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Battle Against AIDS
Ends For Grant Collins

LESLEY PEARL STAFF WRITER

A

fter a five-year battle
with AIDS, Grant
Collins died Oct. 16,
holding the hand of
his partner, Robert Lebow.
Mr. Collins was 40 years old.
Mr. Collins was buried in a
family plot in Kalamazoo.
Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg of
Congregation Shir Tikvah
performed the service.
Although Mr. Collins was
not Jewish, his lover was. He
knew more Yiddish than
most Jews. Many Jewish
aspects were incorporated
into the service, including
burial in a simple pine box
and the reciting of Kaddish.
"He chose me to do the
eulogy because I was a
friend, not because I was a
rabbi," Rabbi Sleutelberg
said.
Mr. Collins' condition de-
teriorated severely since he
and his lover were profiled
in The Jewish News on April
5, 1991, in a story about
AIDS. He lost sight in both
eyes and was exhausted
from the smallest
movements. A year ago he
could still drive. But then
one day he needed a walker.
Five days later he was in a
wheelchair.
Three days before his
death, Mr. Collins experi-
enced hallucinations —at
first entertaining him and
those he described them to,
but later horrifying him.
"When Grant lost sight in
his first eye we thought the
end was near. But Grant was
happy to have sight in his
left eye still. And when he
lost vision in that eye six
weeks before his death,
Grant was glad to still be
thinking and breathing,"
Mr. Lebow said. "We learn-
ed to just deal with these
things as they happened.
You cannot predict them or
predict how you will react."
Mr. Collins was involved
in physical therapy until the
end — trying to learn to
stand again.
"He didn't even have the
strength to hold a glass of
water. But he wanted to
walk again. That was his
spirit," Mr. Lebow said.
Mr. Collins has been de-
scribed by many as one who
maintained control. He
planned his own funeral and
a memorial service which
will be held at the Music
Hall. His obituary in the

Detroit Free Press listed Mr.
Lebow as Mr. Collins'
spouse.
"This was a giant step,"
Mr. Lebow said. "Much of
the Jewish community still
sees us as a disgrace. There
is no outreach in the corn-
munity. Jews still believe
homosexuality doesn't
happen to them."
Mr. Lebow stressed AIDS
and homosexuality are not
religious issues, but social
issues instead — some which
all people need to grasp.
"His death was very
peaceful. His breath was
slow from morphine —about
10 breaths a minute," Mr.
Lebow said. "The pauses
between breaths were amaz-
ing as you waited for the
next one to come. And then,
the next one didn't come." ❑

Yeltsin Vows
Prosecution

Moscow (JTA) — Russian
President Boris Yeltsin has
pledged that members of the
anti-Semitic group Pamyat
will be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law for break-
ing into the offices of a
Moscow newspaper last
week.

Mr. Yeltsin's statement
was made through a
spokesman at the same time
as police raided the apart-
ment of the leader of
Pamyat's National Patriotic
Front, whose members burst
into the offices of a pro- c'
democracy newspaper on
Oct. 13.
In the apartment of
Dimitri Vasiliev, police seiz-
ed the videotape made by the
gang during its brief occupa-
tion of the offices of the
paper, Moskovski Kom-
somoletz.
The gang made the tape
ostensibly to enable them to
identify the staff. During
their 20-minute holding of
the paper's editor, they read
him a 10-point declaration
which included demands he
turn over the names of the
paper's journalists who have
written "anti-patriotic" ar-
ticles.

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