Letter from the San Francisco County Jail

Hi there!

I snatched up a copy of your Dec. 27 rag I spied blowing around the corridors of SF County Jail where I'm being held as a political prisoner of corrupt AIDS, Inc. A couple of comments and a few questions:

      1. James Allotti was right on target in his recent critique of the loathsome LYRIC. He should be commended as a brave young man who speaks his mind It was distressing that Lyric club members were so defensive towards the outspoken dissident. Seems like they should have at least the courtesy to acknowledge the guy's concerns rather than attack him as nuts. Still, I suppose it's no surprise. This is the same "inclusive" youth group that outright banned gay ACT UP members from sharing literature at last year's "Out Loud and Proud" conference. Karma got them, though. LYRIC members' laziness and inept planning resulted in an abysmally attended LGBT fiasco.

      2. Gary Virginia and Donna Sachet should stop pretending they're doing our community a favor by staging self-promotional publicity stunts under the guise of helping the reprehensible Positive Resource Center (PRC).
I will certainly never forget finding myself lured into that depressing death-trap shortly after I was diagnosed HIV-positive. This was when it was ABC, not PRC, and  before they got big bucks to shuffle supposedly terminal AIDS patients back to work.
Some hot-shot system queen successfully scared the shit out of me by predicting I would live a maximum of five years and warning me never to go quit my low-paying job because I'd need my HMO to cover hospital stays and AZT. I personally can't wait for the collapse of that lousy group and hope all those lying losers who built careers terrifying homosexuals wind up on the unemployment line.

      3. Is that Jerome Caja on the cover? A green-around-the-gills exhumed Jerome? It sure looks like her! I miss Jerome.

      4. Does UCSF get a lot of taxpayer money to conduct "HIV-negative men's groups" at AIDS Health Project as advertised in your  Resource Guide? Isn't that kind of like federally-funded Jenny Craig low-fat cooking classes for ladies lighter than 90 pounds?

Finally, when is your fine gay community newspaper going to sound the alarms over looming legislation to quarantine AIDS patients? It's called the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. It's working it's way through nearly every state's legislature right now. Meanwhile, you people are asleep at the wheel and are keeping queers in the dark. Wake Up!

David Pasquarelli
SF County Jail