Skip to main content

The Washington Blade, December 4, 1987

View
@ DC Public Library

Washington Blade, Inc

Description

An independent newspaper serving the gay community. This edition features articles on surprise international coverage of a local gay bar's Raisa Gorbachev look-alike drag competition staged during a state visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, concern over the gaps in key areas of a preliminary report from the White House AIDS commission, the death of gay writer James Baldwin, the inclusion of questions about AIDS and gay rights in a political debate featuring presidential candidates from both parties and televised in prime time, a look at changes to the health insurance coverage for federal employees in light of the AIDS epidemic, a case of murder in a gay relationship that raised the profile of the issue of gay domestic violence, anger over allegations that the Washington Post was not following its amended policy to include certain gay lovers as survivors in its obituaries, controversy over an allegation from the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance that US Postal Service workers in the DC area had conspired not to deliver mail to the gay rights group, a Supreme Court case where the Navy argued its reasoning for denying security clearances was not subject to review by the federal Merit Systems Protection Board in a non-gay-related case that was relevant to several gay cases pending in the court system at that time, a local gay volleyball team that won a US-Canadian tournament, reviews of gay interest arts and media, health information about alternative treatments for AIDS, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and...
Type:
Text
Rights:
Donor retains copyright for this material.In Copyright
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

DC Public Library

Record Harvested From

District Digital