Photo: Whitman-Walker Health. Some of the organizations that signed onto a letter calling on health care providers and the media to pay special attention to the risk posed to the LGBTQ community by COVID-19 is pushing back against assertions made by a gay columnist accusing the signatories of exploiting the pandemic for monetary gain.
The controversy began when local D.C. community health center Whitman-Walker Health, along with 99 other LGBTQ or LGBTQ-friendly organizations, signed onto an open letter warning that LGBTQ people may be “particularly vulnerable” to the effects of COVID-19 due to underlying health issues.
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