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Hotel. Nearly 2,000 writers from around the
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for the conference, which is sponsored by the
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Nationally and internationally renowned writ­
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Edmund White, author of Our Paris, Genet: A
Biography, A Boy’s Own Story and other works.
The annual Audre Lorde Memorial Lecture
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American lesbian-feminist poet. Clarke’s latest
book, experimental love, was nominated for a
Lambda Award for poetry.
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multidisciplinary, scholarly journal dedicated to
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered health.
The journal, which begins publishing in early
1997, will specialize in original clinical research
and will publish review articles, brief reports,
topical essays and news concerning lesbian and
gay health. It has a 28-person editorial board.
Jocelyn White, M.D., an assistant professor of
internal medicine at Oregon Health Sciences
University in Portland, and Mark Townsend, M.D.,
an assistant professor of psychiatry at Louisiana
State University School of Medicine in New
Orleans, are co-editors of the journal.
Churches get the boot for
“affirming” gay lifestyle
Delegates to a special session of the western
region of the American Baptist Churches denomi­
nation voted to expel four Bay Area churches
because they joined the Association of Welcom­
ing and Affirming Baptists, an organization that
accepts and affirms gay men and lesbians. The
targeted churches are the San Leandro Commu­
nity Church, the New Community of Faith Church
in San Jose, the First Baptist Church of Berkeley,
and Oakland’s Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church.
This vote was advisory and will be presented
to the western regional board in March. After that
it will be taken up by the national board in June.
Man murders man
he met on-line
A New Jersey man has confessed to murder­
ing a man he met through an on-line “chat room.”
Mercer County Assistant Prosecutor Timothy
McNamara said that George Hemenway, 38, ad­
mitted to shooting Jesse Unger, 39, in the head,
the (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger reported.
Unger’s body was found wrapped in a tarp and
covered with lime in Hemenway’s basement on
Jan. 4.
The two men had communicated through pri­
vate messages and via the chat room prior to their
in-person meeting.
Police found the body after receiving a tip
from two friends of Hemenway’s who had at­
tempted to help him move the body.
Hemenway is charged with murder, posses­
sion of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, unlaw­
ful possession of a weapon, and tampering with
evidence.
Lesbian cop forced to
name lovers in L.A. case
The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to
investigate allegations that the city violated the
civil rights of a lesbian police officer by demand­
ing that she name her past sexual partners.
Police Officer Virginia Acevedo is on disabil­
ity for stress she claims was caused by harassment
she suffered because of her sexual orientation, the
Associated Press reports.
When she refused a demand by the Los Ange­
les City Attorney’s Office to name her friends,
associates and past sexual partners, the city filed
a motion to terminate her workers’ compensation
benefits. The city contends that Acevedo’s stress
may stem from her relationships.
“That ’ s absolutely, unbelievably outrageous,”
lesbian Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg told the
AP. “I am more offended than I’ ve been since I’ ve
taken office. They had better have asserted this in
every case of psychiatric disability for every
heterosexual man. I know dam well they haven’t
asked this question.”
Charles Dickerson, special assistant to the city
attorney, said questions about personal relation­
ships are asked in every stress disability claim
case.
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