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
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ed Bodies Like Ours to present a program on the
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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.
Compiled by News Editor JlM R ados TA, who can
he reached at jim @ justout.com .
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