28 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE NOVEMBER 10, 1995

ABOVE THE FRUITED PLAIN

HIV RESEARCH STUDY Disney presents: A hundred

for

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV)

Volunteers living with HIV are needed to help evaluate a new investigational treatment for cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, a viral infection that can be sight-threatening for those with HIV infection.

Oral ganciclovir has been shown to be an effective treatment for CMV retinitis. This study will compare the availability in the body of a new, unmarketed formulation of oral ganciclovir with a formulation that is already is use.

The study requires that individuals stay at Novum's facility in Pittsburgh for 5 days and 4 nights on 4 separate occasions, each separated by three days. Participants must be HIV and CMV positive, though have no history of active CMV disease. A free screening examination will confirm your eligibility for the study. Participants will take the marketed and unmarketed versions of oral ganciclovir and have blood samples taken.

Upon completion of the study, participants will be paid $1,500.00. For further information or to find out if you qualify, please call:

1-800-881-8871

All calls are confidential.

There is no obligation if you call.

TINC

NOVUM

Pharmaceutical Research Services

5900 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206

and one damnations

by Aubrey Wertheim

The Disney Company will offer health insurance to live-in partners of gay and lesbian employees. The new policy will not cover live-in heterosexual couples.

(Ring...)

-USA Today

(Click) "Hi! We're not home right now to take your call, but leave your name and number at the crack of doom and we'll get back to you." (Bee-e-ep)

"Adam! It's mother. Is that an Armageddon joke? Never mind. I'm so furious! My unmentionables are in such a twist!

"First, we hear that Disney is conferring family status where it don't belong, offering health benefits to homosexual partners of homosexual employees. Sodom and Orlando! Ol' Walt must be spinning in his Mouseketomb!

"Then we watched Uncle Ben on the 700 Club explain how this is a whole campaign of The Gay Agenda, to corrupt the entire Mickey Mouse operation! They've already pressured them to accept an annual Gay Day (Imagine-same-sex dancing and God knows what else!), employee protection (from what? from whom?) and even infiltrating the animation department (I knew that Genie cross-dressing in Aladdin couldn't have been in the original story).

"And now, we come home to your message on our machine saying you and Steve have been transferred from playing the Daffy Duck and Daisy parts to Chippendales. Chippendales? Male strippers at Disney World?

"Fantasyland has gone too far!

"As it turns out, this weekend, that divine Chuck Colson is leading a "Take Back the Magic Kingdom Night.” We're flying down there to join him. Should be a massive outpouring. The whole "no-censorship-justmedia-policing" artillery: men's groups, mothers' groups, youth crusades. They're even hauling Anita Bryant out of the cedar chips to juice up the event. Give that woman a fresh hair appointment and sound bites and she could strong-arm the Vatican to unload its porn!

"Now, Adam, we want you packed up and ready to leave by Sunday night. Your father and I don't want our only begotten son associated with anything so depraved as Disney. All the production values in this small world can't cover up a moral cesspit. Bibbitybobbity-phooey!

"Steve will just have to find some other place to live. Personally, I think a man who says he can't find an affordable place of his own for five and a half years, obviously isn't looking very hard.

"You just make sure you're ready to fly like Tinkerbelle-er-make that Dumbo.

"Can't talk any more! We're off for a demonstration at Blockbuster. Apparently, a Little Mermaid poster is on display that has a male genitalia lurking somewhere in the background.

"Ooh, I get the spiritual bends at the very thought!

"Love you!" (Click.)

Above the Fruited Plain is a regular column by Aubrey Wertheim, a writer based in Oberlin.

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