Interesting story. I remember this atrocity as if it was yesterday. My one contact with Act Up was in the lobby of the Ford Foundation - the left wing think tank and one of the prettiest buildings in the city. For whatever reason, Ford ran afoul of Act Up so when they entered, they didn’t have access to the executive suite, so they descended upon the receptionist, tore her phone out, ripped up her day book and screamed bloody curses at her. One of the worst things I’ve seen outside of a film of a Bund meeting.
Hope all is well with you, dear Miz D.
I must say I don't understand these things. I see huge internal contradictions. For instance the Sex Radicals derive great satisfaction from their claim that Catholics don't give a s**t what the dogmas of the Church are, they fornicate, contracept, rip up their babies, and bugger each other as much as anybody else (they have statistics! they can prove it!) --- and yet they shriek about the Catholic Church "dictating" to them about their sexlives and deathlives.
If nobody listens to Catholic doctrine; if Catholics themselves sin and grin with the biggest sinners & grinners -- then why do they care that the doctrines in the dusty un-read catechisms still say they are wrong? Why is Catholicism Public Enemy #1 if it is a toothless witless doddering fossil which nobody pays attention to anymore? It's like the Gheys getting all incensed because they would be reproved by Zeno of Citium.
After they have destroyed Theology, they will have to destroy Biology. Having banned Genesis, they'll have to ban Genetics. They will end up denying that our fellow large mammals were created male and female. They will end up ritually destroying their bodies, because their bodies reprove them.