Dear Whitman Walker Institute, Executive Committee,             I first met Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the late 1980s when she was chair of the Health Committee in the California State Senate, and I was lobbying for AIDS funding. I got to know her much better when her friend Myrlie Evers was running for LA City Council. I was conducting Myrlie’s polling and attended many fundraisers with Maxine. Unfortunately, Myrlie lost that twelve-person race but went on to be President of the National NAACP. When I mailed Maxine one of twenty-five envelopes I sent to Congressional and Senatorial leaders early in this pandemic, I addressed it to “The Fabulous Congresswoman Maxine Waters.” I will attach that letter for your review.             Recently I Googled to locate a coalition of progressive health organizations in Washington DC and came up empty handed. I fo...

Dear Whitman Walker Institute, Executive Committee,             As with AIDS in the 1980s, it is more than tragic that hundreds of thousands have died unnecessarily of Covid-19 in the last two years, simply due to a failure of the medical community to recognize established but arcane scientific knowledge. This did not have to happen. I sincerely would like to work with the Whitman Walker Institute to rectify a neglected approach to treating viral disease and pandemics.             I dedicated my life first to civil rights for the LGBTQ community, and then to research and advocating for effective, affordable, accessible AIDS therapies, not just for Americans but especially for people living with HIV in Africa who at the time had none. Now I would like to request the Institute to consider helping relocate my three decades of research archives back to America after I have spent...