RENO: What did you say FReeper?!?!?
Posted on 09/27/2005 3:42:15 PM PDT by dukeman
Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno wowed the crowd at the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association's conference in Montreal on Sept. 24 with an impassioned speech on universal healthcare, wrapping up the GLMA's annual conference with an inspired bang.
Reno stressed the importance of gay healthcare professionals to come out and work as a community as the best means of standing up to an increasingly conservative, homophobic culture and government. “By utilizing the professional bonds and friendships built up through your work, I believe you can build a system of healthcare delivery that will make us all proud,” said Reno.
“People need to believe that they can make a difference,” added Reno. “By using your networks of family, friends and others who know people from the LGBT community that they adore, you can build that network and have an impact,” that can rise above politics, she said.
To patients facing discrimination from their healthcare provider, Reno said the path to empowerment is to speak out and take an active role in combating this unique brand of homophobia: “Patients need to educate their doctors if they sense discrimination. They must refuse to give up in the face of discrimination,” said Reno.
Dr. Stephen Goldstone, a GLMA board member and Medical Director of GayHealth.com, echoed Reno's approach to combating homophobia while lauding Reno's work in helping LGBT individuals from homophobic countries find asylum--and thus safety--in the U.S.: "While Attorney General, Janet Reno took the bold step of allowing persecution based on sexual orientation stand as a reason for obtaining asylum in the U.S. Countless LGBT individuals have been able to find safety within our borders thanks to this sweeping change. Her bravery was even more remarkable given that homosexuality was still a reason for exclusion from the U.S. just four short years earlier."
Reno also challenged GLMA members to work together to find ways to make universal healthcare a reality in the U.S.: “Let's make it a government that will work for us,” says Reno, “and pledge that we won't say we can't have universal health care just because we can't figure out the financial parts of it. I think it can be done.”
Reno also spoke to the need of addressing drug and alcohol abuse and the importance of investing in the well-being of our children, especially in their early formative (ages 1-3) years, which will reduce the strain on the U.S. healthcare system in the years to come.
“We also need to identify teenagers in trouble, especially gay teens, and get them the help they need,” to reduce high teen suicide statistics, says Reno.
Thankfully, no photos.
Androgyny bump
impressive..... once again we know who the real Clinton/Reno constituency is.......
Ha Ha Ha
FR must be slipping, a story of Janet Reno attending a gay conference and no pics of Will Farrell from SNL yet.
I hope you see their gassed, burned bodies every day!
Did she talk about how she's lobbying to be the first to have a penis implant?
I didn't realize bubba's AG was out of the closet.
RENO: What did you say FReeper?!?!?
"importance of investing in the well-being of our children"
As evidenced in her handling of Waco.
You're joking,of course......
I thought gays and lesbians were just normal human beings like the rest of us.
They need their own health-care providers? What's up with that?
Do we really want to know the real thing?
What kind of "help?" Nice to know they're out there preying on confused adolescents and recruiting more of their ilk.
Kissy, kissy
Love, Janet
She needs someone she can trust to perform her "addadictome" procedure.
In order for that to happen,she'd have to have a conscience.I challenge you to give me *one* piece of evidence suggesting that *anyone* connected to The Most Ethical Administration In History ever had one.
Limbaugh refers to that as an adadictome procedure.
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