Word: gays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While public agencies concentrate on special-needs children, private agencies remain the traditional vehicle for finding healthy infants. These have historically been clubby, starched places; singles were not at the top of the selection list, nor interracial, gay, handicapped or older couples. While their policies are gradually changing -- especially in helping place older or special-needs kids -- many still primarily serve a specific religious group...
...Francisco-based group of activists who believe the Food and Drug Administration's system for testing potentially life-saving new drugs is unconscionably slow. On Sept. 19, Project Inform director Martin Delaney revealed the preliminary results of the underground trials to an intent crowd of some 500 predominantly gay men in San Francisco. Although many of the trial's volunteers, including Barnett, showed a marked decrease in activity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, Delaney said, Compound Q could not be considered a cure. But the desperation of the epidemic guarantees that underground drug trials will continue...
...Tuesday's story on a settlement between Harvard Real Estate (HRE) and a gay student group, The Crimson misquoted HRE Communications Director Dianne M. Dyslin. Dyslin actually said that HRE owned 1,600 rental units, which have always been available to both married and unmarried couples...
...Julie K. Schulman '91, co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association, said she thought it would be difficult for those eligible to find out about the new policy. She said the wording HRE plans to use-replacing "spouse" with the phrase "family member"--is unclear and poorly defined...
Nonetheless, Schulman added that she predicted "a larger response than is expected if gay and lesbian couples find out" about the policy change...