Andrew Sullivan
- Conservative gay columnist and moralizer, despite his claims to the contrary.
- Barebacker (has sex with HIV+ men without using condoms)
Timeline
| 10 Aug 1963 |
Andrew Sullivan born, South Godstone, England. |
| 1986 |
Masters, Public Administration, Harvard |
| Oct 1991 |
Appointed editor, The New Republic. |
| 1993 |
Tests HIV+ |
| 1996 |
Andrew Sullivan's "When Plagues End" runs in the New York Times Magazine, declaring the end of of the AIDS pandemic. "It's over. Believe me. It's over." |
| Oct 2000 |
Starts a weblog. |
| 9 May 2001 |
An anonymous post on Datalounge.com that journalist Andrew Sullivan had cruised AOL chatrooms under the screen name "HardnSolidDC" and placed an explicit personal ad on barebackcity.com under the account "RAWMUSLGLUTES". |
| 30 May 2001 |
On his website, Andrew Sullivan complains: "This is what journalism now is... gay men now need to know: the Internet is not a safe space. A poisonous segment of the gay activist world is policing it for any deviators from the party line." |
| 31 May 2001 |
"No-one's legal, consensual, adult private life should be plundered and exposed for political purposes." [True, unless it exposes one's hypocrisy.] Regarding the risk of HIV superinfection: "I am aware of this theory and the slim reed of research it is based upon. I have discussed the issue with my doctors... but to me, the evidence seems weak and hypothetical." |
| 4 Jul 2002 |
Monthly income from his blog: $6,000. Economist. |
| 11 May 2002 |
On his website, Andrew Sullivan complains: "Some editors can take revenge and cut you off. Most of the time, people in big media, being journalists, don't mind criticism, especially from a piddling one-man blog. But others take offense, and you get canned. In my case, I have been barred indefinitely from writing any more for the New York Times Magazine. Although I have long had a fantastic relationship with the editors there, and have written some of my best journalism for them, their boss, Howell Raines, has sent down a ruling. My presence in the Times, I'm told, makes him 'uncomfortable,' and I am off limits for the indefinite future." |
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