https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/22/lgbt-activists-demand-resources-monkeypox-dont-wan/
LGBT activists demand resources for monkeypox,
don’t want officials to stigmatize gay communities
Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr.
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/22/2022 8:18:28 PM
The Biden administration and local leaders are walking a fine line as they play catchup with the surging monkeypox, scrambling to get vaccines and tests to an LBGTQ community that is losing patience while combatting the idea this is a sexually transmitted disease for gay men.(Snip)“We, at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, are fearful that the government’s history of not taking the necessary action to protect the LGBT community when facing a public health threat is repeating itself with the current monkeypox response,” Joe Hollendoner, CEO of the center, said recently in an open letter to Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.