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les, honoree Rosie O ’Donnell pledged $100,000 and en couraged other peo ple of means to match her gift. “As a person who is privileged to have access to a society in which too few get to speak, who has been bene fited tremendously from the love o f strangers, we need you to talk to your friends and we need you to talk to your Task Force family, but mostly what you need is Rosie O ’Donnell accepts the N GLTF Leadership Award at a ceremony money," she said. Sept. 2 8 in Los Angeles as her wife, Kelli, looks on “What does it take “I’m out because I can’t come up with a sin to raise a million dollars? Ten millionaires, who gle logical reason why I should have denied will never know the money is missing from myself the right to live and work as openly and their bank account, to stand up and give freely as everyone else,” he wrote. “Nor should $100,000, and to n ig h t...I’m going to give the anyone find a reason why an openly gay athlete first $100,000 and ask if there are nine other should be denied the right to play a team sport people who can, please do it.” without fear of becoming a target of prejudice or physical harm.” KANSAS The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists esponding to the state’s support of a 17-year Association issued a statement praising Gray prison sentence in the case of a bisexual “for being truthful and open in the field of sports teen-ager who had consensual oral sex with journalism that often can be unwelcoming at another male teen-ager, lawyers filed legal best and hostile at worst for gays and lesbians on papers with a state appeals court Oct. 3. They and off the athletic fields." His announcement dispute Kansas Attorney General PHi11 Kline’s coincided with National Coming Out Day, assertions that the state should be able to sen which is celebrated Oct. 11. tence gay and straight teen offenders differently. “Like every journalist.. .Gray expects to be “Contrary to Kline’s statements to the media, judged by what he writes and reports and not we agree that the state can and should protect who he is or whom he loves," N LG JA said. teen-agers. All we’re asking is that Matthew "T h e issue is homophobia in sports— rather Limon be treated fairly,” said Dick Kurtenbach, American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and than his life as a gay man writing about sports.” Western Missouri executive director. “It’s simply wrong for the state to put a gay teen-ager in CONNECTICUT prison for 15 years longer than a straight teen small band of intersex activists rallied ager who commits the same crime.” Sept. 26 in front of the Connecticut C hil Limon is appealing a 206-month prison sen dren’s Medical Center in Hartford to protest a tence he received shortly after turning 18 gender revision surgical procedure scheduled for because while he was a resident at a private an unidentified infant. The “Total Urogenital sch(X)l for dcvelopmentally disabled youth he Sinus Surgical Pnxredure” was to be observed by perfonned consensual oral sex on another teen participants of a “Feminizing Genitoplasty and ager. He would have served a maximum of 15 Total Urogenital Mobilization" seminar present months in jail under Kansas law had the other ed by the hospital. teen-ager been female. But because the W hen Betsy Driver, executive director “Romeo and Juliet” law applies only to hetero and co-founder of Bodies Like Ours, was sexuals, Limon was convicted under the much alerted to this event, she quickly gathered a harsher state sodomy law. group of supporters to draw attention to the In the state’s brief to the court, Kline takes presentation and associated surgery by Dr. several nonsensical positions, among them that Richard Rink of Indiana University School of the state should be able to punish heterosexual Medicine. About two dozen people picketed teen-agers less harshly under the “Romeo and the hospital in a peaceful effort to draw atten Juliet” law because doing so would encourage tion to what they perceive as nonconsensual them to marry. He also asserts that the law is genital mutilation. constitutional because it encourages unmarried Their efforts paid off. Not only did Rink can teens to get pregnant. cel his appearance, the medical center has invit ' "* ■"-------- ed Bodies Like Ours to present a program on the .« « a : perspective of adult survivors of early childhcxxl surgery intended to assign an infant to one gen der or the other. Several of the protesters, including Driv er, are intersexed people whose surgery as children resulted in assignment to the wrong gender. “T his was a great opportunity for intersex activists to come together with our allies across a broad spectrum to publicly and visibly voice our collective outrage at what is occurring in hospitals around the country Ed Gray five times a day to nonconsenting children," she said. A new face with some new ideas for the community! B oston Herald sports writer Ed Gray came out of the closet in his Sept. 30 column. 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