blood transfusions got caught in the public fear-filled frenzy. In December 1984, a gradual shift began to happen in the public face of AIDS. Ryan White, a 13-year-old hemophiliac middle-schooler…
Read Full ArticleHow I Responded to AIDS in the 1980s
In November 2011, on the thirtieth anniversary of the first reported cases of a mysterious “gay cancer” in America, I went to the Nevada Museum of Art with my friend Dean to see the documentary “We Were Here”, produced by David Weissman. The film reflected deeply personal accounts of five people living in San…
Read Full ArticleC. Everett Koop, a Hero During the AIDS Crisis
When Ronald Reagan was elected to the presidency in 1980, names of faithful members of the conservative right were submitted to his Administration for possible appointment. Virtually all the suggestions were ignored-except the one to appoint C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General. As it turned out, Koop became the Surgeon General no one expected. The…
Read Full ArticleAIDS Migrates from Africa to Haiti and The US
The HIV virus gets to Haiti When the Belgians withdrew 87,000 nationals from the Belgian Congo, it left 80% of the government posts unoccupied. All areas of the government suffered, including education. Colonization had elevated the role of European teachers and created a dearth of native Congolese teachers. The United Nations stepped in to…
Read Full ArticleWhat Caused the Onset of the Pandemic Virus HIV/AIDS? Colonialism
The largest pandemic in modern history was not the 1918 flu. It is HIV/AIDS, a global pandemic without a cure. The root of the growth of HIV/AIDS was greed-the desire for more supplies and resources for European industrialization through the massive colonization of Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. To date, HIV/AIDS has…
Read Full ArticleSexual Orientation is a 20th Century Understanding of Human Sexuality
If a person who lived before the turn of the 20th century were asked about their sexual orientation, they would have been bewildered by the question. Though a wealth of literature depicts same-sex behavior as far back as the ancient Greeks, people at that time would not have understood terms or concepts like “heterosexual” or…
Read Full ArticleWhat Research Led to the Designation of Homosexuality as a Mental Illness? None
In 1896, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) founded a new strain of psychology and called it psychoanalysis. Most of his theories, resolutions, and treatments linked to assumptions he had formulated about various stages of sexual subconsciousness, from infancy through its progression during childhood and into adulthood. Most mental illnesses, he speculated, began with sexual abuse, fear…
Read Full ArticleGays Didn’t “Steal” the Rainbow or the Word
Every year around June when the majority of Gay Pride Events take place you’ll apt hear, “We want God’s rainbow back; the gays stole it.” Just as no one culture or group “owns” the rainbow, we’ll see the gays did not “steal” the rainbow, and likewise, they did not steal the word “gay.” I was taught the acronym Roy…
Read Full ArticleIs Procreation an Imperative for Christian Marriage?
In the Book of Genesis, the natural flow of the covenantal relationship between Adam and Eve led to procreation. However, procreation was not defined as a condition of their one-flesh covenant. In the creation story, “God blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number’” (Genesis 1:22, NIV). It was a blessing pronounced upon humankind,…
Read Full ArticleDoes Christian Marriage Require Complementarity?
Some who oppose the possibility of Christian marriage for gay and transgender people assert that same-sex relationships violate the divinely-inspired need for gender differences or anatomical differences. What does complementarily mean? You’ll frequently hear or read the word “complementarity” used to support the “one man and one woman” Christian marriage. In its simplest form, as…
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