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| December 13, 1988 |
| DC CIty Council Chambers |
| From the front page of the Washington Post the next day: "In its last legislative session of the year, the council also gave final approval to two pieces of legislation demanded by Congress, modifying the city's controversial residency law and repealing its law barring insurance companies from testing applicants for the AIDS virus. The council action on the AIDS bill came during an hour long session that was repeatedly interrupted by shouts from members of the gay community that demanded that the council refuse to succumb to the will of Congress. Five people were arrested for disorderly conduct by officers, who were brought into the chambers to quell the disturbance. |
| Social Justice Arrest Record |
| The passage of the AIDS insurance bill is expected to prompt major life insurance companies, which had argued that AIDS tests were needed to assess potential client's health risk, to resume writing policies in the District" Well, that is what the Post says. I say the that if we had not put up a fight on this one, the insurance companies would have walked all over us here in DC. It was a good fight, although we lost. In hind sight, it seems silly, but you have to remember that the insurance companies at the time didn't want to provide ANY benefits to people with HIV. |
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