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ju st ou t ▼ a u g u st 2 , 1 9 0 « T 7 Are you ready for H onest A nswers about protecting your financial future? upcoming book about family values “by those who happen to be gay.” Georgia slammed by human rights report A report issued last month by Human Rights Watch accuses the state of Georgia of racial discrimination, intolerance of gay men and lesbi ans, undermining freedom of expression and po lice abuses. Researchers for the privately-funded group reported that state officials and public policy violate Georgia state law, United States federal law, the U.S. Constitution and international hu man rights law, according to a Reuter’s News Service story. A lthough the report’s findings illus trate abuses that occur throughout the United States, Human Rights W atch focused on Georgia because At lanta cited its human rights record as part of its bid to host this summer’s Olympic Games. In its application to host the Centennial Olympic Games, Atlanta de scribed itself as “for many the modem capital of human rights.” Human Rights Watch said the “poor, racial minorities, gays and lesbians, and virtually any one jailed or imprisoned in the state might well disagree.” The report accuses Atlanta police of using excessive force, including unjustified shootings and severe beatings. Georgia’s death penalty, the report claims, has led to capital punishment prima rily for African Americans. Drug laws are applied more frequently to African American cocaine us ers even though more whites use cocaine. Researchers also found that women in state-run prisons are subjected to sexual harassment, intimi dation and rape by prison guards. Minors in cus tody, the report states, suffer “cruel restraints and punishment forbidden by international standards.” Georgia’s infamous anti-sodomy law, the re port says, has caused hostility and harassment of lesbians and gay men and firing by state officials. p Gay musician dies in TWA Flight 800 crash David Hogan, an internationally-known mu sic educator and co-founder of the Walden School, a summer musical institute, died in last month’s explosion of a Trans World Airlines jet over Long Island, New York. He was 47 years old. Hogan, an acclaimed composer, singer, pianist, organist and vocal coach, had been living in Paris for the past four years. He served as musical director of the Gay Men’sChoir of Paris; was a faculty member of the American Conservatory at the palace of Fontainbleau, France; and chaired the East Bay’s Consortium of the Arts in San Francisco. Best known for his liturgical choral music, Hogan was one of two composers chosen to create a work for the consecration and completion of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Choirs across the United States regularly peform his liturgical music. Hogan was a concert tenor who had been a featured soloist at National Cathedral, Baltimore’s Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, New York’s Ca thedral of St. John the Divine and the American Cathedral in Paris. In addition to his choir music, Hogan worked on a series of theater and film projects with Coline Serreau, who wrote and directed the film Three Men and a Cradle.He received the French equiva lent of a Tony Award for his music in 1994. Hogan is survived by his daughter, Hilary; two brothers; three sisters; and his former wife, Terry. A memorial service was held last month in Paris. Others are being planned in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Dublin. 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