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- NATION, Page 57American NotesSAN FRANCISCOSafe Sex and The Flag
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- Advertisements in San Francisco bus shelters seldom provoke
- double takes, but an eye-popping poster on display in 30 bus
- shelters is proving an exception. It depicts two naked young
- men partly wrapped in the U.S. flag. One of them has an arm
- about the other while his free hand holds a condom. The
- caption: LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
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- Funded by $10,000 from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation,
- the ad campaign comes on the heels of a new study showing that
- an alarming 40.7% of gay and bisexual men from 20 to 24 who
- were treated in sexual-disease clinics were infected with the
- AIDS virus. What disturbed researchers most: 36% of the young
- gays were having sex without a condom, 71% when having sex with
- a steady boyfriend. Says Lewis Lillian, general manager of
- Gannett Transit, which is donating half the space for the bus
- shelter campaign: "Those studies are terrifying."
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