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SOUTHERN VOICE
SEPTEMBER 23/1993
Radio Station Boycotts Melissa Etheridge: a Fon
Collins, Colorado radio station says it will boycott singer Melissa Etheridge because she is
boycotting Colorado over Amendment 2. Etheridge told the Denver Post during a record
industry gathering in August that “I have to stand with my brothers anD sisters who are
trying to fight and turn this mistake around. They decided that what they’re going to do is
boycott Colorado, and I’m gonna support that.” KCSU music director Bob Terrill made the
decision to drop the singer’s music, but Etheridge’s publicist, Nancy Sullivan, said she did
not understand the action. “Her fans are going to be almost unanimously against 2,” she said.
“For the most part, people for 2 don’t even know who she is.”
Collage Republicans Selling Anti-Gay T-Shirts: The College Republicans group at
Colorado State University is selling anti-gay T-shirts on campus. One of the shirts reads “In
the beginning.. .God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Another provides the top
ten reasons to support Amendment 2—“Homosexuality is an abomination, and kind of
gross, too” is among them. Tanisia Smith, a member of the Fort Collins Gay, Lesbian and
Bisexual Alliance, said she defends any group’s right to free speech but she doesn’t find the
shirts funny. “It’s the message behind those T-shirts that concerns me,” she said. “They
don’t want to give the idea that homosexuality should be supported, included, or even talked
about.”
Achtanbsrg Says Liberating Gays Not Clinton's Job: Addressing members of the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in New York City recently, Housing and
Urban Development Undersecretary Roberta Achtenberg, the country’s highest ranking
openly lesbian public official, praised Pres. Clinton’s record on hiring lesbians and gay men
and said that it’s not the president’s job to liberate the community. “We hired Bill Clinton to
be president of the United States,” she said. “We did not hire him to be the great liberator of
lesbian and gay people. Our liberation is, as it always has been, in our own hands.”
NGLTF Names Radeclc Executive Di
rector: The National Lesbian and Gay Task
Force has named Peri Jude Radecic to suc
ceed Torie Osborn as the group’s executive
director. Radecic has been with NGLTF since
1987, currently serving as Deputy Director
for Public Policy. “Our work will be a strate
gic mix of building and strengthening our
movement at the state and local level, com
bined with a more aggressive Federal lobby,”
Radecic said. “New programming priorities,
such as health policy with a focus on lesbian
health care and AIDS, campus and work
place organizing, state and local civil rights
organizing, strengthening our response to the
increasing threat of the Far Right, are at the
heart of our movement.”
Brokerage Firm Tracks Companies'
Policy On Gays: Progressive Asset Man
agement, an Oakland, Calif, company spe
cializing in socially responsible investing, has
produced a database on 250 publicly traded
companies and their policies toward gay men
and lesbians. The company released a pre
view of its database last week, and included Apple Computer Inc., Borland International Inc.
and Wells Fargo & Co. on its “progressive list.” Atlanta-based Delta Airlines made the
“regressive” list, as did Target stores, which challenged the listing. A spokesperson for
Dayton Hudson Corp., which owns Target, said the company’s diversity standards include
sexual orientation, and that the company regularly funds programs for gay men, lesbians and
bisexuals. Delta also challenged the listing.
Colorado To Use Homophobic Psychologist To Support Amendment Z: Colorado
Attorney General Gale Norton has listed Paul Cameron, expelled by the American Psycho
logical Association in 1984 for falsifying data, as an “expert witness” in the upcoming trial
over Amendment 2. Cameron has in the past made statements to the press that homosexuals
should all be put to death, called for castration and quarantine of homosexuals, and urged
doctors to use euthanasia on gay men infected with HIV. Norton has listed at least seven
articles by Cameron as state exhibits, including “Child Molestation and Homosexuality,” the
pamphlet that caused his expulsion from the APA. Cameron based his writings in this
pamphlet on the work of Dr. A. Nicholas Groth, who wrote in 1984 that Cameron “misrepre
sents my findings and distorts them to advance homophobic views.”
Cities Enact Partnership Laws: Minneapolis, Minnesota and Austin, Texas have
joined the list of cities offering benefits to the domestic partners of city employees. The
Minneapolis law was passed on August 27 and will go into effect Jan. 1, while the Austin
law was passed on Sept. 2, also slated to go into effect on Jan. 1. In other city council news,
the LaFayette, Indiana City Council refused to reconsider a gay rights ordinance it passed
four months ago. Opponents of the law, which extends the city’s anti-discrimination protec
tion to all people regardless of sexual orientation, have pledged to pursue their case in court.
Joan Rivers Headlines Benefit For Lesblan/Gay Center: Joan Rivers will head an
all-star cast for a gala evening of comedy and song benefiting New York’s Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center on Nov. 3 at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. The event will
showcase some of the lesbian and gay community’s hottest talents, including Kate Clinton,
the Five Lesbian Brothers, Hot Lavender Swing Band, Frank Maya and Karen Williams. All
performers are donating their time.
Transsexual Women Booted From Michigan Festival: Four transsexual women
were asked to leave the Michigan Women’s Music Festival in August after festival security
received an unknown number of complaints. The four had staffed a table providing informa
tion on transsexual issues for the first four days of the festival, and camped on public land
outside the festival grounds for the remainder of the event. From that location, they held
workshops attended by about 75 women. In 1991, another transsexual woman was kicked
out of the festival, when organizers of the event announced that it was for “womyn bom
womyn” only.
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