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I \ 1 ashington, D.C.-based conservative
V V activist Gary Bauer is pondering a presi­
dential bid, The Associated Press reported
March 29.
Bauer said abortion must be the cornerstone
of the Republican Party’s platform and chal­
lenged the GOP establishment to “stand against
the agenda of the gay rights movement.”
Six years after becoming an independent
entity, Bauer’s Family Research Council rivals
the Christian Coalition as a voice for grass-roots
conservative activism. His political action com­
mittee raised $3.1 million so far this year, spend­
ing $600,000 on behalf of candidates.
He helped nominate a conservative
Republican in a recent Illinois Senate race and
hopes to raise $6 million for candidates in 1998.
After the November elections, Bauer will
decide whether to run for the White House.
T he PFLAG P apers
these negative issues. You cannot talk about
cloning without mentioning Hitler. All clones
in fiction, in movies, are evil, but nobody has
ever thought that the clone could be a happy,
bouncing baby.”
In February, U.S. lawmakers blocked a bill
for a permanent ban on human cloning because
of fears it would put the United States at a dis­
advantage in medical and scientific research.
However, President Bill Clinton has slapped a
five-year ban on federal money being used in
human cloning experiments.
On January 12, some 19 European nations
signed an agreement banning human cloning,
the first accord of its kind.
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ing and growth of Parents, Families and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays have been donat­
ed to Cornell University Library’s Human
Sexuality Collection, according to the school’s
March 16 press release.
PFLAG was spawned in large part via a 1972
letter written by Jeanne Manford that was pub­
lished in the New York Post. In the missive,
1975
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Manford protested her gay son’s mistreatment by
police. She wrote, “I have a homosexual son,
and I love him.”
The first national PFLAG meeting, held in
1979, coincided with the first national march in
Washington, D.C., for gay and lesbian rights.
Cornell University’s Human Sexuality
Collection, launched in 1988, houses an array of
sexuality-related documents, including docu­
mentation of lesbian and gay activism and trea­
tises on sexuality from the late 19th century.
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U.S. physicist who has said he intends to
be the first to clone a human being is refus­
ing to work with gay men and lesbians, whom
he called “genetic defects,” Agence France-
Presse reported April 2.
Richard Seed, who claims his cloning clinic
is just three months away from reality, admitted
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at a press conference that his own prejudices
would affect whom he chooses to treat.
“No, I will not treat homosexuals because
that is a genetic defect which I do not want to
propagate,” he said in Glasgow, Scotland. He
denied he was trying to create “a master race”
but added, “The subject of cloning always raises
“From marriage to adoption, to domestic
partnership and parenting, family issues are one
of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
community’s most vulnerable points for attack
and one of its greatest sources of strength,” says
NGLTF Executive Director Kerry Lobel, adding,
“In a pro-active manner, we will continue our
quest for equality on all fronts. More than ever
before, we will focus on the areas of parenting,
custody, adoption and foster care, domestic part­
nership and schools.”
NGLTF estimates there are more than 40
state legislative measures under consideration
which can be deemed anti-queer. Of those mea­
sures, 66 percent relate to family issues.
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S cientists C ontinue S earch
for HIV B locker
ccording to Reuters, researchers seeking to
identify a chemical that seems to block
HIV infection in pregnant mice are changing
their focus.
A team led by Dr. Robert Gallo of
Baltimore’s Institute of Human Virology have
abandoned an earlier theory that the so-called
pregnancy effect on HIV, which was first discov­
ered in 1995, was caused by the hormone
human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. The
hormone, produced during the first three
months of pregnancy, is not present in mice,
pregnant or otherwise.
Gallo and colleagues are now investigating a
related chemical called HAF, for hCG associat­
ed factor. The chemical appears to inhibit viral
replication and also could have applications in
treating cancer, the team reports.
“The critical work is now in the final purifi­
cation and chemical identification of HAF and
its large-scale production,” says Gallo, adding, “I
believe this can be achieved within one or two
years and can then be brought into clinical tri­
als.”
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