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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
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“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.