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Q ueers F ight
for F airness
hour 75 people came to
Metropolitan Community
Church on July 10 to learn
about “Fighting for Fairness.”
The timing of the town hall
couldn’t have Been better, as
last month's decriminalization
of sodomy in the United States
and legalization of same-sex
marriage in Canada have forev
er changed the landscape for
queer rights.
Speakers included Dan Fur
mansky and Lisa Bennett of the
Human Rights Campaign,
Roey Thorpe of Basic Rights
Oregon and Carl Kiss, the
attorney who successfully
argued 1998’s landmark case
Tanner vs. Oregon Health Sci
ences University. Attorney
Richard Schneider explained
how couples can protect them
selves in financial matters such
as estate planning.
immigration attorney Ruben
Rivera urged Salem-area voters
to contact U.S. Rep. Darlene
Hixiley, the only Dem<x:ratic
member of Oregon’s congres
sional delegation who has not
signed on as a co-sponsor of the
Permanent Partners Immigra Ruben Rivera was one of the attorneys on hand for the
tion Act. The legislation would “Fighting for Fairness” town hall meeting July 10
modify a federal statute to pro
vide same-sex partners of U.S. citizens and from small companies (many of whom are
same-sex partners of lawful permanent resi unaware their ads appeared during the show)
dents the same immigration rights that legal and NBC promos and public service
announcements tilling air time.
spouses of U.S. residents enjoy.
“Savage was fired from his cable TV show
tor using the same kind of hate speech that he
frequently uses on the radio," said Rose Walk
MSNBC D rops S avage ;
er of the Coalition Against Hate Radio,
W ill KXL F ollow S uit ?
which has been documenting his remarks for
hortly after MSNBC canceled Michael almost two years. His targets have included
Savage’s anti-gay talk show, the Portland not only gay men, lesbians, women, people of
based Coalition Against Hate Radio called color, immigrants and Muslims but also librar
upon the management of KXL-AM, owner ians, teachers, college professors, lawyers and
Paul Allen and the station’s advertisers, judges.
including Tri-Met, to end their support for his
The coalition has succeeded in convinc
radio program.
ing various radio advertisers, including Port
The shock jock was fired for verbally land State University and Portland General
attacking a self-identified gay caller during Electric, not to air their spots during Savage’s
the July 5 edition of Savage Nation. After cut- i program. The growing opposition also has
ting off the man, whose comments were edit resulted in his removal from KUGN-AM in
ed out of the broadcast, the host referred to Eugene, and efforts to take him off the air in
him as a “sodomist,” a “sodomite” and said, Medford are under way.
among other things, “You should only get
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AIDS and die, you pig.”
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation brought his remarks to the atten- i
W al -M art C aves A fter
tion of MSNBC executives July 7 and called
on them to hold him accountable for his S eattle G roup L aunches
attacks. The media watchdog group had been S hareholder C ampaign
keeping an eye on him since Feb. 12, when
al-Mart Stores—the nation’s largest
the cable network announced that it had
private employer—has taken an impor
offered him a weekly talk show.
In a March 7 St. Petersburg Times article,
tant step toward equality for its more than
columnist Eric Deggans asked MSNBC presi 1 million workers by adding sexual orienta
dent and general manager Erik Sorenson tion to its nondiscrimination policy.
The New York Times revealed the change
what might happen if Savage engaged in his
trademark verbal assaults on queers and other in a Page One story July 1, in which a Wal-
minorities, including use of terms such as Mart spokeswoman said, “It’s the right thing
"Turd World” or “homosexual perversion.” to do for our employees.” She attributed the
Sorensen said: “Those kinds of statements new policy in part to gay employees inside
will not be permitted. And if they do happen, Wal-Mart who had written a letter to senior
management saying that unless the company
they won’t happen more than once.”
Prompted by a GLAAD-led education changed its policy, they would “continue to
campaign, virtually every major national feel excluded.”
sponsor withdrew its support from MSNBC’s
With this development Wal-Mart joins
318 other Fortune 500 companies in protect-
Savage Nation, with only remnant advertising
W