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PHOTO BY THC NATIONAL GAY ANO PHOTO BY JIM multiple sclerosis and needs money for an experim ental stem cell transplant. Volun teers are w orking diligently to raise $ 150,000 to cover her medical expenses hut recently learned the Fred Hutchinson C a n cer Research C en ter in Seattle has post poned the study, delaying treatment until next spring at the earliest. “This has been a wonderful group of strong, supportive and very capable women,” said Anne Bletcher of Georgena’s Journey: A Com munity Confronts MS. “True friends who have worked very hard together and together have been able to do some amazing things.” A Dec. 7 silent auction brought in almost $8,000, bringing the fund’s grand total to $71,000. The next benefit is G ive Peace a I Dance, a New Year’s Eve party presented by the Lesbian Community Project and Portland Lesbian C hoir at Shenanigan’s on the Willamette. University of Oregon’s N iki Confer promotes “ size positivity” during Creating Change F or the first time in its 90-year history, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Clockw ise from left, Roger Croteau, Judy Wieder, Lorri L. Jean, Alec M apa, Derek devoted a session to the subject of homophobia H enkle, Steve Lofton, W ilson C ruz, Ernie and Wayne at the N G L T F Leadership Awards sister. We had a fun summer— all the kids in sports during its annual National Conven ceremony Sept. 17 in Los Angeles were on the swim team—-and we can ’t believe tion held from Jan. 12 to 14 in Indianapolis. Bert is now starting the sixth grade.” Most of the credit for this belongs ing promises to “change the way the world Lofton and Croteau, whose to Lewis &. Clark professor Nora o f mainstream sports views L G B T athletes.” story inspired lesbian comedian Beck, who raised a stink two years Rosie O ’LOonnell to talk about hree gay men from southern Oregon brave earlier when a diversity panel her family on Pnmetirne Live in March, received a slew of acco ly stepped forward to form the Klamath failed to address the pervasive Pride Organization, which offered friendly social problem. lades throughout the year, interaction, outreach and support to the conser including the Families of “I just couldn’t concentrate,” she said of her experience as a clos vative region’s sexual minorities community. Courage Award and the Nation “It’s hard to get us all together,” said Jeff Fos al Gay and Lesbian Task Force eted athlete. “My grades went down.... I was nervous someone ter, 22, who co-founded the group with Jared Leadership Award. They also was going to find out. I just didn’t Hargrove, 20, and Jeff London, 34. “Nobody were the special guests at Basic really wants to take a risk in a community of Rights Oregon’s Annual Dinner perform well.” in September. N ext up Beck will he orga cowboys, farmers and gangster wannabes.” Unfortunately, Just Out received this e-mail nizing a panel planned for the N ation al G ay and Lesbian A th just a month after profiling the organization: 002 was a bittersweet year “Due to lack of involvement KPO will be can C on feren ce from for G eorgen a M oran, a N ora Beck is on the front letics celing all future events until further notice. We M arch 28 to 30 in Boston and lesbian who has the m ost line fighting homophobia Friends are fighting to save Georgena Moran’s life are sorry to make this announcement." J H Cam bridge, Mass. T he gather- rapidly progressive form o f in college athletics T 2 “For years, [Saddam] Hussein has not admitted two things. One is U .N . inspectors and two is that his mustache makes him look gay. It makes me wonder what else he’s hiding." — Bill Maher of Politically Incorrect, to Detroit’s Metro Times, Oct. 2. “You don’t always have to say things to have an impact. Apparently the sight of me and my boyfriend holding hands at the Oscars quite caught people’s eye. In regard to its impact, it was thought to he almost as good as an open ly gay man getting an Oscar." — Sir Ian McKellen, to the San Francisco Chronicle, June 27. “R U C is an organization that reflects my fun dam ental beliefs and principles. W orking together we can expand the Republican Party’s outreach to nontraditional Republi cans, we can make sexual orientation a n on issue for the Republican Party, and we can help achieve equality for all gay and lesbian Am ericans." — Mary Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter, on her decision to join the Republican Unity Coalition, to AndrewSullivan.com, April 22. “We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor and purity, to reject the immoral acts o f fornication, hom osexuality, intoxicants, gamblings and trad ing with interest." — From Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to the American People." “A s president o f the United States, I would recognize civil unions, which will then allow full equality under the law as far as the federal government is concerned.... Decent Americans won’t look a group in the face and say you d o n ’t deserve rights. I just don’t believe that.” — Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, Democratic candidate for 2004, speaking at the National Lesbian and Gay Jour nalists Association convention in Philadelphia, Sept. 15. “Here are nongay people who can’t even take the harassment of living on a street called Gay, much less being gay. Wouldn’t it be nice if the gay and lesbian community could simply peti tion to have themselves named the 'green apple community* and we could eliminate the harassment, intimidation and hatred that we experience on a daily basis.” — Montgomery County, Ohio, gay activist Jim McCarthy after 19 residents of Gay Road lob bied successfully to have their street name changed to Green Apple Road, to the Dayton Daily News, April 12. “Archie [Bunker] is sitting here with his hip pie son-in-law, married to the screwball daughter.... The son-in-law apparently goes both ways.... The point that I make is that, goddamn it, I do not think that you glorify on public television homosexuali ty. You don’t glorify it, John [Ehrlichman], any more than you glorify, uh, whores.... I don’t want to see this country to go that way. You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality de stroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates.... Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags.... You see, homosexuality, dope, uh, immorality in general: These are the enemies of strong societies. That’s why the Commu nists and the left-wingers are pushing it. They’re trying to destroy us.” — President Richard Nixon, speaking to aides in his office May 13, 1971, as reported March 21 by the Washington Post. “Now that I’m am getting older, the word gay doesn’t make any sense to me any more. Plus, all the guys 1 sleep with tell me they’re straight anyway. Sexuality is such a modem thing. If you go back to the Roman times, guys were sucking everything." — Boy George, to the Houston Voice, Aug. 9.
