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'Ex-gay' preacher in sex scandal Colin Cook, a former minis ter who has admitted hav ing sex with men who came to him to be "cured" of homosexuality, faces new allegations of misconduct. PAGE 6 PLEASE RECYCLE Studds won't seek re-election Openly gay Rep. Gerry Studds (D- Mass.), the first U.S. congress man to come out while in of fice, has announced he won't seek ieelec- tion next year. PAGE 7 NOVEMBER 9/1995 The innovative French-Canadian troupe of acrobats, dancers and mimes brings its latest production, “Alegria,” to Atlanta beginning next week. Michael Kape previews what's under the big top. PAGE 27 Talk of race relations and racism has risen to the top of the national agenda in the wake of the O J. verdict and the Million Man March. Everyone seems to have had - something to say on the topic, and many whites shed their PC cloak in doing so. Sud denly, modei ate, middle-class white people were expressing feelings and emotions that - previously were confined to-the rabid edges of talk radio. ; Yet theie is a curious silence about the issue m the gay and lesbian community, where whites are accustomed to thinking of themseh es as enlightened about race and immune from racism due hi their own op pression. In interviews for this article, many people, black and white, asked not to be identified by name and, even then, spoke wi h i I mull i ■nin->[sit >01 uKv, about the issues of race relations and rac- mh rh.it Jo. sn l siirpn-i H| laiksoii W simply don't talk about these issues, but that doesn't mean racism within our com- 'Xhir community might be a little more lolenmt. bill if {white guys] didn't need me political!* would they even reach out to me?*—BJ Jackson mumty doesn't exist," says Jackson, an Af rican-American lesbian who is coordinat ing the second in a series of community workshops to air out these issues "We like to put up a facade to the main stream" that race relations among the 1/g/ h i on iimn t ut 111 li 11 ter th an m tlx 1 111 nl | op ul ati li v -.ais hull it think that s true' There is rai ism simme r- n iitnivlith i istlimiti thr urau sit >- Continued on Page 15 Anti-gay editorial in Emory paper stirs by WALTER WOODS A guest columnist for an Emory University newspaper who blasted, the school for extending benefits to the gay partners of its students, faculty and staff has sparked a debate on campus about gay rights and free speech. The flap came the same week as a key part of the school's new gay domes tic partners policy was set to go into ef fect. Angry letters to the editor have swamped the usually quiet offices of the Emory Report, the school's faculty newspaper, condemning the paper for running a guest editorial that criticized the school for extending school benefits to gay partners. ' The editorial, which ran in the Report's Sept. 25 issue, was written by Gerald Garrett, who is identified as a senior accountant in the School of Medicine's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. The column, called "First Person," is a regular feature that allows school faculty and staff to voice opinions on issues. The editorial said, "To be prejudicial against others in terms of aspects that can change (benevolent discrimination), such as behavior, is completely appro priate. Homosexuals can change, and indeed many have. To discriminate against a person solely because they en gage in perversion is wrong. To grant benefits or privileges on the basis of that perversion is to be an accomplice to de- campus ire pravity, which is equally wrong.'' It goes on to say, "Statements to the contrary notwithstanding, adoption of same-sex benefits does endorse homo sexuality. The answer to any sin prob- . lem is not to condone it, like the Board- of Trustees has done, but to encourage others to repent, and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!" Nancy Spitler, the managing editor of the Report, said the editorial and en suing flap has been loud and personal. 5^- Continued on Page 14