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Noted Aids activist, former New York City Human Rights Commissioner.  Disclosed his positive HIV aids status in an op-ed piece in The New York Times in 1993, and founded the Latino Commission on AIDS.
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Noted AIDS activist, former New York City Human Rights Commissioner.  Disclosed his positive HIV aids status in an op-ed piece in The New York Times in 1993, and founded the Latino Commission on AIDS.
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==Further Reading/Research==
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* http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/nyregion/15deleon.html?_r=0
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* http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/14/obit.aids.advocate.deleon/
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Revision as of 20:09, 20 July 2014

Dennis DeLeon

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1948 - 2009

Occupation

Activist

Description

Noted AIDS activist, former New York City Human Rights Commissioner. Disclosed his positive HIV aids status in an op-ed piece in The New York Times in 1993, and founded the Latino Commission on AIDS.

Further Reading/Research


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