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 South African Democratic Party leader Tony Leon |
Durban, South Africa--The National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equity (NCGLE) has asked Tony Leon, the Democratic Party leader, to dismiss the party's KwaZulu-Natal candidate Graham McIntosh following his reported trashing of gay men, lesbians and people with AIDS.
The organization's spokesperson, Ronald Louw, explained that McIntosh, in a letter to a Durban newspaper, The Mercury, had specifically critiqued Supreme Court Judge Edwin Cameron's admission that he was living with AIDS.
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McIntosh was reported to have insisted that AIDS is nothing more than a logical consequence of Judge Cameron's "enthusiastic support for and practice of a homosexual orientation."
The candidate also condemned Cameron's efforts to 'sanitize homosexuality' saying they had led to an ignoring of HIV/AIDS by officialdom.
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Gay people and the African National Congress, he postured, have shackled health authorities in the AIDS struggle and he prophesied that thousands of South Africans would die as a result.
"McIntosh's attack on gays and lesbians, his condemnation of nation-wide anti-AIDS efforts, and his defamation of millions of South Africans with HIV or AIDS threaten to return public debate to a dangerous era of blame, stigma and ignorance." Louw replied.
"His condemnation of supposed efforts to sanitize gays and lesbians suggests that homosexuality is unsanitary and therefore a sickness and a contamination."
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The NCGLE has asked for a public apology from McIntosh not only on behalf of Cameron but for gays, lesbians and for all people living with AIDS.
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