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A Chronicle of the Lesbian & Gay Community

Section 28 bombards London

By Joan Valentine

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Capital Gay, a London Gay newspaper, were set afire and destroyed.

These are just a few of the anti-Gay reactions brought about in Great Britain by the passage in Parliament of Section 28 of the Local Government Bill. Formerly known as Clause 28, the amendment became law on May 24. It is frequently compared to the Helms Amendment in the U.S., which prohibits federal spending for AIDS education programs that "promote or encourage, directly, homosexual activity."

Section 28 goes one step further, however, prohibiting local from governments or funding any programs or materials which "promote homosexuality" in general. It also outlaws the teaching of "the acceptability of homosexuality as a

Oscar Wilde is stirring in his grave Teachers are fired pressured to resign. A directory of volunteer services listing Lesbian and gay organizations is pulled from the shelf by a local council. The offices of

WRAF awards AIDS

by L. Kolke

On May 24, 1988, the Western Reserve AIDS Foundation announced initial grants totalling $73,700 to support a range of programs in local patient care, research, and education for the prevention of AIDS.

The non-profit fund-raising organization's first-ever request for proposals generated 35 inquiries seeking a total of nearly $900,000. The grants listed below result from last February's "Hollywood Salutes Sondheim" benefit which netted over $100,000:

$15,000

for

1. molecular biology research project to be directed by Michael Lederman, M.D., University Hospitals.

$25,000 to the Health Issues Task Force for

education for the prevention of

AIDS focused on a minority

outreach program

$7,000 to the Gay

& Lesbian Community Services Center "Living Room Project: a drop-in center for persons with AIDS. This program focuses on education, support, ánd

recreation.

4. $1,700 to the Names Project Cleveland. These funds were for materials needed for the June 3-5 visit of this national AIDS memorial at the Cleveland Convention Center.

$25,000 to the AIDS Housing Council for renovation of a home for persons with AIDS donated by the Catholic Diocese of Greater Cleveland. This home is an alternative to hospitalization.

The next round of grants will funded by a celebrity event

pretended family relationship."

An attempt to amend Section 28 to protect civil rights and to confine restrictions to state-owned schools failed to pass in the House of Lords by a vote of 90-40. The end result is that it is now perfectly legal for local governmetns to discriminate against Lesbian and Gay organizations requesting financial aid, and to censor any reference to homosexuality in the publications they fund, with the exception of materials that deal with prevention of disease.

In Great Britain, local councils appropriate funds for social services, public housing, and community health services, schools, youth groups, colleges, and libraries. They also fund counseling and volunteer services, subsidize many theatres, cinemas, and

grants

scheduled for Oct.8 in Stouffer Hotel's renovated Grand Ballroom. The

art galleries, and grant cafe, bar, and club licenses.

How strickly the law is enforced depends on the political composition of the various local councils. Until recently, the majority of representatives from urban ares belonged to the liberal Socialist Labour Party of Great Britain, which directly opposes Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Tory Party.

Labour-controlled councils held direct power over the implementation of a law in their cities, and could interfere very easily with its progress. Thatcher's Central Government has sought to lessen the degree of autonomy these local councils have attained. The Tories (Continued on Page Five)

GIFT '88 a striking

Foundation anticipates distributing success

over $100,000 as a result of this second benefit.

Grants are recommended by a Foundation Grants Advisory Committee co-chaired by Dr. Peter Beebe, a private practice psychologist, and Gail Holmes, Manager of Public Relations and Corporate Contributions for Ohio Bell.

Other Advisory Committee members are Henry Doll, Executive Director, the Gund Foundation; James Franklin, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Jacob Gayle, Ph.D., Professor at Kent State University and consultant, Ohio Department of Health; Betsy Kaufman, Executive Director, Planned Parenthood; Phillip Spagnuolo, M.D., Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital; Larry Wheeler, Director of Development, Cleveland Museum of Art. ▼

The Names Project wrap-up

by Martha Pontoni

The Names Project Quilt's tour raised close to $20 thousand for local AIDS health care on its stop here June 3rd, 4th and 5th. With only 4,000 people viewing the Quilt, Cleveland had the lowest attendance of any city on the tour but raised 4 times as much per attendee to date.

Opening night ceremonies on

June 3rd included three hours of names read by over 30 different people. The readers were people who lives had been touched by AIDS. Many

politicians were invited to read but most did not even bother to answer the letters sent to them by the Names Project committee. Among the politicians who were there to help read (Continued on Page Eight)

Leonard Matlovich Obituary/Retrospective

By Mike Hippler Copyright (

'988

Leonard Matlovich, the former Air Force Sergeant who was the first openly gay man to appear on the cover of TIME Magazine, died Wednesday night, June 22, at a friend's home in West Hollywood of AIDSrelated illnesses. With him when he died were his parents, a cousin, his roommate, and his best friend, Michael Bedwell. His sister and two nieces had also visited shortly before his death.

Matlovich was 44 years old.

The son of an Air Force Master Sergeant, Matlovich was born in a military hospital in Savannah, Georgia on July 6, 1943 and raised on a series of Air Force bases around the world. After graduating from high school in England in 1962, he joined the Air Force a year later and spent the (Continued on Page Eight)

Names Project June 26. 1988.

by L. Kolke

During the weekend of Jun. 10-12, Cleveland hosted the 3rd annual Gay Invitational Fellowship Tournament (GIFT '88) at Buckeye Lanes in North Olmsted, Ohio. One hundred and sixty bowlers, half from Cleveland and Northern Ohio and the rest from cities such as Toronto, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and throughout the Midwest, took part in a fun-filled weekend of bowling and socializing.

Registration and a welcoming party were held that Friday night at the tournament hotel, the Marriott Airport. Bowling began at 9am on Saturday morning with singles competition, followed by doubles play in the afternoon.

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