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CALIFORNIA
Alleging their constitutional rights were vio
lated, a gay couple filed a civil lawsuit in May
against the majority of the El Dorado County
Republican Central Committee. The Washington
Blade reports that Paul Johnson and Kevin
Wadsworth claim they were ousted from the com
mittee because of their sexual orientation. Com
mittee members say the two were removed be
cause of their friendly relationship with Demo
crats.
It seems during the 1994 election campaign for
the California Assembly the couple rented their
ranch to a Democrat raising money to challenge a
local Republican incumbent. The lawsuit alleges
committee member Bernard Carlson said, “We’ve
got to get rid of those faggots.” The couple seeks
monetary damages. In addition, Wadsworth wants
his seat on the committee back. Johnson is now a
registered Democrat.
COLORADO
Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, recently
released from federal prison where he was serving
a term for contempt of court, has gotten a job. Terry
now has his own radio talk show. The nationwide
call-in show, Randall Terry Live, will, according
to Terry, make Oliver North look “moderate” and
Rush Limbaugh, “liberal.”
Although he built his reputation as the founder
of Operation Rescue, Terry’s new focus, accord
ing to a story in the newspaper Wisconsin Light,
will be on gay men and lesbians. The show began
airing in June. It can be heard on stations in
Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Denver.
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The Colorado newspaper Out Front reported
May 31 that the Adolph Coors Co. has joined the
ranks of corporations extending domestic partners
benefits to same-sex couples. Coors board mem
bers unanimously agreed in principle to extend the
benefits. Coors has included sexual oritntation in
its nondiscrimination policies since 1978 and en
acted an HIV/AIDS employee policy in 1986.
IDAHO
People Like Us, a gay, lesbian and bisexual
group bom of last year’s campaign to defeat an
Idaho Citizens Alliance-sponsored anti-gay ballot
measure, has opened an office in Coeur d ’Alene.
The opening of the office is the first step in the
group’s plan to open a community center in
Kootenai County, reported Stonewall News North
west in June.
MASSACHUSETTS
A queer anti-abortion group was forced to
leave Boston’s Gay Pride Festival in June after its
booth was surrounded by a crowd opposed to the
group’s anti-abortion stance, a group press release
stated. The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbi
ans is an alliance of over 400 lesbians and gay men
throughout the United States. Members staffing
the booth at the Boston festival were escorted away
by police after both the police and festival organiz
ers determined that their safety could not be guar
anteed.
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The Massachusetts Department of Education,
under the auspices of its AIDS/HIV and Safe
Schools Program, held a statewide leadership con
ference on June 10 and 11 for high school students
and adults involved in issues of concern to lesbian
and gay students. According to the PR Newswire,
the retreat was funded by a grant from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. The AIDS/
HIV and Safe Schools Program works with stu
dents, parents, schools and communities to address
issues of discrimination, harassment, health and
violence in public schools and communities.
NEW YORK
The American Library Association’s 1995 Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award was presented
to Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration o f Heroes
and Role Models fo r Gay and Lesbian Americans
by Samuel Bernstein and Phillip Sherman, and
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature by
Dorothy Allison. The awards were presented June
24 at a dinner celebrating the 25th anniversary of
the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Task Force held
during the ALA’s annual conference in Chicago.
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According to the National Coalition Against
Censorship, efforts to ban certain books from class
rooms and library shelves across the country occur
with unsettling regularity. In a recent case, a high
school history teacher in Port Charlotte, Fla., was
accused of recruiting students for homosexuality
because he used Mary Renault’s The Last o f the
Wine (which includes a homoerotic relationship)
to teach his honors history students about ancient
Greece. Efforts to ban this book were ultimately
defeated; in other cities book-banners have been
more successful.
NCAC is a national alliance of religious, edu
cational, professional, artistic, labor and civil rights
groups that works to educate about the dangers of
censorship and how to oppose it. The goal of the
group is to “create a climate of opinion hospitable
to First Amendment freedoms in the broader com
munity.” For more information, write NCAC, 275
Seventh A ve., New Y ork, NY 10001;
(212) 807-6222, fax: (212) 807-6245.
OHIO
A legal defense fund has been established to
help Nuala Archer, an associate professor at Cleve
land State University, in her fight against the loss
of her position as director of the CSU Poetry
Center. Archer was allegedly subjected to continu
ing hostility from her predominantly male col
leagues in the CSU English Department after she
won a grant to hold a poetry festival in honor of
Audre Lorde, the late African American lesbian
poet. Subsequently, the Poetry Center Director
ship was abolished, and three men from the En
glish Department were appointed to run the center.
Archer has filed charges under the Civil Rights
and Equal Pay acts, alleging sex discrimination
and harassment. Contributions can be sent to The
Nuala Archer Legal Defense Fund, c/o Carol Kerr,
Chair, PO Box 770112, Lakewood, OH 44107.
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