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O r e g o n 9 7 2 0 S 5 0 3 . 2 2 3 . 3 7 2 4 H o u r s : M o n d a y - S a t u r d a y 9 -6 :3 0 , S u n d a y 12-5:00. Gays, lesbians and pro-gay government lead ers are fighting mad over Colorado s new ban on equal rights for gays and lesbians. Voters Nov. 3 amended the state Constitution to ban laws that protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. Local laws against anti-gay fir ings, evictions and other acts of bias were in stantly nullified in Aspen, Boulder and Denver. Gays fired back Nov. 12. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who is a lesbian, the city governments of Aspen, Boulder and Denver and several prominent gays and lesbians filed suit in Colorado Superior Court in Denver charging the gay-rights ban violates the U.S. Constitution, most notably the 14th Amendment, which guar antees Americans equal protection under the law. The legal challenge is being led by former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky with help from Lambda Legal Defense and Edu cation Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and the new Colorado Legal Initiatives Project. Spokespersons for the groups said the equal- rights ban is clearly unconstitutional. “[It] attempts to turn constitutional protec tions on their head,” said Lambda cooperating attorney Clyde Wadsworth. “An amendment like this gives people the freedom to discriminate, to deny employment for no rational reason.” The gay counterattack is strongly and vocally supported by Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and Colorado Gov. Roy Romer. The night the amendment passed, Webb and Romer led a march of angry gays and lesbians from Democratic vic tory headquarters to the Capitol. Romer an nounced that if anyone in state government fires someone because of their sexual orientation, he would “fire their supervisor as well and file suit against them.” The next day, 7,000 gays and lesbians rallied on the steps of the Capitol, leading the Denver gay newspaper Out Front to wonder if the gay-rights ban might not be “a blessing in disguise” because it has gays and lesbians so fired up. Aspen resident Navratilova is no exception. She says she was “devastated” by the amendment. “The people fighting against it were fighting too nicely,” Navratilova said. “They didn’t fight as dirty as the...family-values [group] did.” Rex Wockner Clinton sticks to his guns on military gays “The issue is not whether there are gays in the military,” President-elect Bill Clinton told persis tent reporters at a Nov. 16 press conference in Little Rock, Ark. “It is whether they can be in the military without lying about i t ” “There is a big difference between someone doing something wrong and their condition in life,” Clinton said. “We know that there have always been gays in the military, and we know, according to the [U.S. General Accounting Office] study which was released near the end of the campaign, that it cost the United States taxpayers about $500 million to get fewer than 17,000gays out of the military over the last 10 years. “I intend to press forward with [my pen to lift the gay ban] in an expeditious way early in the tenn, just like I said [during the campaign],” Clinton reiterated. Clinton’s plan to let military gays and lesbians come out of the closet is being vocally opposed by many active and retired military officials, and by U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., who is in the running for secretary of defense. Although the military historically has cited a long list of odd-sounding reasons lesbians and gays can’t join the military as codified in Department of Defense Directive 1332.14, Clinton s critics are now arguing merely that open gays and lesbians will upset non-gays who share bunk beds with them and shower naked with them. What a strange matter to land front-and^enter in the galloping movement for gay and lesbian equality. W hat does it mean that this is the issue splashed across newspapers from coast to coast day after day? C learly we have arrived. R ex Wockner Jonathan Poullard and Valerie Wagner, co chairs fo r 6th N ational Black Gay and Les bian Conference and AIDS Institute Black gay and lesbian conference announced The Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Fo rum has announced that the 6th National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference will take place Feb. 11-15, 1993, at the Hilton Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. The theme, “Black Lesbians and Gays: Building Bridges, Making Connections,” was selected to focus the conference on the inherent need to bridge gaps that separate us on issues of gender, race and sexual orientation. The Centers for Disease Control has awarded the forum a $32,140 grant to finance the 5th annual AIDS Institute, which will take place as part of the conference. Grant money will help house persons with AIDS who attend the confer ence, AIDS Institute outreach and promotion, printing, equipment and workshops, as well as cover travel and honorarium expenses for AIDS Institute speakers. ‘T h is is a significant contribu tion from the CDC because it will cover many of the up-front costs of the AIDS Institute, which will allow the steering committee to focus on other aspects of the conference,” said Vallerie Wagner, conference co-chair. For more information, call (213) 666-5495. Jim Hunger Detroit cops beat a man to death African-American residents of Detroit ex pressed anger, frustration and confusion follow ing the N ov. 5 beating death o f a black motorist by two white plainclothes officers. Malice Green, a 35-year-old unemployed father of five, died of head injuries after the two officers confronted him in his car in front of a suspect crack house. An emergency medical technician who was brought to the scene by police reinforcements reported seeing four white officers kick Green in the chest cíes. Jim Hunger
