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Wells, member of the Stonewall 25 U.S. Conference Planning Committee, and former President of the Milwaukee Pride Committee. "The total will be in the thousands. We want to get the whole U.S. movement involved in organizing and decision making," he added.
S.F. AIDS cases will keep rising
A study issued last month by the San Francisco Department of Public Health predicts that the number of San Franciscans living with AIDS will increase by nearly 20 percent in the next five years.
About 28,000 residents of the city of 720,000 are presently asymptomatically infected with HIV. By 1997, 12,500 of them will have been diagnosed with AIDS and another 4,500 will be living with extreme immune deficiency, according to the report.
$1 million available for AIDS prevention
The United States Conference of Mayors and its affiliate, the United States Conference of Local Health Officers released a request for proposals for its new grant initiative to strengthen local capacity to carry out effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs. One million dollars will be awarded to local health departments and community based organizations. Individual 12-month grants are expected to range from $85,000 to $135,000. The deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday, October
26, 1992.
The goal of the new grants program is to provide funding to localities to conduct needs assessments to determine their HIV/ AIDS prevention capacities and needs; and improve upon and expand HIV prevention programs for hard-to-access populations with HIV infection or at a disproportionate risk of HIV disease. Collaboration between local health departments and community based organizations is required.
Through June 30, over 230,000 Americans have been diagnosed with AIDS. The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that over one million Americans are infected with HIV. Sixty-five percent of the nation's AIDS cases have been reported in the nation's 24 most heavily impacted cities.
Funding for the HIV Collaborative Prevention Grants was made available to the Conference of Mayors by the federal Centers for Disease Control. Since the beginning of its HIV/AIDS grants programs in 1985, the Conference of Mayors, the first national organization to direct AIDS education grants to community based organizations, has awarded over $4.96 million to 143 community-based organizations.
Battle against anti-gay ballot initiative heats up in Colorado
Colorado gays and lesbians will officially become second-class citizens, constitutionally prohibited from receiving antidiscrimination protection from any state or local government unit, if Colorado voters approve Initiative #2 in November. Colorado for Family Values (CFV), a fundamentalist organization based in Colorado Springs, is behind the statewide initiative which would also retroactively void existing protections in the cities of Aspen, Boulder and Denver.
Attempting to counter CFV's misleading rhetoric and the media's unbalanced reporting, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation of Denver (GLAAD/ Denver) is approaching the November election with a severe budget shortfall and is urgently requesting assistance from the national lesbian and gay community to help combat this threat.
"The Colorado lesbian and gay community has battled fundamentalist attacks on local ordinances for the past five years and our community resources are severely depleted," said GLAAD-Denver Executive Director Tom Watson. "Now they've taken the battle statewide and we are facing the most insidious campaign of hate and fear aimed at depriving us of any civil rights protections.'
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Donations can be sent to GLAAD-Denver, PO Box 100552, Denver, CO 80250.
Nicaraguan reforms limit gay and lesbian rights
Amnesty International has recently learned that the package of proposed reforms to the Nicaraguan Penal Code, including an amendment to Article 205 concerning homosexuality, has been ratified by President Chamorro. Al is concerned that the amendment to Article 205 could lead to the prosecution and imprisonment of individuals for advocating homosexual rights or for practicing homosexual acts between consenting adults in private.
Amended Article 205 (now Article 204 of the reformed Penal Code) provides that "anyone who induces, promotes, propagandizes or practices in scandalous form sexual intercourse between persons of the same sex commits the crime of sodomy and shall incur 1 to 3 years imprisonment.” It also states that if one of the people engaging in sexual intercourse is in a position of power or authority over the other, even if in private, he or she will be punishable with 2 to 4 years in prison for unlawful seduction.
In a June 30 letter to President Chamorro, Amnesty expressed its concern over the broad and undefined provisions of the proposed legislation.
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