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DALLAS VOICE
Vol. II, no. 11
Voice of the Gay Community
Friday, July 19, 1985
4,700 Dallas AIDS Cases
Are Estimated by 1990
by Don Ritz
The number of AIDS cases in Dal-
las County has been predicted to
reach 4,700 by the year 1990, said
Howie Daire of the Oak Lawn Coun-
seling Center.
The estimate, Daire told members
of the Dallas Tavern Guild, was
made by an employee of Parkland
Hospital who was trying to predict
the hospital’s patient care needs over
the next five years. The projection
was based on an estimated 150 newly
diagnosed .AIDS cases reported in
Dallas County in 1985.
As of July 12, there were 73 new
casesdiagnosed for 1985. Karen Hern-
don, AIDS Registrar for the Dallas
County Health Department, said
that 150 newly diagnosed cases in
Dallas this year seemed to be an
accurate estimate.
According to the health depart-
ment records, there have been a
total of 168 cases of AIDS that have
been diagnosed in Dallas and 77
deaths since the first cases were
diagnosed here in 1981. There are
33 additional non-residents who have
been diagnosed with AIDS who are
currently living in Dallas. Of the
non-resident cases, 13 have resulted
in death.
Sandy Horwitz of the health de-
partment explained that the non-
resident cases consist of individuals
who were diagnosed here, but were
not living here at the time of diagno-
sis or who started being sick some-
where else but who came to Dallas to
be with their parents or to seek
treatment here.
Daire said that the counseling
center forsaw the need to develop an
AIDS program several years ago
when very few cases were diagnosed
in Dallas. Consequently, the coun-
seling center has taken a leading
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Charles Armstrong, Vice President (left), and Cary Monier, President of
the Dallas Tavern Guild (right), present Home Daire of the Oak Lawn
Counseling Coder with a check for $1,000 for the center's AIDS Proyrani.
ABA Rejects Gay Rights Resolution
The House of Delegates of the
American Bar Association rejected
a resolution calling for gay rights
legislation. It was the second time
the group voted against the resol-
tuion to extend the U.S. Civil Rights
Act of 1964 to include homosexuals.
Supporters were encouraged by
the narrow vote of 161 to 152 and
predicted the measure would even-
tually pass.
“We’re keenly disappointed, but
we’ll regroup and revisit this issue
another time, another place, and
we’ll win it,” said J. David Ellwan-
ger who is head of the committee
that sponsored the resolution.
The vote was taken at an AB/'
meeting in Washington. So far, 77
state, county and local governments
have adopted anti-discrimination
laws for homosexuals.
Debate over the resoultion was
emotional. Many opponents were
from the South and Southwest and
argued the measure would put the
ABA in the position of approving
deviate sexual behaivor.
“I don’t see why America has to
deny itself of the right to protect its
mores,” said Augustine T. Smythe,
a delegate from Charleston, S.C.
Supporters have worked to
broaden its constituency and called
for compassion.
“Life is a lonely voyage for every
person and we should all be careful
before we discriminate against
anyone,” said Henry G. Miller of
White Plains, N.Y. “Human beings
of ability are rare. Some are homo-
sexuals. We need them.”
Dan Bradley, the former director
of the Legal Services Corp. and a
Miami lawyer, said he would have
been discriminated against had his
sexuality been known when he was
in the government.
“It is not easy being an openly gay
person in America today,” he said.
“Many of us are rejected by our fam-
ily and friends. All those things we
can accept. What we cannot accept,
and what we should not have to
accept, is that millions of us are
denied basic human rights and oppor-
tunities that other A mericans enjoy.
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