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Berdell Moffett Licensed, Ordained Ministers Easter is about resurrection Gynecologists has reversed its position and granted the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association exhibit space at it’s annual confer ence. “ACOG’s decision means the health con cerns of lesbians will be visible at the largest annual gathering of women’s health providers,” says Dr. Michael Horberg, a San Francisco Bay area internist and GLMA’s president. “From the outset, we have wanted to attend ACOG’s con ference to educate obstetricians and gynecolo gists about the specific health care needs of les bians, and we’re pleased that ACOG recognized the significant educational role GLMA can pro vide.” On March 3, GLMA, the nation’s leading group of gay and lesbian physicians, learned its request for exhibit space had been denied. GLMA’s board called on ACOG to reverse that decision, requested a meeting with ACOG offi cials and notified GLMA members and the media of the denial. The exhibit booth will give GLMA an opportunity to educate individual physicians about lesbian health. GLMA will also pursue future opportunities to meet with ACOG’s directors and staff to increase their awareness of the specific barriers gay and lesbian physicians confront in the workplace. GLMA will sponsor exhibits and receptions at 10 medical association meetings this year. The group selected ACOG’s conference, which will he held in New Orleans May 11-13, because ACOG is the nation’s leading group of obstetri cians and gynecologists and because many gyne cologists are unaware lesbians have specific medical needs. slated for April 8. Begun in 1996 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the day is believed to be the largest national youth event of its kind. S eesawing C ivil R ights A Time fo r Larger Life o n n e d io n H ush , H ush , S weet C harlottesville a decision that could benefit lesbians, the T he second National Day of Silence, an I n American awareness-raising event for queer youth, is College of Obstetricians and kkk Wilken & Lorenzen, PC. C E R T I F I E D G ay and L esbian D ocs G ranted E xhibit S pace — Sunday messages this month will focus on renewing forgotten friendships, reigniting abandoned talents, and reawakening dormant dreams. Join us! April 5 Those Who Would Be Master Easter Sunday 12 Living The Larger Life 19 Demons & Snakes & Deadly Things, Oh My! 26 Sittin' At The Right Hand of God he National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says the nation’s political barometer is spin ning wildly with simultaneous progress and set backs. On the heels of Maine’s Feb. 10 election in which voters repealed statewide gay rights pro tections, three victories came out of the courts. In a lawsuit filed by two men denied the right to marry, an Alaska Superior Court ruled the T Participants are asked to honor a nine-hour vow of silence, from 8 am to 5 pm, and arm themselves with cards that read: “Please under stand my reasons for not speaking today. I sup port lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. People who are silent today believe laws and attitudes should be inclusive of people of all sexual orientations. The Day of Silence is to draw attention to those who have been silenced by hatred, oppression and prejudice. Think about the voices you are not hearing. What can you do to end the silence?” For more information, visit the event’s Web site, www.youth-guard.org/ndos, or send e-mail to mkp6n@unix.mail.virginia.edu. H igh C ourt M ulls HIV as D isability Court is pondering a case T he which U.S. Supreme questions whether the federal Americans with Disabilities Act—which pro hibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, housing, and public accommoda tions and services—applies to a person with HIV who has not developed any of the acute conditions that fall under the definition of AIDS. The case was brought, and won in two lower federal courts, by a woman whose dentist refused to treat her in his office after she informed him that she is HIV-positive. In the 1990 law, Congress did not specify dis eases or conditions. The statute says one is cov ered if he or she has “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities” or if he or she is “regarded as having such an impairment.” Lower courts have ruled conditions like epilepsy, breast cancer and various forms of mental illness are not covered by the law. The courts are divided over whether asymptomatic HIV infection is a disability. Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, says, “Denying ADA protection to people because their HIV infection is not obvious would undermine public health goals—it would discourage testing and treatment and encourage people to hide their HIV status.... Why reveal, or even learn your status if that information means you can be denied treatment or fired from your job?” state must show a compelling reason for pro hibiting same-sex marriage. On March 2, a New Jersey appeals court found that the Boy Scouts of America’s prohibi tion of gay men violates the state’s civil rights law, which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. A few days later on March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the legal definition of sex ual harassment includes harassment toward a member of the same sex. NGLTF also reports two state Republican B eware , S an F ran , parties, those in California and Kansas, adopted “virulent anti-gay resolutions.” Wording from P helps M ay B e on the W ay he Rev. Fred Phelps, infamous for picketing the California resolution equates homosexuality funerals of those who have died from AIDS with “incest, sexual child abuse, bestiality and pedophiles." complications, has announced plans to visit San T