Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1986 Page: 4 of 20
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NGRA files on
insurance co.
National Gay Rights Advocates has
filed a formal complaint with the
California Department of Insurance
challenging the discriminatory prac-
tices of a major national insurer. The
company, Munich American Reas-
surance Company, recently issued
guidelines intended to weed out gay
men who apply for life insurance.
People are considered “high risk” if
they are single and between 20-50
years old, a resident of certain cities
known to have large gay populations,
if they have an “illicit lifestyle” or if
they name anyone other than a spouse
or child as beneficiary.
Benjamin Schatz, Director of
NGRA’s AIDS Civil Rights Project,
criticized Munich American’s policy
as a “mean-spirited, stereotypical
and unlawful attack on the ability of
the entire gay and lesbian commun-
ity to obtain life insurance.” He at-
tacked the guidelines as medically
unsound, and characterized them as
“a gross overreaction to the AIDS
epidemic.”
“We must not and will notallow the
insurance industry—or anyone else—
to scapegoat the gay and lesbian
community in response to the AIDS
crisis,” declared NGRA Exzecutive
Director Jean O’Leary.
DALLAS VOICE
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Dallas, Texas 75219
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Don Ritz
Robert Moore
Editor
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Copyright 1986
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Ritz, Don. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1986, newspaper, March 7, 1986; Dallas, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth615903/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.