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- Baltimore Alternative, May 1991
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- BA_91_May
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- ["AIDS activists","LGBTQIA","LGBTQ issues","LGBTQ life","AIDS (Disease)","Baltimore (Md.)","Maryland"]
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- The Baltimore Alternative newspaper May 1991 issue.
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- May 1991
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- ["English"]
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- ["Baltimore Alternative collection"]
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Baltimore Alternative, May 1991
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ALTERNATIVE
May 1991 ▼ Volume 6, Number 5 ▼ Serving The Baltimore /Washington Community Since 1986
AID$
FIGHTING FOR DWINDLING DOLLARS ■
Montgomery County
AIDS Program Under Fire
HERO Contract Terminated
BY ELIZABETH LOSHER
THE ALTERNATIVE
Montgomery County’s highly-
acclaimed AIDS Program recently
came under fire when two volunteer
“Buddies” publicly accused the program's
director of mismanaging the program and
questioned the program’s use of funds.
Testifying before the County Council on
March 28, Catherine Irwin and Ed Van
Vraken stated that “the past year-and-a-half
seems to have produced few, if any, new and
creative programs to address [the county’s
growing AIDS] problem.”
Controversy is nothing new to this pro¬
gram. In 1985, the Health Department was
outspoken in its support for HIV testing and
partner notification as ways to stop the spread
of AIDS. Before AZT became available,
many community organizations vocally
opposed this policy.
The current controversy is being generated
See AIDS PROGRAM, page 6
Sluggish Economy
Shortchanges PWAs
BY JOSHUA LOWE
THE ALTERNATIVE
Service organizations rendering critical
help to PWAs are now becoming vic¬
tims in their own right, falling prey to a
sluggish economy in the face of an ever¬
growing PWA community.
The national recession, a tapped-out com¬
munity and other factors are making it
tougher than ever for AIDS service groups,
which have always had to hustle for funds, to
get money for clients.
AIDS service groups provide clients with a
multitude of things from education to advoca¬
cy, but the emergency funds for people with
the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
who are about to be evicted from their homes,
have their utilities turned off or can’t afford
drugs, are among the most critical services.
Three major AIDS service groups in town.
See ECONOMY, page 7
MEMBERS OF ACT-UP/DC PROTEST in front of the White House April 23.
They handed out condoms. See story page 4.
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LIFESTYLE
NATIONAL
Most Americans Pro-Gay
According to National Survey
BY REX WOCKNER
THE ALTERNATIVE
Anew survey commissioned by the Human Rights
Campaign Fund. America's largest gay-rights orga¬
nization, has found that Americans support over¬
whelmingly equal rights for gays and lesbians.
The poll, conducted by New York’s Penn & Schoen
Associates, questioned 800 randomly selected Americans
and has an error margin of 3.5 percent.
Perhaps the most unexpected finding was that 8 1 percent
of Americans oppose the military's policy of discharging all
soldiers discovered to be gay or lesbian. In addition, 65 per¬
cent oppose the Defense Department’s ban on accepting
gays and lesbians into the service in the first place.
Further, among the 14 percent of Americans who approve
of the Pentagon’s discharge of gay soldiers, 20 percent of
them would make an exception for soldiers returning from
the Persian Gulf.
A second major finding of the survey was that 80 percent
of Americans believe “homosexuals should have equal
rights for jobs.” This is up from 56 percent in 1977 and 71
percent in 1989, when similar questions were asked by
Gallup pollsters.
Opposition to job discrimination was highest among peo¬
ple 25-34, those who make more than $75,000 per year,
those living in the Northeast and West, those who are single
or divorced, and women, parents, African-Americans, Jews,
Democrats, political independents, liberals, college gradu¬
ates and people with no religious affiliation.
But at least 60 percent of all groupings of respondents
!
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See SURVEY, page 12
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