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...know when Craig and Leo came out. I do know that Craig went on to become an activist for gay and lesbian rights. Before he died, he became the founding director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Leo became and is, one of the most naturally out and gay persons that I know...
...went on to be South Africa's longest surviving AIDS orphan. But it was not only his longevity that made Nkosi unique among the estimated 800,000 AIDS orphans in South Africa, whose number grows by 70,000 every year. Propelled into the media spotlight by the AIDS activist community, Nkosi Johnson became the human face of a plague to which the South African authorities had responded sluggishly...
...Romanian migrant workers killed by a bomb while repairing Israel's border fence with Gaza. By week's end, the Israeli army had launched seven incursions into Palestinian-held territory, including a missile attack on a car in the West Bank that killed a policeman and an activist in Yasser Arafat's Fateh movement. An assault on Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City also injured at least 20 people. The attacks on Palestinian targets were in apparent retaliation for the bombing that killed the Romanian workers. More than 100,000 migrant workers live in Israel, many of them filling jobs...
...that same dolphin can fetch $1,500 a day at a Caribbean park. Several cases have been reported of dolphins suffering from stress, chlorine toxicity or an overdose of human affection. "Dolphins don't just drop out of the sky and end up in tanks," says Gwen McKenna, an activist in Ontario, Canada, who seeks to eradicate swim-withs. "They are literally being mauled by humans all day long. These tanks are death traps for them...
...high school McKean did community service at a homeless shelter, but did not yet define himself as an activist...