AIDS Disclosure

He isn’t running for office. He never claimed to be anything but a good tennis player. Doesn’t he have the right to suffer in silence without him and his family being subjected to public humiliation?

As one of Arthur Ashe’s fans, I disagree entirely with the position taken by USA Today editors who claim that I and others like me have a right to know about his condition because he is a “public figure” and his disease is “legitimately news.”

I could have gone all year, all my life, without knowing Arthur Ashe has AIDS and it wouldn’t have affected my life in the slightest. I don’t think I have the right to know about the most private aspects of anyone’s life, particularly when that person has asked nothing but to be left alone, to suffer and perhaps to die, in private.

RAY DURAZO

Rancho Palos Verdes