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Date sent:        Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:52:25 -0800
To:               arthurhu@halcyon.com
From:             Bob Larimer <blarimer@e-z.net>
Subject:          Re: [PNEWS] AIDS... a gay or straight disease?


Cal was also quoted quite liberally in the book "My Country: My Right To
Serve" which advocated homosexuals in the military.  In it he boasts of his
"conquests" while serving in Vietnam, his use of supposedly secure military
facilities for trysts, his getting caught in the act in the bushes and his
brazen response, and his "award" from other homosexuals for getting the
highest ranking officer into bed with him.


When I used the above at a debate in Seattle with Cal and Gretta
Cammermeyer (they made a movie about her starring Glen Close) to make my
point that allowing open homosexuals to serve would be subversive, he
raised his fist in the air and shook it.


The dominant media culture never bothered to print Cal's boasting in the
book either, although I made the information available to them.


There was alot they didn't bother to print about the now-deceased Senator,
but they went to a great deal of effort to portray him as a crusading hero
when he died.


Bob Larimer
WTV
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At 04:01 PM 2/19/97 +0000, you wrote:
>As I recall, none of the articles about his death speculated as to 
>how he got the disease, and he wasn't quite sure either. (I think we 
>both know exactly how he got it, and what he should have been telling 
>other gay men not to do that he didn't say)
>
>Isn't it amazing how gays can account for over 50% of the problem, 
>and yet it's not a gay problem unless it's 100% gay, not just a 
>reasonable approximation?
>
>
>> To:            arthurhu@halcyon.com
>> From:          Bob Larimer <blarimer@e-z.net>
>> Subject:       Re: [PNEWS] AIDS... a gay or straight disease?
>
>> I used to debate Washington State Representative, and later State Senator,
>> Cal Anderson (an openly homosexual legislator) on this issue.  I unable to
>> debate with him anymore.
>> 
>> He died of AIDS in his early 40's.
>> 
>> Bob Larimer
>> WTV
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