Justice delayed for gay Americans
Washington Blade Opinion Aug 15 08Justice delayed for gay Americans Lifting of HIV travel ban is an overdue victory in fight we never should have had to fight. It's a relic of '80s anti-gay stigma and an embarrassment. By Friday, August 15, 2008 TWO WEEKS AGO, through the twists and turns of the legislative process, President Bush signed a five-year authorization on one of his landmark overseas programs, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and with a stroke of his routinely anti-LGBT pen, lifted the 15-year-old U.S. HIV travel ban. That this is an overdue victory is an understatement, but the true statement here is that we never should have had such a discriminatory law to fight against in the first place. Full story...
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