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HIV+ Texas Man Sentenced to 35 Years for Spitting
An HIV positive Texas man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for allegedly spitting in the face of a police officer during an arrest for public intoxication. Willie Campbell, a 42 year old resident of Dallas was convicted of ‘assault with a deadly weapon’ for spitting on an arresting officer after being placed in the squad car. HIV is not spread through saliva- a fact which has been known since the early days of the epidemic. The Texas court system is using Mr. Campbell’s HIV status as a weapon against him- and by extension all people living with HIV.
San Francisco Values an Issue In Missouri Congressional Race
This idiotic ad from GOP congressman Sam Graves, whose seat is being challenged by former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes, is a lowbrow homophobic attempt to smear Barnes by calling her out on her “San Francisco Values”. Does he honestly think we go around dressed like the Village People sipping white wine doing the hustle on cable cars? Geez louise, buy that man a clue.
Portland, Oregon Elects a Gay Mayor
Sam Adams, an openly gay man whose family lived on “food stamps and public housing” as he grew up, has been elected Portland, Oregon’s mayor. As such, he’ll be the first openly gay mayor of a top-40 U.S. city.
Maltese Court: Describing a Person as Homosexual is not Defamatory
The Court of Magistrates in a judgment declared that describing a person as homosexual was not defamatory in today’s society. Magistrate Michael Mallia ruled that a person’s sexual orientation in the current society was not of social interest bar that of assuring that no discrimination is made. The fact that homosexuality was a criminal offence until 1973, said the magistrate, does not reflect the situation in the 21st century. The magistrate’s ruling came after three local papers described a homicide victim as a homosexual and his brother sued them for defaming the memory of his brother. The court sympathised with the man, however, it deemed that the report was correctly based on the fact that the police held the victim’s sexual orientation as central to its investigation. The murder is still unsolved.