"We foster open communications with all Floridians through our offices of Citizens Services, Open Government, and Press. We don't feel that it is appropriate to give one group special treatment over another," Wright told Xinhua in an email interview.

Wright noted that the state government would be open to the idea of Florida's ADAP program being at least partially funded by private contributors, donors, or organizations.

In Florida, in addition to the possible enforcement of tighter restrictions on the state's ADAP program, there is another social obstacle, which many of the state's gay and lesbian population must encounter: religious and socially conservative fundamentalist organizations with anti-homosexual beliefs.

Florida has a history of some of its citizens being aggressively active against HIV/AIDS patients. In 1987, the Ray family of Arcadia, a rural town in the middle of the state, had three brothers who were hemophiliacs and all diagnosed with HIV one year previously.

They became the chief subject of a federal case against the DeSoto County's School Board, whose members sought to keep three Ray brothers from attending public schools. The Rays won the case in 1987, but one week afterwards, their house was burned down by an arsonist, forcing them to leave Arcadia promptly.

On Friday, the subject of gay rights took on international importance, as the United Nations formally addressed and recognized the topic for the first time in it's 66-year history.

In Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) formally endorsed the basic human rights of gay, lesbian, and transgender peoples. The declaration was first introduced by representatives of South Africa.

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