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gay man in New York should he able to hold
doctors accountable for medical negligence
that led to his longtime partners death after rou
tine surgery for a broken leg he suffered when he
was the victim of a hit-and-run spree last year,
Lambda Legal said in court papers filed Jan. 9.
St. Vincents Hospital, in the heart of Man
hattan’s Greenwich Village, is asking a state court
to block John Langan from suing for wrongful
death and medical malpractice, claiming that
because he and Neal G in rad Spicehandler were a
gay couple, their 15-year relationship cannot he
legally recognized. They were joined in a Vermont
civil union and had several documents reflecting
their relationship, and staffers treated Langan like
Spicehandler’s spouse throughout the ordeal.
“Ginrad was my soul mate and my spouse,”
Langan said. “We loved each other as deeply as two
people can love, and we did everything we could to
formatee, legalize and protect our relatioaship, our
love and our commitment to each other.”
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ents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts,
cousins and other specified relatives to sue for
wrongful death. Nowhere does the law require
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he U.S. military has taken the unusual step
1 of preventing all Marines from leaving for
the coming 12 months, officials said Jan. 9.
The “stop-loss” order applies to the entire
service, which has 173,000 men and women on
active duty and 100,000 in the Reserve. Marines
facing discharge because of sexual orientation,
however, will continue to he separated.
C. Dixon Oshum, Servicemembers Legal
IX’fense Network executive director, called the
announcement an affront to the country’s
national security.
"Even as the Marine G irps scrambles to
retain personnel, it discriminates against les
bian, gay and bisexual Americans who are qual
ified, skilled professionals ready to do their job,”
he said. “As our nation prepares for a possible
conflict in Iraq and continues its battle against
terrorist groups, we can ill afford to lose the tal
ents of these dedicated Americans.”
“Stop-loss" orders were issued in the wake of
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks hut also
excluded discharge of queer personnel. During the
Persian Gulf conflict, similar “stop-loss” orders
permitted retention of those same personnel.
“Lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans have
always served the Marine Corps with honor,"
said former Capt. Thomas Carpenter, an attack
pilot during the Vietnam era. “They have served
our nation, in silence, on the front lines of every
conflict. They should he allowed to do so open
ly and honestly.”
According to The Associated Press, the
Marines Corps likely would contribute between
65,000 and 75,000 troops to any conflict with
Iraq. In fiscal year 2001, the branch discharged
115 gay, lesbian and bi servicemembers. To date,
no other service has issued a “stop-loss” order in
anticipation of an attack on Iraq.
hartes Moskos, primary author of the U.S.
^ policy on queer soldiers, said Jan. 1 that he
would support allowing known gays to serve in
the military if the
nation reinstitutes
the draft. The influ
ential Northwestern
University sociolo
gist has been widely
consulted by policy
makers on military
personnel issues.
“ If an open gay
said, ‘I want to go
into the Army,’ it
would he his prerog
Charles Moskos
ative,” Moskos said.
“O f course, there would he problems with that,
there would he hassles, hut they probably could
he overcome."
Moskos, who has been criticized by col
leagues and civil rights advocates for his defense
of the military’s discriminatory policy, acknowl
edged that his support for drafting gays might
appear to undermine the rationale for “don’t
ask, don’t tell.” But he said the draft was a “high
er virtue” than the privacy rights of heterosexu
al soldiers, which he frequently has cited in his
opposition to integrating queer soldiers.
According to a 1999 study, 47 percent of
male combat Marines believe that if the draft is
reinstated, gay men and lesbians should he
included just like everyone else. According to
Geoffrey Bateman, Center for the Study of Sex
ual Minorities in the Military assistant director,
“Including gays and lesbians in the military
would reflect this country’s tradition of toler
ance and diversity that have sustained our
democracy for so long.”
I
n spontaneous protests across the country,
hundreds of Associated Press employees are
telling their bosses what they can do with key
chains that “celebrate” diversity: Keep them.
Writers, photographers and others are mail
ing hack the $2 novelty gifts, which are embla
zoned with the logo “AP Diversity, many views
one vision.” Keep the trinkets, they say, and
instead grant gay and lesbian staffers health ben
efits for their loved ones.
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