Word: gay
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...replaced by an admiral. The commission's final recommendations are supposed to appear next summer. Beyond that, the Administration busied itself in imposing compulsory AIDS tests on certain defenseless groups (federal prisoners and would-be immigrants, for instance), a move that compromised civil rights without accomplishing much of anything. Gay rights groups excoriated the Administration for inactivity, and the New York Times concluded that Reagan's lack of a coherent policy on AIDS was "beyond comprehension or excuse...
...shut up? All you're doing is spewing garbage." Porn Star Seka walked off one program in disgust; Downey threw Journalist Rich Taylor off another show during an argument about alleged defects in the Audi 5000. Two weeks ago, Downey was arraigned on an assault charge filed by Gay Activist Andrew Humm, a guest who claims Downey slapped him after a heated exchange during a show (never aired) on the Roman Catholic Church. Downey has pleaded not guilty...
...biggest problem facing Agnos, one he characterizes as a "human and possibly fiscal catastrophe for the city," is the accelerating toll from AIDS. A large percentage of San Francisco's gay male population will die of the disease over the next decade. "Everybody who is infected will get sick," says Dr. John Ziegler, director of the AIDS clinical research center of the University of California at San Francisco. "Everyone who gets sick will die." A highly regarded Berkeley study suggests that as many as 52% of the city's 70,000 to 100,000 gay men have been exposed...
Agnos, whose sponsorship of AIDS funding legislation in Sacramento earned him strong gay support at the polls, says bluntly, "The city has to get help from the state and the Federal Government, period." The costs of the epidemic to the city have grown from $184,000 in 1981 to $17.5 million this year. | Fortunately, San Francisco seems better prepared than other U.S. cities to cope with the coming flood of medical needs. Organizations such as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Hospice and the Shanti project have developed nationally renowned networks of volunteers to care for the afflicted...
...gay and lesbian rights, DuPont said "Gays and lesbians should be given equal protection under existing laws...