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VOLUME SEVEN, NO 20—Sepfember 29 5 1994—October 12, 1.994.-11.s Lie 164 • I.: . • • L • • V .1 FREE
Give the People Light and they will ftnii their own way. e • I. Isconsin Light
Pedro Zamora Speaks New Ryan White AIDS Bill Pushed for on Gay Teens and AIDS Prevention Passage Before Congress Adjourns Wisconsin Would Receive 66% Increase in Funding Rafael P0104.0: hi !he Arcirst 18-31 issue of Light we civil an interview with MTV s... hearlihrob, Pedro Zarnera, 22. an toad City (Tvillwaukee)- M Wisconsin Light goes io mil who was dia,Rnosed with Iffii or the age of INCESS, national AIDS activists have launelked 17. Since Then he camon$ other dams, major campaign in the final days of the current been serving on the boami Me AIDS Action r session of Congress to secure Congressional Lo approval of i re-authorized. Ryan While Care CoUINICil. He recently spell rime ill the hospital • and, we have been informed, did 11.61 di ) well. Act. of presv time, he is al lien warty Following many months of intense norign- his family. Whorls within Lim national AIDS community The following is the text of a 4,p.gech Ire ihr. Light lias . previottsly chronicled, .1 ow ekti Arty 1994, before the 1,1r,S. Senate unified position by the community has been Subcommittee 011 Health. ono Environment presented to Congress by AIDS. leaders. Thank you Mr, barman for the Senator Ted Remedy (DMA) has agroccl be the tunny to appearbodeyou bode anI ec again to iallt chief aponsor of the re-authorization bill about my work in HIV prevention_ • and other Congressional leaders from both I amra. membcr of the IRMA of Dircrotors sides, of ihe political aisle .are signing on as. 7 d! • of the AIDS Action Council and have been in- volved in a number of meal AIDS °quoin- 4.• (ions action-1c in Miami, Florida, For Ind past • • • r . AiX months, I ve bctn living in :San Francisco, /v/TV s The Real World (you can catch • • ! !I. nri.Con Thursdays ai 10100 p,m, w itarn of my . .• adventures of living with six . other young 1PW.1.11 . ;.•%.•; 7%. adults under the constant glare of TV earn- On Thursday, September 22, AIDS Re- eras). SOliitCeS. Center of Wisconsin (ARCW) MTV invited the io he on their show be . . five Director Doug NEES011 and AgeW Public ewe I aril a young Gay man, living with HIV. Record] Broken- 2111c Miller Stage area: •nanililly fined tn. eapiettli Suritinirfesi..hosied son meet.- Policy Cix•rdinator. Make Gifford were sum- 1 was Infected with i-HV when 1. was a fresh- flow trowd the Molar Pad: for AIDS Walk, Wisoutain un g e pi. l g. 1494. A pommy! of the moned to Washington, D.C. by Senates. Ken- man in high school. And MTV. in a r.are ex- crowd is akimon spNikera prior to the W. nedy s staff to join with key AIDS leaders to ample of entertainment indu_iiiry leadership on Map out .strategy for quick ebngteSitorrial ap- the issue of AIDS. thought than my slimy. a New $2 Million MCW Grant To Evaluate proval of the NIL young person living with AIDS,. could send a Nelson kid the national Campaign for piiwerful maniple, teenagers in ]his ertornry . Fairress effori w hich. resulted in thegatiane - Ap.,PrevenOoit pugAhe-eilom, -6.005%.0%iorrwrtworgatil.„-ohla..C.D..m.. Aisoistrivriulan AD • that eliSjusallikd, 0 10.111ITALMMO IY.1 . ...e ,!1010P.421;14 114/42...Arie. „ ing young perSple ittst • The Medical Cologe 111=Irp.TrirgreVIIIIVEVeirrtagg .8f rite c4iiintry Asa young Gay man, growing up in the Wiseunsin (M-CY1) • has been awarded overt $2 Wiscinsin, Homelessness and HIV are (WC) was a nieesing.with a great sense of Ur- schoof Miami., Florida sysiern, e•loc_ation about million by. the National [ latitude Of Mental very .iroublin• poolsi issues our C,OrtinUnillY gency because we know LIMA lire is running HIVIAIDS -was ;limos! nion-exisient. Unfortu- Htaith on.mH) lo develop and- evaluate must law. We are prepared to. work in eel- • imst with . thia - Congroa and that the. partisan nately., I'm. not talking 'km way hack 1980 AIDS/141V prevcrition approaches for borne- •aboration tax dissever the best liczhnikities for battles within -the Congrrss hive never heed in tiithe'earliest yiiirF,. of the epidemic.... gradu- , lem men and wornen. The study will be con- teaching prevention of the transmission of lily Wire intense," Nelson rt lied from lligh . School in 1990. The !ilk in- ducted in partnership with Hope EIOUSC. Wl. within very pilor populations of peoplO. im- "The Care Act is Indy a lifeline for AIDS formation I got wits not information I could O M limo, two inner-city. homeless .shelters proving the quality of tile for die people service delivery throughout Ole country And make part of my Or (ramble to make it in Milwaukee. Milwaukee. the risks of not re-mhorizing the net in this part of my in an effort to- lorik at shirt problem. lefireY The approach 40 use in all mfr studies svaion of. Congress arc enormously high," watt doling with my mother's death twin A. Kelly,. Ph.D., nationally recognized Modi- With disenfranchised pnyulations vulnerable In Nel5on.said5 • CIITICEI and the fact dim I was Gay. II should ca! College psychologist. and •clitcctor of the E11V infection combines vKlucation about AIDS In Wisconsin. the Care Act foods transpor- IN no surprise chat my mother's death- had Medical Co.11ege s Center fox AIDS Interven- imirth !Aching methods that help persons necu- mica services, case management, respite care. trouendotts impact on me. My mother treated doh Research (CAIR), eiunducted a prelimi- istely understand their :own level Of risk..." mental• health services, home hea llh aim. and me as the most 'wonderful and special person nary study with rho homeless teaching them litelly said. • Emergency itiCdiCai -Cart for people with HIV I4—year—old, the in the World. Asa way dealt risk-reduction drills tailored to their culture He went an in say that. " We then help tiro AIDS. . with trey death was to become it straight A stu- rind lifestyle goes such .101 Social slims. sup- pepple develop problem-solving mid judgment Nelson and lobbyists for the • nalliC Inal dent and a track star. But the only way port and service needs, Promising. -results of skills to !handle drug and sexual risk Treasures, CAERE Coalition representing high incidence though' 1 could replace her love and support the initial work led ,to mom fully evaluate and refine and usrbehavioral skills avoiding cities met with Itie chief policy staff fiN Sen. was through sex, with men who. would pick AIDS/HIV among the homeless.. risk , We also locus attention on helping the Kennedy and for Senator Nancy Kassenbaurn MC up in WS arid rarely practiced safer sex. "The ineldcnce of HIV infeetinn is increas- homeless develop improved velresibein. Op- (R-KS) who is 162 ranking Republican member -. Sure, could have used 'a Condorn and ing within. American inner cities and immi- timism for the future and handle other life cif the Senate Health Committee. ixoteated myself from 111V. But 1 ask. you lo nently threatens the most disenfranchised problems bcuaus.e these [ITC critical pre-cursors Nelson reported that every iffort ih being think about the reality of an adolescent, who populations of our Communities, including the for making change." made to make the Care AV a bipartisan hill Ines never learned about cotdoma froth a health homeless," Di. Kelly said. "There has been a rfhe fiat six mynas of the -research will raid to remove all harriers to quick apprOval by teacher other trained professional, and v.11143 significant rise • irk .1161D:Sai1 V among expnd • on preliminary studies of cireilm- both Houses CINIVEMS. He said that it was 1114A heard nothing big xhilineful messages about homeless. We hope this four-year study will stances leading to HlV risk among homeless clear from Ow intelling that partisanship has being attracted to • men. I ju.st. didn't have the help us to identify practical intervention Pro- . men and women and will rine.tune cultural never bow more I:MU• and that the Republican strength and REV-Into:1n to challenge a partner grams Fee 11IV preventionlhat can be adopted interventions required Co Change bona ilk. - Right 13 COMMI41:41 lo blocking passage of any 'tali years older to wear P. WricklIn. by public health and community organizations The intervention trial in the two, shelters bill that would be a political or puNic •advan- I needed positive mes:sages about ly that serve the homel•ss." will evaluate the impact al an eight iession sexuality. necdeneededlo . 1;now about condoms. Commenting on the grant, Sherrie KAY, TURN TO AIDS BILL, PAGE 12 TO MEDICAL COLLEGE, PAGE 1:2 . • how to use. them correcily and where to buy direct of the Hope House said. -rAt the Hope TURN TURN TO PEDRCI eZAMORA, PAGE 12 ishe really look forward to initiating a Conference Committee Eliminates Helms Amendments in Education Bill
(Washington. 153:...)- A House-Senate nary provisions would have pot Gay young conference ,committeeet concluded work on people al greater ast for suicide and AIDS." September Z.R. on the final version of the Ele- Sen, Jesse Helms CR-NC). hasihreagened meniary and Secondary Edluoailon Act, the filibu,ster the education bill, which would tic multi-billion dollar Federal education bill. T1ie up .$10 billion intended for -the nacion .9 public comma e, which included Rep. Steve Gun- Schools and add kill the entire bill. . der:Ron (R-W[), rejected provisions targeting House Republicans could also try to kill Lesbian and Gay youth for discrimination and the bill when it cornea up for a final vete, depriving ilk si school districts, of COMM! over Helms sponsored the. anti•Gay provisions their tUrtiCula programs_ Instead, rite con- in the Senate. Voting with ibc majority to ap- (creme adopted policies endorsed by the prove them was Son. Herb kCohl (D-W1). I. Kohl recently called his- vote W a. mistake." He : Wine and Serraie that ensure I+ al control and avoid targeting Gay youth. has indicated that he will vote for the revised -The federal government has no busincss bill. saying how local sishoots will address speC.WE Language similar to the Heins amendment ISStieS in the CEasgroigiir •The sail-Guy as sponsored in the House by Rep. Mel Min- Mons • targeted Lesbiairand Gay youth for dis• cock (D-WA). crimination and deprived local schools of con- The conference ciwritnittee adolned trol over 33.id Daniel Zingak. amendments offered by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D- Walking TA— On Sept. 01, 199 , over 8.01Y) pc9ple OXPLCal Me min rate of the Heriry W. Maier Fesii• public policy director for the Hunan Rights MA) and Rep. Urimetdkp-WA). Val Psok to. in the AIDS Wilk wiscemin fundraiser. $1556,1100 was raised for wiseonsin AIDS orgini. Campaign Fund (1-IRCF). 'These discrimina- mcros.
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