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a real stereo store
yielded a $20,000 settlement, the Nett; York
Times reports. She initially had sought $10 mil
lion in compensatory and punitive damages.
The deal was struck in September, and the
terms were kept secret. But a federal judge in
Manhattan made the records public O ct. 12
after requests were submitted by the N ew York
Times, the Daily News and the N ew York Post.
Bryant said other officers and her supervi
sors mocked her after she exchanged vows
with a colleague, Marilyn Trapanotto, in 1997
in C entral Park. Sh e had been assigned to the
42nd Precinct station house in the Bronx.
Bryant complained to the departments
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity,
which didn’t follow up on her claims, according
to the testimony o f investigator Sandra
Williams. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan sharply criti
cized the agency for failing to look into the mat
ter adequately.
Bryant’s lawyers also will receive $30,000 in
fees, which brings the total value of the settle
ment to $50,000. The records also show she
resigned immediately from the department as
part of the deal.
school district is being sued for $10 million
for failing to prevent years of torment
aimed at a gay student, The Associated Press
reports O ct. 18.
T h e Shenendehow a school board since
has rewritten its anti-harassment code to
address sexual orientation along with race,
gender and religion. But because the alleged
incidents occurred before the policy change,
the civil rights lawsuit contends the district is
liable.
Will Kehrig and his parents have turned
down media interviews, saying they don’t want
publicity, but attorney Michael Weisberg said
legal action— and financial penalty— could be a
wake-up call for other districts as they draw
these policies up. “Aside from a matter of prin
ciple, there is the issue that because of the
school district’s mishandling of the event, this
family was damaged.”
Weisberg said a 1996 case set this prece
dent. A W isconsin school district paid Jamie
Nabozny $900,000 after a federal jury found
three administrators liable for anti-gay vio
lence against him.
According to the Kehrig lawsuit, he suffered
from the time he
admitted he was
gay as a junior
high school stu
dent in 1997
through 1999,
when he left for
private school.
Classmates al
legedly sneered,
shoved him and
shouted increas
ingly
obscene
and graphic epi
thets, even within plain view of hall monitors.
It escalated during Kehrig’s first m onth o f
high school, when he retaliated against the
harassment by hitting a student with a stick.
He was suspended for four months, a punish
ment the lawsuit claims was unfair.
“School districts have basically let the boys
fend for themselves, and then when boys
respond the way they know how to, they get in
trouble for it,” Weisberg said. He added that if
Kehrig was black or female, the punishments
would have been doled out differently.
A C T U P San Francisco, the San Francisco
Exam iner reports.
According to police spokesman Sherman
Ackerson, the pair entered the offices about
noon O ct. 23, then began throwing furniture
and scattering files “like autumn leaves.” A
security guard tried to intervene, he said, and
was assaulted.
Betty Best, 40, and Ronnie Burk, 45, were
protesting an advertisement the foundation
placed about the recent rise in new HIV infec
tions among gay men, according to A C T UP/SF
member David Pasquarelli. The chapter does
not think HIV causes AIDS.
Burk and other members o f A C T UP/SF
also are facing criminal and civil charges
stemming from an April disruption of an
A ID S education meeting. Battery charges
against Pasquarelli and another man also are
pending in connection with objects thrown
at the city’s health director in August.
demonstration at the San Francisco
A ID S Foundation has led to battery
charges being filed against two members of
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boy abducted by his grandfather who
accused the 10-year-old’s caretakers of pro
moting a gay lifestyle has been returned to the
couple, The Associated Press reports.
Relatives in Pennsylvania surrendered
Miguel Washington to authorities Oct. 20 after
a two-week search. The boy returned to the
home of his uncle, Paul Washington Jr., and
Timothy Forrester on Oct. 22.
“Right now, he’s really happy to be home,”
Washington Jr. said. “W e’re absolutely elated.
Our family is united again.”
An attorney for Paul Washington Sr. and San
dra Washington, Miguel’s grandparents and Wash
ington Jr.’s parents, said his clients intend to pursue
custody. A hearing was scheduled for December.
“My clients don’t feel that’s the best home
for him,” Bill Hence Jr. said. “I’m very disap
pointed in the agencies that were supposed to be
protecting the rights of the child.”
Miguel was bom to Angelena Washington,
the younger Washington’s mentally disabled sis
ter, who was impregnated while living in an
assisted-care facility. At the time, family mem
bers informally agreed to have him raised by
Washington Jr., a hardware store salesman, and
Forrester, a teacher.
Riverside County Deputy District Attorney
Tex Ritter said his office had not decided
whether charges will be filed in the abduction.
The elder Washington picked up Miguel for an
overnight fishing trip Oct. 6 and never brought
him back, his son said.
Instead, W ashington and Forrester re
ceived a letter from a Los Angeles law firm
O ct. 7 stating that Miguel had been removed
from their home and accusing the pair of
“actively promoting or influencing a gay
lifestyle for the minor.” T h e correspondence
cited the boy’s participation in ballet and a
“gay art class” instead of baseball as one rea
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