2 T M p to m ba r 1, 1909 ▼ just out just out since 1983 PUBLISHER AND EDITOR Renée LaChance REPORTERS steppin’ out Boh Roehr Inga Sorensen Rex Wockner contents VOL. 12 NO. 21 SEPTEMBER 1, 1995 FEATURE CALENDAR EDITOR When opposites attract Kristine Chatwood PHOTOGRAPHER Couples o f mixed HIV status find that communication and love will keep them together Linda Kliewer ADVERTISING DIRECTOR (pp. 19-21) Meg Grace ADVERTISING REPS DEPARTMENTS E. Ann Hinds C. Jay Wilson Jr. World news CREATIVE DIRECTOR E. Ann Hinds Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe blasts homosexuals GRAPHIC DESIGN (P- 4) Rupert Kinnard National news COPY EDITOR TYPESETTER Dole returns Log Cabin’s check; the Rev. Fred Phelps cries wolf Jann Gilbert (pp. 5-8) DISTRIBUTION Local news Kelly M. 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The m ailing address and telephone n u m b e r for Just out are PC) Box 14400. Portland. OR 97214 0400. (50.1) 236-1252 Our fax number is 236-1257. Our e mail address is JusiOul2(<*aol com COLUMNS editorial Back to school A gay Rhode Island teacher learns that he has support (p. 9) The price of bigotry The sometimes moderate Republican Sen. Bob Dole is flip-flopping on issues that are viewed as politically devisive within his party T by Renée LaChance en. Bob D< 'z (R-Kan.) is the Senate majority leader and the current front-runner in the race for the Repub lican presidential nomination. This past June, just in time for lesbian and gay pride month. Dole’s cam paign accepted a $ 1,000 donation from the Log Cabin Republicans, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to accept a donation from a national gay and lesbian group. The ever astute Deb Price, a nationally syndicated colum nist with The Detroit News, figured this out by scanning Federal Election Commission reports. She called Dole’s campaign headquarters to confirm the donation and to inform them of the column she was writing to spotlight the historic event. Two days later. Dole campaign spokesman Nelson Warfield claimed the donation was accepted by mistake and announced the campaign was returning the money to the gay and lesbian Republican group. Warfield cited financial glitches and even ignorance about the organization’s “agenda" in explaining the error. That is so lame. The Log Cabin Republicans lobbied Dole all spring and early summer to steer the Ryan White AIDS- services rcauthorization act through the Senate, and kept at Dole to buck the objections of Sen. Jesse Helms. The most likely truth is that conservative Republicans viewed Dole’s pushing of the Ryan White CARE Act through past their homophobic messiah as "pro-gay.” In the hotly contested bid for the Republican presidential nomination that is centering on right-wing political ideology. Dole can ill afford S to appear pro-gay. To appease those vocal conservatives, the sometimes moderate Dole has been flip-flopping like a fish beached on dry land. Flip. Lobbies for support from the Log Cabin Republicans. Flop. Gives it back when news of the campaign’s acceptance of the money goes public. Flip. In early May, is quoted in The New York Times Magazine as saying, “I don’t know if homosexuality is involuntary or a choice, but they have, obviously, civil rights. No discrimination. This is America.” Flop. Two weeks later, writes to The Washington Times to say he opposes gays in the military and “special status for sexual orientation.” After Price’s column about the campaign donation ap peared, a media brouhaha unfurled. Few newspapers credited openly lesbian Deb Price for her scoop (way to go. Deb!) and all slanted the story to chide Dole for the hypocrisy of turning away gay dollars, while accepting money from other sources that don’t match his political ideology. And talk about idiotic (at the risk of offending our Repub lican readers), not only did Log Cabin Republicans donate money to Dole, but the new Log Cabin Political Action Com mittee sent $ 1.000 to California Gov. Pete Wilson, who is also seeking the Republican presidential nomination. That man is slime personified. In 1992. Wilson promised the California gay and lesbian community he would deliver on their behalf if they would help get him elected, and then, once in office, he vetoed every bit of legislation endorsed by the lavender lobbies. As Deb Price said in her column. "Bigotry carries a heavy price.” Apparently some gay Republicans are willing to pay it. 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