Is history being rewritten, now that HIV travel ban is over?

The lifting of the ban on HIV-positive foreigners entering the U.S. has prompted many to plan long-delayed trips to the country and to share stories of how being denied entry negatively affected their lives. The change in policy has prompted the Jesse Helms Center to try to reportedly rewrite history by portraying the late anti-gay conservative senator as a champion of people with AIDS when advocates say it was his support of the ban that helped keep it in place.

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This story published in Gay Politics Report on 03/19/2010





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