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AIDS activists
target Forbes
Steve Forbes, one of the candidates for the
Republican presidential nomination, has run a
single-minded, single-issue campaign. His an
swer to everything has been the “flat tax.” This
refusal to speak on other issues, specifically AIDS,
has angered members of ACT UP. A group of
ACT UP demonstrators descended on Forbes’
New Hampshire headquarters on Jan. 22 demand
ing information on the candidate’s AIDS posi
tions. There were no AIDS position papers at
Forbes’ headquarters.
Steve Forbes
The Forbes campaign said that they “know
Steve [Forbes] has a position on AIDS but [they]
don’t know what it is.” The Associated Press
reports that the candidate’s staff is “looking into
the issue.”
Forbes’ father, the late Malcolm S. Forbes Sr.,
was outed in 1990 by gay columnist Michelangelo
Signorile. Reports of the “secret gay life” of the
senior Forbes appeared in a number of publica
tions.
Dlack gay men and lesbians
have new magazine
A new monthly magazine tailored specifically
to the African American gay and lesbian commu
nity hit the streets in January, according to the
Chicago Tribune. Blacklines will publish stories
and articles written predominantly by, for and
about African Americans.
Blacklines is the newest offering from Lambda
Publications, a Chicago company that publishes
several periodicals geared to lesbian and gay
readers. Included in Lambda’s roster of publica
tions are the monthly newspaper Outlines, the
Clout! Business Report and the Out! Resource
Guide.
E m p h a s iz in g
r e p r e s e n ta tio n o f th e
a c c u s e d in a il
m is d e m e a n o r , fe lo n y ,
t r a f f ic a n d D U II a c t io n s
in s t a t e , f e d e r a l ,
ju v e n ile c o u r ts a n d
a d m in is t r a t iv e a c tio n s
Lesbian makes
commander in SFPD
Melinda Pengel’s career with the San Fran
cisco Police Department has been a series of
firsts, reports the San Francisco Examiner. Her
police academy class, 21 years ago, was the first
to have female cadets. When Pengel and two other
women were
prom oted to
the rank of
captain two
years ago, they
becam e the
highest-rank
ing women
ever to serve
on the force.
Now, Pengel is
both the first
woman and the
first open les
bian to be ap
pointed to the rank of commander in the 2,000-
member department.
She was promoted to her new position by
Police Chief Fred Lau, who is also new to his
current job. Lau was appointed chief of police by
newly elected San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
Pengel’s appointment is part of the sweeping
changes Lau has instituted in the command staff.
Pengel’s new assignment puts her in charge of
special operations, including Muni police and the
tactical squad.
New AIDS drug
results promising
The preliminary findings of a new Phase II
study were pre- S S S S I S t
sented early
this month at
the Third Con
ference
on
R e tro v iru se s
and Opportu
nistic Infec ö
tions. The study
involved the
use of Merck’s
investigational
protease inhibi
tor Crixivan in
triple combina S 4
tion with two
o
Q
other AIDS
medications, AZT and 3TC.
The preliminary results from the ongoing study
showed that levels of HIV in the bloodstream
were reduced to levels below the
limit of detection of the assay used
in six of the seven patients who have
completed six months of treatment.
The triple combination reduced me
dian virus levels by more than 99
percent.
Among patients taking only
Crixivan, 44 percent had HIV re
duced to these levels after six months
of treatment. None of the patients
taking the other two AIDS drugs,
AZT plus 3TC, had similarly re
duced HIV levels.
Merck is currently continuing Phase III clini
cal endpoint trials.
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