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A
lesbian nurse who was thrown out o f
sexual orientation. The Justice Department is
the m ilitary after she cam e out was
appealing Z illy’s decision. Cam m erm eyer said
reinstated by court order in the W ash
she was prepared for more legal action.
ington N ational G uard on June 1.
“ W e’ll go how ever far we need to go,” she
Col. M argarethe Cam m erm eyer
said. “ Step one is that we have w on.” M ilitary
o f Seattle, a highly decorated Arm y nurse
who argue that the presence o f gay men and
officials
earned a B ronze Star in the Vietnam W ar, was
lesbians in the service hurts the m orale o f fight
discharged from the m ilitary in 1992. A fter 26
ing units. But Zilly said the argum ent was not
years in the service, C am m erm eyer was thrown
valid, if the reason for decline in m orale was
out w hen she said she was a lesbian during a
sim ply that heterosexuals were prejudiced against
security-clearance interview .
hom osexuals.
U.S. D istrict Judge Thom as Zilly ruled in
Anders W inther, founder and co-chairm an o f
fa v o r
of
C am
Veterans for Human
m e rm e y e r, sa y in g ,
Rights, said members
“The governm ent has
o f the group were de
discrim inated against
lighted with the rul
Col. C am m erm eyer
ing.
solely on the basis of
“It’s clear that the
her status as a hom o
courts are not willing
sexual, and has failed
to let the military con
to dem onstrate a ra
tinue with a policy that
tional basis for doing
subrogates p eo p le’s
so.” T he judge added
constitutional rights,”
that governm ent rea
W inther said, adding
sons fo r ex clu d in g
th a t th e C a m m e r
gay men and lesbians
meyer ruli ng was con-
sistent with a nation
from m ilitary service
wide trend to overturn
are “grounded solely
a
military policy that
in prejudice.”
he believes “clearly is
C a m m e r m e y e r,
not w orking.”
w ho works as a nurse
Zilly ruled on the
in the V eterans A d
m
ilita
r y ’s fo rm e r
m inistration hospital
policy against hom o
near Tacom a, told re
sexuals,
not the “don’t
porters that she was
£ ask, d on’t tell” com-
ecstatic with the rul
I promise currently in
ing.
place.
“It seem s like a
Margarethe Cammermeyer
“W hat’s interest
vindication o f all the
ing is, the judge in that case was looking at many of
struggles so m any o f us have had,” she said. “It’s
the
characteristics in the old policy that still remain
so pow erful and so vindicating, not just o f my
in new policy,” W inther said. “Those o f us who are
ow n struggle but thousands o f others.”
activists are excited and hopeful that the new policy
N ationally, m ore than 3,500 service members
will meet the same demise as the old one.”
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Case against Oregon
lesbian dropped
In O regon, a National G uard investigation o f
First Lt. Elli K. W ork o f Bend was dropped, even
before the C am m erm eyer ruling. The Oregon
National G uard has been investigating W ork since
she told a state legislative com m ittee that she was
a lesbian. W ork, 33, has served with the guard for
15 years and is a supply officer who com m utes to
her base in Portland.
Lt. Col. Mike Caldwell, an Oregon National
Guard spokesman, said that Brig. Gen. Alexander H.
Burgin declared W ork’scase closed when he became
interim director of the Oregon guard in March.
Caldwell said the guard dropped the case against
Work because of uncertainties about policy revisions
on gay men and lesbians in the military, and because
of legal challenges to past and present policies.
“ As far as w e’re concerned, the issue is closed,’
C aldw ell said.
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V eterans for H um an R ights co-chairm an
Anders W inther said that no one was really sure
why the investigation was dropped.
“Elli got a letter in December, saying the
investigation had been suspended indefinitely,
depending on the results o f court cases on military
policy,” W inther said. “On two occasions guard
leadership, when questioned about E lli’s cases,
stated that it was a closed matter. We don’t know
w hy.”
W inther added that W ork had been promoted
in February, and was now being considered for
another advancement. If chosen for the prom o
tion, W ork would be stationed at Oregon National
G uard headquarters in Salem.
“I talked to Elli yesterday,” W inther said.
“She said she’d heard that the selection com m it
tee had been told that their decision should be
based on perform ance only, that they were not to
consider sexual preference.”
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