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Captain denies he had sex "
Pope Air Force Base, NC—When Capt.
Luther Turner took the stand on his own be
half last week, he portrayed the man who hits
accused him of sodomy as a deranged stalker
bent on destroying his life.
Turner admitted that he had had a friend
ship with his accuser, Richard Bullock, but
tried to end it after it became apparent that
Bullock was “a sick person.”
“Arc you a homosexual?” asked Turner’s
attorney, Mark Waplc.
“No,” Turner replied.
“Have you ever committed sodomy with
Richard Bullock?” Waplc continued.
“Absolutely not,” Turner said.
Turner’s testimony came on the 10th day
of court-martial proceedings against him. He
is charged with sodomy, entering an off-lim
its establishment and attempting to obstruct
the Air Force investigation into his case.
Military prosecutors say the trial is about
honor, conduct and respect for military law—
not about homosexuality. Defense attorneys
say Turner is the victim of overzealous inves
tigators who accepted Bullock's claims with
out bothering to assess his credibility, the News
& Observer of Raleigh reported.
In April, Turner’s former roommate and
fellow unit member, Capt. Troy Carlyle, was
convicted of sodomy after Bullock made simi
lar charges against him.
No witnesses have corroborated Bullock’s
allegations, but several have contradicted his
testimony. A dozen witnesses, including a
former girlfriend, have testified on Turner’s
behalf.
Bullock has testified that he had an eight-
month romance with Turner that began in the
fall of 1991. He said he reported Turner to
authorities after finding him in bed with tin-
other man on the night of June 1,1992.
But Turner testified Friday that Bullock
had peeked through his window that evening
and found him in bed with a woman. Later
that night, just hours before Bullock reported
Turner to Air Force investigators, someone
vandalized Turner’s prized Triumph TR-6
sports car, Turner testified.
Turner said he first met Bullock at a film
club that met each week at Carlyle’s house
and the three of them gradually became friends.
By the spring of 1992, Turner said, Bul
lock had become obsessed with him and be
gan acung strangely. When he tried to dis
tance himself from Bullock, Turner said, Bul
lock became even more irrational.
“Richard Bullock is a sick person,” Turner
testified. “He was out to destroy me, my life,
Captain Carlyle, my property and my Air Force
career.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
County backs down on banning Blade
Fairfax, VA—The Fairfax County Board
of Supervisors reversed itself and agreed to
allow public libraries in the Washington sub
urb to continue carrying a weekly gay news
paper.
The supervisors voted unanimously Oct.
11 to allow the county’s 22 public libraries to
make The Washington Blade available. But
they said a library panel must meet with the
county’s attorney to develop ways to keep the
newspaper and similar publications inacces
sible to children.
“The board wants to keep these out of the
hands of children,” said Board of Supervisors
Chairman Thomas Davis IE. “They can be
available to the public, but they’re not going
to be available to children. And we’re looking
at legal ways to do that.”
“Public libraries are public forums,” said
Phylis Salak, who heads the county’s library
board. The panel in May ignored the supervi
sors’ suggestion to limit access to the Blade
and similar publications by keeping them at
library information and checkout stations and
making them available upon readers’ requests.
During a Sept. 27 meeting, the board of
supervisors voted to abolish the library panel
over the controversy, but the supervisors found
they lacked the authority to do that.
Gay/lesbian activists and anti-Blade pro
testers demonstrated outside the county head
quarters as the supervisors met.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Program Audit Reveals Administrative Deficiencies At NC AIDS Agency: An
independent program audit has revealed major administrative problems at Metrolina AIDS
Project (MAP), Charlotte’s only AIDS service agency. The audit revealed that the agency’s
documentation of services provided was virtually non-existent, leaving future funding from
several sources in doubt, and that the agency’s count on numbers of clients served was
overreported, according to a report in Q-Notes, Charlotte’s lesbian/gay publication. The
Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium, which funds case management at MAP, has put funding for
the agency on hold and given the organization four conditions that must be met in order for
funding to resume. Meanwhile, board, staff, and former staff of the agency continue to haggle
over responsibility for the problems. Barbara Rein, formerly director of the New Orleans AIDS
Task Force, has been hired as MAP’s new executive director.
Two Convicted In Anti-Gay Beating Death: Two men have been convicted in the 1992
slaying of Alan Byram at a rest stop on the Natchez Trace Parkway in rural Mississippi.
Gregory Leon Dingier was sentenced to 17 1/2 years, and Danny McGee to 15 years, both
without parole, by a U.S. District Court jury. McGee testified during the trial that during the
attack, he was afraid Byrarn would bite him and give him AIDS. Dingier denied striking
By ram, but McGee testified otherwise.
North Carolina Ordered To Pay ACT UP In AIDS Testing Lawsuit: The state of
North Carolina has been ordered to pay the legal expenses of ACT UP/Triangle in a lawsuit
challenging the state’s right to eliminate anonymous testing for HIV. ACT UP sued and won a
decision by an administrative law judge in 1992 that required the state to restore anonymous
testing. When the state ignored that ruling, ACT UP appealed to District Court, where a judge
again ruled in favor of the AIDS activist group. Last week, District Court Judge Orlando
Hudson ordered the state to pay S24,000 to cover ACT UP’s legal fees.
Judge Puts Clamps On AIDS Testing In Alahama: A federal judge struck down part of
an Alabama law that allowed a doctor to test patients for AIDS without their permission simply
because a doctor thought they were at risk. U.S. District Judge Harold Albritton ruled last week
that the 1991 law unfairly left interpretation of “high risk” to doctors. The state failed to prove
such testing for HI V “would in any way curb the spread of disease,” the judge ruled. However,
Albritton let stand the portion of the law that allows testing if the presence of HIV would alter
the patient’s medical treatment or if knowledge of the patient’s HIV status was needed to
protect health care workers.
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