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City Drops Charges Against Briggs
The Atlanta Police Department has dropped charges of obstruction against well-known
activist Bob Briggs. The charge came as a result of Briggs presence at Queer Nation's Nov.
10 action at Jock’s 'n' Jills. "That a[n openly gay] person can be arrested, taken to jail and
forced to hire an attorney merely for being in a straight bar proves the need for groups like
Queer Nation," commented Briggs.
Israeli Gays Gain Business Protection: Judge Haim Eilat has ruled that discrimina
tion against homosexuals in business transactions is illegal in Israel. The management of
Gan Ha'ir Mall management had refused to honor a signed lease with Etian Horowitz for his
Club Piccolo when they learned the club would be gay. Israel's gay rights group, The Society
for the Protection of Personal Rights, collected 32 signatures from other mall tenants who
supported the club adding that "generally gay people attract upscale shopping; they certainly
don’t repel it". Eilat's ruling comes two years after Israel's decriminalization of gay sex.
Researchers Document 1959 AIDS Case: A group of physicians at Manchester
University Medical School have submitted a letter to the British medical journal The Lancet
claiming to have discovered the earliest known case of AIDS. The patient, a 25 year-old
sailor, died of an unexplained immunodeficeincy condition in 1959 so tissue samples were
kept for possible further study. The samples reveal HIV infection. The researchers content
that the man likely contracted HTV at a port of call in Africa.
Meeting Produces Promises for Change in Park Policy: "If the things being said
are true, I'm appalled," boomed Parks Commissioner Harold Morgan, "every law abiding cit
izen has the right to use the park....I don't want an overzealous Gestapo here..." Morgan
(shown here with City Council woman Mary Davis) was addressing a group of area resi
dents, Parks and Police Department Employees and lesbian/gay activists in Piedmont Park's
only public parking lot. The Nov. 20 discussion juxtaposed residents' concern about traffic
and property values with activists' worries about escalating harassment of park users—par
ticularly single men and men in pairs. After listening to the litany of horror stories from both
sides, Morgan directed Parks Supervisor Hilliard Lee to have a report and list of recommen
dations to him by Dec. 4. Similarly Morgan asked Atlanta Police officer W.G. Gordon—who
has apparently been responsible for the way regulatic ts in the park are being enforced—to
produce recommendation by Dec. 18. Since the meeting at least one report of harassment
similar to that in Piedmont Park—where single men in cars are told to either get out of their
cars or leave the park—has been reported in Shady Valley Park on Lenox Road where neigh
bors have reportedly been complaining about cruising in the park. Readers who have experi
enced any type of harassment in Atlanta Parks are urged to report the incidents to 286-BIAS
and to Councilwoman Davis office, 330-6049.
Lesbians and Gays Target Big Apple's WNET-TV: On Nov. 28 a coalition of activist
groups, including ACT UP/NY, Queer Nation, and GLAAD, held a demonstration at New
York's WNET to kick off a lesbian and gay boycott of the well know public TV station. In
the year ending last November, WNET aired only 9 hours of lesbian and gays specific pro
graming—less than 1/10 of one percent of its total programming hours. Women, racial
minorities, the disabled and the elderly were similarly under represented in the stations pro
gramming. Having spent three years in unsuccessful negotiations for increased coverage,
the activists said they felt that a boycott of the station's Dec. 1-9 fund drive was their only
alternative.
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AIDS Article is "Bullshit": That's what Project Worm's Martin Delaney says about the
New York Times front page story several weeks ago which claimed that researchers withheld
news about the use of steroid hormones to control PCP. Delaney claims that the information
was presented at the '89 International AIDS Conference in Montreal and again at the '90
Conference in San Francisco. "The only person who didn't know about it" was the article's
author Gina Kolata, Delaney told the San Francisco Sentinel. Kolata's AIDS reporting for
the Times has come under fire from N.Y. activists on a number of previous occasions.
Anti-Gay Graffiti at Emory: The Emory University Police (EPD) reports the discovery of
"obscene drawings of homosexual acts" along with comments about the Emory Lesbian and
Gay Organization (ELGO) in several places on campus according to the Emory Wheel. EPD
Director Ed Medlin calls the incident a violation of Emory policy , and "the kind of thing we
could all do without."
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Openly Gay Man Addresses Alcohol/Drug Conference: Don Wert, Executive
Director of the Pride Institute in Minnesota, is the first openly gay person to have made a
presentation to the Southeastern Conference on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, held here last
week. Wert said that the Pride Institute will soon release a study which shows that partici
pants in Pride's lesbian and gay program stay in recovery as long as or longer than hetero
sexuals in similar programs. Heterosexist addiction theory has long held that the rate of
recovery among lesbians and gays is lower than for heterosexuals.
Silence=Death Designer Dies: William O. Johnson co-designer of the famous logo and
a founding member of ACT UP New York died of complications due to AIDS on November
13 in New York City. Johnson was a graduate of Parson's School of Design and a native of
Charlotte N.C.
Kresge Gives Jerusalem House $150K: The Kresge Foundation has donated
$150,000 for the renovation and expansion of Jerusalem House, Atlanta's only residence for
the homeless PWA's. J.H. must raise the $300,918 still necessary to complete funding of the
project before December 1, 1991 in order to receive the Kresge grant. J.H. representatives
say they are confident that they can raise the money by late summer, permitting construction
of an addition to the Briarcliff Rd. facility to begin in early fall. The Kresge Foundation is an
independent, nonaffiliated, private fund composed of gifts from Sebastian Kresge.
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