!["Control [Jesse Helms]" 1989 by Gran Fury (artists' collective). Courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.](https://wojfound.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HelmsGranFury-nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e3-538b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.r.jpg)
“Control [Jesse Helms]” 1989 by Gran Fury (artists’ collective). Courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
October 1987 The U.S. Senate adopts The Helms Amendment in a 94-2 vote, requiring federally financed AIDS educational materials to stress abstinence and forbidding promotion of homosexuality or drug use.