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- Baltimore Alternative, October 1992
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- ["AIDS activists","LGBTQIA","LGBTQ issues","LGBTQ life","AIDS (Disease)","Baltimore (Md.)","Maryland"]
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- The Baltimore Alternative newspaper October 1992 issue.
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- Date Created
- 01 October 1992
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- ["Baltimore Alternative collection"]
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Baltimore Alternative, October 1992
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October
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Volume 7, Number 10 ▼ Serving The Baltimore /Washington Community Since 1986
LIZ: Hollywood’s Got Its Act Together on AIDS
ELIZABETH TAYLOR TESTIFYING BEFORE CONGRESS/PHOTO BY JIM MARKS
'Without homosexuals,
there wouldn’t be this town’
BY REX WOCKNER _
THE ALTERNATIVE
Hollywood would not exist without gays, screen legend
Elizabeth Taylor said September 14 on the new Whoopi
Goldberg Show. At the end of a discussion on Taylor’s work,
rallying Hollywood to fight AIDS, Goldberg said: “We had to get over
a lot of homophobia. We had to get over this whole idea that it was
them and not us.”
“You know what really cheezed me off was that homophobia,"
Taylor responded, “because without homosexuals there wouldn't be
this town.”
“Ooh! Go ahead, girt!" Goldberg interjected.
Taylor went on to say that Hollywood and the arts are built on a
See UZ, page 3
Will Baltimore?
Dr. Peter Beilenson Named as
City’s Health Commissioner
BY JOSHUA LOWE _
THE ALTERNATIVE
ayor Kurt Schmoke appointed
Dr. Peter Beilenson on
September 14 to be the new
Commissioner of Health for Baltimore
City.
Beilenson’s name was submitted by
the mayor to the Executive Nomination
Committee of the City Council, which
will hold a public hearing, and his con¬
firmation is expected by the middle of
this month.
Mayor Schmoke lauded Beilenson 's
performance as the current director of
School Health Services for the
Baltimore City Health Department and
said his knowledge of public health
issues made him an ideal candidate.
“As you know, he was also a candi¬
date for office, so he understands the
politics of the position,” the Mayor said,
playing down any possibility that hard
feelings from his criticism of certain
council members from last year’s City
Council race might hurt his chances of
confirmation.
Beilenson laid out a brief agenda of the
city’s health problems that he was going to
address once in office; AIDS, drug abuse,
child care and increased access to medical
care.
He said he also wanted to see the cre¬
ation of comprehensive AIDS centers in
East Baltimore, West Baltimore and Mt.
Vernon and that he planned to reach out
to AIDS service providers to try and
bring them together.
“There are many AIDS services out
there, from the Chase-Brexton Clinic to
Hopkins, to HERO; there’s a lot of com¬
petition, a lot of turf,” he said.
His appointment and plans have
drawn cautious optimism from many
local AIDS service providers, who said
that they were pleased with Beilenson’s
ideas.
David Shippee, executive director of
the Chase-Brexton Clinic worriedabout
the idea of “AIDS ghettoization,” how¬
ever. But he remained upbeat, saying
that with proper input from AIDS ser-
But what can he do about AIDS?
Analysis by Garey Lambert
on page 4.
vice providers, Beilenson could come up
with a workable model that would satis¬
fy everyone’s needs.
Beilenson’s appointment was hailed by
Shippee as “the most positive move I’ve
seen on the mayor’s part to address issues
of AIDS care,” but also said he hopes the
mayor gives the authority to really do the
job.
He also added a somber note saying
he felt the move comes “far too late”
and said the mayor let the health depart¬
ment go too long without leadership in
AIDS.
“I think he is already sensitive to HIV
disease,” said Andy Barasda, executive
Director of the Health Education
Resources Organization (HERO).
See HEALTH DEPARTMENT page 5
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Tales for Coming Out Day - Oct. ! I: page 8
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