UPDATE 2
LETTER TO THE EDITOR (Bay Area Re****ter and S.F. Bay Times)
Date: January 19, 2008
Subject: Yummy Hetero Flesh
Dear Editor:
Check out this "gay flesh-eating" map (front page, S.F. Chronicle,
Jan. 15):
http://tinyurl.com/2xpgox
The 94114 zip code (Eureka Valley a.k.a. The Castro) is bright
red...like a bull's eye. It's a blatant attack, both psychological and
biological, to terrorize and decimate our gay ranks. And they're not
too covert about it. What does this map really suggest? Gays are CODE
RED, same as Islamic terrorists! (This isn't just a flesh-eating
virus: it's a GAY flesh-eating virus...and a most virulent one at
that! We're not just baby eaters any more. Yay!)
Quoting a recent article regarding this new variant of the MRSA virus
(Bay Area Re****ter, Jan. 17):
"Diep made several statements in a news release that fanned the flames
of homophobia. Anti-gay groups seized on the study, with one calling
gay men a public health hazard."
What? A UCSF researcher, Dr. Binh An Diep, aware that his words were
poorly chosen, nonetheless goes on record as possibly fomenting severe
backlash against ***ual minorities! Which backlash threatens to spread
way beyond "Gay Mecca," spilling over into all gay communities in
major urban centers worldwide.
I fully agree with one pro-gay organization's position, as re****ted in
the S.F. Bay Times article dated Jan. 17:
"The Human Rights Campaign has stated that this is a case of rightwing
bigots returning to 1980 HIV/AIDS fear-mongering tactics."
But it is not enough to point our fingers at those fundamentalist and
right-wing groups jumping all over these skewed statistics. We must
also roundly condemn those people originally responsible for
broadcasting such homophobic tripe, who hold im****tant positions in
the medical field, claiming to be friends of the LGBT community.
Starting with Dr. Diep, who heads this particular MRSA project.
Just who are you, Dr. Binh "Dipwad"? A pious Christian infiltrating
our queer community in order to poison us with a new infection, to
foment further anti-queer backlash? Or perhaps you're a gay man
yourself, whose desire for world fame (along with that of your
associates) far outweighs any true desire to honor the Hippocratic
Oath? You would not be the first op****tunist to piggy-back onto our
long-suffering community for your own vainglory, no matter what damage
wrought upon those groups you claim to heal!
Quoting again from the same B.A. R. article:
"Given the hysteria in much of the media coverage of the recent
studies on MRSA, Diep said that he is concerned there will be a
possible backlash against the gay community."
Dr. Dipwad, put this in your syringe and sit on it: We queers can do
without your perverted sort of "concern". As the saying goes: "With
friends like you, who needs enemies?" I hope you lose your job and
find yourself begging in the streets. Or at best: slinging hash in the
Tenderloin.
As for the S.F. Chronicle:
This is not the first time the Chronicle has sold out to the Religious
Reich. On August 16, 1998, they accepted $35,000 to publish a
full-page anti-gay ad, claiming that we ***ual minorities can be
cured! You can view that horrid ad, as well as read outraged responses
(and the Chronicle's own, smug defense) here:
tinyurl.com/29fstx
This medical scandal of homophobic and media intrigue causes me to
question:
Is S.F. General in cahoots with the UCSF med center, to use gay people
as Guinea pigs for their medical experiments? And since the vast
majority of MRSA infections remain a hospital-borne plague, just WHO
should we fear more: homo***uals or hetero-run hospitals?
Sinqueerly yours,
Zeke Krahlin
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