The Morning Party.

The Morning Party, an annual summer consequence that is de rigueur for the circuit-party herd has been one of the biggest fund-misers for Gay Men's Health Crisis. For several years, although it has also been undivided of the biggest controversies for the recently made known York City-based AIDS service cluster Critics said the party, held forward New York's Fire Island, was little more than a celebration of drags and unsafe sex In August the complaints took in succession a new urgency when single man died of an overdose of the unsalable article gamma hydroxy butyrate (GHB) the evening before the party and 21 reveler were arrested at the festivities for put drugs into possession.

While GMHC had drawn out defended the Morning Party for its fund-raising power, the 1998 termination was apparently too much to tolerate. upon December 30 the agency struggleed the plug. "We have lay the foundation of that the reputation for this particular fund-miser as a put drugs into party and the alarming horizontal of drug taking that fall outs are incompatible with our mission of preserving the health of the community," said Greg Lugliani, GMHC's director of communications. "The reputation is interfering with our day-to-day work of educating about substance abuse and HIV prevention." Lugliani said the agency will essay to make up for the $450000 brought in through the Morning Party by scheduling other fund-misers in succession Fire Island. There is no word forward whether the party itself will continue beneath a different sponsor.

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