Word: gay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush, echoing the themes stressed by the President, was roundly booed by an audience gathered at the Washington Hilton for the third International Conference on AIDS. In an aside that was picked up on an open television microphone, Bush, taken aback by the reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested 64 of the protesters...
...first students were scared away [from AIDS information sessions] because it was seen as a gay disease. Much more information is coming out now," says Louis A. Pyle Jr., director of the health services at Princeton, where there have been no cases of AIDS...
Unfortunately, AIDS' increased prominence has also had negative effects at other universities. Some schools have witnessed an up-swing in anti-gay incidents, which officials say may be due to fear of AIDS...
...There have been some incidents on campus, including some derogatory posters about gays. I don't know if it is related to AIDS but [anti-gay sentiment] is not typical for this campus," says Carol A. Southard, head nurse at the University of Chicago student health service. Turco says that while anti-gay sentiment is not particularly visible at Dartmouth, "it's always in the background." Vaughn says, "Many students with AIDS [at Berkeley] go elsewhere for treatment for fear of being ostracized...
...Harvard has thus far escaped the storm. "I have not received a single telephone call from a student or parent asking about our AIDSpolicy," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III."The community is a very sophisticated one and isdetermined that the rights of gay students andorganizations be protected...