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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:10:57 -0400
From:         gaynet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject:      GayNet Digest Volume 5 Issue 655

In this issue:
                         CLINTON NEW TEXT: AIDS
                            obejct of beauty
                      AB 2601 Passes Calif. Senat
                             gay magazines
                          Cage Aux Folles song
                             Roy Cohn flick
                            Moving to Denver
				 OLTL

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From: U45301@uicvm.uic.edu (Mary Jacobs)
Subject: CLINTON NEW TEXT: AIDS
Date: 25 Aug 92 09:11:59 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

CLINTON NEW TEXT NOW BEING POSTED ON ALT.POLITICS.CLINTON

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               CLINTON/GORE ON AIDS



Fighting the AIDS epidemic will be a top priority
of a Clinton/Gore Administration.  If we fail to
commit our hearts and resources now to fighting
AIDS, we will pay a far greater price in the
future, both in deaths and in dollars.  We need
leaders who will focus national attention on AIDS,
to encourage compassion and understanding, to
promote education and to speak out against
intolerance.

We can't afford another four years without a plan
to declare war on AIDS.  We can't afford to have
yet another President who remains silent about AIDS
or who puts the issue on the back burner.


THE CLINTON/GORE PLAN


*    Increase funding for desperately needed new
     initiatives in research, prevention and
     treatment.

*    Appoint an AIDS policy director to coordinate
     federal AIDS policies, cut through
     bureaucratic red tape and implement
     recommendations made by the National
     Commission on AIDS.

*    Speed up the drug approval process and commit
     increased resources to research and
     development of AIDS-related treatments and
     vaccines, and ensure that women and people of
     color are included in research and drug
     trials.

*    Fully fund the Ryan White CARE Act.  Work
     closely with individuals and communities that
     are affected by HIV to create a partnership
     between the federal government and those with
     knowledge and experience in fighting HIV.

*    Promote a national AIDS education and
     prevention initiative that disseminates frank
     and accurate information to reduce the spread
     of the disease, and educates our children
     about the nature and threat of AIDS.

*    Provide quality health coverage to all
     Americans with HIV as part of a broader
     national health care program; work vigorously
     to improve access to promising experimental
     therapies for people with life-threatening
     illnesses; and improve preventive and
     long-term care.

*    Combat AIDS-related discrimination and oppose
     needless mandatory HIV testing in federal
     organizations such as the Peace Corps, Job
     Corps and the Foreign Service; stop the
     cynical politicization of immigration policies
     by directing the Justice Department to follow
     the Department of Health and Human Services'
     recommendation that HIV be removed from the
     immigration restrictions list; promote
     legislation based on sound scientific and
     public health principles, not on panic,
     politics and prejudice.

Prevention and education

*    Launch a strong and effective AIDS education
     campaign.

*    Reevaluate the AIDS prevention budget at the
     U.S. Centers for Disease Control to ensure
     that education is a top priority.

*    Ensure that increased funding for prevention
     and services goes directly to community based
     organizations that are on the frontline of the
     battle against the HIV virus.

*    Promote AIDS education in American schools.

*    Provide drug treatment on demand to stop the
     spread of HIV by intravenous drug users.

*    Increase funding for behavior and social
     science research so that we can better
     understand the behaviors that put people at
     risk for HIV.

*    Support local efforts to make condoms
     available in schools.


Treatment and care

*    Provide health care for all Americans,
     including those with HIV, through coverage
     they obtain either on the job or through
     government-mandated programs, which will
     include:

     !    Comprehensive inpatient and outpatient
          services, including frequent diagnostic
          monitoring, early intervention therapies,
          and psychological care.

     !    Prescription drugs and improved access to
          experimental therapies.  Because
          treatments are not accessible unless they
          are affordable, a Clinton/Gore
          Administration will support legislation
          that denies    tax breaks to companies
          that raise the cost of drugs faster than
          Americans' ability to pay for them.

     !    Adequate options for long-term home and
          community-based care that minimize
          unnecessary and wasteful
          hospitalizations.

     !    Voluntary, confidential, or anonymous
          testing and counseling for AIDS and HIV
          for every American  who wants it.

*    Encourage the Centers for Disease Control to
     review periodically their definition of AIDS
     to ensure that symptoms and infections that
     occur among women, people of color and drug
     users are included in the federal definition,
     and promptly made eligible for all federal
     benefit programs for people with AIDS.

*    Develop programs with the Department of Health
     and Human Service to ensure that America's
     health care professional are kept fully and
     regularly informed aobut diagnosing and
     treating HIV.  Have the National Institutes of
     Health (NIH) develop a formalized mechanism to
     make sure that state-of-the-art informations
     is broadly and rapidly disseminated to health
     professional and people with HIV disease.


Treatment and drug development

*    Work vigorously to develop a vaccine against
     AIDS and to find therapies that will destroy
     HIV, repair the immune system and prevent and
     treat AIDS-related infections.

*    Increase funding for both AIDS-specific and
     general biomedical research.

*    Expand clinical and community based trials for
     treatments and vaccines, and raise the level
     of participation of under-represented
     populations.

*    Reorganize the NIH infrastructure to
     streamline AIDS research efforts and improve
     planning efficiency and communication.

*    Promote a more rapid review by the NIH of
     research grant applications and a speedier
     distribution of funding for approved studies.

*    Facilitate greater access to drugs and work to
     speed up the drug approval process.  Ensure
     that the FDA has the resources to assist in
     the efficient design of AIDS-related drug
     trials and to review their results rapidly.
     The FDA will also make possible greater access
     to promising experimental therapies without
     compromising patient safety.

Discrimination

*    Fight all AIDS-related discrimination and
     discrimination based on race, gender and
     sexual orientation.

*    Fully implement the Americans with
     Disabilities Act and resist any efforts to
     weaken its provisions.   The Department of
     Justice and the U.S. Commission on Civil
     Rights must make it a high priority to monitor
     the occurrence of AIDS-related discrimination
     and the enforcement of the ADA with respect to
     HIV-related complaints.

*    Forbid health insurance companies form denying
     coverage to HIV-positive applicants.
     Prhohibit all helath plans from adopting
     discriminatory caps or exclusions that provide
     lower coverage for AIDS than for any other
     life-threatening illnesses.  No American will
     be denied health coverage because he or she
     loses a job or has a pre-existing condition.

*    Oppose mandatory testing in federal
     organizations like the Peace Corps and Foreign
     Service.

*    Lift the current ban on travel and immigration
     to the U.S. by foreign nationals with HIV.


The Record

*    As chairman of the National Governors'
     Association, Governor Clinton formed the first
     working group of governors to develop an AIDS
     policy.  Clinton was a moving force in the
     creation of an AIDS action plan adopted by the
     Governors' Association which called for
     education and prevention efforts at the local,
     state and federal levels.

*    Governor Clinton supported teacher training
     for AIDS education and a detailed study of the
     availability of HIV education at the local
     level.

*    Since 1990, AIDS education has been required
     in all Arkansas schools, and there has been a
     40% increase in HIV counseling and voluntary
     testing in Arkansas.

*    The Arkansas AIDS Advisory Committee was
     established in 1987.  This committee makes
     recommendations on HIV policy and program
     services.  HIV services in the state currently
     include anonymous testing at two centers and
     confidential testing and counseling at public
     health clinics in all 75 Arkansas counties.

*    Senator Al Gore voted to ban discrimination
     against people with AIDS or HIV.

*    Voted for legislation to remove HIV from the
     immigration restrictions list.

*    Supported funding for the Ryan White AIDS Act.

*    Voted to provide emergency relief to
     metropolitan areas hardest hit by AIDS, to
     health care facilities serving many low-income
     individuals and families with HIV and to
     states to assist in improving the quality of
     treatment and support services for people with
     HIV.

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 08:58:16 -0400
From: info-25@info.umd.edu
Subject: obejct of beauty

okay, i am confused. the movie with andie macdowell and john malkovitch
was called object of beauty, not object of desire. i don't remember seeing
greg louganis in it. is there another movie called object of desire
in which he appears? did i just totally miss him in object of beauty?
as far as i can remember, the andie and john spend most of the
movie in their hotel room. can any one shed some light on this
for me?

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 08:53:47 -0500
From: hays@cwis.unomaha.edu (Scott Hays)

Good Day All.... Well found some more news from Omaha.
Again from the World-Herald, Monday August 25, 1992. Page 5.
It appears to be a reprint from an AP feed

               Opponents Expect Military Band
                On Homosexuals to Fall Soon

     Opponents of the military's ban on homosexuals and
lesbians in uniform are more confident than ever that the
prohibition will fall.
     It's just a matter of time, they say, pointing to a
confluence of signs, including:
-- The introduction of legislation to kill the policy.
-- Release of a congressional study showing the high cost of
drumming gays out of the military.
-- A promise by Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton
to repeal the ban if he is elected.

                      Several Avenues
     "We've never been at this juncture before," said Tanya
Domi, legislative director for the National Organization of
Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans.  "We have a presidential
nominee who has said he would repeal the polity, a bill in
the House, a bill in the Senate... It is really, really
remarkable in terms of the history of the issue just how far
we have come."
     The change could happen in several ways:  An act of
Congress, the opinion of a high court or an executive order
signed by the president.  And while opponents don't agree on
how or when, they do concur that the change is comming--even
if Clinton loses.
     "The momentum is increasing as every gay service member
and every lesbian soldier comes forward, and we believe more
members of Congress are personally moved by their stories,"
said Robert Bray, spokesman for the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force.  "It's imminent that this policy will fall."
     The Defense Department policy, which began during World
War II, states simply that "homosexuality is incompatible
with military service" because it undermines the armed
forces' ability to maintain good order and morale.  The
Pentagon offers no studies or research to support the
policy.
     Soldiers and sailors can be dismissed not only for
homosexual conduct but also if they "demonstrate a
propensity to engage in homosexual conduct," according to
Pentagon policy.
                       Costly Policy
     Some have fought their discharges in court, arguing
that the policy is unconstitutional, but only one soldier,
Army Sgt. Perry Watkins, has ever won.
     The appeals court in Watkins' case reasoned that he had
been candid about his homosexuality from the start of his
career and the Army had continued to re-enlist him.  The
U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Army's appeal and
Watkins subsequently agreed to retire.
     The Supreme Court has never accepted a homosexual
discharge case for review.
     A recent study by the General Accounting Office found
that the federal government spent almost half a billion
dollars between 1980 and 1990 to kick homosexuals out of the
service.  The costs included recruiting, training and
replacing personnel.
     Approximately 1,500 soldiers and sailors are discharged
annually for homosexuality, the GAO found.
     Some 10 percent of the population is believed to be
homosexual and the military, despite its anti-gay policy, is
probably no different, the report said.
     Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., introduced a bill in
May that would overturn the ban.  Last month, Sen. Howard
Metzenbuam, D-Ohio, introduced it in the Senate.
                     Executive Function
     Lawrence Korb, former assistant defense secretary for
manpower in the Reagan administration who is now a scholar
at the Brookings Institution, said while the public favors
repealing the ban, he thinks Congress will resist doing the
job.
     "Congress doesn't want to mandate it because that's
really kind of an executive function," he said.  "They would
much prefer the executive branch to recognize it
themselves."
     However, if Clinton is not elected president, the ban
will fall by 1995 at the latest, Korb predicted.
     "It'll either be Congress, the courts or a
combination," he said.

Nothing really earth shattering in this article... Just a
little something to brighten your day.

Also I am now the Faculty/Staff Advisor for the GLSO here at
the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  I've never done this
before and have a long road ahead of me to make this a
viable group here on campus... Any help would be
appreciated, when it comes to pointing me in a direction to
draw members in and help them feel comfortable with
themselves....

Scott Hays
=====================
Still working on a SIG. Block

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Date: 25 Aug 92 07:43:37
From: CJones <CJones.MAILROOM@wylbur.kines.ucla.edu>
Subject: AB 2601 Passes Calif. Senat

                      AB 2601 Passes Calif. Senate
The following is the text of an article from this morning's (8/25/92) _Los
Angeles Times_.  I've lifted it without permission (sorry).

Senate OKs Bill to Ban Job Bias Against Homosexuals

The Senate has norrowly approved controversial legislation to ban job
discrimination against homosexuals similar to a bill vetoed last year by Gov.
Pete Wilson that sparked statewide demonstrations.
A 22-11 vote, one more then the 21 votes required for approval, sent the
measure (AB 2601) by Assemblyman Terry B. Friedman (D-Los Angeles) back to the
Assembly for expected concurrence in Senate amendments.  This would send it to
the governor for his signature or veto.
Last year's veto caused thoudands of gays and lesbians to protest in the
streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento, charging that Wilson had
bowed to political pressure from the far right wing of the Republican Party.
In his veto message, Wilson said he feared that the bill would lead to a flood
of lawsuits filed against small businesses and that there was sufficient legal
job protection for homosexuals.

 Chad Jones
 UCLA Department of Physiological Science
 cjones@kines.ucla.edu
 "Nunquam visi caseum in tantis modis diversis paratum"

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 07:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Medlin <jmedlin@u.washington.edu>
Subject: gay magazines

As I ramble through my backlog of posts, I see nobody has mentioned
Christopher Street as a gay mag., or the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in
Greenwich Village (on Christopher Street the street, I think).  I suppose
it's still there; I was last there in 1986 or so.  The New York Native is
a large gay newspaper.  Someone else suggested that Ricky shop around in
the Village; I can't think of a better suggestion, except the specific one
that he go to the O.W. Memorial Bookshop in the Village.  A gay bar might
carry some free magazines; in any case, someone there could direct R to a
source of magazines.

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 08:02:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Medlin <jmedlin@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Cage Aux Folles song

Now that several people have mentioned the name of the song from the Cage
Aux Folles played during the Republican Family Orgy, and now that I have
deleted those posts, I find that I need to know the title of the song.
Just post me privately, to avoid boring everybody else.  Thanks.
jmedlin@u.washingto.edu (John)

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 10:30 EST
From: XXHARK@INDSVAX1.INDSTATE.EDU
Subject: Roy Cohn flick

Ron Buckmire wrote:
>All I can say is that I hope that you watch the TV movie on the
>life of Roy Cohn (showing on HBO this month, starrin James
>Woods) and _learn_ something.

FYI--_Citizen Cohn_ is being aired TONIGHT on HBO at 8 PM eastern
time.

James Harkins -- XXHARK@INDSVAX1.INDSTATE.EDU

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From: dpizzo@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Pizzo)
Subject: Moving to Denver
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:31:18 GMT

Hi,
A friend of mine is planning to move to the Denver area. He is a Computer
Electronics Technician as am I and was wondering if anyone from some of the
university's out there can give me some info. We both will be out there
Oct.16th thru the 23rd to check things out for him. Would like to maybe
meet up with some of the netters out there. Please send mail directly so we
don't waste band width for this. This is also my first post and throughly
enjoy reading the gaynet. I have learned alot from you.

David

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 07:38:10 EDT
From: Mark=Bitman%Staff%CSSDept@banyan.cl.msu.edu
Subject: OLTL

For those of you who are not caught up in the saga of OLTL, I am sorry but you
don't know what your missing, and for those of us who are caught up in the
saga -- wouldn't it be a great twist if Billy's father has been having a
 homosexual
realtionships with different boys at the cinema??!!!

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