In New York City, a meeting of the governor's AIDS advisory panel was interrupted by 20 members of ACT UP, who brandished signs reading "BIGOTRY MUST BE STOPPED," blew whistles and screamed "resign" and "Hodes: pig! Shame!" One protester handcuffed himself to the panelists' table. Even after the police came and arrested the protestors, one panel member circulated a letter demanding Dr. David Hodes's removal from the panel for his "bias, prejudice, and ignorance" as well as for his "outrageous proposals for ending the [AIDS] epidemic." Two other panel members also urged Hodes to resign.

What had Dr. Hodes done? That summer, he recommended to the panel that since "what needs to be prevented is transmission between the infected person and the uninfected person, ... people who are infected should have sex only with other people who are infected."

[Ed.: Unlike every other place in the world, New York officially does not recognize HIV as a sexually transmitted disease, but rather as a blood-borne illness. This gets around a New York law that requires notification of sexual partners for all STDs.]

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