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Just news institutions to discriminate on the basis of ACT UP/Boston protested at the home of sexual orientation. Astra Corporation’s president. Astra is the Hundreds arrested The House, on October 11, approved by maker of fosconite. Meanwhile protesters in voice vote the so-called Armstrong amend Denver struck at Burroughs Wellcome, the in AIDS actions ment. The amendment exempts religious makers of AZT. In Austin 40 people demon educational institutions from Washington, strated against the Texas Medical Associa wenty cities around the nation took part D. C. ‘s Human Rights Act and its strong gay tion. Dallas activists used the occasion to in ACT NOW’s (AIDS Coalition To and lesbian anti-discrimination protections. attack an HIV sero-prevalence survey being Network, Organize and Win) Day of Action conducted by the county health department. Before passing the Armstrong- on October 6. The nationwide coordination of ACT UP/Kansas City held nine hours of Dannemeyer amendment, the House rejected events, timed to coincide with the final show by 252-170 an alternative amendment sup actions, one for each year of the epidemic, ing of the AIDS Quilt in Washington, D. C. ported by gay and lesbian activists and attacking the city health department and In San Francisco a march of 500 people approved by House and Senate conferees, distributing safe sex literature. organized by ACT UP/San Francisco was which would have allowed religious institu Demonstrations in New Orleans, Syracuse harassed and attacked by hundreds of police. tions, including Georgetown University, to and Ann Arbor attacked local handling of Demonstrators protesting federal AIDS “deny endorsement, approval or recognition” AIDS care. The testing and release of AIDS policies were repeatedly thwarted in their to those who promote sexual lifestyles treatments was the focus in Pittsburgh, attempts to march in the street, previously a contrary to their religious doctrine. Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale. Sonoma County, common practice in that city. Sixty people However, it also would have forbidden Calif, and Houston rallied against federal were arrested primarily for blocking traffic discrimination in terms of offering equal ser AIDS policies generally. ACT UP/Seattle and at least one man received injuries vices, facilities and other campus resources to targeted a placebo study being conducted on substantial enough to require hospitalization. all student groups regardless of sexual orien HIV-positive infants. Actions were also held Four hundred demonstrators closed the tation. The alternative language was later in Atlanta and Portland, Oregon. Los Angeles Federal Building to arriving rejected by the House. On April 23 activists will converge on employees for much of the morning. Seventy- In 1988, Congress passed a similar amend Chicago demanding access to quality health nine people were arrested for blocking ment, but Federal and Appeals Court deci care for all. The Prudential Insurance entrances to the building in an effort to press Building and Cook County Public Hospital sions ruled that the amendment violated the their demands for release of AIDS drugs, an will be the targets. In June activities will shift D. C. Councilmember’s First Amendment end to HIV-related discrimination, and a rights. The recent Congressional action to the International AIDS Conference being national health care program. One man was amends the D. C. code directly. held in San Francisco. arrested on assault charges of allegedly spit The amendment was created after an on ting on a police officer when he was chanting. going battle between D. C.’s Georgetown He was then held in violation of a judge’s Congress approves University and its gay and lesbian student order by federal officers attempting to obtain group was settled in court to the satisfaction a blood sample from him. homophobic of both parties. In Chicago 800 demonstrators marched in that city’s downtown Loop area for sexual legislation New study cites freedom. The action brought together ACT UP/Chicago and pro-choice groups. In ational and District of Columbia lesbian violence Washington, D. C. 200 people demonstrated and gay organizations strongly denoun ced the recent anti-gay Congressional vote in front of the White House. Only a massive new report from the Center for Demo that weakens the D. C. Human Rights Act and police presence kept activists from chaining cratic Renewal (CDR) ties the rising tide permits religiously affiliated educational themselves to the White House fence. T N of violence against gays and lesbians to far right and white supremacist organizations that are using anti-gay bigotry to attract new recruits. The report is entitled Quarantines and Death: The Far Right’s Homophobic Agenda. “Gay people have increasingly become the target of bigoted violence,” explained Daniel Levitas, executive director of the Atlanta- based CDR. “This report describes the theo retical framework of the far right’s homphobic agenda and outlines the basic steps needed to confront anti-gay bigotry.” The 40-page monograph was written by CDR research director Leonard Zeskind and Mab Segrest, a long-time lesbian activist, who is currently director of research and publica tions for North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, based in Durham. “Homophobic violence challenges all citizens who wish to preserve the fabric of democracy to act,” says Segrest, who serves on the board of directors of the CDR. 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