One of the blessings, or curses, of retirement is being able to schedule your day around yourself and not around a forced schedule or someone else’s will.

For me, I get up, make coffee, get on my computer to read emails, Facebook, and news outlets looking for an idea for a cartoon, while talking heads on various cable news shows drone on in the background.

On a good day you might have a congressional hearing,  but usually it seems mostly minor stories being stretched to fill time, or someone making a passing comment that, by the time  I have drawn a cartoon and am heading out the door, has become a major topic for speculation and discussion.

I have listened as Pete Buttigieg went from being Gay, perhaps not Gay enough, to becoming electable, then maybe not the favorite of Black people, to it is wrong to compare the struggles of Gays to those of Blacks, a topic that only came up when, out of the blue, someone said not to do that when no one actually had.

Now we have an “us/them” situation that has protagonists and antagonist defined by whether you are Black or Gay.

Once again, those not from either group are explaining the thoughts of both.

So now there is a discussion about whether or not it is appropriate to compare the Black struggle with the Gay one.

While both sides have struggled and as the members of both groups have experiential knowledge of their own struggle, any knowledge of the experience of the other is at best academic.

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They are two different struggles, each legitimate in its own right, but, of course, they are different, and neither group is making the comparison.

Pundits are.

Now as the discussions of the issues that the candidates want to address are ignored in favor of this topic, someone throws out the term identity politics, and the discussion begins about the candidates personal traits, and the candidates, who did not bring it up, are condemned for what others have decided to talk about.

Most of the times the topic has come up, those discussing it are straight white people with an occasional straight black person to give the balanced view.

They seem to be reluctant to include a Gay person, most likely because, as most gay people I know don’t compare our struggle for our civil rights to those of Black Americans, a Gay panelist might point that all we ask is that our struggle be recognized and valued for the people who fought it and the results they won.

Two groups can have had their struggles without the need to compare and contrast.

Blacks and Gays both struggled, and continue to. But neither wants to win a who wore it best competition.

Of course, lost in the latest created controversy is the fact that someone both Gay and Black might have an opinion on this.

Perhaps the pundits can ask.

If you thought we left the 80s behind us as knowledge replaced ignorance, brace yourselves.

According to a study by the Pharmaceutical company Merck and the HIV initiative Prevention Access Campaign, 41% of HIV-negative Gen Z respondents were either not at all informed or only somewhat informed about HIV, and among millennials the figure is 23%

Worse, and this is something those who witnessed the reaction to AIDS back then, 28% of HIV-negative millennials avoid hugging, talking to, or being friends with someone with HIV, as if the virus can be transmitted by casual contract, with 30% saying they would prefer not to interact socially with someone with HIV, and have avoided shaking hands or sharing food.

Remember the proposals for concentration type camps for people with AIDS and our friends isolated in out of the way hospital rooms to protect the staff and other patients?

There were and still are more subtle ways to isolate.A little enlightenment. If you go out in public to well attended places like concerts and the clubs, you are associating with, talking to, and most likely touching someone who is HIV positive in some fashion.

Merc and PAC had conducted the survey, Owning HIV: Young Adults and the Fight Ahead, as they prepared to unveil a new HIV-prevention project.

Not surprisingly, the study found that this lack of knowledge  has resulted in 76% of young adults being hesitant to share their status to avoid being judged, and 90% not sharing their status for fear of losing friends or family, or even experiencing abuse.

When it came to HIV prevention, more than 50% of respondents admitted  they didn’t use condoms or PrEP.

The survey involved 1,596 people between the ages of 18 and 36 the age group in which the rate of transmission has increased, while I as fell among the general population fell.

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According to Bruce Richman, founding executive director of Prevention Access Campaign and  founder of the Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) campaign,

“Despite scientific advances and decades of HIV advocacy and education, the findings highlight a disturbing trend: young adults overwhelmingly are not being informed effectively about the basics of HIV.

It’s time to elevate a real conversation about HIV and sexual health among America’s young people, and roll out innovative and engaging initiatives to educate and fight HIV stigma.”

Dr. Eliav Barr, senior vice president, Global Medical Affairs, Merck Research Laboratories, has said,

 “We are proud to partner with the community to conduct this campaign and ultimately have a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities experienced by young adults living with and affected by HIV in the U.S.

We are actively applying these findings to inform forward-looking programming that will seek to educate and empower this population.Our goal is to help improve overall understanding and literacy while elevating the urgency around this critical public health issue.”

You do not want a repeat of the 1980s, and you certainly do not want to be victims of your own ignorance when the facts are available.

So, put down the phones, ignore the texts from friends who know no more than you, and, regardless how icky and un-fun the facts are, get them.

Don’t become a Jerry Falwell-Silent Majority-Born Again Christian-Ronald Reagan-Conservative-Republican clone.

The originals sat back hoping for a Gay genocide, but had to settle for a decimation of a generation of us.

A little information.

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The correct pronunciation is Mah-SAHS-oh-wheat.

Back in the 1980s when the AIDS pandemic began, until it was realized that many Straight people who had died oddly from pneumonia had actually succumbed to AIDS, and it was convenient both politically and religiously to do nothing because, well, it was just “them” dying, ignorance obviously ruled the day.

There was little compassion, but plenty of misinformation, making religious hay while the sun shone, and jokes about those who had AIDS and those most likely to get it.

Gays and Haitians made for great joke fodder.                                 

When it was realized the virus had no sexual orientation and was affecting the whole population, something had to be done, but the ignorance that had been allowed to spread as justification for inactivity was not so easy to rein in.

Research began to show how complicated this plague from God actually was, and science began to find that there was a difference between exposure to HIV and having full blown AIDS, and this meant that, even without a cure, there were ways to deal with both, making AIDS something that could be seen as a manageable condition and not just a death sentence.

Over time it has been found that someone who is HIV positive, knows their status, is on effective medication, and has consistently had an undetectable viral load cannot pass on the virus.

PrEP, widely available, prevents people from acquiring HIV, making it possible for long-term serodiscordant relationships in which one partner is HIV positive and one is HIV negative.

Isolation and loneliness are no longer part of the situation.

But there is still the fear, which is a remnant of the days of unfettered ignorance, that even exposure to HIV, the virus that can become AIDS, means once a person is diagnosed, it’s over.

Good people, both Gay and Straight, have found that it is easier to abstain from sex and avoid even the thought of a loving relationship because acknowledging HIV status could be met with embarrassingly ignorant rejection.

For some older people, revealing HIV status has that familiar feel that coming out had, that lack of knowing what the reaction will be, a reaction that could be violent and emotionally deflating.

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The result is that a potential relationship, beneficial to both parties, is killed before it starts, and both people lose.

Recently, in an article in Queerty, a GLBT news website, the author wrote informing people that they had nothing to fear dating and falling in love with people who are HIV positive, stating,

“Yes, take responsibility for your health and do what you feel is best for you. But do so with an awareness of the potential consequences of those decisions. Refusing to entertain the idea of dating an HIV-positive person might just mean you miss out on the love of your life.”

The article was informational and helpful in that it spoke of the meaning of an undetectable viral load, the existence of PrEP as prevention, and the possibility that people, who assumed theirs was going to be a life alone, could find and benefit from a relationship with another person, something those already in one understand.

There were mixed responses to the article. Along with those who expressed acceptance of the new information, some showed that readers had totally missed the point, and some simply rejected the new information in favor of holding on to the old.

Some people responded by saying that HIV negative people should “protect their own health” rather than have sex with positive people, ignoring that undetectable people are incapable of passing on the virus.

It was one of those times when, if some information was helpful act on it, but if it is irrelevant to you, move on.

But Bonehead, son of Bone Spurs, who had no relevance until his father became president, and basically still does not, felt obligated to reveal his ongoing ignorance by tweeting a middle school level joke, I am sure complete with a moronic snort as he wrote it, perpetuating and promoting outdated misconceptions.

Donald Trump Jr. sent out a tweet in response to the title of the article, “What you stand to lose by not having sex with people with HIV”, in spoiled, frat-boy fashion,

“Well I can think of one thing.”

He obviously insinuated that those having sex with HIV+ people are at risk of contracting AIDS and losing their life.

HIV is not the same as AIDS, which develops when the HIV virus has gone untreated and reaches its final stages. This has been known for a long time, and should be known by someone like Junior who feels he is in a position to enlighten us with his ideas and opinions.

He should also know that AIDS does not automatically lead to death, and that with proper medical treatment the vast majority of HIV+ people never contract AIDS and reach healthy life expectancies.

And he should know that if he feels his pronouncements have weight, they should be informed.

Something just below the radar that many might have missed, but is important in the bigger picture.

Although I may have driven a tractor in high school, pitched hay in college, owned a house in a town with a population of 895 people where the majority of the town’s square mileage were cranberry bogs, fields of corn, and pastures filled with horses and cows, taught with a gentleman whose family had raised dairy cows for generations, and for a time lived in Oklahoma and went to farm and ranch related events with friends ho ere farmers and ranchers, having been born in Boston and raised in the suburbs, I may have been familiar with the 4-H Club and known how important it is to its members, but I was not part of it.

In my time in the small town, I attended local county fairs and individual town festivals, once while employed part time at a Sears, handed out charge card applications for a week at a county fair, where very proud kids with even prouder parents showed off the results of their hard work raising various animals, and, although to me a cow was just a cow, a chicken just a chicken, and a rabbit just a rabbit, to the kids who won the ribbons and those who didn’t measure up, there was something major there that I was missing.

And judging from my fellow teacher, that pride of accomplishment stays with the winners long after the blue on the ribbon faded.

The four Hs in the club’s name stand for ‘head, heart, hands, and health’, words contained in the 4-H oath,

“I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world.”

Like any group for kids, the kids who might want to join the4-H Club are as diverse as the general population, and, so to ensure that any kid who might want to join won’t be turned away, the organization in Iowa, which is run by Iowa State University updated its diversity guidelines to read,

“Iowa 4-H does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Veteran in any of its programs or activities.”

In short, anyone with the desire to join and the commitment to live up to the pledge can sign up without fear of refusal because of someone else’s beliefs whether religious, political or personal, someone the kids do not know and who may have no connection or interest in the organization beyond it being one more thing over which they can exercise some self assumed control.

A person’s potential is not to be limited by anyone seeking to exercise more power or claiming a right that they really don’t have to do so.

The proposed language comes from Iowa State University which oversees the program there, and when it was published on the appropriate websites, that institution issued the statement,

“At the encouragement of the USDA (which oversees the program nationally), Iowa 4-H is reviewing a preliminary draft guidance regarding LGBT Youth and Volunteers… The preliminary draft guidance is not final and will not be implemented until the review process is completed. Any final guidance issued will consider the comments received, as well as Iowa State University policy, State and Federal law, USDA guidance on these issues, and input from our campus, State, and local community partners. ISU Extension and Outreach is dedicated to creating a safe and inclusive atmosphere for all Iowa youth participating in 4-H programs and activities.”

And the negative comments came swiftly, and were predictable.

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It was removed from its website by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the department within the USDA directly over 4-H, the day after it appeared.

Iowa state director Jean-Paul Chaisson-Cárdenas started getting death threats from right wingers and evangelicals when he refused to take down the proposed guidance ISU’s site, insisting that 4-H “is for all kids.”

Many state legislators and officials from Iowa State University are right wing Republicans, so they acted to make the evangelicals happy.

Liberty Council threatened lawsuits and put out an action alert.

The Family Leader, whose mission it claims is to be a consistent, courageous voice in the churches, in the legislature, in the media, in the courtroom, and in the public square, posted on its website,

 “ISU is looking to implement a new policy for Iowa’s 4-H clubs that would dictate: 1. Men who claim to be women (without any medical or legal verification) must be allowed to bunk with 4H girls on overnight trips, 2. Men who claim to be women must be allowed access to girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms and 3. Local 4-H clubs must overrule parental “objections or concerns” to enforce the transgender policy.”

They chose to ignore the Commandment against lying to misrepresent the intent of the policy and promote false tropes about Transgender people.

Eventually, Chaisson-Cárdenas was fired over his support for the policy.

Iowa State University claims they’re about “equal opportunity”.  

The guidelines are actually in synch with Iowa’s civil rights laws, the Iowa Department of Education’s guidance on transgender students, and the inclusive language of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, all of which do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or status as a U.S. veteran.

In spite of the attempts of the Trump administration to exclude GLBT youth from full citizenship and equality, and the religious crowd’s attempt to discriminate on the basis of its twisted religious beliefs by promoting fear inducing and intellectually insulting misinformation, when the comment period ended and reason prevailed, the Iowa 4-H Club issued its guidelines which state,

“Iowa 4-H Youth Development follows Federal and State law and Iowa State University policy regarding non-discrimination. In keeping with Federal and State law, Iowa 4-H does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Veteran in any of its programs or activities. ISU Extension and Outreach is dedicated to creating a safe and inclusive atmosphere for all Iowa youth participating in 4-H programs and activities. Accommodations needed to promote a safe and inclusive atmosphere for all Iowa Youth participating in 4-H Programs will be done in compliance with Federal and State law on a case-by-case basis.

Overview: Iowa 4-H Youth Development has a goal to provide a safe and welcoming experience for all 4-H youth. ISU Extension and Outreach will work with staff, the Iowa Extension CouncilAssociation and partners to discuss and refine how to address reasonable accommodation requests from parents. County staff and councils are the conduit to volunteers, parents and partners and they make the local decisions about accommodations. ISU Extension and Outreach will offer advice, information and education.”

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It is not just a whistle blower any more.

Jim Jordan likes to present himself a someone on the moral high ground and dismisses the accusations of former members of his college wrestling team as something he had no direct knowledge about.

Had he, he would have done something.

A report by the law firm Perkins Coie* established this past summer that the longtime doctor for Ohio State athletic teams, Richard Strauss, had sexually abused at least 177 male athletes from 1979 to 1996 at Ohio State University.

While Jordan presents the findings of the report as exoneration by saying,

“They talked to hundreds … of people. And the university, for people who were harmed, is going to pay for their counseling, But it confirms everything I said. If we’d have known about it, we’d have reported it. It confirms everything I’ve said before. I didn’t know about anything. If I would’ve, I’d have done something,”

because the report noted that

investigations “did not identify any contemporaneous documentary evidence that members of the OSU coaching staff, including head coaches or assistant coaches, received or were aware of complaints regarding Strauss sexual misconduct,”

Jordan conveniently ignores that wile the failure to have any documentation in writing might mean there was nothing reported, it also could illustrate that any complaints, direct or indirect, received no follow up especially as the report also notes that athletes said they “openly discussed Strauss’ behavior in front of the coaching staff, and 22 coaches confirmed “ they were aware of rumors and/or complaints about Strauss, dating back to the late 1970s and extending into the mid-1990s.

So Jordan is accepting those parts of the report that favor his claim while ignoring those parts that put his lack of act into question.

Jordan might be able to rely in his own mind that he had not seen anything himself so his inaction was justified, or that someone claiming something was a dismissible whistle blower, but, now, a college wrestling referee claims in a new lawsuit that he told Jim Jordan two decades ago that Strauss had masturbated in the shower in front of him, and that the response he got from OSU head coach Russ Hellickson and his assistant, Jim Jordan, was

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The referee is the second person to claim he told Jordan about being sexually approached or molested by Strauss.

Multiple former wrestlers have previously accused Jordan of turning a blind eye to the abuse.

I taught high school for many years, and although I had no connection directly with any athletic teams beyond having athletes in my class and attending games, I, and other teachers, heard rumors of inappropriate behavior by members of the coaching staff and reported hem so that the rumors could be confirmed or dispelled.

His denial is very convenient and unrealistic.

According to the report that Jordan claims exonerates him and supports his claim that he just hadn’t heard anything, from 1978 to 1998 Strauss had sexually abused at least 177 male students with the earliest known abuse dating back to 1979.

Ohio State now admits in a 2019 report  that Strauss had committed at least 1,429 sexual assaults and 47 rapes while employed by the school.

That seems a very high number that could not have never possibly become a topic of gossip or legitimate conversation among students and somehow brought to attention of someone in authority.

A second referee has said that he was also sexually abused by Strauss in 1990 or 1991, and had called OSU’s Athletic Department to report the incident a few days after a massage from the doctor went a bit too far. He reported that he had been fondled while getting an ACE bandage wrapped during the wrestling meet, and gave the person with whom he spoke his name and phone number.

In spite of being told that his report would be taken care of, he was never contacted by anyone from OSU regarding his report.

Jordan was employed as an assistant coach for the wrestling team 1986 and 1994.

*If Perkins Coie has a familiar ring to it, it is the law firm that Jim Jordan included in his list of un-American bad guys that he connected to the Steele Dossier when he was filibustering Fiona Hill during the impeachment hearings on Thursday, November 21, 2019 while attempting to introduce a distraction and deflection.