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percentage hacking the next most popular
candidate, U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachu
setts, who had the support of 10 percent of
respondents.
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B aird P resses P entagon
to C urb A nti *G ay
H arassment
U
.S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., is one of 22
members of Congress who have asked the
Defense Department to implement a 3-year-old
action plan that includes steps to curb anti-gay
harassment.
In a July 23 letter to Defense Secretary Don
ald Rumsfeld, the politicians conclude “that the
services are not in full compliance” with the
plan. They also ask that the Pentagon “evaluate
the plan’s implementation" and report on its
progress within six months.
The Anti-Harassment Action Plan was
adopted in July 2000, in the wake of Pfc. Barry
Winchell’s murder at Fort Campbell, Ky. Creat
ed by a Defense Department working group, it
includes 13 steps to curb harassment, including
annual education and training, accountability
for those who harass or condone harassment,
and measurement of each services compliance
with the plan.
The plan “will serve to better our forces by
ensuring a harassment-free climate that fos
ters unit cohesion and good order and disci
pline,” the congressional leaders wrote. How
ever, “nearly three years later, we are still
concerned about this directive’s
state of implementation.”
Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network reported on the services’
failure to implement the plan in
March’s Conduct Unbecoming, its
annual report on “don’t ask, don’t
tell." It found that the Defense
Department “has failed to issue a sin
gle directive on harassment as
required by the AHAP.” The report
urged the Pentagon to fully imple
ment the plan and critiqued each
service’s progress in complying with it.
C. Dixon Osbum, SLDN execu
tive director, hailed the letter Aug. 4
as an indication that congressional
leaders take the issue of anti-gay
harassment seriously.
“This letter sends an important mes
sage to Pentagon leaders that they mast
do more to implement the Anti-Harass
ment Action Plan,” he said. “Past verbal
commitments by military leaders have
proven to be empty promises. The Pen
tagon must take its responsibility to end Todd Brown is actively involved with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which displayed an
harassment and protect service mem eye-catching series of panels Aug. 7 in downtown Portland
bers more seriously.”
panels, each showing photographs of factory
“In some ways it’s kind of another coming
farm scenes side by side with images from Nazi out,” he said of his decision to go vegan. “For a
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death camps. The idea is to draw a parallel lot of gay people, 1 think the coming-out process
between the Holocaust’s victimization of Jews, of relearning all of those attitudes about yourself
homosexuals and others characterized as "life and about life and about your environment is
PETA D isplays
unworthy of life" with the way modem society very difficult to digest.”
G raphic P roject
During his “slow and constant evolution,"
abuses animals.
Gay Portlander Todd Brown has been Brown began to examine his consumption
eople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
brought its controversial “Holocaust tin involved with PETA for about three years. He choices. After learning what occurs in slaugh-
sees similarities between the queer and animal
Your Plate" project to Portland on Aug. 7.
The display consists of eight 60-square-foot rights movements.
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