Dr. Ht was the first openly gay person to head a printial advisory board, servg durg the admistratn of Print Bill Clton.
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- R. S. HT, 49, AIDS EXPERT AND GAY ACTIVIST, IS DEAD
- ON BEG GAY IN MEDICE: A LEADG HARVARD PEDIATRICIAN'S STORY
- GAY HOLOT
R. S. HT, 49, AIDS EXPERT AND GAY ACTIVIST, IS DEAD
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Ht, 49, AIDS Expert and Gay Activist, Is Dead ADVERTISEMENTNov. Stt Ht, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a printial advisory board, died Thursday at his home Wt Hollywood.
Ht foced his activism on gay and lbian issu. ”He later gave up his medil license after beg arrted on charg of posssg a ntrolled battlg ncer, he remaed an activist and started a foundatn to promote gay and lbian activism. I walked up to the podium, looked out over the sea of fac, and thought to myself, I am a homosexual standg ont of all of the people.
ON BEG GAY IN MEDICE: A LEADG HARVARD PEDIATRICIAN'S STORY
And I wonred what would happen if I told was 1972, and even mentng the word homosexual, unls paired wh an expletive or rogatory adjective, would have been unacceptable at my synagogue. I assumed that I would never say out loud that I am a homosexual.
Some stunts had started a gay group the year before. He advised agast startg the group, offerg that was much better to be secretive about beg gay so that no one would bother you. He was spotted at a social event wh someone his hospal’s Chairman of the Board spected was gay.
The Chairman reported to the hospal that he thought the physician was gay too and said that people like that should not be allowed to work there.
GAY HOLOT
Fortunately, the CEO ignored the was a junr faculty member at Beth Israel Hospal who was out and actually willg to talk wh gay stunts. She explaed that the school would want to kick me out if they learned I was gay, and they uld e poor gras as an ’s not to say that there was silence about gay people.
In between, we learned about homosexuals. She nfsed that she had thought that beg gay meant simply that men had sex wh men; had never occurred to her that they might actually go to a movie or fall love.