Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 07:21:49 -0500 (EST) From: A Jay Eddy Subject: AIDS Activist Allan Terl Remembered ----------Forwarded Message---------- Date: Tues, 2 Dec 1997 09:37:35 From: joelogcabin@msn.com To: ajayeddy@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us Subject: AIDS Activist Allan Terl Remembered December 2, 1997 For Immediate Release "Awareness Through Education-Responsibility Through Involvement" BROWARD LOG CABIN CLUB OF FLORIDA Concerned Republicans for Individual Rights (954) LCR-1995 P.O. Box 1281, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33302 TERL REMEMBERED FOR THE TRAILS HE HELPED BLAZE Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Allan Terl, former national vice president of the ACLU and a dedicated AIDS activists died on Monday December 1, 1997, World AIDS Day. Terl, known locally for his dedication and outreach in a variety of areas, was nationally recognized for his involvement in the Tod Shuttleworth case. This legal challenge, one of the first of its kind in the country, dealt with the employment rights of an individual fired because of the HIV virus. According to Andy Eddy, Log Cabin Director of Communications and Outreach, "Terl will be missed because in his professional drive to attain what he understood was right he deeply cared and believed in the community. In his zeal he enabled a number of positive forces to come into play thereby affording all of us, regardless of our political isle, more equality of access to the decision table."