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JO INT DISCO M FO RT? LIM ITED M O B ILITY ? S tudent P aper C anned A fter P ride P arody P romise K eepers C an ’ t K eep P aid S taff C financial crisis has led the Promise Keepers, a Christian men’s movement, to lay off all 345 staff members effective March 31, Reuters reports. The group previously generated most of its revenue through a $60 admission fee to its all male stadium rallies, but declining attendance throughout 1997 prompted the group to stop charging admission. It now relies solely on dona tions. The move to an all-volunteer staff is a result of the funding policy change and costs associat ed with an October 1997 rally in Washington, D.C. Despite these financial problems, 19 rallies are planned for 1998, organization founder Bill McCartney says. elebrating Heterosexuality,” a parody of queer pride month published in Amherst C ollege’s conservative student newspaper, Amherst Spectator, prompted the student govern ment association to pull the periodical’s funding, reports Boston newspaper Bay Windows. Spectator founder and editor Ross Cohen said, “We rewrote the gay propaganda...as straight propaganda and they didn’t like it.” Student government officer Paul Rieckhoff, meanwhile, told reporters the Spectator is “a poorly organized, poorly run organization that engages in irresponsible activities,” and explained that the paper was already on proba tion for other reasons when the parody contro versy arose. College administrators have distanced them selves from the affair. A Do you know anyone s u ffe rin g fro m Joint H ealth P roblem s? T ry this... 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(Not The legion accepted no blame for alleged that there’s anything wrong with that.)” acts of discrimination, said the post’s judge advocate Arch Wilson. The ad is scheduled to appear first in gay publications, followed by signs at bus stops and California Legion Controller Wilson Wu subway stations in San Francisco. had no comment on the settlement or any poli cy changes prompted by the A lexander Hamilton Post’s $50-million lawsuit. ay t sn t o The suit, filed in 1996, accused the ome queer gals may need to pencil in extra California American Legion of a homophobic time with their therapists. Why? TV Guide campaign that began in 1983 in response to gay reported in February veterans’ attempt to establish a post in San that Lucy Lawless is Francisco. headed to the chapel. Lawless, who plays ueling ulings in the title character in esbian ustody ase the television show Xena: Wanior Princess, he Sharon Bottoms saga continues: Legal will be taking vows at wrangling between the lesbian and her an undisclosed place mother over custody of her son, Tyler Doustou, and time with Rob revisited the courtroom of Buford M. Parsons, Tapert, executive producer of both Xena and the judge who forbade interaction between Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Doustou and Bottoms’ lover, April Wade. The lack of wedding specifics is no mistake. In early March, following an appeals court Lawless reportedly asked the publication not to order to “reconsider visitation rules on the publish even the month of the upcoming wed grounds that it was wrong to bar contact solely ding. because of Ms. Wade’s homosexuality,” Parsons “You don’t know some of my fans,” she granted Bottoms more visitation time. But con lamented. “They’d travel anywhere to be there.” tact between Wade and Doustou is still banned, While Lawless’ marriage might disappoint according to The Associated Press. The 1993 ruling of a Richmond, Va., juve some of Xena’s most devoted fans, not all is lost. TV Guide reported that k.d. lang might make an nile court awarded custody of Doustou to the appearance in Xena’s mystical world, and the maternal grandmother, citing Bottoms’ intimate poet Sappho, played by Lawless, will put the relationship with a woman, April Wade, and the state’s sodomy law. The ruling was over moves on Gabrielle in an upcoming episode. turned on appeal and later reinstated by a divid ■ Compiled by W ill O ’B ryan ed state Supreme Court. 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