in the media
Only a few of the News-Telegraph articles I authored are archived online, thanks to Kevin Jacobs and the Queer Resource Directory:
- Let’s keep Fred Phelps (editorial) 1-27-1995
- Lawrence KS debates right law 1-27-1995
- New policies of inclusion at KC Star 2-10-1995
- Lots of questions for Lawrence ordinance 2-10-1995
- KS activists court pro-choice senators 2-10-1995
My first (and only national) media exposure was in 1975, the year after I graduated from high school. The story? I spent the summer in Brazil as a “Teen Missionary”.
The morning edition Kansas City Times (now defunct) published my debut as a gay rights and AIDS activist in a feature entitled “Kansas City faces up to AIDS”, dated July 8, 1989. The Kansas City Star covered my race as the first openly gay candidate for city council in 1991, and I was frequently quoted in articles regarding the gay and AIDS-affected community in the 1990s.
- Kansas City faces up to AIDS – Kansas City Times, July 8, 1989
- Gay rights candidate running for council – Kansas City Star, January 14, 1991
- Voters will pick 12 of 22 at-large candidates – Kansas City Star, February 15, 1991
- Gay publications are seeing gains in numbers, acceptance – Kansas City Star, September 11, 1992
- County made error on anti-gay petition – Kansas City Star, December 10, 1992
- Midwestern oasis, but no gay paradise – Kansas City Star, March 20, 1994
- Politics, sex altered by AIDS – Kansas City Star, March 21, 1994
- Deadly disease gives birth to political activism by gays – Kansas City Star, March 21, 1994
- 5 honored for gay rights work in area, Kansas City Star, April 11, 1994
A collection of various newspaper articles and videos, mostly from my activist past.
- Rabid Fox no Match for AIDS Dissident – 1 (Sullivan County Democrat reprint)
- Rabid Fox no Match for AIDS Dissident – 2 (Kansas City Star reprint)
- Strange Customs at Customs (Canada) (Xtra)