ChangesThings changed in 1998. The Republican dominance of California politics ended with the election of moderate-to-conservative Democrat Gray Davis as governor and the miraculous new three-drug cocktail was turning HIV/AIDS from a likely death sentence to a chronic manageable disease.
With gay rights and AIDS on their way to being "handled," people stopped contributing to LIFE Lobby and it folded in 1999.Later, Ms.
McBride described LIFE's "organization of organizations" to this reporter as "groundbreaking work by a bunch of brilliant, dedicated activists who paved the way for non-discrimination laws and eventually marriage equality, not to mention the creation of sane HIV/AIDS policy in California, which was a blueprint for the Ryan.