against a wall and started taking off his pants,
saying he was going to rape her.
Bob Chenoweth, attorney for the Spencer
County schools, said school officials did what
they could to stop the harassment. In his closing
remarks at the trial, Chenoweth said the offend­
ing students were “talked to.”
“But there is no guarantee that once students
are told to stop doing something, that they will
stop,” he said.
McGowan’s attorney, Oliver Barber, claimed
that those who taunted and harassed McGowan
were never punished.
“There was nothing done to any of these kids
anywhere at any time. It is outrageous,” he said.
“It is deliberate indifference. Either that, or they
are so totally incompetent that they shouldn’t
be running a school system.”
Spencer County school officials say they are
considering an appeal.
\ \ / omen beware! Nonoxynol 9, long touted
V V as a weapon against sexually transmitted
diseases, failed to protect women from infection
in a study of 1,292 sex workers in Cameroon,
reports an Aug. 19 United Press International
story. The study appeared in the August issue of
The New England Journal o f Medicine.
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NATIONAL
P
rimary election voters were very good to the
Victory Fund and its candidates this year. A
Sept. 9 Victory Fund press release touts the wins
of all three Victory Fund candidates who faced
elections in Sept. 8 primaries.
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Tammy Baldwin, for example, proved victo­
rious in a hard fought four-way battle for the
Democratic nomination for Wisconsin’s 2nd
Congressional District seat. If Baldwin beats her
Republican opponent in the November general
election, she will be the first person elected to
Congress who came out before going to
Washington. (W ell-known gay members of
Congress, like Massachusetts Democrat Barney
Frank, did not reveal their sexual orientation
until after taking their seats in the House of
Representatives.)
In the race to fill Baldwin’s seat in the
Wisconsin Assembly, Mark Pocan, a gay man,
won the Dem ocratic primary. In Arizona,
Republican Steve May, who also is gay, came out
on top of seven opponents seeking two seats in
the state House. Pocan’s district is a very
Democratic district, and May is running in an
overwhelmingly Republican district, so both are
in excellent positions to win in the general elec­
tion November 3.
W isconsin’s 2nd Congressional District,
meanwhile, has a slight Democratic edge, giving
Baldwin an apparent advantage over her
Republican opponent.
Brian Bond, executive director o f the
Victory Fund, is optimistic but cautious.
“W e’re on the brink of making history,” he
says, “but never underestimate the power of big­
otry.... If fair-minded voters stay home on
Election Night, we could lose everything we’ve
worked so hard to achieve."
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According to researchers, led by epidemiolo­
gist Ronald E. Roddy, "Nononynol 9 film did
not give the women in this study any additional
protection against infection with HIV, gonor­
rhea, or chlamydia beyond that provided by
condoms and treatment for sexually transmitted
diseases.”
N-9, which has been used for nearly 40 years,
is available in gels, creams, suppositories and
films. The film product was used in this study.
Researchers do not know why the N-9 film
failed to protect the women.
Researcher Nash Herndon says, “The good
news is we didn’t see N-9 hurting people. What
concerned us is we did not see it helping peo­
ple.”
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John Terrill, GRI
George Marvin
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Kathleen Ira
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Beate Kanter
Jeffery Anderson
Julie Yoho, GRI
Carolyn MacMurray
Tamie Brown
Jay Pevney
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Chris Hardv
Jeff Gallagher
Tracy Thomas
Jim Bean, GRI
TEX A S
W
hoever wins election to the Texas House
of Representatives from District 51 will
be a gay man, reports the Sept. 6 issue of The
Dallas Morning News.
T h at’s right, both candidates— Democratic
incumbent Rep. G len Maxey and his Re­
publican opponent Fred Ebner— are gay.
Not surprisingly, this type of electoral match­
up is a first in Texas. Although Maxey has been
assailed in past elections for his sexual orienta­
tion, the subject is rather a moot point this time
around.
W ASHINGTON
C
ongressional
candidate
Grethe
Cammermeyer won the Sept.
15
Dem ocratic primary for W ashington’s 2nd
District seat by a margin of more than 2 to 1.
A retired Army colonel who served as chief
nurse o f the
state
National Guard,
Cammermeyer will face Republican incumbent
Jack M etcalf in the swing district during the
Nov. 3 general election.
Cammermeyer earned a Bronze Star in
Vietnam, but was discharged in 1992 after dis­
closing her sexual orientation in a 1989 inter­
view for a top-secret security clearance. A feder­
al judge later ordered her reinstated and the gov­
ernment did not appeal.
Judy Sardella
Jaye Kraus
1979
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