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Cirque [circus] firing over HIV challenged ["catcher"]
UPI via bloomberg no url
| 7/16/3
Posted on 07/16/2003 10:40:40 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
CHICAGO, July 16 (UPI) -- The Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil faces a lawsuit for firing a performer who tested positive for HIV.
U.S. gymnast Matthew Cusick alleges he was fired from Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas show "Mystere" for being HIV-positive and has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the circus.
"I told them I was HIV-positive at the very start of my four months of training in Montreal," Cusick told the Chicago Tribune from his home in Maryland.
Cusick, 31, said a circus doctor had declared him in good health at that time. Cusick attorney Hayley Gorenberg said her client has been HIV-positive for 10 years.
Shortly after being offered a job as a "catcher" of aerialists in "Mystere," Cusick said, he was told by a Cirque representative he was being fired as a result of being HIV-positive.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hiv
To: NativeNewYorker
Um...good?
Why do I find myself seriously doubting that they hired him with full knowledge of his disease then turned around and fired him for it?
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posted on
07/16/2003 10:47:14 AM PDT
by
ICX
To: NativeNewYorker
He was a "catcher" before this job as well.
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posted on
07/16/2003 10:51:56 AM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
(South-south-west, south, south-east, east....)
To: NativeNewYorker
What was there that this guy did not know about AIDS 20 years ago that would have prevented his getting it 10 years ago? I don't understand it.
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posted on
07/16/2003 10:56:37 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: ICX
"Why do I find myself seriously doubting that they hired him with full knowledge of his disease then turned around and fired him for it?"
. . .agree. . .or perhaps the rest of the 'cirque cast' did not know. . .found out and did care. . .
. . .some 'gloss on' here somewhere.
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posted on
07/16/2003 11:06:44 AM PDT
by
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posted on
07/16/2003 12:56:30 PM PDT
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To: NativeNewYorker
If they spent four months training him somebody must have screwed up. Either he didn't report his AIDS up front or someone failed to notice it until too late.
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posted on
07/16/2003 1:08:10 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
Or no-one told the other performers, they somehow found out and made a big enough stink to get the guy fired.
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posted on
07/16/2003 1:09:56 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
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