Dear Editor:

I’d like to thank Tyler Hower for including a brief mention of the dissident perspective on AIDS and HIV in his World AIDS Day article (November 27 issue). Unfortunately, the entire article was essentially a propaganda piece for the AIDS industry and the lies and bad science on which it is based — not Hower’s fault so much as that of his sources — that only contributed to what I call “World AIDS Hype” instead of any real understanding.

World AIDS Hype was first based on the lie that a unique virus was discovered and identified as the cause of AIDS in the early 1980’s. Not so: the credited discovers of HIV, Drs. Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur, didn’t actually isolate the virus from a living patient. They identified bits of proteins and genetic materials from PWA’s and ASSUMED they were parts of a new virus.

Robert Gallo proclaimed HIV the “probable cause of AIDS” based on finding antibodies in 51 percent of the PWA’s he tested. According to Koch’s postulates — the basic rules for identifying a microbe as a cause of a disease — that number must be 100 percent.

The so-called “great advances that have been made in treatment for [HIV] infection” are as illusory as the evidence that HIV “causes” AIDS. The decline in AIDS deaths often cited as proof of the current drugs’ effectiveness actually began in 1995 — two years before they were generally available — and people are “living longer with AIDS” not because the drugs are keeping them alive, but because they’re being diagnosed earlier. Once you actually had to be sick to be diagnosed with AIDS; since 1993 all it’s taken are two lab tests (a positive Western Blot and a T-cell count below 200), so perfectly healthy people are told they have a fatal illness based on highly speculative and unreliable tests.

At least 64 common health conditions, including infections like tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis A and B, herpes and even flu, can cause a false-positive HIV antibody test result. Another common cause for a “positive” test result is pregnancy, especially in woman who have been pregnant before. This is especially important in Third World countries, where estimates of “HIV seroprevalence” are based on tests of handfuls of pregnant women. The symptoms, epidemiology and diagnostic criteria for Third World “AIDS” are so different from developed-world AIDS, it’s the height of lunacy to describe them as the same disease with the same viral “cause” and chemotherapeutical “treatments.”

After 20 years and billions of dollars spent on researching, testing and treating “HIV/AIDS” the scientific case for HIV as the cause is so flimsy that there is no rational reason for anyone to believe in it.

“HIV/AIDS” is a quasi-religious illusion created to keep people consuming highly toxic drugs and other products of the medical-industrial-governmental complex, and to keep people (Queer people in particular) in a state of morbid fear of their own sexuality.

Mark Gabrish Conlan

Board chair, H.E.A.L.-San Diego

Dear Editor:

I am the final, non-drag/circuit queen male social columnist for the GLT. I was fired four years ago by the 23-year-old male editor because I wrote for the “wrong demographic” — meaning men over the age of forty. The schism between Baby Boomer males (the largest gay demographic by far) and your publication was already wide, and now it has widened further.

Your female-biased opinions are inaccurate throughout your writing, but where you are coming from is far more disturbing. There is a basic assumption in your writing that being a grownup man is a problem that can only be fixed through lectures from a morally-superior woman. I believe that I can suggest a better alternative.

When I was a young gay man, I actively sought out older gay men to pattern upon as excellent role-models. My upbringing in a heterosexual environment taught me nothing about male-male dynamics, so I spent valuable time with men who were 20, 30 and 40 years older than me. They taught me successful ways to deal with sex, business, long-term relationships that didn’t have to be based on hetero monogamy, and how to succeed in a society that held very little love for me.

Now that I am a man of the community myself, I thank those long-dead Daddies for their mentoring by helping many others in my turn. I live the life of a Boy Scout, and so do many others. However, we have a problem in the media.

My “PT-List” electronic newsletter reaches around 3,000 local middle-aged gay men, who receive all of the press-releases that your paper actively deletes from its incoming e-mail every week. These good, valuable men feel zero allegiance to any of the local papers, because no support is offered in return. We’re the best-financed, largest target-audience (there are ten times as many gay men as lesbians). However, the local media has abandoned us in your rush to cover only youth, women and a few token, non-threatening men. When I look in every page of every issue of your paper, I don’t see my readers anywhere. Perhaps you should rename your paper the “Gay (<30) and Lesbian Times.”

If you want our community’s young men to succeed, to be safe, to be superb brothers to their sisters and to be leaders in the future, then please don’t talk down to older males from a distance, offering nothing but platitudes and suspicions. Instead, encourage admirable, strong, well-socialized men to become more visible. Yes, we need Mommies, but without kind, powerful and successful Daddies being shown as excellent role-models, our community’s spirit shows up as twisted and unbalanced, the same mistakes keep being made over and over, and our male youth lose hope for a joyful, healthy life beyond the age of thirty.

It’s time to bring grownup males back.

Papa Tony Lindsey

San Diego

Dear Editor:

In a recent edition I read MS Nicole’s comments on the movie Angels in America. I found the comments as it was “depressing and boring” from MS Nicole upsetting. As we all have the rights to our own opinions MS Nicole’s is in a public forum and must explain such comments as they may be interpreted in many ways.

I myself interpreted her comments as being superficial and not looking at the total content and meaning that this film portrays. I also felt that she was saying OK HIV/AIDS its old lets get over it girls. To have such a movie is to help us to remember the past and to honor the memory of all those we have lost to this disease, and to the many who have survived, and to mention to the men and women who lost their loved ones. To not remember the past MS Nicole is to repeat it again. At this time we need this type of movie to bring awareness to our youth both gay and straight, who do not take HIV/Aids serious, who feel that no problem I will just take a pill the rest of my life. MS Nicole please take a good look at the substance of this film, and not be so superficial about it. Remember one’s comments do tell a lot of ones quality and content of character.

Being in a public forum does have its responsibilities and that is to explain and understand what it is you are trying to convey to the public at large. I am not talking about censorship MS Nicole I am talking about is being more conscious of your own personal comments and how they can be interpreted.

MS Nicole as I have said you have been given a great opportunity by this magazine with a public forum, its potential is to hopefully uplift and inform the readers, as well as possibly educate the readers. As in reading your past columns, I feel that you have used it to attack others and for your own personal promotion. Again that is my own personal opinion.

Mike Thomason

San Diego

Dear Editor:

Thanks to GLT and writer Brian Van de Mark for your excellent story on AB 205. This is the most comprehensive reporting on the bill I have seen anywhere in the state.

Your story clearly explained the difference between marriage and domestic partnership; offers actionable insight into ways partners can protect themselves when out of state; and gives weight to the important issues of community property, alimony and mutual responsibility for liabilities and debt.

I hope this story will be used as a resource by LGBT publications throughout California and nationally to help explain these issues to our cohorts throughout the state. And I hope GLT commentators will explore each of these issues in depth in the 12 months that remain before the law becomes effective.

Bob Nelson

San Diego