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Health care reform expected to include LGBT provisions
WASHINGTON — A recently reported decision by congressional leaders to forgo a formal conference committee for health care reform legislation shouldn’t impact the chances of LGBT-specific and HIV/AIDS language making it into the final bill, according to advocates of the provisions.
House and Senate leaders are hammering out the differences in health care legislation that each [...]
U.S. lifts ban on HIV-positive visitors, immigrants
WASHINGTON — The nation’s 23-year-old ban on HIV-positive visitors and immigrants was lifted this week, winning praise from LGBT groups.
“The United States of America has moved one step closer to helping combat the stigma and ignorance that still too often guides public policy debates around HIV/AIDS,” said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. [...]
Top 10 local news stories of 2009
Among last year’s biggest stories locally were tales of great victories and heartbreaking losses.
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Ziegfeld’s/Secrets reopens: Ziegfeld’s/Secrets, the popular gay nightclub that offers drag entertainment and nude male dancers, reopened in March in a warehouse building in the city’s Buzzard’s Point section at 1824 Half St., S.W. It became the first of two of the eight [...]
Fenty pledges to meet with AIDS activists after sit-in arrests
D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has agreed to meet with representatives of an AIDS group coalition that staged a sit-in outside his office Dec. 1 as part of a World AIDS Day protest.
Two people with the group D.C. Fights Back were arrested during the sit-in after they refused to obey a police order to stop blocking [...]
‘HIV will never be curable,’ doctor tells forum
“Get tested, listen to the experts, and lead the responsible life,” declared Michael Pistole, the sexagenarian sexologist and sometime wisecracking medical doctor speaking at a meeting on surviving the AIDS and hepatitis C viruses.
“Hepatitis C can be cured, but HIV will never be curable, since it gets into your DNA,” Pistole said.
Speaking before a group [...]
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