Subject: ACT UP Isn't `Gay'
Date: Published: 2/21/92 (22 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Letters to the Editor:
    ACT UP Isn't `Gay'

    In his Feb. 12 editorial-page story, "The Unlikeliest
 Democrat," about presidential candidate Paul Tsongas, Paul A. 
 Gigot mischaracterizes our organization, ACT UP, as a "gay
 extremist" group.  ACT UP is an acronym for AIDS Coalition to
 Unleash Power.  The word gay doesn't appear.  Though many ACT
 UP members are gay men, we also include lesbians, people of
 color, heterosexuals and anyone interested in ending the AIDS
 plague in our ranks.
    Michael Petrelis
    ACT UP/New Hampshire
    Manchester, N. H. 

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