“Over the past three decades, brave men and women have fought devastating discrimination, stigma, doubt, and violence as they stood in the face of this deadly disease. Many of them would not be here today, but for the dedication of other persons living with HIV, their loved ones and families, community advocates, and members of the medical profession.”
via Presidential Proclamation– World AIDS Day | The White House.
New York State Senator Tom Duane, spoke in support of a measure that would cap “shelter costs” (rent and utilities) for people living with HIV and AIDS and already receiving public assistance. Openly gay and HIV-positive, Sen. Duane is the prime backer of the gay marriage legislation that has been one of many issues sidelined in the wake of the Senate coup — and you can hear some of the pent-up frustration about that issue in the Manhattan Democrat’s coruscating, stem-winding oratory.
By 1993, the AIDS Memorial Quilt had grown so large that it was nearly impossible to exhibit it in complete form. It was brought out for the LGBT March on Washington that year, where bobster855 made this videotape.
