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U.S. AIDS denialist dies at 36
by Gus Cairns
Positive Nation
David Pasquarelli, a U.S. AIDS activist who fought long and hard to convince
others that AIDS was not caused by HIV, and was jailed for his pains, has died
of the AIDS-related illness CMV (cytomegalovirus). He was 36.
Pasquarelli started as a conventional ACT-UP activist in his home state of
Florida, but soon became convinced by the arguments of dissident scientists like
Peter Duesberg that AIDS was not a viral illness but an immune suppression
brought about by stress, drug use, HIV medications or other factors.
In 1993 he moved to San Francisco where he and a group of denialists effectively
took over ACT-UP San Francisco. The dissident group was notorious for its
confrontational forms of protest, which involved the pillorying of public health
officials and noisy, occasionally violent disruptions of other organizations'
meetings. Pasquarelli was a talented satirist and graphic artist, producing at
one point ACT-UP S.F.'s own cable TV program.
Following what was said to be phoned death threats from Pasquarelli to public
health officials, he was jailed for 72 days in November 2001. In good health
till then, his immune system collapsed in jail and he was increasingly unwell
from then on.
Although many people in "conventional" HIV organizations detested Pasquarelli
for his frequently libelous attacks on their work and motives, there was unease
in some quarters over jailing an activist like Pasquarelli for sincerely held
beliefs.
Opinion on Pasquarelli's death was predictably outraged in the tribute book
organized for his Web site www.davidpasquarelli.com. Some praised his work
exposing the "AIDS Myth." Others said that Pasquarelli had done valuable work
exposing self-serving exaggerations of the true epidemiology of AIDS in San
Francisco and challenging the salaries given to some HIV workers.
And others said he was motivated as much by attempting
to combat the stigma attached to anal sex as he was to combating conventional
theories on AIDS.
He is survived by his partner Steve Huggins, who is giving donations in his
memory to the AIDS Emergency Fund, San Francisco's HIV hardship program.
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