Here’s the Advocate story about Herb Ritts’ early death. He died because his immune system was severely compromised by HIV. And here’s a German version of the same story. Odd that this should be restricted to the gay press. Or are we now headed back to the early 1980s?
DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “K-Lo: So DC’s first baby of the year was born to a lesbian couple. New York’s seems to have been to a black single mother. Don’t you sometimes feel like giving in to despair?” – John Derbyshire, National Review Online. I guess I’m used to Derb’s dismay at homosexuals, and you could explain this comment by saying he’s merely depressed by the absence of two-parent male-female families. But why the gratuitous mention of the race of the single mother? Once again, you get the impression that Derb would be happier if this country had fewer blacks and gays in it. No surprise he sympathized with Trent Lott.
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