Eric Rofes
Posted on 12/09/2006 9:17:32 PM PST by Joseph DeMaistre
I love the candor in this line.
Thanks, now I know who was keeping me from it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Liberals worship the phallus like the pagans of ol'.
I am a conservative, and I do not give a damn what people do in the privacy of their home.
I simply do not believe homosexual unions should be granted the same status in government and society as heterosexual unions.
How damned complicated is that?
How moronic. The left has done more to ruin sex (and every other good thing in life) than the right could ever dream of.
Is there anything more important to these people than what they stick wherever they stick it?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Know your enemy.
Yeah. Aren't there starving people out there, or whales in need of rescue? (sarcasm)
Know your enemy, and throw their garbage back in their faces.
Wait till they find out what Islam's take on their "sex vision" is...
Let me guess. Mitt Romney wrote this...
There is nothing wrong with being judgemental. A society that operates without social judgement has no moral compass.
When I say I don't care, it doesn't mean I don't pass judgement on it. I feel the same as you. But if I don't have to see it, hear about it and have it put forth as a valid "lifestyle" in my school or my kid's school or have it affect me in any way, I am not interested in how they want to spend their time.
Once they bring it into the public forum, that is where I take a stand.
The faculty and staff of the School of Education at Humboldt State University mourn the loss of our beloved friend and colleague, Dr. Eric Rofes, who died on June 26, 2006.
Eric Rofes, activist, educator and author of influential books on AIDS and gay culture "Dry Bones Breathe" and "Reviving the Tribe," died Monday in Provincetown, Mass., where he was working on a writing project.
Friends said the cause of death was an apparent heart attack; an autopsy is pending. Rofes, 51, lived in Arcata, Calif., and San Francisco. He is survived by his longtime partner, Crispin Hollings.
An educator by profession, Rofes was a sixth-grade teacher in the 1970s, before becoming editor of the Gay Community News in Boston, the only LGBT newsweekly at the time. He served as director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in the 1980s, then became executive director of the Shanti Project, San Francisco's pioneering housing organization for people with HIV/AIDS.
After receiving his Ph.D. in social and cultural studies from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, Rofes became an associate professor of education at Humboldt State University in Arcata, where he served until his death. In the summer of 1999, he convened the Boulder Gay Men's Health Summit, the first gathering of its kind.
Of Rofes' 12 books, the two best-known were provocative looks at gay male culture in the face of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Reviving the Tribe" focused on the post-traumatic stress of gay men who suffered catastrophic losses from AIDS and the necessity of remembering and mourning those who died. "Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Subcultures" stated that, for most gay men in the United States, AIDS was no longer an emergency and that a "crisis mentality" was no longer useful. The books were hailed by critics for their sociopolitical analysis mixed with intensely personal ruminations on sex, loss and community.
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