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FORT LAUDERDALE - Mayor Jim Naugle and religious leaders held a news conference Tuesday to draw attention to what they described as the moral and health risks of gay sex.Naugle is in a political war with gays that started this summer when he said public bathrooms in Fort Lauderdale are plagued by gay men cruising for sex and added he uses the term "homosexual" because "most of them aren't gay. They're unhappy."At a news conference Tuesday in front of City Hall, Naugle and other conservative speakers called on gays to stop having promiscuous sex, in order to stem Broward County's HIV/AIDS crisis.Although the Health Department has no statistics concerning how many cases of HIV are contracted via sex in public bathrooms or parks, Naugle ties the two together."I think Broward County is forever changed from this exercise," he said. "We are going to have less of this activity and I think we're going to save some lives in this county."A Broward County Health Department official said some statistics the mayor and his supporters have been using are outdated. For example, according to AIDS surveillance manager Pat Callahan Taylor, Broward used to be first in the nation in the number of reported AIDS cases per 100,000 residents. That's no longer true, though the county is likely still near the top.Broward does have an HIV/AIDS crisis and it has been ongoing for years, she said. But it's not isolated to gay men. Black, heterosexual women make up a significant number of new HIV cases. Women make up a third of the county's roughly 6,900 HIV cases diagnosed over the past 10 years....To read more go to:
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