The Pridelets Files for September 29

Just because the government's doing it, doesn't mean it's right, notes NYC activist Andy Humm, on this day in 1987. "If we think, for instance that HIV testing programs are wrong, and health officials are compiling data on people that they have no right to, I'm saying that a possiblity might be to destroy files. Do I want to give anybody ideas? Sure!"

BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
* 1760 - British author/connoisseur William Beckford
* 1898 - Pioneering German homosexualist Bruno Vogel

Q.UOTE
"Dr. Laura should get off the gay man's back and leave some room for me!" -- Queer Duck

THE WANT ADS
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