A Balancing Act for Shilts
A Balancing Act for Shilts
Shilts steps out as a spokesman against gay bathhouses, admitting he once patronized them himself. ACT-UP members focus their vitriol on Shilts, Shilts turns his criticism on ACT-UP tactics. Although tapped to host a public television special, “Wrestling with AIDS,” Shilts ends a prolific year of writing about AIDS by announcing he was leaving the beat at the start of 1990. Shilts criticizes “lavender fascists” involved with the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association. Shilts states opposition to outing unless under specific circumstances. Shilts keeps focus on elimination promiscuous sexual contact among gay men as a means to stop AIDS crisis.
Keywords: Los Angeles Herald Examiner, gay bathhouses, AIDS, reporter objectivity, advocacy by journalists, U.S. Conference of Mayors, U.S. Conference of Health Officers, politicization of AIDS, ACT-UP, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Catholic Church, Larry Kramer, International AIDS Conference, Wrestling with AIDS, suicide pacts, AIDS suicides, euthanasia cocktail parties, Elizabeth Taylor, National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association, NGLJA, newsroom diversity, gay press, gay journalists, Editor & Publisher magazine, coming out, outing, closeted gays, Gerald R. Ford, Oliver Sipple, Sarah Jane Moore, politically active gays, culture wars, Michelangelo Signorile, Out magazine, Malcolm Forbes, Pete Williams, gays in the military, journalistic norms, news-gathering rules, Columbia Journalism Review, lavender fascists
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