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Originally from New
Albany, Mississippi, Brian Bradley became a seminal gay and HIV activist
in the early 1990s after the death of his lover, Irvin "Josh"
Fox. He was first involved in ACT UP and later as a founding member
of Queer Nation where he fought homophobia and discrimination against
people living with AIDS. Bradley disclosed being
HIV positive in a Houston Chronicle article and was transferred from
his job as a scrub technician in the operating room to an administrative
role removed from contact with patients. He sued M.D. Anderson, taking
his case all the way to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was interviewed
on Oprah, Good Morning, America; and Nightline. Bradley was one of ten
people originally writing policy for the Ryan White Emergency Care Act,
and served as a member of the National Advisory Committee on housing
for HIV-positive people. He ran for an at-large position for city council
as part of the gay slate in 1993 and was named Grand Marshal of Houston's
Pride Parade that same year. Brian
Bradley Obituary
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