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NEWS IN BRIEF
"The Maestro of Fashion," Sol Kent, dancing offstage at the close of Fashionata
'88, a Heart Strings benefit. Kent wrote, produced and directed the seven act
musical spectacular. Over $300,000 was raised at the September 8th and 9th
performances, which were sponsored by the Design Industries Foundation For
AIDS (DIFFA).
Hawaiian Lesbian
Candidate Attacked; In
Coma
Honolulu -Diana S. Holmes, an openly
lesbian candidate for the county council of
Hawaii Island, Hawaii was struck three times
in the head by an assailant with a machete
July 8.
A well-known activist in lesbian, feminist
and mainstream political circles, Holmes had
received numerous threats prior to the attack.
Holmes underwent male-to-female sex-
change surgery in the late 1970's, later coming
out as a lesbian feminist She served as
president of Hawaii's NOW chapter and
attended many of Hawaii's Democratic
conventions.
This attempt on Holmes' life is reportedly
one in a series of acts of anti-gay/lesbian
violence on Hawaii Island, one of the more
recent victims being artist Dana Meyer who
died following an injury to the head in April.
Lesbian Wins a Round
Against the Army
Milwaukee-A lesbian who was dismissed
from the U.S. Army twelve years ago won
another battle in court when a federal judge
found the Army in contempt of court for
failing to obey his order to re-enlist the
sergeant
The case's origins date back to 1974, when
Miriam Ben-Shalom signed a three-year
enlistment contract with the Army Reserves.
She served two years but was then discharged
after revealing to her commanding officer that
she was a lesbian.
She filed suit and won in 1980, when the
courts ruled she should be reinstated. After
serving the remaining eleven and a half
months, she applied for re-enlistment and was
turned down.
She filed a new suit earlier this year
challenging the regulation that bars
homosexuals from the service as
unconstitutional. So far the courts have
agreed with her, ordering the Army to
consider her application without regard to her
sexuality.
In the latest ruling, the judge warned the
Army that failure to comply will result in a
fine of $500 per day, unless an appeals court
orders a stay in the case.
This legal battle is one of several being
fought around the country with some measure
of success by lesbians and gay men in the
military.
Following the latest ruling, Sergeant Ben-
Shalom declared "Lesbians and gay men are
protected by the Constitution and should have
exactly the same rights as everyone else. I
never thought America would let me down
and she hasn't"
-F.G.
Clause 28 Impact Felt
Anti-gay and lesbian developments in
England due to Margaret Thatcher’s new law,
Clause 28, include the London Grant
Commission's cancellation of their monthly
subsidies to the Lesbian Archives of London;
cancellation of monthly grant money to
LESPOP, a government bureau for lesbians;
the Church of England's announcement of its
intent to sever relations with their Lesbian and
Gay Christian Group; and a coffee shop on
Route M25 which carries a large sign reading
"No Gays.”
-Candace Wiggins
NOW Sponsors
Lesbian Rights
Conference
The National Organization for Women
will sponsor a National Lesbian Rights
Conference October 7-10 at the Holiday Inn
Embarcardero, San Diego. The purpose of
the conference is to provide a forum for the
future development of a national plan of
action.
Topics for workshops will include
legalized discrimination, alternative families,
health care, AIDS politics, media portrayal of
lesbians, electoral politics, legislative and
educational issues. Underlying themes will
be directed towards empowerment, visibility
and dual problems faced by lesbians of color.
Speakers include poet Robin Morgan; Jean
O'Leary, Executive Director of the National
Gay Rights Advocates; Renee McCoy,
Executive Director of the National Coalition
of Black Lesbians and Gays; Carmen
Vazquez, Coordinator for Lesbian and Gay
Health Services for San Francisco County;
and Karen Thompson, an activist who has
spent over four years on the right to care for
her severely disabled partner, Sharon
Kowalski.
For additional information, contact Nancy
Buermeyer, NOW Action Center, Suite 800,
1401 New York Ave., NW, Washington,
D.C., (202) 347-2279.
-Candace Wiggins
Anti-Gay Thugs Strike
in New York
New York-Two young men were rushed to
the hospital after a gang of six attackers
carrying knives and bats assaulted them
without provocation on Manhattan's Upper
West Side.
The attackers chanted "Fags!" and other
anti-gay slogans while they stabbed the 19-
year-old, and beat his 20-year-old friend. The
younger man received two stab wounds in the
back. He suffered a collapsed lung and was
listed in stable condition. The second victim
had a broken elbow.
New York police say no arrests have been
made as yet The case has been declared a
bias incident and assigned to the NYPD's Bias
Unit for investigation.
, -F.G.
Gay Activist
VP Nominee
of New Alliance Party
Harold Moore, of Portland, Oregon, was
unanimously nominated this weekend to be
among the "Rainbow team" of six Vice
Presidential candidates of the New Alliance
Party who will run in various states with
Presidential candidate Dr. Lenora B. Fulani. The
party's national convention in New York City.
Mr. Moore is the first openly gay man in
American history to receive a political party's
nomination for national office.
Mr. Moore, who will be at the ballot in
Oregon, is a journalist who writes for Portland's
lesbian and gay monthly newsmagazine Just
Out. Formerly a backer of Democratic Party
nominee Michael Dukakis, Mr. Moore became
a supporter of Dr. Fulani after interviewing her
on assignment for Just Out. He says she is "the
rally pro-gay candidate in the race" and has been
in Massachusetts recently speaking rat behalf of
her independent candidacy.
Dr. Fulani, the first woman and the first
African-American ever to be on the ballot in all
50 states and the District of Columbia, has
made lesbian and gay rights a cornerstone of
her Presidential campaign.
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