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H1V/AIDS issues. The legislation was voted out
of the Foreign Relations Committee on March
13 and will proceed to a vote by the full Senate.
For more than two decades, the United States has
excluded both HIV-positive travelers and “green
card” applicants who are HIV-positive.
“The United States has enforced this anti
quated policy for too long with no public health
rationale for discriminating against HIV-positive
people in such a severe manner,” said Victoria
Neilson, Immigration Equality’s legal director.
The move is also supported by the Hu
man Rights Campaign, which called the policy
“draconian.”
“We appreciate the support by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations and now urge
Americans today,” said Ethan Grumbach, chair
the full Senate to repeal this unjust and sweep
ing policy that deems HIV-positive individuals
man of the association’s Committee on Gay and
inadmissible to the United States,” said HRC
Lesbian Issues. “Families exist in many different
president Joe Solmonese. “There remains no pub
ways, and it is important for same-sex couples to
have legal and societal recognition of their unions
lic health rationale for treating HIV more harshly .
than other communicable diseases. This draconian
for themselves, their children and their extended
policy must end.”
impact the denial of same-sex marriage has on
HIV is the only medical condition singled
families.”
The committee reviewed extensive research
out in the Immigration and Nationality Act as a
on gay and lesbian relationships and same-sex
ground of inadmissibility. If passed, the bill will
parents and their children prior to issuing the
remove the anti-HIV language from the statute
statement.
They found, according to a Kaiser Family
and restore the determination of whether HIV
is a “communicable disease of public health sig
Foundation Survey of 2001, that 68 percent of
nificance” to the discretion of the Department of
gays and lesbians considered marriage to be very
Health and Human Services.
important and that 25 percent considered it to be
In 1987, U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., of
somewhat important. According to the 2000 U.S.
fered the ban as an amendment to a bill to fund
census, 34 percent of cohabitating female couples
availability of the anti-retroviral drug Zidovudine.
and 22 percent of male couples were raising chil
The law passed almost unanimously by Congress,
dren younger than 18.
in part as a political trade to obtain the funds for
In addition, the committee is developing a
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proposed position statement on the U.S. military
policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
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New Governor an Ally of Gays
Mark your calendars for
Bunco at the Q Center!
Repeal of HIV Travel Ban Moves
to Senate Floor
Our next date is Sunday,
March 30, at 5:30pm.
Cost is $5 plus a food donation for Esther’s Pantry.
games won and least games won.
after being linked to a prostitution ring.
The provision to repeal the ban on HIV
This news was disappointing to the gay com
positive foreign nationals from entering into the
munity because Spitzer has been moving closer to
United States has seen its first step of progress in
passing same-sex marriage in New York. In 2006,
15 years.
he pledged that he would sponsor a same-sex mar
The issue is included in legislation to reau
There will be cash prizes for most Buncos, most
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned March 12
riage bill or sign one that came to his desk.
thorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS
But his successor, Lt. Gov. David Paterson,
Relief, a comprehensive effort to address global
also has a record of support for the sexual minori-
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