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Terminally ill AIDS patient opens gallery "I'm sick and tired of charities and levées de fonds and stuff like that for victims of AIDS." The words could have come from the mouth of some homophobic rural yokel, but they were actually spoken by Richard Feehan, a resident of AIDS hospice Maison du Parc. >> "They say I've been in the terminal phase of the disease for some time now," Feehan says, "but I don't care. There's enough of us who are well enough to get back out there and into the workforce, and I'm getting back on my feet." >> On Monday, which also happens to be International AIDS Day, Feehan will open his new art gallery, Si d'art, in the space formerly occupied by Cuir Plus beside Priape at 1321 Ste-Catherine East in the heart of the Village. Feehan says he scraped up the money needed to start up the gallery by calling in some old loans. ("People thought that since I was dying, they didn't have to pay me back," he says.) According to Feehan, it will be the world's first art gallery devoted entirely to the war against AIDS, as Si d'art will devote one per cent of all profits to the cause. >> Si d'art will host a reception after the public ceremony for International AIDS Day at 7 p.m. in Parc de l'espoir, just across the street. --Philip Preville
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