C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (Steve Middlebrook) (06/05/90)
I really don't understand this stuff at all. Do they fear that an unusually
strong presence of gays might adversely effect San Francisco's image????
The Sunday following the conference is Pride Day for God's sake. There will
be more "deviants" coming in for that than 20 conferences.
I have to add that I find the thought of wasting a Dr.'s time "certifying
deviants" when people are dying from AIDS and zillions of other diseases to be
a truly offensive gov't policy.
stm
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excerpts from "INS to use obscure rule to bar gays" which was posted to several
other lists. (and probably printed in the paper too! :-)
By Philip J Hilts, New York Times
WASHINGTON - On the eve of a major international AIDS conference in San
Francisco, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is preparing to
invoke a little-enforced law that bars the entry of homosexuals to
the United States as sexual deviants, agency officials say.
The officials said Friday they had taken steps to enforce the law
after being told that some gay groups from abroad were going to test
the law by declaring themselves homosexuals when they arrived for the
Sixth International Conference on AIDS in San Francisco on June 20.
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The INS plans come to light last week in a memorandum written by
a federal health official in which he warned his superior that Public
Health Service doctors would have to be involved in enforcing the law
and that the agency faced potential embarrassment as a result.
Before a homosexual can be barred by the INS, a Public Health
Service doctor must certify the visitor to be afflicted with a
"sexual deviation, or a mental defect." The requirement that a
doctor's certification be issued before the law could be enforced was
a result of a 1983 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 9th
Circuit in California.
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