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As the United Nations opens its High-Level
Review Meeting on HIV/AIDS, a report shows that
the United States has fallen short on commitments
made at the United Nations five years ago to curb
the disease within the nation’s borders.
With no national plan in the United States for
HIV prevention, treatment and support; with half
the people in the United States who need HIV
treatment not receiving it; and with the number of
new HIV infections in the United States not
decreasing in more than a decade, AIDS continues
to have a devastating impact on communities of
color, men who have sex with men, injecting drug
users and the poor.
“The U.S. is in no position to preach to other
countries on how to address the AIDS epidemic
when it has much to answer for back home,” said
Chris Collins, author of the report.
Based on extensive consultation with experts
and review of U.S. AIDS policy and outcomes, the
report, HIV/AIDS Policy in the United States:
Monitoring the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment
on HIV/AIDS, also found:
• The financing system for AIDS services in
the United States does not allow for “comprehen­
sive and sustained access to quality HIV care.”
• HIV prevention resources are not allocated in
the most cost-effective manner, and research on
program effectiveness often does not inform policy.
• A significant number of people living with
HIV/AIDS are being tested for HIV too late in the
course of disease to benefit from early care.
“The U.S. needs to help strengthen, not weak­
en, the political declaration at the U.N. meeting
on AIDS,” said Rachel Guglielmo, project direc­
tor of the Public Health Watch Project. “Only by
first delivering on its commitments at home can
the U:S. speak with full credibility to other
nations at the U.N.”
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any basis for the state’s denial of foster care
applications by queers.
“The attorney general’s office is recognizing what
our Legislature already acknowledged in striking
down the sexual misconduct law—that there is no
justification for discriminating against gay and lesbian
Missourians,” said Julie Brueggemann, executive
director of Promo, Missouri’s statewide queer equali­
ty organization. “We know that there are gay and les­
bian families ready and waiting to take in many of the
children in need of foster homes, and we’re thrilled
that they are finally going to be able to do so.”
ALABAMA
Alabama Voters Approve
Anti-Marriage Amendment
Alabama voters approved a state constitutional
amendment June 7 that prohibits same-sex
marriage and other forms of family protections for
unmarried couples.
Alabama is the 20th state in the past eight years
to amend its constitution for the purpose of
banning same-sex marriage. The vote was 81
percent to 19 percent. Voters in Alabama’s neigh­
bor state, Mississippi, passed a similar amendment
in 2004 by an 86 percent to 14 percent margin.
It wasn’t until 2000 that Alabama repealed its
constitutional ban on interracial marriage, 33 years
after Loving vs. Virginia made such discrimination
unconstitutional coast to coast. Similarly, 50.1
percent of voters opposed a 2004 measure to remove
a constitutional provision mandating segregated
public schools for “white and colored children.”
“This vote put the right of a minority—a right
that the majority takes for granted and sees as
fundamental only for them—up for a popular vote,”
said Matt Foreman, executive director of rhe
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “This is not
democracy—it is tyranny of the majority, and it is
immoral. Our founders knew that basic rights
should never be put to a popular vote, and that is
why we have the Bill of Rights. In the not-too-
distant future, those involved in this injustice will
look back with shame and regret, just as they do for
other past inflictions of discrimination.”
Opening the possibility of loving families for
nearly 2,000 children who desperately need foster
NEW YORK
Gay Performer Attacked
care, the Missouri attorney general has indicated
that the state’s anti-gay foster care ban must be
A gang of youth brutally attacked a gay singer
dropped. The move was applauded by the
and performer June 11.
American Civil Liberties Union, which has been
Kevin Aviance, who has penned several No. 1
battling the ban since 2004-
dance hits, told The New York Post that a gang of
“Every major mainstream child welfare and
teens started following him after he left a gay bar in
health organization opposes laws
the East Village around 1:30
that ban lesbian and gay people
a.m., screaming: “Fucking fag­
from parenting because social
got! Where are you going?”
science proves that lesbian and
The teens threw trash at
gay people are just as capable of
him, and one of them sucker-
being gixid parents as anyone
punched him from behind,
else,” said Lisa Brunner, ACLU
knocking him to the ground.
of Kansas and Western Missouri
They then stomped on him in
cooperating attorney. “Making so
the middle of the intersection.
many new foster homes available
“1 got kicked in my head 12
by ending this senseless and
times. They kicked me in my
illegal ban is wonderful news for
back. They kicked in my knees.
the children of Missouri.”
They just kept kicking,”
Missouri Attorney General
Aviance told the Post from his
Jay Nixon admitted to reporters
bed at Beth Israel Hospital. “I
June 7 that because the state’s
really thought they were going
unconstitutional same-sex-only
to kill me.”
DC Comics doesn't mind Batwoman
sodomy law was repealed earlier being a lesbian, as long as she still
The performer passed out
that week, there is no longer dresses like a bondage queen.
and awoke to a passerby, who