Page 1 |
Previous | 1 of 32 | Next |
|
|
small JPEG (250x250 max)
medium JPEG (500x500 max)
Large
Extra Large
Full resolution JPEG ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
|
.1.118161•Vot, ' ••• • .4- - •V-4, §..putekWaiti 1988 budget doubles funding for AIDS But some dark clouds still loom over AIDS education and insurance by Lisa M. Keen There was good news and bad news in the mammoth FY 88 funding package signed by President Reagan last week and released in printed form Tuesday. The bad news is that language preserved on one amendment introduced by anti-Gay Sen. Jesse Helms may still pose problems for funding safe sex materials geared to Gay 0 men. And the language of the appropria-tions section involving the District of Columbia also strongly urges the D.C. City Council to act quickly on a new AIDS insurance bill which D.C. Gay activists and others oppose. The good news is that Congress has again ordered the Reagan administration to accomplish a previously approved national mailing on AIDS to every American household by June 30, 1988. The budget law language also sets aside $6.7 million for outpatient facilities for people with AIDS and directs Health and Human Services to establish an Advisory Board for AIDS with emphasis on "ensur[ing] minority represen-tation." The overall spending appropriation for AIDS totaled $931,229,000—more than double the estimated $447,375,000 spent on AIDS in FY 87. The Health Resources and Services Administration got one of the largest increases this year—from $11.9 million in FY 87 to $36.9 million in FY 88. HRSA has been instructed to use $6.7 million of that appropriation to renovate and construct outpatient facilities for people with AIDS. The money will be allocated through grants under the Public Health Service. The Centers for Disease Control got the second largest increase in AIDS funding— up from $121 million last year to $304 million this year. The conference committee report accompanying the budget package directed CDC to use the funds appropriated by Congress last year to "distribute an AIDS mailer to every American household by June 30, 1988. ." While the report stopped short of accusing the Reagan administration of having stalled the national mailing, the conferees did say they were "concerned about reports of long delays in the processing of AIDS proposals" at the National Institutes of Health. The report directs NIH and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Continued on page 9 Chatham: The original 'Whitman-Walker Clinic' Chatham, the impressive eighteenth century mansion that served as a hospital after the Union Army's crushing defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Poet, surgeon both tended injured soldiers near here in Civil War by Craig Howell When the leaders of what had been called the Gay Men's VD Clinic reorganized themselves in the mid-1970s to expand the scope and depth of their services, they searched for a new name as well. They wanted the new name to honor two hist° 'cal figures, one man and one wo n, who could be associated widi the Gay community, who were iTiolved with medical care, and who 4ad spent some time in the Washingtdn, D.C. area. After some debate, the organizers decided to recognize Walt Whitman and Dr. Mary Walker. Although Whitman is obviously more famous for his poetry, he also served as a nurse for numerous wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War. Getting fired right after that war from his clerk's job with the U.S. Interior Continued on page 11 Georgetown granted a Christmas Eve reprieve 3 Companies want D.C. to drop insurance law 3 Maryland governor nixes AIDS council proposals 8 AIDS quilt going on the road again 13 Downwardly mobile post-hip anarchists 15 Gay activist Frank Kameny said the Defense Department has routinely asked Gay security clearance appli-cants about sexual positions. Defense Dept. to stop asking Gay applicants about sex lives by Lou Cbibbaro Jr. The head of counterintelligence pro-grams for the Department of Defense, in an internal memorandum, has ordered DOD investigators to discontinue asking Gays who apply for security clearances about intimate details of their sex lives. The memorandum, a copy of which was obtained by D.C. Gay activist Frank Kameny, directs DOD's "component" agencies to "refrain from questioning homosexuals concerning irrelevant details" such as "who-did-what-to-whom.". The memorandum, written by John F. Donnelly, assistant deputy under secretary of defense for counterintelligence and Continued on page 6 Custody denied man with 'AIDS dementia' by Lou Clubbaro Jr. A Gay man who has AIDS had hoped a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge would give him an early Christmas present last week by restoring his right to joint custody of his nine-year-old son. But the Christmas present did not materialize. Judge Leonard Ruben ruled on Dec. 23 that the Gay man, referred to in court papers as "John Roe," should be temporaril denied joint custody of his son because he has AIDS-re neurological symptoms that could interfere with his ability to for the boy. Ruben, in an oral ruling from the bench, conceded that he his decision on the "barest of evidence." However, he said that until the time of a full trial, scheduled in April, "the child's best interests are maintained by [his] staying with the birth mother." The case, known as Jane Doe v. John Roe, could prove to be .important in determining how. courts, in.the Washingtonarea and elsewhere decide on precedent-setting child custody disputes involving a parent who has AIDS, according to Gay rights attorney Susan Silber, who is representing John Roe. Silber said that although the Doe v. Roe case has the potential of causing emotional pain for both parents, some of the explosive issues have been removed, at the agreement of both sides. In a special stipulation submitted to the court, at Silber's suggestion, Doe agreed that her former husband's sexual orientation should not be an issue in the case. Doe also agreed to accept the U.S. Centers for Disease Control statement that AIDS cannot be contracted through casual contact, thus ruling out the potential accusation that the child could catch AIDS from his father. The Doe v. Roe case began in November, when Doe took her former husband to court in an attempt to dissolve a joint custody agreement that had been in effect since the couple's divorce five Cmpitued .pp,page 4 0 •
Object Description
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Transcript | .1.118161•Vot, ' ••• • .4- - •V-4, §..putekWaiti 1988 budget doubles funding for AIDS But some dark clouds still loom over AIDS education and insurance by Lisa M. Keen There was good news and bad news in the mammoth FY 88 funding package signed by President Reagan last week and released in printed form Tuesday. The bad news is that language preserved on one amendment introduced by anti-Gay Sen. Jesse Helms may still pose problems for funding safe sex materials geared to Gay 0 men. And the language of the appropria-tions section involving the District of Columbia also strongly urges the D.C. City Council to act quickly on a new AIDS insurance bill which D.C. Gay activists and others oppose. The good news is that Congress has again ordered the Reagan administration to accomplish a previously approved national mailing on AIDS to every American household by June 30, 1988. The budget law language also sets aside $6.7 million for outpatient facilities for people with AIDS and directs Health and Human Services to establish an Advisory Board for AIDS with emphasis on "ensur[ing] minority represen-tation." The overall spending appropriation for AIDS totaled $931,229,000—more than double the estimated $447,375,000 spent on AIDS in FY 87. The Health Resources and Services Administration got one of the largest increases this year—from $11.9 million in FY 87 to $36.9 million in FY 88. HRSA has been instructed to use $6.7 million of that appropriation to renovate and construct outpatient facilities for people with AIDS. The money will be allocated through grants under the Public Health Service. The Centers for Disease Control got the second largest increase in AIDS funding— up from $121 million last year to $304 million this year. The conference committee report accompanying the budget package directed CDC to use the funds appropriated by Congress last year to "distribute an AIDS mailer to every American household by June 30, 1988. ." While the report stopped short of accusing the Reagan administration of having stalled the national mailing, the conferees did say they were "concerned about reports of long delays in the processing of AIDS proposals" at the National Institutes of Health. The report directs NIH and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Continued on page 9 Chatham: The original 'Whitman-Walker Clinic' Chatham, the impressive eighteenth century mansion that served as a hospital after the Union Army's crushing defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Poet, surgeon both tended injured soldiers near here in Civil War by Craig Howell When the leaders of what had been called the Gay Men's VD Clinic reorganized themselves in the mid-1970s to expand the scope and depth of their services, they searched for a new name as well. They wanted the new name to honor two hist° 'cal figures, one man and one wo n, who could be associated widi the Gay community, who were iTiolved with medical care, and who 4ad spent some time in the Washingtdn, D.C. area. After some debate, the organizers decided to recognize Walt Whitman and Dr. Mary Walker. Although Whitman is obviously more famous for his poetry, he also served as a nurse for numerous wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War. Getting fired right after that war from his clerk's job with the U.S. Interior Continued on page 11 Georgetown granted a Christmas Eve reprieve 3 Companies want D.C. to drop insurance law 3 Maryland governor nixes AIDS council proposals 8 AIDS quilt going on the road again 13 Downwardly mobile post-hip anarchists 15 Gay activist Frank Kameny said the Defense Department has routinely asked Gay security clearance appli-cants about sexual positions. Defense Dept. to stop asking Gay applicants about sex lives by Lou Cbibbaro Jr. The head of counterintelligence pro-grams for the Department of Defense, in an internal memorandum, has ordered DOD investigators to discontinue asking Gays who apply for security clearances about intimate details of their sex lives. The memorandum, a copy of which was obtained by D.C. Gay activist Frank Kameny, directs DOD's "component" agencies to "refrain from questioning homosexuals concerning irrelevant details" such as "who-did-what-to-whom.". The memorandum, written by John F. Donnelly, assistant deputy under secretary of defense for counterintelligence and Continued on page 6 Custody denied man with 'AIDS dementia' by Lou Clubbaro Jr. A Gay man who has AIDS had hoped a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge would give him an early Christmas present last week by restoring his right to joint custody of his nine-year-old son. But the Christmas present did not materialize. Judge Leonard Ruben ruled on Dec. 23 that the Gay man, referred to in court papers as "John Roe," should be temporaril denied joint custody of his son because he has AIDS-re neurological symptoms that could interfere with his ability to for the boy. Ruben, in an oral ruling from the bench, conceded that he his decision on the "barest of evidence." However, he said that until the time of a full trial, scheduled in April, "the child's best interests are maintained by [his] staying with the birth mother." The case, known as Jane Doe v. John Roe, could prove to be .important in determining how. courts, in.the Washingtonarea and elsewhere decide on precedent-setting child custody disputes involving a parent who has AIDS, according to Gay rights attorney Susan Silber, who is representing John Roe. Silber said that although the Doe v. Roe case has the potential of causing emotional pain for both parents, some of the explosive issues have been removed, at the agreement of both sides. In a special stipulation submitted to the court, at Silber's suggestion, Doe agreed that her former husband's sexual orientation should not be an issue in the case. Doe also agreed to accept the U.S. Centers for Disease Control statement that AIDS cannot be contracted through casual contact, thus ruling out the potential accusation that the child could catch AIDS from his father. The Doe v. Roe case began in November, when Doe took her former husband to court in an attempt to dissolve a joint custody agreement that had been in effect since the couple's divorce five Cmpitued .pp,page 4 0 • |