"LinguaFranca" describes a New York teach-in held by "Sex Panic!" in 1997:"“... the crowd rewards anyone who mentions Rotello, Signorile, Kramer, or Sullivan with hisses, boos, and laughs. The men and women here tonight feel sure of their enemies, and as the evening advances, these enemies condense into one creature, a hyphenated neoconservative bogeyman named Rotello-Signorile-Kramer-Sullivan.”"Benjamin Shepard in "Queer Political Performance and Protest" writes that Rotello, along with Signorile, Kramer and Sullivan, came to be known as, "“...the Gang of Four of the late 90s panic within the GLBT community...they narrated gay life from an apologist perspective, describing AIDS as a punishment for queer sexuality and asking good gays to divorce themselves from their alter ego, ‘the promiscuous queer.’...The new sex wars were upon us.”""Sex Panic!" initiated a campaign of articles, posters, workshops and teach-ins to advance its views, which included discrediting "Sexual Ecology" as homophobic, assimilationist and scientifically inaccurate. Referring to Rotello and others, one flyer for a New York teach-in was headlined "DANGER! ASSAULT! TURDZ!". "Sex Panic!" held a national summit in San Diego in November 1997, much of which centered on combating and discrediting "Sexual Ecology". "Sex Panic!" remained active for two years, defending public sex and criticizing developments such as the gentrification of New York's Times Square.