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‘AIDS is not just a Hollywood disease — this is the health crisis of this century’

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! The poor homosexuals — they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution,” former Nixon adviser and conservative journalist Pat Buchanan wrote May 24, 1983 in a New York Post column ! AIDS Disease: It’s Nature Striking Back.”

The year before, in 1982, Buchanan — a proud son of the Confederacy and a CNN “Crossﬁre” commentator — staunchly defended John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker extradited to Israel as “Ivan the Terrible,” the SS Nazi responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Jews at Treblinka during the Holocaust.

Nonetheless, Buchanan later became an adviser in Ronald Reagan’s White House, which was already ﬁlled with Christian evangelicals for whom AIDS was a weapon of mass destruction in their persistent war on “sodomites.”

A few federal representatives such as Sen. Edward Kennedy and California’s Rep. Henry Waxman — with help from gay deputy Tim Westmoreland — tried to intercede in stemming the growing AIDS crisis. In California, Assemblymember Art Agnos was a strong ally and in 1983, Senate President Pro Tempore David A. Roberti, working closely with his 27-year-old gay aide Stan Hadden, passed a bill establishing the California AIDS Advisory Committee. In 1985, the same year LIFE AIDS Lobby was launched, Hadden crafted legislation to encourage a coordinated approach to local AIDS programs and services.

But in those early years of AIDS, scientists were groping for answers. In March 1983, 19 months after the Centers for Disease Control published the ﬁrst report on the strange new disease, the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health issued interagency recommendations to prevent the transmission of AIDS through sexual contact, blood transfusions and needle sharing.

Finally in May, Drs. Francois Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier from the French Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated the retrovirus that causes AIDS, calling it LAV (Lymphadenopathy-associated virus). Soon thereafter, in 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo at the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, also isolated a virus, which he called HTVL-III. An international debate was sparked over credit for the discovery of the cause of AIDS.

The issue was exacerbated at an April 1984 news conference held by Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler and Dr. Edward N. Brandt Jr., the assistant secretary of HHS who previously announced that AIDS was “the No. 1 priority.” They declared that Gallo had identified the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, as the cause of AIDS. They also forecast that an HIV vaccine would be created in three years and commercially available within five years. The news conference failed to acknowledge the contributions of Montagnier, who many AIDS doctors favored.

Dr. Michael Gottlieb, author of the first CDC report on June 5, 1981, for instance, talked about Montagnier during his briefings to fellow AIDS Project Los Angeles board members, who included CDC report co-author Dr. Joel Weisman, lesbian feminist Ivy Bottini and Dr. Neil Schram. The APLA Board of Directors was officially convened on Jan. 14, 1983 by co-chairs Weisman and attorney and MECLA co-chair Diane Abbitt. Gottlieb told the APLA board that he was impressed by the French paper. But Bottini was concerned. She told Gottlieb, “Michael, unless you know,

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with absolute certainty, that AIDS is caused by a virus, you can’t say anything about it publicly because we are going to be further stigmatized. People are going to be afraid of us.”

“And she was right,” Gottlieb told the Los Angeles Blade.

In 1984, with hatred and AIDS deaths mounting, gays were giving up on gay liberation. But some fought on. L.A. Cares put up AIDS prevention billboards featuring “Poltergeist” actress Zelda Rubinstein telling her gay son to remember his rubbers. As explained in “Guerilla Medicine,” LA medical nurse Jim Corti and Sausalito business consultant Marty Delaney drove to Tijuana, Mexico, to buy ribavirin, an over-the-counter cold remedy sold outside the U.S. but not approved by the FDA for AIDS treatment for West Coast buyers clubs. “They haven’t even bothered to test [ it ] here…and the pharmacies here can’t sell it. Why, because it might be dangerous? Hell, dying is dangerous,” Corti said.

Delaney stopped drug running to found Project Inform to get the word out about possible new treatments and put pressure on drug companies and federal bureaucrats, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, who became director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH in 1984.

For some gays, the fight for freedom expanded. Ron Stone, a 37-year-old gay former staffer for Sen. Alan Cranston, was so annoyed by development in his neighborhood, he teamed up with affordable housing guru Larry Gross, director of the Coalition for Economic Survival, to incorporate West Hollywood as its own self-governing city.

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But the ﬁrst wave of AIDS started crashing hard on cities like West Hollywood. Firstin-the-nation ordinances prohibiting discrimination based on AIDS were passed in L.A., West Hollywood, San Francisco, and Hayward. Heilman drafted the WeHo AIDS non830263?3".43%"#%683"."27*#B<32<#B.0#2<.117"978#4<7#5%11%B3"9#:7.6#B<7"#.#".31#0.1%"# refused service to gay customer Paul Jasperson. Attorney Gloria Allred stuck with and eventually won the case after Jasperson’s death from AIDS.

The LA non-discrimination ordinance, drafted by closeted City Council member Joel Wachs, passed 14- . But after Mayor Tom Bradley signed the new law in August, all hell broke loose. “It was overwhelmingly awful,” Wachs told the LA Times. “A lot of it described (AIDS) as a curse rather than a virus. I was 04/""78#F:#4<7#3"26783F17#"/?F760#%5#67.11:# <.475/1#4<3"90#4<.4#2.?7#3"'K

“It’s going to get worse. It really is going to get worse,” said longtime gay ally Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco). Indeed, the Associated Press reported on an LA poll showing 4<.4#N+#;7627"4#%5#(*OP,#;7%;17#0/;;%6478# uarantining of AIDS patients in 1985.

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“We had no idea if this drug worked. And if it worked, how often did we give it? It was truly a shot in the dark,” Gottlieb told the LA Blade.

It was on Hudson’s second or third trip to R.630#%"#E/1:#(+#B<7"#<7#2%11.;078#3"#4<7#1%FF:# of the Ritz Hotel and was taken to the American Hospital in Paris. Longtime publicist Dale Olson 67;%6478#4<.4#4<7#?%&37#04.6#<.8#3"%;76.F17#13&76# 2."276'#S<677#8.:0#1.476*#!10%"#07"4#.#870;76.47# 471796.?#4%#4<7#@<347#A%/07#F7993"9#5%6#<71;# 4%#974#<3?#46."0576678#4%#R762:#T3134.6:#A%0;34.1# 4<.4#675/078#4%#.227;4#<3?#F72./07#<7#B.0"U4# French. Dormont “reports only one hospital in the world can oﬀer necessary treatment to save life of Rock Hudson or at least alleviate his illness,” Olson wrote. Nancy Reagan said no. But she wanted the press to know that Reagan

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S<7#"7G4#8.:*#E/1:#(N*#A/80%"U0#L67"2<#;/F132304#V."%/#J%11.64#.""%/"278#4<.4# Hudson had AIDS. On July 2 , “AIDS was on the front page of virtually every Sunday morning paper in the United States,” Randy Shilts later wrote in “And the Band Played On.” “There was AIDS before Rock Hudson and AIDS after.”

Hudson was own home on an Air France jetliner and driven to UCLA Medical J7"476'#S<7#2<.36#%5#I%44137FU0#87;.64?7"4#4%18#<3?#4%#<%18#.#"7B0#2%"5767"27'#A7# had permission from Hudson to conﬁrm the star had AIDS. But Gottlieb was not anked by rows of doctors as is customary. Instead, he stood alone, with a public relations person. “Of course, I read a statement. But I felt inhibited about responding to uestions,” trying to avoid uestions like “is Rock Hudson gay?”

“There was precious little support from the institution,” Gottlieb told the LA Blade, still annoyed by the missed opportunity. “It B.0#."#7?F.66.00?7"4'#S<7#;6700#30#%/4#4<767*# hundreds of people, ashbulbs popping as they did in those days. And all they got was a brief statement conﬁrming that Rock Hudson had AIDS. There was no further guidance or support. So, it was an embarrassment as far as I’m concerned.”

Gottlieb snuck Elizabeth Taylor to see Hudson through a back freight door. “Elizabeth B.0#8670078#4%#4<7#"3"70*K#I%44137F#672.1178# to People magazine. “She was a little anxious .F%/4#"%4#<.&3"9#072/634:'K#M/4#34#B.0#I%44137F# B<%#C/?;78#<7.63"9#.#1%/8#F."9#3"#4<7#717&.4%6'# “Elizabeth laughed and said ‘It’s just my jewels.’ She had hit the wall of the elevator with a large 83.?%"8*#4<7#W6/;;#83.?%"8*K#I%44137F#0.38'# “She asked me if it was okay to hug and kiss him. She was worried about his immune system. Not hers.” Afterwards, he said, “Rock was very glad 4%#<.&7#077"#<76'K

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On Nov. 4, 2 2 , the tireless ﬁght for LGBT rights once again found itself at the mercy of the Supreme Court when justices heard arguments in !"#$%&'()'*+$,'%-'./+#012#3/+0. Two years earlier, the City of Philadelphia cancelled its contract with Catholic Social Services because the foster agency does not screen or consider same-sex couples for child placement, arguing this practice was in violation of the city’s non-discrimination ordinance.

On June 17, 2 21 — juxtaposed with Pride month celebrations across the country — the stolen Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling upholding the city’s decision, giving a nod to bigotry, rekindling the perpetual ﬁght for LGBT rights and reaﬃrming that the current court is a willing accomplice in crimes against e uality.

The war being waged against the LGBT community under the guise of “sincerely held religious beliefs” is far from over. For years, state legislatures have passed unjust laws allowing businesses and organizations to discriminate against people simply based on who they love. The federal government is also no stranger to demonizing LGBT Americans, having long upheld policies like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the transgender service member ban. I’m privileged to have played a role in working to overturn these policies that subjected LGBT Americans to unfair treatment under the law. Now I’m working to expand the Supreme Court as an extension of that same ﬁght.

LGBT Americans have won and defended their rights against the discriminatory tactics employed by state and federal governments, but not without pain and hardship all along the way. For decades, gender and sexual minorities have marched in the streets, amplifying calls for e uality and fair treatment under the eyes of the law, yearning for the day when their sexual orientation and gender identity can no longer be leveraged against them as tools of discrimination and hate.

The !"#$%& ruling is an early warning of the damage barreling toward e uality, fairness, and justice at the hands of the hyperpartisan Supreme Court.

While others have (rightly) noted that the decision could have been worse, I take little comfort in that fact. The court’s progressive justices being forced to compromise with bigots to avoid an even more disastrous outcome is a sign of how far we have fallen in just the few short years since the court made marriage e uality the law of the land.

Taken together with the court’s previous rulings in Hobby Lobby and Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Fulton ruling sends a clear signal that the court, at a minimum, could wind up killing nondiscrimination protections for LGBT Americans by a thousand cuts, as it may chip away at non-discrimination protections slowly over time rather than in one fell swoop. The trajectory is cause for deep concern.

We’ve arrived at a dark and critical time in the great

experiment of our democracy. The Supreme Court has been stolen, and the rights of millions of Americans are at stake. As of late, conservatives have spared no opportunity to obstruct Americans’ fundamental rights. The stolen Supreme Court is poised to uphold these egregious attacks, subjecting countless Americans to discrimination.

Ultimately, expanding the Supreme Court is the only way to hold the federal government accountable and prevent them from walking our democracy backwards. Unless something is done to reverse the dangerous course we’re on, the current stolen Supreme Court is destined to continue ruling on the wrong side of e uality. The rights of every single American are under assault. The Court also ﬁnds itself on the wrong side of the will of the American people. Seventy percent of Americans support marriage e uality according to Gallup’s latest 40#"25'0&1'62#+2-5 poll, a number that has trended upwards since the uestion was ﬁrst asked in 199 . But instead of following the modernization of beliefs on LGBT rights and more, the court has been abused as a means to enshrine minority rule and force primitive beliefs on the American people.

Working at the forefront of both of these issues, court expansion and LGBT rights share a common theme — they were both once considered political fringe issues. But the assault on e uality and our democracy by conservatives thrust these issues into the political spotlight. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed, freeing thousands of troops from the shackles of fear that revealing their sexual orientation could earn them a dishonorable discharge. The transgender troop ban was overturned — though the Trump administration temporarily reinstated it in 2 19 to score cheap political points with his base. And 7829:-2##'()';%1:25 secured marriage e uality for every American.

Thanks to that ruling and others that have preserved, protected, and granted e uality to LGBT Americans, advocates have long viewed the Supreme Court as defenders of democracy. But as of late, the court has demonstrated it is instead a grave threat to decades of progress we’ve realized through generations of hard work. Congress must act swiftly to pass the Judiciary Act of 2 21, the only way to eﬀectively expand the court and restore balance and trust to the apogee of our democracy.

For so many LGBT Americans, e uality means adopting children, getting married, donating blood, and having a job without fearing their sexuality or gender identity would jeopardize their career. These rights and privileges are taken for granted by so many Americans who are not treated as “lesser than” because of the color of their skin or who they love.

When the Supreme Court ruled that marriage e uality was the law of the land, “Love Wins” became a mantra that resonated across the world. But love has no standing in a stolen Supreme Court. And apparently, neither does e uality.

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Thrash, who had a master’s degree in ﬁction and poetry from American University, taught in underserved high schools and women’s correctional facilities as well as in academic settings.

“I feel passionate about [teaching],” Thrash, whose poetry collection “The Fateful Apple” was nominated for the 2 15 Pen America Open Book Award, told me in 2 14. “Not only am I teaching in that exchange, I’m also learning.”

Though Thrash called D.C. her “adopted home,” her roots were in the Deep South. She spent her childhood summers in Rincon and Sylvania, Ga. '()*%(+&5(3&5*%&32"#&*03$4&(")&%"9$*-148+& sensed, as a child, that she was diﬀerent.

“I am seven I want to be an angel because I have never been an angel,” she wrote in her poem “Angel.” “I must act like a lady I have never acted like a lady I have demanded to be called Vince.”

Thrash lived fully in her self, Black and ueer, and that intersectionality infused her poetry and relationships, Sarah Browning, former director of Split This Rock, a D.C.-based poetry organization that works for social change, told the Blade.

In addition to being a ﬁnalist in the 2 12 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize and the 2 9 Arktoi Books Poetry Prize, Thrash was a co-editor of “Beltway Poetry uarterly” and a co-director of The Word Work’s Joa uin Miller Poetry Series.

She was a Cave Canem fellow. (The Cave Canem Foundation, according to its website, was founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 199 “to remedy the under-representation of AfricanAmerican poets in the literary landscape.”)

Thrash was featured at one of Split This Rock’s festivals. “Venus’s poetry is like Venus full of joy and outrage, and love,” Browning said. “Every time I saw her I was delighted by her irty, irreverent spirit.”

On social media postings after her death, Thrash was often described as “ﬁerce” because of her appearance her shaved head, her androgynous way of dressing, Kim Roberts, founding editor of

“Beltway Poetry uarterly,” emailed the Blade. “But Venus was actually uite shy,” Roberts said. Roberts loved the conversations that she and Thrash had about the intersection of gender and race. “I am Jewish and bisexual,” Roberts, editor of the anthology “By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital,” said. “We both noted how diﬀerent our own lived experiences were, yet we found joy from our long, freewheeling discussions.”

Grace Cavalieri, poet laureate of Maryland, knew Thrash before Thrash was a mother and well published. “I saw her enter the poetry scene working for every D.C. institution to further poetry,” Cavalieri, founder producer of the radio show “The Poet and the Poem,” said. “She was the best citizen in the poetry republic.”

Venus rolled with everybody, remembers poet Hayes Davis, author of “Let Our Eyes Linger.”

“If Venus called herself your friend, she would laugh with you, drink with you, talk shit with you … talk about relationships with you,” Davis said. “We

could talk about parenting, we could talk about ourselves.”

In “The Fateful Apple,” you see a poet who is entirely at home with her body, her loves, her desires, her history her friends, D.C.-area poet Joseph Ross emailed the Blade.

“I especially remember her generous kindness to my husband, who is not a poet,” Ross, author of “Raising King,” said. “At poetry gatherings, she often found us and made him and me feel at home.”

One of Thrash’s most powerful poems is “Uncivil,” a pointed, yet joyous rebuke to any government that dictates who we can love.

“There will be no parchment certiﬁcate stamped with any state’s approval conﬁrming we’re married or in love,” Thrash writes in “Uncivil,” “But we will jump over a brand new straw broom, we will light candles pour red wine into the earth where our ancestors sleep.”

Thank you, Venus, for your poetry and your wonderful self. R.I.P.

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