April 1, 1985

Gay Peoples Chronicle

page 7

TRIVIA CORNER

Now that you have become aware of lesbian/gay issues on the local, state, and national levels, it's time to sit back and try your luck with the April edition of the TRIVIA CORNER.

1) Which state passed the first laws preventing discrimination against lesbians. and gays?

2) Kaiser Wilhelm II's

Chief of the Military Cabinet dropped dead at the

Kaiser's feet while dressed

in what garb?

3) What prompted the first ever closing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay

Bridge?

4) How long can sperm remain alive and active?

5) How many states forbid same-sex marriages?

6) What would you knead in order to make dill bread?

7) After a disappointment in love with Kate Anthon, what Amherst, Mass., poet retreated to her room for virtually the rest of her life?

Vivian Leigh (Scarlett) about to slap Butterfly McQueen (Prissie)

8) How big was Scarlett O'Hara's waist?

the air in San Francisco that keeps women from getting pregnant? ANSWERS

9) On April 8, 1476, what Florentine artist was char1) Wisconsin ged with engaging in unnatu2) A ballerina costume ral activities with a 17year-old boy?

10)

AIDS TEST

nate the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to be the sole non-blood donor testing site. Their plan is that when someone comes in for the test they must first see The counselor a counselor. will attempt to dissuade the person from taking the test. Sacramento was a test site for such a model. Eighty per cent of the prospective test-takers opted not to go through with it.

Another bill being considered in California would make the test strictly anonymous. Instead of giving a name, you are assigned a number. The fear of a national registry for those who test seropositive is very real. A positive test in one's medical records could potentially fall into the hands of employers, insurance companies, landlords, etc. Gay men could easily become the victims of discrimination.

Should test results remain absolutely confidential,

What is said to be in

3) A "popper" factory blew up under one of the approaches

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to how to deal with the AIDS problem. On the issue of the blood test, I hope they look to the Netherlands.

there is still the possibiling to the U.S. for clues as ity that an employer or insurer may simply ask, "Have you ever tested positive on an HTLV-III antibody test?" To falsify the response could end

in automatic dismissal or cancellation of a policy.

My more radical friends suggest that the camps used to house Japanese-Americans during World War II are being removated to quarantine those of us who test seropositive.

Local health departments and blood donor centers are looking to the state health departments for direction as to how to proceed with this test. State health departments are looking to the National Institutes of Health. Unfortunately, Dr. Robert Gordon, second in command at the Institutes, A spokesperson for the said in New York two months NGTF said that in New York ago that "neither he nor NIH City pressure is being put was much interested in impoon policy makers to regulate sing strict regulations on the distribution of the test testing and confidentiality. to blood donor centers, AIDS Work on your local levels research facilities, and gay with local institutions." health care clinics to attempt to dissuade gay men from taking the test. Interestingly, the Netherlands has banned the use of the test except in one research project being conducted there.

Other countries are look-

His comments absolved Margaret Heckler and the Reagan administration of responsibility in what is very obviously a touchy issue.

Until there is some refinement in this blood test so that it may become a useful tool rather than a threat, I

4) Three days after inter-

course

5) One (Texas)

6) dill dough

7) Emily Dickens on

8) 17 inches

9) Leonardo Da Vinci 10) Men's legs

Special thanks go to the makers of the Trivia Gayme.

strongly urge people in high risk groups--primarily gay men--to refrain from donating blood and to continue to follow safe sex guidelines; and not to take this test unless it is administered as part of well credentialed research projects.

Vaugh Guilty

Angelo Vaughn, who strangled Bratenahl financier Thomas Hoyt Jones, Jr., on Kelleys Island November 4, was found guilty of murder by a Sandusky jury February 21. Although his attorney tried to make Hoyt's gayness the focus of the trial, arguing that Vaught accidentally killed the 70-year-old victim while defending himself from sexual attack, the jury found this argument unimpressive. The Plain Dealer account quoted one juror as saying, "Even if Mr. Jones was a homosexual, that still didnt mean the kid had to kill him."