The Virginian-Pilot 
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, August 8, 1994                 TAG: 9408080036
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY LESLIE DREYFOUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS 
DATELINE: NEW YORK                           LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

UNITY AMID LOSS: DISEASE GALVANIZED GAY COMMUNITY NEWS OF AIDS' FIRST CASUALTIES MOBILIZED 6 MEN TO FORM A GROUP TO SOUND THE ALARM.

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Larry Kramer, an outspoken author and founding member of Gay Men's

Health Crisis, is HIV-positive. ``I can look at myself in the mirror

and really know that I've put up the good fight.''

``People who have been around long enough to understand it all are

dead or fried.''

Rodger McFarlane, AIDS activist

by CNB