S.F. HAS NATION'S HIGHEST SYPHILIS RATE INCREASE OF

127% IN 2002 MOVES CITY FROM 6TH TO 1ST

With a top national ranking it could surely do without, San Francisco has surpassed Detroit as the city with the highest per-capita rate of syphilis in the United States.

Driven by an increase in new cases among gay white men, the nation's syphilis rate rose 9.1 percent in 2002, the second consecutive increase after a decade of decline that had raised hopes the sexually transmitted disease could be eliminated in the country.

With a 127 percent increase in syphilis cases last year, San Francisco jumped from sixth place nationally to first, ahead of Detroit, Atlanta, Newark, Baltimore and Oklahoma City.

65GTOman,

You have just posted a great arguement, For Gay Marriage, as people in a Monogamous relationship, such as marriage, cannot contract a STD, without cheating, assuming neither party has it before hand.

Later

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

As a married person with no kids I have to pay more taxes then if I was single. I would think the Feds would be all for marriage as they will get more tax revenue from it.

Queer Eye for the Black Guy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

September 24 - 30, 2003

http://www1.villagevoice.com/issues/0339/coates.php