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Queer books deluge Perry library
Readers respond to Deb Price’s
column about Sam Nunn’s
hometown
Perry. GA—Spurred on by a lesbian news
paper columnist, people from across the coun
try have sent dozens of books on lesbians and
gays to the public library in Perry, the home
town of U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn.
During a visit to Georgia in August, Deb
Price, a columnist with the Detroit News
whose column is syndicated nationally, vis
ited Perry and its library. She then wrote a
column in which she said she couldn’t find
books that would allow a fair-minded Perry
resident to understand gay men or lesbians,
and she invited readers to send books on gay
issues to the library.
So far, about 50 books have been received.
“We have received material from various
parts of the United States—California, Min
nesota, New Orleans, Detroit, Alabama, At
lanta,” Houston County library director Judy
Golden said. “Everywhere her column has
appeared, we have received material both pro
and con.”
Golden said she didn’t know about the
column until she received a letter from a De
troit reader thanking the library for not main
taining an extensive collection of material
about gays and lesbians.
Since May 1992, Price has written a
weekly column on lesbian/gay issues. Syndi
cated by Gannett and the Los Angeles Times
Syndicate, the column is published in dozens
of newspapers nationwide.
“There is no intent to pass judgment on
an entire town,” Price told The Macon Tele
graph. “As a reporter, you write about what
you find.”
In the library, she said, she couldn’t find
more than four books in the card catalog un-
Deb Price found only four books under
the heading “homosexuality.”
der the entry “homosexuality.” Two were dated
to the ’70s and were written by anti-gay/les
bian activist Anita Bryant. The others were
works were by journalist Randy Shilts, Price
said.
Price noted in her column that Shilts’ “Con
duct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the
U.S. Military” had been checked out only once.
The library director said there have been
few requests for books on gays or lesbians. If
the library receives a request, she said it can
obtain books on loan from libraries through
out the country.
So far, the library is trying to sort the 50
books it has received.
“If the book has been reviewed and is
suitable for our collection, we keep it,” Golden
said. “If not, we give it to Friends of The
Library.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tampa gay rights law revived
Tampa, FL—A gay/lesbian rights ordi
nance in Tampa could go back into effect
after the Florida Supreme Court ruled invalid
some signatures used in a successful petition
drive to repeal it.
Voters overturned the ordinance last No
vember, but Hillsborough County’s elections
supervisor challenged the vote, saying 462
people who signed petitions placing the mat
ter on the ballot had temporarily been taken
off the voter rolls because they hadn’t voted
in two years. Without the names, opponents
of the law fell short of the number of signa
tures needed to place their referendum on the
ballot.
The state Supreme Court said elections
officials were right when they concluded state
law doesn’t allow people whose names have
been temporarily removed from voter rolls to
sign petitions.
“The prevention of fraud and the mainte
nance of up-to-date and reliable registration
records arc necessary to preserve ballot integ
rity and a valid election process,” Justice Ben
Overton wrote in a unanimous decision.
The Tampa law bans discrimination based
on sexual orientation. It was added to the city’s
human rights ordinance in May 1991 to pro
tect lesbians and gays from bias in jobs, hous
ing and public accommodations, such as res
taurants.
A lawyer for the referendum’s organizers
said he will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anti-bias amendment drive starts
Tampa, FL—A gay/lesbian rights task
force has launched a petition drive to pass a
state constitutional amendment that would ban
discrimination based on a person’s private
life.
Members of the Human Rights Task Force,
an umbrella group for a number of gay/les
bian organizations, said the proposal purposely
makes no mention of homosexuals and comes
in response to those characterizing gays and
lesbians as seeking “special” rights.
“This proposal effectively refutes the no
tion that this struggle is about ‘special’ any
thing,” said Keith Roberts, the lawyer repre
senting the task force. “It captures simply and
straightforwardly what gays and lesbians and
all citizens justifiable and understandably
seek—the right to be free from discrimination
based on purely personal matters having noth
ing to do with an individual’s ability.”
The Florida Constitution already has a pro
vision that “every natural person has the right
to be let alone and free from governmental
intrusion into his private life.”
The task force’s amendment would add:
“No person shall be denied access or opportu
nity in employment, housing, public services
or accommodations or the extension of credit,
on account of matters pertaining to his or her
private life.”
Supporters must collect more than 400,000
signatures statewide to get the amendment on
the November 1994 ballot.
Roberts said the proposal is a direct re
sponse to a statewide effort launched in March
by David Caton and the American Family
Association to repeal existing gay/lesbian
rights ordinances and to bar any new laws.
ASSOCIATED PRESS