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GAP AC is Georgia's only registered political action committee
serving the interests of the Gay & Lesbian community.
P.O. Box 8420; Atlanta, GA 30306. (404) 872-8095.
Virginia leaders attack gay paper
Fairfax, VA—The Fairfax County Board
of Supervisors has threatened the local li
brary board with extinction unless it removes
a gay newspaper being distributed free in
county libraries.
The decision came Sept. 27 following an
intense public hearing where residents pro
tested distribution of the Washington Blade.
During the hearing, the residents showed the
supervisors a video presentation of sexually
suggestive advertising from the Blade.
“1 don’t understand why the county can
be used by a group like the Blade,” said
Supervisor Michael R. Frey. “I think their
motives are clear.”
The supervisors directed their staff to find
a way to remove the newspaper. Failing that,
the board asked for instructions on how to
abolish the Library Board of Trustees, whose
members arc appointed by the supervisors.
“Them’s fighting words, aren’t they?”
said Phylis A. Salak, head of the library board.
The dispute, which began in December,
has been quiet recently. The library board
decided earlier this year to allow distribution
of two do/.en copies of the Blade in each of
the 22 branches, just as other free newspa-
, , * The THE a AY WEEKLY OF THE NATIONS CAPITAL
iJ Washington Blade
Gay groups
grow larger
But vigorous growth is not
as strong as period following
1987 March on Washington
bian mother found ‘unfit’
te OKs policy
ays in military
expected lo adof* 'axMcaSon'
Gay man hails cab,
gets taken for a ride
D C. man alleges discrimination by driver
pers are handled. The newspaper later moved
most of its explicit personal ads into a special
pink pullout section not included in the li
brary copies.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Students sue over Alabama funding law
Montgomery, AL—The leader of a les
bian/gay student organization says an Ala
bama law that bars such groups from getting
funding on university campuses infringes on
members’ right to free speech and associa
tion.
The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Alliance of
the University of South Alabama, in Mobile,
was denied funding by the university last
winter, said George Hite Wilson, the group’s
president.
On Sept. 27, the American Civil Liber
ties Union of Alabama filed a federal lawsuit
challenging the state law, which prohibits
state colleges from using public funds or
buildings to support any group “that fosters
or promotes a lifestyle or actions prohibited
by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws”
of Alabama.
State legislators passed the bill without
opposition in response to a dispute at Auburn
University, where the Student Government
Association denied a campus charter to the
Auburn Gay and Lesbian Association in 1991.
Administrators overruled the decision and
granted the charter. The legislation was signed
into law by former Gov. Guy Hunt.
Ruth E. Harlow, associate director of the
ACLU’s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, co
filer of the suit, said the law’s language is
unconstitutional.
“Alabama’s government-sanctioned big
otry is an insult to its citizens, and embarrass
ment to the state and a threat to the safety of
gay and lesbian students,” said Olivia Turner,
director of the ACLU of Alabama.
. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lesbian will give up lover for custody
Benlonville, AR—A woman fighting lo
keep custody of her children says she’ll give
up a lesbian relationship if it means she can
keep die youngsters, her lawyer says.
The children’s father and mother, di
vorced in 1988, are battling for custody of
the children in Benton County Chancery
Court. The names of the parents arc being
kept confidential to protect the children.
The lawyer for the father said his client
was alerted to his ex-wife’s lesbian relation
ship when the two women applied unsuc
cessfully for a marriage license last May.
That action prompted the father to seek cus
tody of the children—a 13-year-old son and
a 9-ycar-old daughter—who have been pri
marily in the custody of their mother since
the divorce.
“This is not San Francisco, not New York,
not Chicago—this is northwest Arkansas,”
said Bob Scott, lawyer for the father.
“Whether that lifestyle has been accepted in
the rest of the country is immaterial. It has
not been accepted here.
Lawyer Xollie Duncan, appointed to rep
resent the children, has recommended that
the father get primary custody, with specific
restrictions placed on both parents. Duncan
said there were concerns about the father’s
financial stability and the irresponsibility of
both parents. She also said the mother’s les
bian lifestyle has put pressure on both chil
dren.
Cochran claimed that the falhcr was unfit
to be a parent. He has a record of writing bad
checks, a driving-while-intoxicalcd convic
tion, is behind on child-support payments and
violated a standing order not to lake the chil
dren out of the stale during visitation, she
said.
“For a man of his character to get custody
in a normal case would be unheard of,” she
said. “They did not put on a shred of evi
dence to prove that she is not a good mother.
If our society is that prejudiced, that’s pretty
sad.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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"Falsettos" in Charlotte
Charlotte, NC—The Charlotte Repertory
Theatre will present “Falsettos” from Octo
ber 6-17 in the Booth Playhouse of the North
Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Cen
ter. The play runs Wednesday through Satur
day at 8 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $13 for weeknight and matinee
performances and $15 for weekend evening
shows. Call the Charlotte Rep box office at
(704) 333-8587 or the Performing Arts Cen
ter box office at (704) 372-1000.