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just out ▼ march 1, 1996 ▼ 7 “ A B R I L L I A N T S H O W ! ” - SF Examiner Howie Baggadonutz presents from New York C A L IF O R N IA A transsexual woman who was held in solitary confinement in a Ventura jail for 40 days, charged in a shooting in which she was the victim, was finally released from jail last month. On Christmas Day, 1995, Candy Walker told her parents she is a transsexual. Her father had the police remove her from the house. Three days later, when W alker returned home to gather some belong ings, her father shot her twice. District Attorney John Vanarelli charged Walker with first degree burglary. She was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon when it was discovered that her cane contained a small blade. Vanarelli originally requested and was granted a bail o f $250,000. Bail was later reduced to $20,000. All charges except the weapons charge were even tually dropped at the request o f W alker’s mother. ▼ ▼ ▼ In July 1995, members of ACT UP-San Fran cisco invaded the county’s Republican headquar ters to protest Sen. Jesse Helms’ delaying tactics with the reauthorization of the Ryan White CARE Act. Four demonstrators were arrested and charged with vandalism, burglary and conspiracy. Two of the defendants tentatively accepted pretrial diver sion settlements; ill health forced one defendant to drop his court defense; and the fourth defendant, David Pasquarelli, is proceeding to trial. Pasquarelli intends to fight the charges using the “necessity” defense. Pasquarelli intends to show that the possibility that the CARE Act would not be reauthorized created an atmosphere of fear and crisis in the AIDS community, and that the attempt to block reauthorization was an act of hostility toward the AIDS community that threatened the collapse of San Francisco’s health care system. JAMES LECESNE $ "WORD OF MOUTH” March for Life in January. Nelli Gray, march presi dent, ordered the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians to turn in their convention badges and not carry their banner, which included a drawing of a fetus inside a pink triangle. Gray told The Washington Post, “Homosexual ity is sinful by anyone’s definition, and there was no way I was going to have a banner promoting sinful acts.” N EW Y O R K Ms. magazine is suing Ms. Behavior. Lang Communications, L.P., the corporate owner of Ms. magazine, has filed an opposition proceeding before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to prevent lesbian author Meryl Cohn from obtaining a registered trademark for her name, Ms. Behavior. Cohn is the author of Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette. She also writes a newspaper column of gay advice and etiquette. ▼ T T POZ, a national magazine for people affected by HIV/AIDS, and a coalition of AIDS organizations have decided it’s time to stop complaining about the things President Clinton has not done to fight AIDS. Instead, the group, which includes the National Association of People with AIDS, Housing Works, PWA Coalition/New York, and several ACT UP chapters, developed a list of 50 actions that Clinton, or his successor, could take to fight AIDS. Two W eek s Only! March 8 - 1 7 Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8pm Sunday at 7pm Echo Theatre* 1515 SE 37th Advance tickets: Fred Meyer Fastixx outlets (224-8499) & Jellybean Cards Problems with your dream house? We can help! Arts & Crafts Construction specializing in repair & remodeling o f period houses call Steve at 648 6968 or 1 800 684 9038 licensed/bonded/insured CCB # 107844 The San Francisco Board o f Supervisors voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that autho rizes the county clerk or a deputized representative to perform a civil ceremony with “marriage-like vows” for couples who register with the city as domestic partners. The ceremony carries absolutely no legal weight. It will be available to both heterosexual and homo sexual couples. D IS T R IC T O F C O L U M B IA A letter requesting full funding of the Ryan White CARE Act through fiscal year 1996 was delivered to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in late January. The letter was written by Reps. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.) and Rick Lazio (R-N.Y.) and signed by 29 House Republicans. The CARE Act is being funded at fiscal year 1995 levels under a continuing resolution. The list, called “Fifty for the Future,” appears in the current issue of POZ. It contains recommenda tions in a number of areas, including health care delivery, housing, education and prevention, re search, immigration and advocacy. Each of the recommendations could be enacted by the use of executive orders and the presidential veto. T T T ▼ The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s larg est lesbian and gay organization, is objecting to a part o f the plan to overhaul Medicaid put forth by the National Governors Association. HRC is concerned about a provision that would allow each individual state to define who is “dis abled” in determining Medicaid eligibility. HRC believes this measure could jeopardize the benefits of people living with HIV and AIDS. Nearly half of all Americans with AIDS receive Medicaid ben efits, including more than 90 percent of children with AIDS. “This proposal opens the door to states to ex clude people who have expensive or politically unpopular disabilities, including AIDS and HIV,” said Winnie Stachelberg, HRC’s seniorhealth policy advocate. “ In the name of giving ‘flexibility to the states,’ the governors appear willing to endanger lives. We can’t risk the possibility of 50 different definitions of disability.” ▼ ▼ T Members o f a gay and lesbian anti-abortion group were rejected by the organizers of the annual y « ▼ ▼ The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defama tion has announced the nominees and some recipi ents o f its seventh annual GLAAD Media Awards. Winners will be announced at ceremonies to be held on March 7 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, and on March 10 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Special award recipients have already been an nounced. They include Sid Sheinberg, former presi dent of MCA, who will be given the Vanguard Award; Barbara Walters, of ABC News and 20/20, who will receive the Excellence in Media Award; The Celluloid Closet, a film based on Vito Russo’s book on the images of lesbians and gay men in the movies, which will receive the Vito Russo Film Award. Other announced winners and their categories include: The Incredibly True Adventure o f Two Girls in Love for Outstanding Independent Film; Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story for Outstanding Television Film; All My Chil dren for Outstanding Daytime Television; Ballot Measure 9 for Outstanding Film Documentary. Compiled by Kristine Chatwood r ♦ oamuc Especially w hen they keep you from settins! what von need to live a better and longer life. If you or someone you know has HIV. call us. We can get you medical care and caring people to talk to. We can help with housing. food and child care. You don’t have to have money or insurance. 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