A San Francis native remembers the legacy of his late partner, Stephen Jaby, a gay pilot who found the San Francis chapter of Habat for Humany before dyg of an AIDS-related illns 1991.
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Spectm is the employee rource group for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer employe and their alli. Complitg matters, Habat for Humany Internatnal was a Christian anizatn, and wasn't clear the anizatn's bylaws how that Christian missn uld be clive of people om other religns or of gays and lbians. " The day before he died, knowg I would not receive ath-of-spoe benefs om our pany, he challenged me to fight for benefs for gay and lbian upl.
In October 1998, I was subpoenaed by the cy of San Francis to ttify on how gay and lbian employe were discrimated agast our pany's benefs program. I was asked to speak and shared the followg story wh the diverse group of volunteers:Joe, who is reverg om surgery, and I recently watched The Normal Heart, which chronicl the early years of the AIDS crisis, before the disease had a is a scene the movie where Tommy, played by Jim Parsons, giv a logy durg which he ponrs what the world lost when so many gay men died too young of AIDS.