Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the clinic's clients, says Director John H. Willoughby, are "gay men in their 20s," who have been diagnosed with the disease. The clients often request assistance in such areas as consumer law, estate law and housing discrimination...
Estate cases, which are new to Harvard legal service programs, are often the most delicate, says Willoughby. "If a gay man is estranged from his family, the law assumes his family is the closest [to him] and has the ultimate decision over his medical care, what happens to his body after his death and his estate," he says. "We try to make sure the people who the patients want to be making the decisions...
...different set of issues arises when reporters do gain access to victims. Jacqui Banaszynski, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a lengthy series about a gay couple dying of AIDS. Privy to the most intimate details of the lives of both the men and their families, Banaszynski had to balance her sense of loyalty to her subjects against her desire to make the series as truthful as possible. "I would not print information so private that it would harm without enhancing," she says...
...Washington nightlife is more than just Georgetown. The 9:30 Club in downtown D.C. features a wide variety of bands, from the polka band Das Furleines to the Pogues. Dancers will find a strange home at Tracks, the club where Washington's gay community meets its straight, and where the Old Milwaukee flows like water...
...every decade has its blemishes and every year its flaws. Twenty years from now, it will be insensitive to be nostalgic about the 1980s, to remember these college days as "fabulous," "fun" or "carefree". Without a doubt, this decade has been "painful, complicated, and even life threatening" for the gay community, for the homeless and for the millions of Americans living in poverty...