"Somber Pageant Focuses on AIDS Sufferers"

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"Somber Pageant Focuses on AIDS Sufferers"

New York Times (12/19/89), P. A24

Abstract: In Los Angeles last Friday, community activists drew attention to a current problem with the help of a venerable Mexican tradition. Cara a Cara, an organization that helps Hispanic AIDS patients and educates the Spanish-speaking community about the disease, used the posada, a candlelight procession portraying Joseph and Mary's biblical search for shelter, as a symbol of Hispanic AIDS patients' search for care and understanding. In Friday's posada, both Joseph and Mary were portrayed by people with AIDS. As the procession made its way down Sunset Boulevard, group members sang the words of the traditional posada song in English and Spanish: "Don't be inhuman, have charity, as God in Heaven will reward you." Arturo B. Olivas, Cara a Cara's director, said, "Our posada draws a correlation between the Holy Family and members of our community living with AIDS who are unable to obtain desperately needed medical and support services." In Los Angeles County, one of every three babies born with HIV infection are Hispanic.

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