a p n lil
Francisco. The jaunt, reports the San Francisco
Examiner, will coincide with the first anniver
sary of the city’s domestic partners law, which
Phelps opposes.
“Don’t get mad, but you guys need to be
preached to, my dear. You’re not only letting the
homosexuals take over the Bay area, but the rest
of the country,” Phelps told the paper.
For his planned June 1 protest in front of San
Francisco City Hall, Phelps, who hails from
Kansas, has asked Mayor Willie Brown to pro
vide police protection for him and about 20
other protesters. The request, says Phelps, was
prompted by death threats from San Francisco
residents.
Brown responded that adequate police pro
tection will ensure the protest is peaceful, but
warned “this dem onstration will be in an
extreme hostile environment.”
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efore people reach out and touch someone,
they may get a friendly reminder to play
safe. According to United Press International, a
California anti-AIDS campaign is underway
that employs 50,000 free, 10-minute long-dis
tance phone cards.
When cardholders make a call, they will first
hear the message: “You have the power to stop
HIV and AID S. Use a condom every time you
have sex. For more information on safer sex or
HIV testing, call the California A ID S Hotline
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The cards’ intended recipients are gay men,
bisexuals, drug users and other groups at high
risk for HIV infection. Especially targeted are
those aged 18 to 24 who frequent sex clubs,
cruising areas, bars and nightclubs.
Kim Belshe, California’s state health direc
tor, says the cards will initially be promoted with
a statewide radio campaign.
Belshe estimates the number of HIV-positive
Californians to be 37,000, with 8,000 more
expected to contract HIV in 1998.
S tuck in the
N omination M uck
ames Hormel, President Clinton’s choice for
ambassador to Luxembourg, may be the most
notable gay nominee being held up by the U.S.
Senate— but he isn’t the only one.
Fred Hochberg, an openly gay Clinton sup
porter and former president of the highly suc
cessful Lillian Vernon Corp., was nominated in
October 1997 to be a Small Business Admin
istration deputy administrator. According to a
March 19 San Francisco Chronicle report,
Hochberg’s nomination has not moved forward
since.
G O P senators maintain the delay has noth
ing to do with Hochberg’s sexuality or his public
support of gay and lesbian causes, but rather is
an issue of political influence and campaign
donations. Senate Republicans are investigating
Hochberg’s contributions to the Democratic
Party, the implication being that Hochberg
expected his financial donations to secure a
nomination.
Adm inistration officials contend these
objections are a ruse and the real reason for con
servative resistance to the appointment is
Hochberg’s orientation and history of activism.
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n March 23, California’s Supreme Court
ruled Boy Scouts organizations can bar gay
people and atheists. According to Reuters, in a
pair of unanimous rulings that could cause a
national legal battle over the scouting move
ment, the court said scout groups are not busi
nesses and therefore are free to exclude
whomever they please.
The two cases involved Timothy Curran, a
gay man barred from the post of assistant scout
master 16 years ago, and William and Michael
Randall, a pair of twins who as 9-year-old Cub
Scouts said they were agnostics.
The state high court decided the Boy Scouts
is not a business but a private group with its own
moral charter and therefore is not covered by
California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which for
bids businesses from discriminating on a number
of grounds, including race, religion and sexual
orientation.
“Could the N A A C P be compelled to accept
as a member a Ku Klux Klansman? Could B’nai
B’rith be required to admit an anti-Semite ?'
Justice Joyce Kennard wrote in one concurring
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The justices contend their ruling was not
intended to permit “invidious discrimination,”
but said the Unruh law as written did not sup
port action against the Boy Scouts on these two
issues.
The lawsuits spotlighted the 5.8-million-
member Boy Scouts organization, which has not
changed its vow to promote “morally straight”
young men since it was founded in 1910.
The court’s decision was a victory for the
Scouts, which lost a similar case in New Jersey
earlier this month when a state appeals court
found the group there had discriminated against
an assistant scoutmaster when it ousted him for
being gay.
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