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Brown McDonald
takes Houston
AIDS project job
B Y___ E R I K
E T T L 1 N
rown McDonald, former director of
the Cascade AIDS Project, was
selected from a field of candidates
nationwide to be the new director of the
AIDS project in Houston, Texas.
McDonald’s history with the AIDS crisis
stems from his four year involvement as
director of C. A.P. in Portland. During that
time, McDonald developed a strong sense
of how the community and the political
machine can work together to benefit an
organization such as C. A.P. whose primary
goal is to educate the public about AIDS
and safe sexual practices.
In McDonald's term as director of C. A.P.
he coordinated and implemented several
successful community events as well as
political activities. McDonald was also in
strumental in molding the organization
from an informal “ living-room” setting to
a four full-time employee office. He also
activated countless volunteers for C. A.P.
McDonald’s new position in Houston
began June 26th with the writing of a one
million dollar grant proposal to cover the
costs of serving the Houston community
for the next three years.
McDonald is looking forward to the
new challenges of running a major project
in a city the size of Houston. He is also
anticipating successes equal to those at
tained in Portland in education and
increasing the awareness of the public to
the real implications and consequences of
not learning about the AIDS virus.
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B
NY Times ad
deplores Supreme
Court anti-sodomy
decision
arking the first anniversary of the
Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision
holding that the Constitution
does not protect private sexual conduct of
consenting adults of the same sex. the Gay
and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,
Inc. (GLAAD) has placed a full-page ad in
the New York Times deploring the ruling.
Nearly 300 law professors and profes
sionals. including Yale Law School Dean
Guido Calabresi, Alan Dershowitz, and
Ira Glasser of the American Civil Liberties
Union signed the open letter to the Supreme
Court protesting the Bowers v. Hardwick
decision.
“ The majority failed to explain,” the
letter says, “ how the Constitution can be
deemed to protect the liberty to use con
traceptives, to have an abortion if one
chooses, to use pornography in one’s
home, and to live with whom one wishes
— but not the liberty to engage in the
most intimate and personal relations with
another consenting adult.” The letter de
clared that “ the majority opinion poses a
grave threat to the constitutional freedoms
of all Americans, gay and non-gay alike.”
Public opinion polls have shown that a
substantial majority of the American
people disagree with the Court’s decision.
The open letter urged readers to tell the
Court they opposed the decision and to
send the advertisement to Justice Lewis F.
Powell, Jr., who was the swing vote in the
5-4 decision, to alert him to the continuing
unpopularity of the decision. Other indi
vidual rights cases, in which Justice Pow
ell may again cast a deciding vote, will
shortly come before the Court.
The full-page advertisement is the first
ever taken out by a non-profit gay and
lesbian organization in the New York
Times, according to Gerald Malis. who
co-ordinated GLAAD’s effort marking the
first anniversary of the decision. Full-page
advertisements have also appeared in the
New York Law Journal and the New York
Native.
Powell has retired. Reagan gets another
chance. Those who want to prevent
decades more of Bowers v. Hardwick,
reversal of Roe v. Wade and increased
intrusion into privacy by the religionists
can write to their senators.
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