IT STARTED AT THE GATEWAY HOTEL

I have had a 40 year association with the Gateway Hotel beside Jackson’s Airport in Port Moresby. It has changed dramatically over recent years.

I arrived in 1975 with my small family as an Australian Army Officer on posting to the Joint Services College of Papua New Guinea.

The Gateway Hotel in those days was a frontier hotel little resembling the elegant and luxury hotel of today.

Over my days in the army, I spent many visits at that hotel on my trips to Papua New Guinea as an officer in charge of Tok Pisin training for defence and foreign affairs officers at the then RAAF School Of Languages near Melbourne.

On my return to PNG in 1993, I was alone. At the Gateway Hotel, I met a lovely woman Linda in 1999 with whom I spent 4 years with our son. She and my son died in 2002 and 2003 from AIDS. I was tested negative.

Each day, I would drive her to work at the hotel and was soon known by her worker friends. But life was not to stay happy as she started to drop in health. These were the days before free ARV drugs.

I explained to the HR officer at the Gateway Hotel that Linda could not return to work. Within months, I was helping with AIDS awareness information on a blog that I started at the business centre at the hotel. I am a teacher of Biology and found the physiology of HIV/AIDS to be very familiar to me.

In those days, the business centre was in a room to the left of the foyer. The Positive Living message started at the Gateway Hotel. The message slowly took root in the community of care groups and churches.

Over 4 years, our message on Geocities blog raised 640,000 hits. Positive Living was new to PNG and the world though it was a key issue at the Chiangmai International HIV/AIDS conference in 2003.

My work was known by the Gateway Hotel manager Fijian Alex who at one stage, donated money for our publicity campaign.

AIDS Holistics began the campaign on rights of women and girls which was rejected by the AusAID advisors because it was in the context of FAMILY.

Even Dame Carol Kidu supports our stance these days. Foreign advisors want to introduce girls to western individualism and same sex marriage. They regard the traditional family as out of date and needing to be replaced.

Our Positive Living message has gone from strength to strength to the present day. It all started at the Gateway for which we are very grateful.

I have only recently gone back to the business centre at the hotel and been enchanted by the luxury and elegance of the Gateway Hotel.

Times have changed in AIDS awareness. The Positive Living message is now very much part of the PNG culture. It always was with focus on family and faith. Even newspapers now have a focus on health as we have done for 14 years.

Last week, I posted a report that I called Positive Living with Potassium written from the Port Moresby General Hospital. The week before was a report we called Positive Living with High Fibre Diet. We are getting with the strength.

But there has been an ongoing issue that has troubled us. That is the strong influence of UN gays and lesbians. They have their own hidden agenda.

There is now starting a campaign across the world for paedophiles to be given the same rights as gays and lesbians. We are being told that children want sex from the age of 4 years old. That is not on.

One of the issues we have raised over the years has been gay anal fisting but we have been afraid to post photos from Google. We see our role to educate young gay men into the dangers of gay sex. It is all hidden away from them. Gay men generally die early. We are teaching them the dangers of gay sex.

Last week, I took the bullet between my teeth and wrote a report entitled Gays destroy Anuses and included three porn photos for the very first time. See the archive list on the right side of this blog.

Photos were carefully chosen to show (1) damage to an anus and (2) an anus penetrated by a gay man. It may be that the man with the damaged anus is already dead from infection and possible suicide.

But trouble came at the Gateway Hotel. The computers are in the foyer at times 2 metres from the crowd of incoming or outgoing guests. People can watch over the shoulder and someone complained to management.

I was met by the manager the next day as I prepared to post a report entitled Positive Living with Calcium. I was told I was banned for misusing the hotel computer by watching porn. There were complaints.

I understand where the manager is coming from. He has to look after the integrity of the hotel. Guests only see a man watching porn not writing a health blog.

I will not use the computer again but reserve my right to come for a beautiful Gateway pizza or club sandwich. I wish there was more privacy for computer users. The porn photos are the first and last in 1650 blog reports.

The Gateway Hotel is far removed from early days. The hotel is elegant and luxurious. Staff are friendly and polished.

I have come every day for the last two months and staff have addressed me by name from the second day. I feel welcome and respected

But the photos that caused the problem will remain on my blog. These are posted according to the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. There are 300 hits a week from PNG readers followed by readers from USA, Russia, Australia and a hundred more.

AIDS Holistics does not oppose gays and lesbians. Many are gentle and kind people. We oppose activists who are bullies seeking to infiltrate Government, weaken authority of parents and remove the age of consent. We are sure that many gays and lesbians are not happy too but can do nothing about it. There is a gay and lesbian mafia to keep control.

I apologise to the Management and staff of the Gateway Hotel. Sometimes I become so absorbed in the awareness work, I forget to look around me.

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