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19 k'miiUk7*i q n e w s Injured? urged Tommy Thompson, the incoming head of the U .S. Department of Health and Human Services, to continue efforts on behalf of sex ual minorities. Maureen S. O ’Leary, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association executive direc tor, said she was hopeful that the former Wis consin governor will be sensitive to existing health disparities for sexual minorities. “Because of the lack of equal status in the various state and national legal systems, it is critical that Mr. Thompson follow the spirit of President-elect George Bush’s pledge that he is ‘president of all the people,’ ” she said. “It is paramount that if no children are to be left behind, as the new president has said time and time again, that the new H H S secretary under stand that the statement includes L G B T youth and children of gay and lesbian families as well.” In the past few years, O ’Leary said, the associa tion has worked closely with the department to level the playing field Tommy Thompson with regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health. “We have helped define the health needs for the LGBT population, and we have identified the most critical areas for research.” The association also has been part of the development of the current federal health plan, a 10-year blueprint that focuses on the elimination of health disparities in the nation along racial, ethnic, regional, gender, age and sexual orientation lines. “There is so much more to be done, and we see no reason that this sort of constructive partnership cannot contin ue,” O ’Leary said. S ignature P roperties ! ...C all m e cotts. Gun-shy by all the negative publicity, Schlessinger seemed to then avoid controver sy, leading to television ratings so abysmal, the show temporarily shut down.” To add insult to injury, Variety published a business feature Dec. 15 analyzing the colossal financial failure of Dr. Laura. “Para mount Domestic Television has incurred a loss said to be in the seven-figure range,” the article said. Proudly serving our community since 1989 in personal injury claims including: • Auto & Motorcyle Accidents OKLAHOMA iting a “stunning combination” of con- y c e m s about bias and injustice, the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union urged clemency Dec. 15 for a severely men tally impaired African American lesbian who is scheduled to be executed Jan. 11. A letter sent to Oklahom a’s Pardon and Parole Board said that Wanda Jean Allen suffers brain damage and has been declared clinically border line retarded but that her trial attorney and juries never knew about her mental incapacity. Further, the A C LU contended that she received “alarmingly inadequate” legal repre sentation. The state, and ultimately a judge, maintained before her trial that Allen had no choice but to be represented by a man who never had dealt with a capital murder case— and who received a total of $800 for repre senting her. “Oklahoma’s health system failed when Wanda Jean Allen’s serious mental problems went untreated,” the A C L U ’s clemency letter said. “The state’s criminal justice system failed when she was forced to receive inade - 2 - quate representation and when bias based on Laura Schlessinger finally got her race, class and sexual orientation entered the courtroom. Oklahoma’s ‘safety net’ did not highest ratings yet. The homophobic just fail Wanda Jean Allen— it talk show host came in second failed the whole state.” place on Fox Television’s list of The board, which never has top 10 public relations gaffes for granted clemency in a capital 2000, behind only Bridgestone’s murder case, voted 3 to 1 to tire recall. reject her plea, exhausting her “A Brandweek magazine appeals. Allen, 41, will be the columnist called her a ‘bully’ first black woman to be executed and ‘an undertrained, badly in the United States since the informed physiologist with pre reinstatement of the death penal tensions of being a counselor,’ ” ty in 1976 and the first woman to a press release said. “Groups be executed in Oklahoma since it such as San Francisco’s Horizons Foundation pressured advertis became a state. Dr. Laura Schlessinger ers to pull their support, and Compiled by Copy Editor JiM RADOSTA, many did. 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