https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/qmmunity/2008-07-11/644188/

"Senator No" Passes on to the Great Beyond

By Kate X Messer, July 11, 2008, 9:06am, Qmmunity

I'm really not a fan of grave pissing, but for most of his life, Jesse Helms was pretty mean. The five-term senator from North Carolina and standard bearer for the right-wing revolution has died at the age of 86. Repubs are having a field day with the fact he died on the 4th of July. (He died, people, he wasn't born on it…)

Helms really wasn't a big fan of teh gay. He did, however eventually soften towards the AIDS issue and became quite active in providing funding for the crisis overseas, especially in Africa.