NCBLG
National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays

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930 F Street, N.W.
Suite 514
Washington, D.C. 20004
(202)737-5276

Executive Direclor
Gil Gerald
Washington, 0.12.

October 2'4, 1986

Board of Directors

Michelle Parkerson
Co-chair
Washmgton. D.C.

Louis Hughes. Jr.
Co-charr
Ealttmore. MD.

C. Everett Koop, M.D., 5C.D. .
Surgeon General
U.S.  Public Health Service
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

Gwendolyn Rogers
SeCrSf.Wy
New York, NY

Dear Dr. Kocp:

Clifton A. Aoberson
TrSSSWWr
Washington, O.C.

Joseph F. Beam
Philadelphia. PA.

We commend you for the Suroeon General's ReDort on F?--,
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Immune Deficiencu Sundrome and your 5tatement.s at the press

Angela Sown
Boston. MA.

Audre Lorde
Staten Island. NY

Marlena G. Mason
Baltimore. MO.

~;,r;h;aep~in9ton expectations,  Please count on our support for promoting the

Charles Williams  recommendations you outlined in issuing this report.  We urge
Minnesota Chapter  you to use the prestige and influence of your office to see

Dan Weddo    that the federal response to AIDS as a health concern in Black
Washington, O.C.  and Brown communities is adequately addressed.

Luvenia Pinson
New York, NY.

Betty Powell
Brooklyn. N.Y.

Barbara Smith
Albany, N.Y.

conference announcing the release of the report,  As you may
recall we have been concerned about the lack of public response
to the issue of AIDS in Black and Brown communities.   While we
would have preferred some elaboration of this issue in your
report, we were pleased that it was included in your statement
to the press, and that in was indeed picked up by the media.

You are to be further commended because of your positions
favoring sex education for school age children, against
compulsory mass blood testing,  and against quarantining persons
with AIDS,  ARC, or who test positive for HIV antibodies.   To be
quite honest the report and your statements exceeded our

ectfully yours:

' Gil Gerald
Executive Director

Black Pride and Solidarity: The New Movement of Black Lesbians and Gays