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Nearly 100 South Asian lesbians, gay men and
bisexuals gathered in San Francisco last month for
Pride Utsav ’95, reported the San Francisco Bay
Times. This year’s conference, which drew queer
South Asians from around the world, was spon
sored by Trikone, a Bay Area-based group for gay
and lesbian South Asians.
Lesbian activist Urvashi Vaid gave the keynote
address, and Pink Peacock awards were presented
to filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Trikone founder
Arvind Kumar in recognition of their contributions
to the South Asian gay and lesbian community.
Trikone can be reached at PO Box 21354, San
Jose, CA 95151, (408) 270-8776; e-m ail:
trikone@rahul.net.
Kristine Chatwood
All participants are asked to fill out a consent
form and give a sample of blood for DNA sequenc
ing. The brothers are also asked to fill out question
naires on early childhood sexual orientation and
family life. That should take less than an hour.
Volunteers will not be paid, but NIMH will pick up
lab and shipping fees associated with the project.
Gershon hopes to recruit at least 100 sets of
brothers within the next six months. For now, he
will collect and freeze samples. He will not process
them until he has enough groupings to achieve
economies of scale and to offer up scientifically
valid conclusions. He hopes to have results in
about a year.
Potential volunteers are encouraged to contact
Elliot Gershon and his NIMH team for further
details. The e-mail address is GQZ@CU.NlH.gov
and they will accept collect calls at (301) 496-8977
during regular business hours (Eastern Time).
Bob Roehr
Portlander leads GLAAD
W indy city activists
Local lesbian activist Donna Red Wing has
been appointed act
ing executive direc
tor of the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance
Against Defama
tion. Red Wing has
been GLAAD’s na
tional field director
since
O ctober
1993. Prior to
w orking
for
GLAAD,
Red
Wing was the ex
ecutive director of
the Lesbian Community Project. She was also
active in the campaign to defeat Oregon’s Ballot
Measure 9.
Red Wing replaces Ellen Carton, who had
served as GLAAD acting executive director since
November 1994.
Kristine Chatwood
form black gay PAC
South Asian queers
gather in San Francisco
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Gay gene study
seeks volunteers
A group of Chicago activists has formed a
political action committee to raise money for gay-
and lesbian-supportive candidates running in local
districts with large African American populations,
according to The Washington Blade. Known as
“The Committee,” the group is believed to be the
first of its kind in the country.
In addition to sexual-minority-supportive can
didates, The Committee plans to endorse candi
dates based their positions on issues affecting
people of color. The Committee will also support
openly gay and lesbian candidates who are people
of color.
Kristine Chatwood
Union fights workplace
homophobia
The Service Employees International Union
developed and is now distributing a new brochure
to help union m embers and workers fight
homophobia in the workplace and in unions. En
titled “Don’t Discriminate: Lesbian and Gay Work
ers Have Rights, Too,” the brochure is published
by SEIU’s Civil and Human Rights Department
and is an outgrowth of a 1992 SE1U International
Convention resolution. The resolution is part of the
union’s continuing support for civil rights legisla
tion, local union civil rights programs, and partici
pation in progressive social reform coalitions.
For information and free copies of the bro
chure call Wyatt Closs at the SEIU Civil and
Human Rights Department at (202) 898-3354.
Kristine Chatwood
The search for the “gay gene” continues with
researchers recruiting volunteers into a new study
looking for genetic links to homosexual orienta
tion.
The scientists are building upon research pub
lished by Dr. Dean Hamer in 1993, which strongly
suggests a correlation between certain genetic pat
terns on the X chromosome of males and being
gay. This study will try to confirm those results and
then move on to look for other possible genetic
cofactors.
Elliot S. Gershon, M.D., heads up the investi
Phoenix gay man
gative team at the National Institute of Mental
Health, part of the National Institutes of Health in
abducted, shot
Bethesda, Md.
Mark Sauer, a Phoenix man active in the gay
“We are interested in the genetics of human
community, was abducted and shot three times in
behavior,” he said citing his own work in uncover
the leg June 4, reports the Western Express. Ac
ing genetic roots to manic-depression. “This new
cording to Sauer, he was driving out of a parking
study is the first normal variance of human behav
lot when he stopped to answer his beeper. A man
ior we are looking at. It is terribly important...a
window into all human sexuality.”
pulled open the passenger door, aimed a .22 caliber
revolver at Sauer’s head and told him to drive
The study will look first to the X chromosome
“slowly and carefully” down the street. The man
of males to replicate Hamer’s results, which
Gershon assumes will happen. Then they will
threatened to kill Sauer, and reportedly said, “We
don’t want you people around here, we don’t like
sequence the entire DNA of each sample, looking
what you do.” After driving through side streets
for common patterns at other parts of the genome
to see if they can establish other statistically sig
with the gun at his head, Sauer was told to stop in
nificant relationships.
a deserted parking lot. The man then robbed and
shot him.
Gershon is recruiting biological brothers (sets
of two or more) who self-identify as gay. “But if
Sauer was treated at a Phoenix hospital and has
been released.
one is gay and one is bisexual, we won’t turn them
down.” He would also prefer that one or both of
Phoenix police are reluctant to classify anti
their biological parents participate so that he can
gay crimes as bias crimes and are even more
reluctant to discuss them, according to the Western
look more deeply at patterns of genetic transmis
sion over generations, but parental involvement is
Express story.
not mandatory.
Kristine Chatwood
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