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Article: Will gay men be there?(role of gays in fighting breast cancer)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1997
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At this summer's annual conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association, a group of gay men and lesbians gathered for a three-hour workshop on the role of gay men in the lesbian health movement. The result was "pretty intense" in the words of workshop organizer Marj Plumb.
"There was a heated exchange between some boys and some girls," says Plumb, director of public policy for the San Francisco-based Gay and Lesbian Medical Association. "From my perspective as, a woman, I wish we could hear criticism without personalizing it."
AIDS has the red ribbon. Breast cancer, a pink one. Seldom does one see both on the same lapel. As the fight ...