Word: gays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank, a five-term House member and a leading liberal in Congress, admitted paying male prostitute Stephen Gobie $80 for sex in 1985 and subsequently hiring Gobie with personal funds to serve as a house-keeper and driver from July 1985 through August 1987. Frank had acknowledged he is gay well before the Gobie scandal...
Peter Hirsch, portraying Carroll, speaks of combining the grave and the gay. This is a noble endeavor, but not one to be lightly undertaken, as it demands both greater structure and development than Alice gives...
...said early descriptions of AIDS as "fatal," "mysterious," "out-of-nowhere," and "unknown" influenced the public's perception of AIDS. Later, television focused primarily on gay, middle-class white males for story material or photographed poor Blacks shooting crack in dark alleyways, stereotyping AIDS as a disease of drug abusers and gay men alone...
...engaged in occupations that do not require physical exertion." These applicants were usually denied insurance. While such major insurers as Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Travelers deny discriminating on the basis of AIDS, others still use information about living arrangements, residences and Zip Codes to try to identify gay or bisexual men at risk for the disease. Testing applicants for the AIDS virus gives companies additional protection against insuring infected individuals who will have high medical costs. As a result, a number of jurisdictions, including Washington and the states of Florida, Maine, Wisconsin and California, have legislatively limited such testing...
...David LaFontaine, lobbying director for the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, after the proposed Massachusetts gay civil rights bill aimed at ending discrimination in housing, credit and employment cleared final hurdles in the state Senate...