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AIDS rally demands research
The Associated Press
The rally stretched for more than a dozen blocks.
WASHINGTON — Thousands of homosexual activists, led by AIDS victims in wheelchairs and bearing signs carrying messages like, "Thank God I'm Gay," marched yesterday to demand protection from discrimination and more federal money for AIDS research and treatment.
How AIDS epidemic has progressed
Cases and deaths in United States
1981
"Here we are from California, Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Alaska, Seattle and Delaware — east, west, north and south — in numbers too large to ever be denied again." Smeal said.
U. S. Park Police estimated that 200,000 people participated in the march past the White House and rally near the Capitol. The crowd, carrying balloons and banners and wearing buttons and T-shirts, heard from speakers including Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and former National Organization for Women President Eleanor Smeal.
- Centers for Disease Control report immune deficiency and Pneumocystis pneumonia in gays
* AIDS reported among heterosexual intravenous drug users
She told the crowd they numbered 500,000 and yelled, "Look at you!" Feel the political power of the moment. Spread love, and tight embrace.
He brought the crowd to its feet when he called for an end to the AIDS crisis. "We can fight AIDS and every chance," he said. "Let's give life a chance," he said.
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78 dead
181
164 dead
She also said, "We have stopped Bork," referring to federal Judge Robert Bork, whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court appears headed for defeat in the Senate. Marchers chanted anti-Bork slogans.
"Let's find a common ground of humanity," Jackson told the rally late in the afternoon. "We share the desire for life, liberty, the pursuit of equality, equal protection under the law. Let's not dwell on distinctions."
University Daily Kansan / Monday, May 4, 1987
Activists began their day yesterday at sunrise with the untiring of a number of bombs, personal effects and, in some cases, the ashes of victims of AIDS.
The quilt was made of 1,292 panels made by companions or relatives of people who have died from the disease. Among the panels on the quilt
1982
New cases diagnosed in 6-month period
Number of people first diagnosed during the period who have died
- AIDS cases reported among hemophiliacs and those receiving blood transfusions
* Reported that AIDS transmitted through sexual contact
1983
- AIDS labeled the "No. 1 priority" of the U.S.
Public Health Service
* Social Security System grants automatic
disability to AIDS patients
AIDS retrovirus identified in U.S. and France
• AIT first tested on humans as AIDS drug
• Heterosexual transmission of AIDS reported
  in AIDS patients diagnosed before 1983
have died
1,220
1,078 dead
1,586
1,359 dead
1984
2,447
1,989 dead
3,194
2,560 dead
1985
- Antibody blood test available
* Defense Depot. required tests of military
* Indiana school district bars child with AIDS
* Rock Hudson dies of AIDS
4,368
3,333 dead
5,442
3,812 dead
- Surgeon General's report on AIDS released
• United Nations reports African AIDS epidemic
• Former Washington Redskins star Jerry Smith dies of AIDS
1986
1987
6,564
3,843 dead
7,408
3,059 dead
- AZT drug approved for AIDS patients
- President Reagan makes his first speech about AIDS
*Reagan names advisory panel on AIDS*
*U.S. begins human tests of possible vaccine*
**Figures as of Oct. 5, 1987**
**Totals include cases diagnosed prior to 1981**
SOURCES: Centers for Disease Control; Facts on File, New York Times, Washington Post and Hospital Practice magazine
7,588
2033 dead
1,199*
159 dead*
**Cumulative case total:** 42,354
**Cumulative death total:** 24,412
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The rally opening also featured music and a statement from Dan Bradley, a White House aide in the Carter administration, who is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
were familiar names: actor Rock Hudson, fashion designer Willi Smith, lawyer Roy Cohn, choreographer Michael Bennett and entertainer Liberace.
Bradley said that what he was most proud of was that "after a lifetime of struggle (and) fear . . . I
had the courage (in 1982) to say, loud and clear, 'I'm gay, and I'm proud. I'm gay, and I'm proud.'
Activists said the AIDS crisis, which has hit the homosexual community in the United States especially hard, has spurred an increase in homosexual activity. The nation's lesbians and homosexual men, who they estimate at 25 million.
Organizers were hoping to use the march and rally yesterday and a planned non-violent protest in front of the Supreme Court building tomorrow to dramatize their calls for more federal assistance.
Susanne Phillips of Brooklyn, N.Y., a medical student who works with AIDS victims, carried a bumper sticker reading "Fight AIDS, not people with AIDS."
"The Reagan administration is allowing millions to die," said one of the marchers, Jim Merriam, an AIDS victim from Miami. "Its response has been an ineffective, insincere commission on AIDS."
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