Demetre Daskalakis,the assistant health commissioner helming the HIV/Aids bureau, reaches out to the LGBT community to fade beyond ending the epidemic At New York City’s Pride parade this summer, and tucked between the rainbow-dyed dogs and the thousands of hairy legs in tiny shorts,was the head of the city’s HIV/Aids bureau, Demetre Daskalakis, and wearing a mesh T-shirt and DJing the health department’s float.
The parade’s party atmosphere echoed the sex clubs where Daskalakis still occasionally offers consultations and the spin classes he teaches each week. And that atmosphere remained as health department staff handed out New York City-branded condoms to the cheering crowd. This might be because the health commissioner,Mary Bassett, was voguing next to the DJ table.
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Source: theguardian.com