Thursday, September 19, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
Hollywood AIDS publicity
only first step to awareness
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"It is a town near hysteria. Since
Bock Hudson's confession, actresses
have been shunning love scenes with
gay co-stars. In a world known for easy
sexuality, even a social kiss is sus
pect..." The above quote is, surprisingly,
from the cover of People magazine. The
entertainment publication took time
out from its usual quota of stories on
Liz Taylor's waistline and Jackie O's
breathing patterns to report on how
AIDS is affecting Hollywood and showbiz-
,
It is indeed sad when awareness
about AIDS must be glamorous before
people will open their eyes to an epi
demic that has been , gaining fatal
momentum for more than three years.
Scott
Harrah
Hollywood's stars are the U.S. coun
terpart of European royalty, and people
have always been influenced by the
rich and famous. As ludicrous as it is,
the media exploitation of Rock Hud
son's fight with AIDS has finally made
people conscious of what could become
the most dangerous disease of this
century. .
So, since many people have made
the incorrect assumption that only
gays and heroin junkies get AIDS, the
media went to the stars to make people
listen.
Elizabeth Taylor, that heroine of
many suburban housewives, summed up
the reality of AIDS best: "I cannot
stress how important it is to learn what
AIDS is and to realize that it's a serious
threat to all humankind: men, women
and children."
Some of the country's housewives will I
probably get in their station wagons,
drive to the post office to mail their
college children's tuition money, then
go to the supermarket to buy groceries
and a copy of People magazine. When
UNL flute prof essor
in faculty recital
UNL flute professor David Van de
Bogart will present a faculty recital at 8
p.m. today in Kimball Recital Hall, 1 1th
and R streets.
Van de Bogart will perform works by
Handel, Debussy and Doppler. Also on
the program is an anonymous work
titled "Selections from the Delightful
Pocket Companion from the German
Transverse Flute," which he will per
form on a William S. Haynes wooden
flute built in 1917.
He will be accompanied by Cathe
rine Herbener, keyboard, and by Donna
Harler, narrator.
they read Taylor's comments, they'll
think: "Gee, Liz seems to think this
AIDS business could happen to my
daughter. Hmmm."
It won't be enough though. AIDS will
continue to spread.
However, awareness isn't going to do
any harm; it's the first step in actions
aimed at finding a cure.
Like it or not, homosexuals have
been behind a large portion of the glitz
and creativity in Hollywood, Broadway
and the art world for ages. It's only
natural that AIDS has caused hysteria
among stars of the film and stage but
that's not important in this issue.
What is important, and most of all
disturbing, is that people have used
AIDS to discriminate against homo
sexuals instead of trying to stop the
disease. When Hudson announced he
had AIDS, all that people cared about
was whether he was gay and if Linda
Evans, whom he kissed on "Dynasty,"
would contract the disease.
Right-wing warbler Jerry Falwell feels
homosexuals should be quarantined
because AIDS is purportedly "God's
wrath against a perverted lifestyle."
Isn't it interesting that studies show
that lesbians are at a lower AIDS risk
than heterosexual women, Mr. Falwell?
AIDS is a killer that just happened
to strike the homosexual population
first the rest of us are next. AIDS
should not be used as a moral or per
sonal judgment against normal people
who happen to sleep with their own
gender.
Of course, we live in a country where
just 30 years ago we used to make
blacks use a separate drinking foun
tain because they had a darker skin
pigmentation.
That is the same type of abysmal
mentality that is so prevalent in Amer
ica today. "AIDS just kills the faggots,"
people say. "And we could use a good
queer cleanser."
Those people are' the same bigots
who won't be laughing so lacadaisically
when AIDS finally hits places like
Nebraska in full force.
It won't arrive in the form of a swishy
hairdresser. More likely it will arrive in
the form of buxom blondes with bisex
ual boyfriends in LA. the same
blondes the bigots will pick up at the
local bar.
Maybe this new, fashionable AIDS
awareness will keep that from happen
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