An attack presumes fear on the part of the attacker(s).
What were Dorothy Bryant's attackers fearing?
What do Dr. Fauci's and Dr. Redfield's attackers fear - enough to risk prison?
In A Day in San Francisco and Literary Lynchings, Dorothy Bryant made clear that her writings were considered a threat to sexual authoritarianism: nothing must be allowed to challenge or interrupt gay sex, wherever and whenever people wanted to have it and no matter what the consequences would be.
This is where Dorothy Bryant has been prescient: during both pandemics, honest scientific and non-scientific observers stated the obvious - containment of the virus(es) and their variants is most important to our survival and requires changes in our lives - sometimes at the most personal levels.
The results of combined panic and ignorance (a phrase invented by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer at the beginning of his persecution for thinking the H-Bomb "evil and inhumane") have been and are similar during both pandemics.
During AIDS, advocating the avoidance of dangerous, anonymous sexual encounters met with accusations of sexual repression and political stigmatization, obscenely compared with the isolation, then extermination, of Jews during the Holocaust. click here
Gays advocating physical and sexual safety were called "anti-sex ". Click Here
Larry Kramer, one of the first gay men to speak out about the dangers unsafe sex posed to brother gays, was ostracized by the gay community he was trying to save, as a man would hold back a subway jumper. Click Here
Dr. Charles Socarides, a New York psychoanalyst, was threatened with death in the middle of the night over the telephone. His beliefs based on forty years of psychoanalytic practice asserted that rejection of the boy child by his father could, along with an emotionally desperate mother turning to the boy child for companionship, sometimes produce a confused and hurting homosexual. Often, his patients' hardest work was becoming independent of the haunting rejection by the father and also of the unhealthy emotional closeness of the mother.
Alix Spiegel in Click Here on how Dr. Socarides and colleagues were treated:
"It wasn't just professional rejection. Personally, Bieber and Socarides had become targets. Angry gay activists followed them around, protesting every paper. There were threatening phone calls late at night and obscene messages scratched into the paint of department bathroom stalls."
During the current Covid-19 pandemic, advocating mask wearing and social distancing and avoidance of large groups (where one showering of germs could cause many to become ill with Covid) have been met with accusations of loss of freedom, more insane comparisons with Jews during the Holocaust, a call by certain pastors calling themselves Christian to trust in Jesus, not in vaccines. click here
In Los Angeles, a reporter named Frank Stoltze later told a police officer he had been assaulted while trying to conduct an interview during an anti-vaccine rally. Capt. Stacy Spell, a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman, confirmed that a police report was taken.
Stoltze later tweeted this statement: "Something happened to me today that's never happened in 30 years of reporting. in LA." (Mr. Stoltze writes for st.com.)
"I was shoved, kicked and my eyeglasses were ripped off of my face by a group of guys at a protest outside City Hall during an anti-vax Pro Trump rally." Click Here
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