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Daniel O. Johnson has admitted to killing a
San Diego gay man and stabbing his roommate
because both victims were HIV positive, reported
The Washington Blade. Johnson has said that the
acts were “justifiable.”
Hiram Hall and his roommate, Keith Talbert,
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Paralympics sponsors athletic events for people
with disabilities. At least 4,000 athletes from 110
countries will participate in the 1996 Paralympics,
which will follow the 1996 Olympic Games in
Atlanta.
NEVADA
Justin Suade Slotto, 21, of Reno, was sen­
tenced Dec. 6 after pleading guilty to the October
stabbing of William Metz, reported The Washing­
ton Blade. Slotto received a sentence of life in
prison with no possibility of parole, and a con­
secutive life sentence for the use of a deadly
weapon.
Slotto is a self-admitted white supremacist
who killed Metz because he was gay. According
to police, Metz was stabbed more than 20 times.
Three juveniles were also arrested as codefen­
dants— their names have not been released.
NEW YORK
Thomas Steel, a gay man who fathered a child
for a lesbian couple through artificial insemina­
tion and then sued over visitation, won paternity
rights in mid-October, according to an Associated
Press report.
The Appellate Division of the New York Su­
preme Court ruled in a 3-2 decision that Steel, 44,
can call himself the father of Ry Russo-Young,
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The gay magazine Genre is calling for a boy­
cott of Mattel products, saying that Mattel selec­
tively enforced its copyright, according to The
Washington Blade. When the Hollywood-based
magazine sought permission to use photos of
Mattel’s Ken doll for an article on dating, the toy
company refused.
“We didn’t think it was an appropriate use for
children’s products,” said Lisa Me Kendal, a Mattel
spokeswoman. She said it was inappropriate be­
cause Genre was portraying an “adult situation.”
Other publications such as Spy have used
images of Barbie dolls bound and gagged. These
publications used Barbie images without permis­
sion, said McKendal, but do not face legal action.
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A new HIV-education campaign in Los Ange­
les is aimed at Asians and Pacific Islanders, ac­
cording to the Baltimore Gay Paper. The cam­
paign will be a joint effort between the Pacific
Asian Language Services and the Asian Pacific
AIDS Intervention Team. The two groups said the
effort will be the largest yet to target these groups
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Sonia Rutstein, lesbian lead singer of the rock
group disappear fear, walked off the stage during
a concert at Samford University to protest college
officials’ censorship of her songs. Rutstein and
sister Cindy Frank were under contract to avoid
certain words or clothing that would hint at lesbi­
anism. Rutstein left the stage nearly in tears after
playing 12 songs, according to reports in The
Alabama Forum, a lesbian and gay newspaper.
“We weren’t willing to put the university at
risk,’’ said Suzanne Martin, Samford’s assistant
director of Student Affairs. “We didn’t want to be
seen as endorsing [homosexuality]— [the] cli­
mate [is] entirely too volatile.”
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
A new toll-free, confidential hotline has opened
in Washington to provide information on treat­
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health care workers. The hotline will offer the
most current information on research and medical
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The service will operate Monday through Fri­
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hotline, which will be accessible to the deaf. Call
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GEORGIA
Cobb County has now lost a second athletic
event due to a discriminatory resolution adopted
by the County Commissioners in 1993. Accord­
ing to The Washington Blade, the U.S. Olympic
Committee pulled its volleyball competition last
year in response to pressure from activists.
Officials of the Paralympics, another interna­
tional athletic competition, notified the Cobb
County Galleria in October that it was not a
suitable venue for a Paralympics volleyball com­
petition. Wayne Minchew, a spokesman for the
group, cited the county’s “negative political envi­
The decision stated, “The notion that a lesbian
mother should enjoy a parental relationship with
her, but a gay father should not, is so innately
discriminatory as to be unworthy of comment.”
Ry lives in Manhattan with her mother, Robin
Young, Young’s partner, Sandra Russo, and
Russo’s daughter by another sperm donor, Cade.
Steel, a San Francisco lawyer, praised the
appellate judges for “recognizing alternative fam­
ily structures in their diversity.” He said he never
wanted custody, just “reasonable visitation
rights,” such as holiday and summer visits.
The women’s lawyer, Peter Bienstock, said
they would not have accepted Steel as a sperm
donor if they had known he would assert parental
rights.
WASHINGTON
Journalist Sandy Nelson will finally get her
day in court Dec. 16, when Pierce County Supe­
rior Court Judge Vicki L. Hogan will hear Nelson’s
political rights case. Judge Hogan is being asked
to rule on a summary judgment motion to imme­
diately reinstate Nelson to her former job at The
(Tacoma) News Tribune.
The motion asserts that Nelson, an award­
winning reporter, was banished to a nighttime
copy-editing job in 1990 as a result of her off-duty
work on gay and lesbian civil rights issues. The
motion also argues that a trial is unnecessary as
The News Tribune admits it transferred Nelson
due to her off-duty activism. The paper claimed
that Nelson’s activism weakened its "appearance
of objectivity.”
Civil rights activists, unionists, and journalists
ranging from nationally syndicated columnist
Norman Solomon to The Oregonian s Steve Duin
have spoken in support of Nelson’s case.
Compiled by Jann Gilbert
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