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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE SEPTEMBER 17, 1993
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LAWYERS THAT CARE
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"When Jim Brown won my Workers' Compensation claim all of my medical bills were paid, I was compensated for my time off work and I even received money after I returned to work." LP.
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these poisons are obvious. In the case of hemophiliacs, they are transfusions of foreign blood products. In the case of gay men, there are two culprits: amyl and butyl nitrites ("poppers"), and frequent exposure to numerous different semens. In many cases, unfortunately, these poisons include AZT and ddl, which have long been notorious for their immunosuppressive effects. I tend to agree with Duesberg, but would add that toxins in our environment and in our foods, together with the overuse of antibiotics, are also to blame not only for AIDS but for the many other chronic immune deficiency conditions epidemic in the world today.
Whatever the real cause turns out to be, it is as plain as the nose on your face that it's not HIV. Yet government continues to place all of its eggs in the HIV basket, while refusing to fund research into any other theories. There are several reasons for this. Partly, it is to placate Joe Average Public, who believes that as long as he avoids illicit sex and drugs he is safe. Partly, it is to further the sex-negating agenda of the New Puritanism. But first and foremost, it is because supposedly objective scientific research has been sold lock, stock, and barrel to the for-profit health industry and its "nonprofit" though high-salaried support team.
It is not just pharmaceutical giants like Burroughs Wellcome, Merck, and Pfizer (which were represented at the Wisconsin conference) who stand to profit from the cover-up. It is research hospitals like University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic, which bring in millions of dollars each year for research that is bound to go nowhere, thereby insuring more funds to come. It is
individual doctors who have dozens of healthy HIV-positive patients on life-long maintenance programs. And, sadly, it is AIDS organizations like Health Issues Taskforce, whose client base is greatly increased by the inclusion of healthy HIVpositive individuals.
The Gay People's Chronicle is to be commended for printing this, though it will probably include a disclaimer. With the notable exception of the New York Native, the gay press in the U.S. has been afraid to criticize the course of AIDS research, except to call for more money for the same old dead-end studies. I have always thought it was inane for the gay community to accept uncritically the pronouncements of a medical profession that not long ago called homosexuality itself a disease.
As long as the gay community and its press continues to represent as hopeful such non-news as this recent conference, and continues to use terms like "HIV/AIDS", nothing will change. Until we know the cause, there can be no cure. Our friends and lovers will continue to die.
Frank Green
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HATE CRIME UPDATE
Compiled by the Maryann Finegan Project of the Lesbian-Gay Community Center.
The Lakewood police have asked for the Chronicle's help in contacting a man who filed an assault report, but then moved without leaving any contact information.
If you are the gay man who was the victim of an aggravated assault on Chesterland Ave. on August 3, who filed a
crime report with the Lakewood police, please contact them. They need more information from you.
The captain is being very sensitive to your needs and wouldn't even give the paper your name "off the record." Call the detective bureau at 521-6773.
The following hate crimes have been reported to the Project: August 8
Gay male received harassing phone calls. Victim had call traced and police report made. Report was turned over to prosecutor's office.
August 12
Cleveland bisexual 21-year-old male found front car bumper torn off after being verbally harassed in an East Side eatery. No police report filed at this time. Legal action may be taken at a later date.
August 9
Fairview Park lesbian couple found threatening letter on doorstep upon returning from vacation. It was reported to the police. Police declined to talk to neighbors about letter.
September 4
Gay male at Cleveland Air Show returned to parking lot and thought car was stolen. When he reported this to the police, they accused him of being intoxicated and threw him into chairs.
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