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PEOPLE, Page 54Laughter, the Best Medicine?By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Kathleen Brady
Is AIDS a proper subject for humor? Satirist GARRY TRUDEAU
thought so and applied some black comedy to a segment on the
disease in his Doonesbury strip. But gay activists objected, and
some newspapers temporarily dropped the strip. "The fact that he's
a liberal with a good heart does not exempt him from criticism,"
said a gay critic. Others, however, praised Trudeau, who told a
newspaper editor that his aim was to "attack the fear and ignorance
by laughing in its face."