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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1997)
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McLoughlin, Milwaukie, OR • 659-7241 resident Clinton named Sandra L. “She understands the inner workings of the White Thurman his third director of the Office House, she understands how those people think.” of National AIDS Policy at a brief White Daniel Zingale, executive director of the AIDS House ceremony on April 7. “My door Action Council, saw the appointment as “an im is open to her,” pledged the president of portant step.” But he added, “Much more remains his new AIDS czar. to be done. [The appointment needs to be] fol Thurman is an Atlanta native who built AID lowed by a significant investment in staff and Atlanta into a major AIDS service organization budget resources to wage our nation’s war against HIV.” during her tenure there as executive director from 1988 to 1993. She has been a member of the Kerry Lobel, executive director of the Na Presidential Advisory Council on HI V/AIDS since tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called on its inception two years ago. Thurman and the adminis Thurman is an Atlanta native Thurman has also been tration “to work with Con very active in Democratic gress to lift the ban on the who built AID Atlanta politics. She took a leave of use of federal funds for into a major AIDS service needle-exchange pro- absence from her job in 1992 to run the crucial Georgia organization during her tenure grams;opposeHouseReso primary cam paign for ° . .. lution 1062 [the Cobum there as executive director bill], that would require Clinton and worked on the 1996 presidential campaign, from 1 9 8 8 to 1993. *“ ? 10 adoP' mandatory at the Democratic National HIV testing; and work for Convention and on the inaugural committee. full funding for AIDS research, prevention, health Bruce Reed, assistant to the president on do care and housing initiatives.” mestic policy, said that “for the first time” the Steve Michael, of ACT UP Washington, criti ONAP director will have an office “within the cized Thurman as “the third in a series of ineffec White House complex,” although that is likely to tive, no-name bureaucrats filling the AIDS czar be just Thurman and not her staff. Acting director position.” He said she was “ousted” from her Eric Goosby will stay on as her deputy while also position with AID Atlanta over “increasing scru retaining his position at the Department of Health tiny over her clothing allowance and high salary.” and Human Services. It is unclear whether staff That brought a tart denial from AID Atlanta. and budget for the office will increase. Board chair Ken Britt recounted how under Reaction to the Thurman appointment was Thurman’s tenure the organization and budget generally, but not universally, favorable. grew from 13 to 90 employees. Her salary rose Brian Bond, executive director of the Gay and from $35,000 to $68,000. “Although she was Lesbian Victory Fund, knows Thurman from work reimbursed for a few expenses, Sandy had no ing with her on the 1996 re-election campaign. “I travel budget, no car allowance, not even a budget think she will be extremely effective,” he said. for out-of-town meals.” P In appreciation of an independent thinker Marvin Liebman, 73, died of heart disease in Washington, D.C., on March 31. He was best known to the gay and lesbian community through his 1992 autobiography Coming Out Conserva- tive and a subsequent col umn which ran in many gay newspapers. Above all else he espoused prin cipled common sense. Liebman lived much of his life in the closet, coming out publicly only at the age of 67. His politi cal journey was even more dramatic: He started as an activist with the Young Communist League, was discharged from the Army during World War II for homosexuality, fought with the militant group Irgun to establish the state of Israel. He was befriended by William F. Buckley in the Marvin Liebman 1950s, beginning his long service to conservative organizations and to the political campaigns of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. He pioneered many of the fund-raising and direct-mail techniques that have become stan dard practice in political and issue campaigns. Liebman lay his coming out in part to rising homophobia among the far right. As he wrote in his autobiography, he began to feel “like a Jew in Germany in 1934 who had chosen to remain silent, hoping to be able to stay invisible as he watched the beginning of the Holocaust.” I had the good fortune of knowing Marvin in his later years. He was a remarkable man on several counts, perhaps none more so than his open, positive and friendly manner. He treated all people with respect, enjoyed talking with them and valued theiropinions whether he agreed with them or not. He inspired fierce loyalty across a broad spectrum of views. A few years back, activists Michael Petrelis and Michaelangelo Signorile sat on the same couch in Marvin’s apartment with the very conservative Congressm an Dana Rohrabacher(R-Califor- nia). It was a birthday party for their host. He attracted a bevy of young men who valued his wis dom, his experience and the way he discussed things without condescension. It was mentoring in the best sense of the word. Marvin Liebman’s life was filled with passion for causes, yet he never lost sight that underneath the cause we are all human beings. He will be missed. Bob Roehr