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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

September 18, 1992

Gay Republicans condemn platform, say no to Bush

by Peter Freiberg

Houston--Expressing anger, disillusionment, and a sense of betrayal, the national organization of gay Republicans condemned its party's anti-gay platform and voted unanimously last week against endorsing President Bush and Vice President Quayle for re-election.

The National Federation of Log Cabin Clubs, which announced its decision on the eve of the Republican National Convention, charged that the GOP platform, "for the first time in the history of any major American political party, calls for restrictions on the civil rights of gay and lesbian Americans."

"This failure of leadership," the Log Cabin group said in a statement, "has compromised the basic tenets of the Republican Party, particularly the essential link between personal responsibility and limited government involvement in the lives of Americans."

Rich Tafel, president of the 6,000member gay group, said "not one delegate" from any of the Federation's 26 clubs had dissented from the decision not to endorse the GOP presidential ticket.

The endorsement vote, the first since the Federation was founded two years ago, was taken during the group's third annual conference, held in Houston August 14-16. The conference drew 47 people.

Tafel told a news conference that under its bylaws, the Log Cabin group is prohibited from endorsing non-Republican candidates, and that there was no discussion of backing the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton for president and Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee for vice president.

But Tafel said he believed a Democratic victory is the best way of defeating the religious right within the Republican party.

"If it is communicated that the president lost this election because he moved so far to the right to appease a very small minority," Tafel said, "I think politicians... will decide that that was not a winning platform, that was not a winning style."

Reprinted with permission from the Washington

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Dancin' in the Streets was a

success despite rainy weather

Dancin' in the Streets, the annual outdoor fundraiser block party sponsored by the Health Issues Taskforce (HIT), netted $30,000 this year. Although the goal was higher, festival organizers were quite happy, since severe thunderstorms ended the July 12 festival two hours early at about 8:00 p.m.

The $30,000 is approximately the same amount HIT raised at last year's Dancin'. Attendance included more than 3,300 people who paid the full admission price, plus many disabled and HIV-infected people who enter at reduced rates or no charge.

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against AIDS be stepped up.

Fisher won permission to address the delegates after the Democratic convention in New York last month heard two people with AIDS--an openly gay man and a straight woman. But other than Fisher's speech, the GOP convention differed from the Democrats in every other way affecting gays.

Whereas the Democrats boasted 110 openly gay delegates and alternates, the Republicans had only two, both alternates, among the 4,420 Republican delegates and alternates. They were Marty Keller and

According to HIT Director Joseph Interrante, the committee keeps expenses down with a large number of donated items and services. "Dancin' provides the Taskforce with vital support for our programs--which amount to about 80 percent of the budget--and operating expenses. The enthusiasm of the crowd this year was really something. They held on, despite the threats of rain," said Interrante.

This was the seventh annual Dancin' in the Streets. HIT has been providing AIDS support services and education programs throughout the greater Cleveland area since 1983.

at the Democratic convention, holding aloft gay rights and AIDS signs, some GOP delegates held signs saying, "Family Rights Forever--Gay Rights Never."

There was a bit of irony, however: When President Bush walked to the podium Wednesday night to join Barbara Bush and his family, the music the delegates heard was "The Best of Times" -a song from La Cage aux Folles, the Broadway musical about a love affair between two gay men.

Reprinted with permission from the Washington Blade.

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activists in the Log Cabin Gay Republicans Club.

Both Keller and Ricchiazzi backed the decision by the National Federation of Log Cabin Clubs not to endorse the Bush-Quayle ticket.

While gay and AIDS activists managed to get onto the floor in significant numbers

In Newsweek magazine's cover story, "Gays Under Fire," local activist Susan Schnur was pictured at a Michigan Cracker Barrel protest, and Pride Festival board vice-president Nancy Logan was quoted. The issue, dated Sept. 14, came out Sept. 7.

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