The state of California is in a massive budget crisis – so big that even the millions of dollars that gay marriage tourism would have brought into the state wouldn’t have solved it.In the middle of the panic, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has used a line-item veto to cut more than $52 million in HIV programs from the State budget – cuts beyond the agreement with the state legislature.
The California AIDS Clearinghouse had to abruptly shut its doors last week after receiving word that its funding – all of it – had been eliminated.
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center ran the California AIDS Clearinghouse for 15 years, working with hundreds of nonprofit organizations to help provide education, testing, counseling, medical services, and condom distribution.
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