New York Native
gay newspaper | |
Publisher | Charles Ortleb |
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Editor | Charles Ortleb |
Founded | December 5, 1980 |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | January 13, 1997 |
Headquarters | New York City |
The New York Native was a biweekly
First news story on AIDS
On May 18, 1981, the New York Native, then America's most influential gay newspaper, published the first newspaper report on the disease that became known as
Last week there were rumors that an exotic new disease had hit the gay community in New York. Here are the facts. From the
Next month, on June 5, 1981, the CDC published the world's first clinical report on what became AIDS in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).[4] On that same date, the CDC report was picked up and reported by the Los Angeles Times as the first mainstream newspaper coverage of the new disease.[5] The New York Times followed suit on July 3, 1981. Although the Native covered the story almost three weeks prior, the June 5th date is often used as the first report of AIDS.[5]
Larry Kramer article on AIDS
In 1983,
In his piece, Kramer said: "If this article doesn't rouse you to anger, fury, rage and action, gay men may have no future on this Earth."[9]
AIDS Activist History
Between 2014 and 2018, 70 interviews with AIDS activists were conducted by the AIDS Activist History Project.[10] The interviewees actively organized movements around Canada between the 1980s and 1990s. These interviews shared a variety of tales of resilience, loss, and struggle. An interview with Barry Deeprose reveals his first interactions with AIDS, how he only was able to access information from newspapers, specifically the New York Native, and how Public Health Canada neglected to discuss it. "Nevertheless, they had really strong and good stories. And there was nothing else! We could get nothing from Public Health; Health Canada didn't even know, they just weren't interested. It seems to me, and I'm not sure if Perrin Beatty was the Minister of Health at that point, but he couldn't even say the word "AIDS" or "gay."[11]
Controversy and demise
In a
Another contributing factor is that New York City, with an LGBT community that was often fractious and bitterly divided along gender, age and racial lines, has a long history of being a graveyard for gay publications. Those that have come and gone include
All of these publications also had to compete with the
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Final edition – analysis of the cause of closure of the New York Native gay issues publication, Chris Bull, The Advocate, February 18, 1997 Archived February 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ And The Band Played On Randy Shilts, St. Martin's Press, 2000
- ^ ISBN 0-520-20233-3.
- ^ ISBN 0-231-11952-6
- ^ a b c Word for Word/Nameless Dread; 20 Years Ago, the First Clues To the Birth of a Plague Jack Begg, The New York Times, June 3, 2001
- ^ Specter, Michael (2002-05-13). "Profiles: Public Nuisance". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
- ^ Gay Ol' Times Steven Weinstein, The New York Blade, November 21, 2007 Archived November 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Text of 1,112 and Counting Larry Kramer, 1983 Archived November 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ruling Shows How Far Nation Has Come on Epidemic, Justin Gillis, The Washington Post, June 26, 1998
- ^ "AIDS Activist History: Interviews".
- ^ Deeprose, Barry (August 25, 2016). "Aids Activist History Project: Interview Transcript 47" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Alexis Shotwell. Ottawa. p. 2.
- ^ Controversial Gay Magazine Shuts Down, The New York Times, Robin Pogrebin, January 9, 1997
- ^ Halbfinger, David M. (22 October 1997). "A Mini-War of Gay Newspapers; A New Weekly Draws Fire Even Before Its First Issue". The New York Times.
External links
- Final edition – analysis of the cause of closure of the New York Native gay issues publication, Chris Bull, The Advocate, February 18, 1997
- New York Native records, 1981-1988 at Manuscripts and Archives Division at the New York Public Library
- Scanned copies of The New York Native at the Internet Archive