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use universal precautions pose virtually no risk to patients.
Administrative Law Judge Steven T. Kessel ruled that Westchester County Medical Center's discriminatory policy of placing limits on the pharmacist's performance of duties, such as the preparation of IV products, violates the federal Rehabilitation Act.
Gay writer John Preston's work to be archived at Brown
Brown University's John Hay Library houses one of the world's major collections of American and Canadian poetry and drama, including an extensive collection of gay and lesbian writing. The John Hay Library is now expanding its focus to collect the archives of lesbian and gay writers in general. The first major acquisition will be the papers and manuscripts of highly acclaimed gay author John Preston.
Preston, who lives in Portland, Maine, is the former editor of the Advocate and the author or editor of more than forty books. His work includes the prize-winning novel Franny, the Queen of Provincetown and a series of critically acclaimed anthologies including Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong and A Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families.
He is also America's best-known author of gay erotica. A dozen of Preston's books, including such cult classics as Mr. Benson and The Heir, are being reissued under the Badboy imprint by Masquerade Books.
Preston has played an integral part in the chronicling of lesbian and gay history in the post-Stonewall years, and his work would be a valuable addition to any library. Samuel Streit, Brown University associate librarian for special collections, says that Brown has a particular interest in the lives of writers who, like Preston, have AIDS.
Brown hopes to expand its gay and lesbian holdings through donations of materials by published authors and through gifts of relevant personal libraries.
For more information, contact: Samuel Streit, Associate Librarian for Special Collections, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
Gay and lesbian broadcasters invited to trade conference
San Francisco--For the first time, openly lesbian and gay broadcasters were invited to participate in a national convention of the Radio-TV News Directors' Association. An active group of broadcast journalists representing the newly created National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association were among the 4,000 registrants at the national convention in San Antonio, Texas, September 23-26.
Protestant gay groups band together to produce magazine
The Reconciling Congregations program, an unofficial network of United Methodist churches that publicly welcome gay and lesbian members, is negotiating with counterparts in three other denominations to co-sponsor its quarterly magazine, Open Hands.
Similar networks of Lutheran, Presbyterian and United Church of Christ congregations are expected to combine forces in the
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joint venture, said Mark Bowman of Chicago, Reconciling Congregations coordi-
nator.
Open Hands won an award of merit in May in the annual awards program of the Associated Church Press, an association of U.S. and Canadian religious periódicals.
Bowman, who became the network's first full-time coordinator October 1, said membership now stands at 55 congregations. The board agreed to establish a new category of affiliation for local churches considering full membership, he said.
Bowman estimated that his office has received 40-50 inquiries from interested congregations since the denomination's General Conference took action in May that he said "reaffirmed (an) unwelcoming stance toward lesbians and gay men."
The conference, United Methodism's top decision-making assembly, upheld civil rights for gays and lesbians and received the report of a four-year study of homosexuality, but voted to retain church policy calling homosexual practice "incompatible with Christian teaching."
Bush fundraiser arrested for
groping officer in park
A fundraiser for President Bush's reelection committee was arrested in early July in a park in Montgomery County, Maryland, after he allegedly squeezed the nipple and touched the groin of an undercover police officer. The Maryland State Attorney's office dismissed the charge three weeks later, saying the case lacked prosecutorial merit because the officer appeared to be encouraging the man to touch him.
Records of the arrest were leaked by unknown sources to several news organizations, including NBC News, the Washington Post, and the New York City gay weekly magazine OW. OW provided copies of the records to the Washington Blade, which had also been investigating the arrest.
So far, the Post and NBC news have not reported the arrest. QW and the New York Observer, a non-gay weekly, have run the story without publishing the arrested man's
name.
The records leaked to the news organizations state that the man has worked in the Bush administration as a political appointee before joining the campaign as a fundraiser. --Washington Blade
Not these few good men
The daily Washington Times reported recently that the U.S. Marine Corps has threatened to sue an AIDS service group because the group is running a safer sex advertisment which shows a man hugging another man.
The problem for the Marines is that one of the men has a clearly visible tattoo of the Marine Corps emblem on his arm. The Times said Marine Major K.H. Winters, a legal official for the corps, wrote the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and threatened to sue for copyright infringement unless the group stopped running the ad.
Winters argued that the tattoo in the ad could "create the inference that the Marine Corps is somehow partially responsible for the spread of AIDS in the San Francisco area." Winters also expressed concern that the tattoo could infer that the corps has given "tacit approval of homosexuality."
The AIDS group's director, Pat Christen, has refused to stop running the ad.▼
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