Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!Kenneth.Wall@f101.n305.z1.fidonet.org From: Kenneth.Wall@f101.n305.z1.fidonet.org (Kenneth Wall) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: Anti-Gay? Message-ID: <27653@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 12:56:32 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: FidoNet node 1:305/101 - NASW New Mexico, Las Cruces NM Lines: 21 Approved: aids@cs.ucla.edu Archive-number: 1291 While watching "The AIDS Quarterly" on PBS Wednesday night I sensed a kind of anti-gay bias on the part of some of the people inter- viewed on the program. Health facilities were being discussed- who had access to what. And it was like there was an opinion ex- pressed by some that "well the white gays have all this medical care available to them and no one else does." I think that probably people who are gay struggled for what is now available to them (and still struggle) while, probably, no one else really gave a damn. I heard this same subtle expression from a PWA re- cently. Any one else; or is it my imagination I think that health care should be available to all people; the health care system needs to be reevaluated (and redesigned?). People I work with are saying that the AIDS crisis should be "exploited" to this end. Ken -- Uucp: ...{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!noao!asuvax!stjhmc!305!101!Kenneth.Wall Internet: Kenneth.Wall@f101.n305.z1.fidonet.org