Terry Dolan  (1950 - 1986)

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Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present by Neil Miller

Since AIDS has affected so many gay men, it is critical that one understands gay and lesbian history. Gays have suffered much with this disease and many negative comments have been written and said, including those of Senator Helms. This book is an excellent history that is a delight to read. It is well-documented and full of facts. The seven sections cover: "The Invention of Homosexuality," "Four Bohemias," "Triumph of Ideology," "Before Stonewall," "The Gay Liberation Decades," "The International Scene," and "The Gay Moment." Chapter 27 covers the 1980s including AIDS, the Vatican, lesbian sex debates, Michel Foucault, Terry Dolan, and the gay fiction boom. This is a must-read book and should be in all libraries and made available to all those who feel that AIDS and gays go together and should, therefore, not be given much attention.

Perfect Enemies:  The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of the 1990s

By John Gallagher and Chris Bull, washingtonpost.com

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The "shriller you are," admitted Terry Dolan, the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, in 1982, "the easier it is to raise money..."

By coming out, [Marvin] Liebman saved himself from the unhappy fate of Terry Dolan. Like Liebman, Dolan was a closeted gay man whose work contributed mightily to antigay causes. But unlike Liebman, Dolan never fully came to grips with the duplicity of his past. In 1986, still deeply in the closet, he died of AIDS...

Fear and Loathing in Fundraising

By Lionel Van Deerlin, San Diego Union, February 18, 1994

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National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), the Conservative Caucus and the Fund for Survival of a Free Congress. An outpouring of conservative money in those years fattened the campaign coffers of ideologues like Jesse Helms, and helped prepare the way for Ronald Reagan.

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