Another anti-gay urban myth floating through the ether…
[I’d seen a glancing reference to the Rolling Stone article cited elsewhere… it struck me as absurd, and after reading the various reactions, I think I’m right. -Thomas]
Chasing the Bug Chasers by Tim Cavanaugh
How much of an urban legend is Rolling Stone’s controversial “Bug Chasers” story? As you may know if you’ve been following Drudge, Gregory Freeman’s feature story about gay men who fetishize being infected with HIV has touched off a brouhaha from Bill O’Reilly and others, who see it as evidence that everything connected to San Francisco—from Nancy Pelosi to Willie Brown to Rice-A-Roni—is hopelessly degenerate and unAmerican (an accurate assessment, but not quite in the way Bill O’Reilly says). So it’s a relief—particularly for gay advocacy groups—to find many of the sources denying most of the comments attributed to them.