European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Var body else a Copl to in l. Is to David has planned his funeral and Willen his obituary which will describe George As his me male us won1 mention aids 1o spare unknowing eclat of the funeral Homo owner is a Man who has handled or family s services Lor years to buried my minor 10 ears ago " said David i asked him in there was any Iron Lam embalming me because i will die of aids he Aid absolutely not Ilia my body would be Ira cd with Lig Nily and respect ,-.,.,David identified George Boom of Sioux fa5 As Iho neral director who trea Lod him so . Loom declined to discuss spec lie clients but said his Ohey was Hal All families should be served equally. It s whal we re licensed by the stale to do and if a font do in. Who will said Boom. The new watchword i to Ireal every deceased human body As it .1 has aids. Be have Al tended seminars we use common sense and we heal everyone the same no matter How they the Rev Jan Kross. Pastor or Omaha s metropolitan immunity Church a nationwide denomination with  congregations will conduct David s neral in Sioux Falls "1 won t dwell on David s Causa of  she said bul a her on the Way he lived his Lile to the fullest a title he acknowledged the Brief amount of Lime he was liven Kross described David As a Man driven to help thers learn Nihoul aids and How to avoid in David is making he very Best of the time to has it she said right now. He is so alive " my tort Tim. Patio i exit tit w Tow dymm wet Motif u Many 1. Njmf30.1987 Randy shins Book on aids it the talk of san Francisco. Homosexual s Book on aids is the Scourge of san Francisco by Robert Reinhold new York times i m not a very Good homosexual i can t keep House decorate Cook or dress said Randy  Why he did l want to Meel at his mess apartment. But one thing shills can do Well is report and write and he has written an Ulof giving Book on aids the Scourge of san Francisco the Book a Liming the Best seller lists nationally is the talk of san Francisco where the disease is a Dairy fact of life for almost All residents Gay or heterosexual both his Book and his pioneering reporting on the progression of the disease have Given Shilts. A reporter Lor Tho san Francisco chronicle a measure of local personal recognition and Power thai Lew newspaper reporters enjoy leaders of the City s Large Gay Community Curry favor Wilh him and still debate whether the Brash 36 year old writer is a hero or a traitor to their Causo but Lew have ignored the Book and Tho band played on comics people and the aids epidemic ii Isas Lory with Lew heroes in which sets accuses the Naii Onat press Gay leaders Many medical set enlists and. Most pointedly. The Reagan administration of fiddling while the epidemic raged out of control. On the Day president Reagan delivered his first speech Aboul the epidemic he writes Wilh understated anger Mote than 36.000 americans had been diagnosed with the disease Over 21.000 had died it 1$ a rare Day Al Home for Shilts Between movie negotiations in Hollywood National television appearances and an 1&erly Book Lour. All the attention seems Only to have made the writer More exuberant some say a indent and abrasive than usual. Bul Lew Here begrudge him Success Afler ears of struggling with a Story about a devastating Dase that has claimed Many o his close friends when s nits was hired by the chronicle in i9b1 he was a rarity an openly Gay reporter at a major american newspaper he started to Wale stories about a mysterious Gay cancer and when m 1983. It became Clear that in was a sexually transmitted disease of the immune system. Shilts. Who could talk from personal experience about the promiscuous sexual behaviour of Gay men in san Francisco concluded thai clearly a disaster was in the making his Book is full of anger at Public institutions that he says ignored the disease because Mosi of its victims were Gay he denounces the Reagan administration for saying it did nol need More Money for acquired immune a Ferency syndrome even As Federal medical officials Ere begging for More he says backbiting scientists concealed vital information from each other to Garner credit he criticizes the news med. Saying Hal White they covered the medical news about aids. They generally ignored the Public policy Issue until recently but the Book has Sli Rcd the most reaction Here Lor his Ambi Vatell treatment of Gay leaders Many of whom he argues shared culpability because they eared the Imlah about How aids was spread would destroy hard won liberties his stows focused on the bathhouses where Many believed the disease was being spread there was a Tol of denial in the Gay , he Sake i was going out of my Way to wite As much Aboul aids As i could my very existence was a slap in the face of that denial they said i had gone to work for the chronicle and sold out currying Lavor Wilh my heterosexual Bosses by writing Aboul something thai made Gay people look  Shilts said the pressures worsened his addiction to alcohol from which he is recovering. Bul now. Wilh the bathhouses closed and with the disease having become a nationwide epidemic a motions have subsided and shills is credited by Many Wilh having been prescient he was tremendously courageous said Carole Migden a lesbian Leader who is the chairwoman of the democratic party Here still there is lingering resentment a feeling that shills has unfairly maligned the Gay leadership ii is not True no one would  said Paul m Boneberg executive director of the mobilization against aids there were thousands of people doing everything they could he portrayed the bulk of the Community As inactive and sell destructive " he also suggested that Shis was an Active advocate against the Baths nol merely an of Clive reporter though i m open Aboul being Gay. I do not perceive myself As being an activist of any  shills said 1 he Book has a Point of View but i reject advocacy journalism. I m ust your Basic reporter shall left grew up in Aurora. Us and migrated West to study at the University of Oregon at age 20, he told his friends he was Gay and became Active m Gay politics later reporting for Tho advocate. A Gay newspaper shills described his health As just  although he said he had not taken the aids antibody lest because Here is no medical treatment available in the test is positive and because he engages m no activity believed to spread the virus that causes aids at the chronicle. Alan d mutter a Sislan or Viager editor Lor metropolitan news said thai when he came to the newspaper rpm Chicago two years ago his breath was Laken away by the  of  reporting on aids but he said he came to recognize .1 As a major St tiry he said he saw no conflict o interest in having a Homos Raj reporting on aids and would Lili keep Shilts on the beat even it he came Down Wilh the pcs Law the stars and stripes Page is