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identity or expression. Cook County becomes
the 11th jurisdiction this year to outlaw bias
against trans people in housing, employment,
credit transactions and public accommodations.
“Trans people experience discrimination,
and such discrimination is unacceptable and
should be unlawful,” said Rick Garcia, Equality
Illinois political director. “We hope that other
jurisdictions join Cook County in protecting all
of their citizens.”
Chicago passed an identical ordinance last
month, and Decatur O K ’d similar legislation in
October. A statewide gay and trans civil rights
bill is pending before the Illinois General
Assembly and is expected to pass early next year.
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student was brutally beaten with a baseball
bat Nov. 3 at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
Sophomore Aaron Price reportedly told cam
pus police that junior Gregory Love had “looked
at him” while they were both in a communal
shower. The victim, who is not gay, said he had
forgotten his glasses and couldn’t tell whether
the person in the next stall was his roommate.
Love is continuing his recovery in the More
house infirmary, according to the Atlanta
Joumal'Consatudon. Price has been expelled.
Campus cops did not release any information
on the subject until a newspaper reported on the
incident almost a week later. They did not
request help from the Atlanta Police Depart
ment and have not turned over any information
to local authorities or their gay and lesbian com
munity liaison.
A fraternity and a gay club on campus previ
ously had planned a “Forum on Homophobia”
for Nov. 11, but the Morehouse administration
canceled the panel after the incident. Students
gathered informally anyway but were restricted
from talking about the assault.
Morehouse President Walter Massey spoke
to a group of 300 students Nov. 19 and said he
would form a committee to address diversity on
campus. The audience reportedly was not
allowed to ask questions during the session,
which was not open to the public or media.
Prominent alumni from the historically
black college include the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. According to one student, the consen
sus on campus is that “a lot of people believe
that he deserved to get beaten up if he was look
ing in the shower stall, but everyone thinks the
bat was a little extreme.”
CALIFORNIA
N
ewark police took a fourth suspect into cus
tody Nov. 16 in connection with the mur
der of Gwen Araujo, a trans 17-year-old who
reportedly was attacked during a party when it
was revealed that she was anatomically male.
Authorities have hinted that other arrests
might be made. “The trail seems to be hot,” Lt.
Tom Milner said.
Jason Cazares, 22, initially was suspected to
have participated in the murder but claimed he
had left the party before the incident took place.
With insufficient evidence, police were unable
to press charges until now.
Cazares joins 19-year-old Jaron Nabors, who
claims he is innocent, and 22-year-olds Jose
Merel and Michael Magidson, who will enter
their pleas Dec. 13. They allegedly slashed
Araujo with a knife, beat her, dragged her into a
garage, strangled her with a rope, bound her
wrists and ankles, wrapped her body in a sheet
and buried it in a shallow grave more than 150
miles from the crime scene.
Erika Harold is crowned by Miss America
2002 Katie Harman of Gresham on Sept. 21
in Atlantic City, N .J.
NATIONAL
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aying “abstinence-only” programs are “noth
ing short of a public health hazard for our
nation’s youth,” Lambda Legal sent a letter
Nov. 25 to Miss America 2003, Erika Harold,
requesting clarification of her views and informa
tion from the Miss America Organization on three
presentations she made to students last month.
“ ‘Abstinence-only’ education is becoming
one of the biggest obstacles in preventing the
spread of HIV," said Michael Adams, education
and public affairs director. “These programs pro
vide inaccurate, incomplete and misleading
information to young people— often even refus
ing to explain how HIV is spread or how con
doms can help prevent HIV transmission.”
Harold was crowned Miss America in Septem
ber when her platform was preventing harassment
and bullying in schools, but she later changed her
platform to encouraging young people to abstain
from sex, which widely has been interpreted as
support for “abstinence-only” programs. Lambda
Legal noted that former Miss Americas, as well as
pageant titleholders from dozens of states and
other countries, have expressed their support of
people with HIV and AIDS and their commit
ment to help stop the spread of the disease.
“In the last few weeks, Erika Harold and the
Miss America Organization have gotten some
thing of a ‘free pass’ by talking vaguely about her
intentions to promote ‘abstinence,’ ” Adams said.
“Now that she’s out talking to students, [they]
have an obligation to explain whether she’s talk
ing about abstinence as one option along with
safe-sex information or pushing an extreme and
dangerous ‘abstinence-only’ agenda."
ILLINOIS
T
he nation’s second-largest county over
whelmingly passed an ordinance Nov. 19
prohibiting discrimination based on gender
U
nder a White House proposal that poten
tially would privatize half of the federal
work force, employees would lose nondiscrimi-