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...Christian Coalition is fielding a slate of candidates for the May 4 School board election. A number of other religious groups, including the New York Catholic Archdiocese, are attempting to turn out voters for candidates who oppose condom distribution in schools and other programs that they deem morally incorrect. ACT-UP has rumbled about starting its own campaign in response...
...voter turnout, combined with the relative obscurity of school board candidates, makes such tactics very effective. Unfortunately, the people elected in such races only make the schools ineffective. Anyone who can conceive a way of running the schools worse than would a school board composed of equal parts ACT-UP and Christian Coalition deserves a prize. These groups are out to prove a political point. What do they know about the nuts and bolts of education...
...then-lover, who learned he was HIV-positive at about the same time I did, dragged me to an ACT-UP meeting," Rafsky wrote last November in Queer World. "I found myself using my knowledge of the media to help them get recognition...
...matter how much progress ACT-UP made, nothing moved fast enough for Rafsky. He soon became a hero of the cause. He worked his way onto 60 Minutes, where CBS reporter Ed Bradley followed him into a ACT-UP protest at a Japanese pharmaceuticals plant in Fort Lee, New Jersey...
...always nervous about making too much of stories like Rafsky's. Maybe it's because he contracted AIDS through behavior I consider careless and immoral. Or maybe it's because his group, ACT-UP, uses questionable tactics to secure something I oppose--increased funding for AIDS research and treatment...