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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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vision show debuted, the controversy was u>ho can be reached at jim@justout.com.
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