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Federal offi cials also plan to form teams to help communi ties set up programs serving African Americans and Hispanics with HIV or at risk of contracting the virus. e xrw o g is o o MICHIGAN student alliance at Michigan T he State queer University in East Lansing wanted to do something to honor National Coming Out Day. So on Oct. 8, members of the group paint ed the rock on Farm Lane. That night somebody else decided to paint the rock, too. In no time, the rock was covered with gay slurs, including comments like “kill fags,” and “kill flames.” University workers quickly painted over the rock, obliterating the slurs, the Oct. 9 State Neu/s reports. Peter McPherson, the university’s president, also issued an official statement condemning the ILLINOIS he nation’s largest lesbian and gay church is hateful language and declaring the campus must suing a Chicago television station that is be a safe place where all can learn and grow with carried nationally on cable, saying it reneged on dignity. a contract to show an infomercial about the NEW YORK congregation. ay and lesbian activists jailed for taking part in an Oct. 19 demonstration say they were denied access to their AIDS medications. “I am very angry that a peaceful candlelight vigil could end with my life being threatened,” said John Irizarry, 27, who spent 19 hours in cus tody after a march inspired by Matthew Shep ard’s murder. An Oct. 21 Associated Press report says at least five of the roughly 100 people arrested were denied access to HIV or AIDS medications, according to the New York City Gay and Les bian Anti-Violence Project. Patients like Irizarry should never miss a dose of medication because that can allow the virus to weaken their immune systems, Dr. Paul Cur tis Bellman, an HIV specialist, told the wire ser The Rev. Michael Piazza vice. Robert Gangi, executive director of the Cor According to an Oct. 29 Associated Press report, the video from the Cathedral of Hope in rectional Association of New York, a prison Dallas included testimonials from members, watchdog group, told the AP this is not the first scenes of worship at the 3,000-person church time police have refused requests for medica and discussions with members’ families. tion. A police spokesman said police do not dis WGN-TV accepted a $12,000 check for the first broadcast, according to the lawsuit filed in pense any kind of medication. Instead, if some federal court in Chicago. But then the station one needs to take a prescription, he or she is returned the money because it felt the infomer given the option of being taken to a hospital for cial was “not appropriate content for {the] sta evaluation. tion,” said Christopher Wolf, a lawyer for the SOUTH CAROLINA church. “-* ay alumni of Bob Jones University, a fun- “I think those are code words for homopho J damentalist school located in Greenville, bia and for anti-gay discrimination," he added. have been put on notice: Stay away from cam WGN officials declined to comment. According to the AP, the Rev. Michael Piaz pus or be arrested—so says an Oct. 23 Associat za of the Cathedral of Hope said the video was ed Press story. meant to counterbalance an anti-gay ad cam The school has threatened to arrest all gay paign launched by conservative Christian graduates who step foot on campus. The only groups. exception is visitors to the art museum. (The exception was made to avoid jeopardizing the MARYLAND museum’s tax-exempt status.) Wayne Mouritzen, a 60-year-old retired min altimore Circuit Judge Richard T. Rombro has ruled the state’s anti-sodomy law, which ister and Bob Jones alumnus, learned of the ban prohibits oral sex between people of the same when he received a letter from the dean of stu gender, violates the constitutional rights of gay dents banning him from campus because uni men and lesbians, reports the Oct. 17 issue of versity officials had discovered he is gay. Not surprisingly, the letter came as a shock to The Baltimore Sun. The law did not apply to heterosexual part Mouritzen, who had come to terms with being ners. A law making anal sex illegal for everyone gay just six months earlier. was not part of the case and remains on the “They do have a beautiful art gallery, but books. who wants to go on campus and get arrested?" Although the anti-sodomy law was rarely he said. “It’s truly not public if it discriminates enforced against adults engaging in private, con against gays.” sensual sex, The Sun says it has been used in I child custody cases. > ■ Compiled by KRISTINE CHATWOOD T G C B ITn; R eal M o th er Cioosi 'I'otiil Anu í lui s * i ( i ¡¡¡I ( n ilh ry 90 1 S W Yamhill . 503 223 95 1 0