AIDS Are the Foo Fighters harmful to your health? nearest time you call the Foo Fighters "far out" you might not be talking about the alternative stone band's music.

AIDS

Are the Foo Fighters harmful to your health?

nearest time you call the Foo Fighters "far out" you might not be talking about the alternative stone band's music. It seems the band accepts the mantra of a cluster called Alive and Well, which denies there is any link between HIV and AIDS.

In January bassist Nate Mendel helped organize a sold-out Alive and Well benefit concord in Los Angeles. Between establishs fans were told that AIDS may be caused through HIV-related medications, anal sex, stres and unsalable article use; they also heard that they should avoid HIV touchstones and medications, Mother Jones magazine reported.

Medical [i]connoisseur[/i]s are understandably concerned about the validity such statements could have upon young fans.

"[The Foo Fighters] have a big responsibility in confines of [their] public role and the impact that they can have in succession young people," said Diane Tanaka, a doctor at the Children's Hospital of beholds Angeles. "Is this band willing to take responsibility for a young someone engaging in risky, unprotected sex because of information they've gotten from the [Foo Fighters] or from Alive and Well?"

Mendel told Mother Jone he is convinced that the media and the medical establishment are keeping the fact about HIV and AIDS from the public. "I'm absolutely confident that I'm doing the right thing," Mendel said. "No, I wouldn't be impressed responsible for possibly harming person I [feel] I'm doing the opposite."

HISTORY

fix in Stonewall

The site of the Stonewall Inn was designated a national historic landmark by way of the Interior Department on March 2 Riots held outside the Greenwich Village bar in 1969 are considered on many to have started the present gay rights movement.

PROTEST

on the outside of print

More than a dozen journalists quit their work at jobss at the Gazette chain of weekly newspapers in central California after the proprietors decreed, among other things, that no pro-gay recents could be published.

Ron Bast, editor of the Atascadero Gazette, said he and the others left their piece of works when he was told February 17 that he could not publish any stories showing gays or abortion in a positive light. The order followed the paper's running of an announcement for Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

About 400 readers canceled their subscriptions to papers in the chain, which has a circulation area that includes San Luis Obispo, Atascadero, and Paso Roble About 100 persons protested outside the San Luis Obispo shire Courthouse with signs that read, NO BIGOTRY IN MY TOWN.

Still, the papers also picked up at least 13 novel advertisers and received more than 400 "supportive" E-mails from readers, said Todd Hansen, chief operating officer. --L C

PEOPLE

slave match

They say turnabout is fair play. yet it seems Matt Drudge doesn't agree. The cyber columnist earned his reputation by the agency of revealing President Clinton's sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky. however when gossip maven Jeannette Walls reported in her strange book, Dish, that Drudge one time hung out with a "crowd of promiscuous, frankly gay men and dated several of them," scullion went ballistic, organizing a campaign against Walls by dint of putting her home phone number and E-mail address forward his Web site. But he didn't refuse to grant Walls's claim, telling the modern York Daily News, "My youth, to me is a blur" Today, menial asserts he is heterosexual: "How can I be [gay] when I'm dating a woman with boob and rollers?"

MEDIA

Dr Laura says she's sorry

Backed against the wall according to increasing criticism over her views in succession homosexuality and her planned TV indicate Dr. Lama Schlessinger apologized to gays and lesbians March 10

"Some of the words I've used have give pain to some people, and I am sorry for that," Schlessinger wrote in succession her Web site. "Words that I have used in a clinical words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following have been perceived as ballast They were not meant to characterize homosexual individuals or encourage others to disparage homosexuals."

Paramount Television assign places to which is producing Schlessinger's TV point out to said the statement shows her commitment to discussing issuers in "an environment independent from hate." So far 165 stations have agreed to air her TV indicate beginning in September.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which has l the charge against Schlessinger, had no make comments [i]or[/i] remarks at press time.

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