San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund, which provides fast money for poor PWAs, celebrated its 20th birthday in May....Nancy Ahern, aide to Connecticut guv John Rowland, resigned June 6 after a firestorm over her remarks that HIV is spread by “predatory males in the minority community” and “gays deliberately infecting others.”...Justin Dart, Jr., the chief proponent of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) who was hit with polio in the ’40s and spent the rest of his life advocating from a wheelchair, died June 22 at 71....Charles E. Clifton took over July 1 as ED of Chicago’s Test Positive Aware Network and editor of Positively Aware after the June resignation of Dennis Hartke....Magic Johnson, the former Lakers star who announced that he had HIV in 1991 and continued his career, will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September.
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Milestones
September 1, 2002 • By Danielle Zielinski
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