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The San Francisco Examiner - November 15, 2001
Tanya Pampalone Of The Examiner Staff
Superior Court Judge Ronald Evans Quidachay ordered Wednesday that Michael Petrelis and David Pasquarelli, a member of the controversial AIDS awareness group ACT UP, stay at least 100 yards away from Klausner, the DPH head of sexually transmitted disease prevention and control, his wife and his child's nanny.
The decision follows a Friday ruling that placed temporary restraining orders against Petrelis and Pasquarelli, barring them from coming within 300 yards of any Chronicle employee or the newspaper's offices. Chronicle staffers have received obscene and threatening phone calls from the two activists.
Deputy City Attorney Scott Burrell said the preliminary injunction hearing will be Nov. 28, the same day as the Chronicle's preliminary injunction hearing. Burrell said the injunction could result in a restraining order that would be in place for a maximum of three years for each of the men.
Several mass e-mails distributed by Petrelis and Pasquarelli have been sent out in the past few weeks with the home phone numbers of employees of the New York Times, the Bay Area Reporter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and DPH.
The e-mails allege that articles about the rise in syphilis cases and unsafe sexual practices among gay men are false and urge recipients to phone the employees at home, which allegedly resulted in hostile, obscene and threatening phone calls.
In documents submitted to the court, ACT UP San Francisco urged in a press release that "community members" should "zap Dr. Klausner on Halloween by phoning, faxing and emailing him" and provided his home, office and e-mail contact information.
Petrelis said he stepped up his longtime crusade against Klausner earlier this month after a Washington Monthly article reported that Klausner said that quarantining gay men who don't practice safe sex is a possible way to slow HIV infections.
Klausner said the quote was taken out of context and said he does not believe gay men with HIV should be quarantined. He said he could not comment on the pending legal action.
E-mail Tanya Pampalone at tpampalone@sfexaminer.com
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