Work begins on Pride '93

Cleveland Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Pride, Inc. announced that the general kickoff meeting for Cleveland's Pride '93 march and festival will be held on Monday, January 25, beginning promtly at 7:30 pm.

The next meeting will be held on Monday, February 22 at 7:30 pm. All meetings are being held this year at the Chronicle offices, 2206 W. Superior Viaduct, first floor. (Superior Viaduct runs northeast off West 25th and Detroit, a few blocks from

the Center.)

This year's national Pride theme is "A Family of Pride." (The San Francisco committee voted to select their own theme this year, "Year of the Queer," which has stirred turbulence in that city.)

The new site for the Cleveland Pride Festival will be announced at the January meeting. Come out and help plan our annual community event. For more information you may call 621-5280 or 226-4973.▼

Pastor joins Archwood church

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Bahr graduated from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, in Minneapolis, in 1990 and immersed himself in church activities. Moving to Washington and the Office for Church and Society of the UCC, he worked on the federal Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Bill, coordinating and meeting with other religious groups, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Bahr wanted to move to Cleveland to be part of the UCC's national headquarters. In July, 1991, he became an administrative assistant in the Hunger Action Office here, a post he held until his Archwood appointment. Also when he moved to Cleveland, Bahr found it was lacking a UCC gay support group. Bill Johnson and he solved that problem, generating the interest to

create United Church of Christ for Lesbian and Gay Concerns. Bahr wanted the group because "there is a need for people with a common interest, especially religion, to find and support each other, with so much negativity surrounding them," he said. Bahr continues to serve as its unofficial contact.

It does not bother the seminary graduate that it took several years for him to become a pastor. He only applied to two other congregations along the way, finding his time consumed with many church activities. With his formal ordination and installation as pastor of the Archwood United Church of Christ, David Bahr reaches a major goal in his life and joins the small but proud minority of openly gay or lesbian clergy.

The public is welcome to attend the February 7 ceremony at 4 pm, as well as the regular Sunday services, held at 10:45 am.

HIT exploring new strategies

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plished was completing a three-year strategy plan to take the Taskforce through 1995.

These internal changes were needed to keep HIT from becoming overwhelmed as the number of requests for HIV services mounts. Currently the agency has just two full-time and one half-time staff handling a case load of 360; resources are strained.

The remaining staff are responsible for the education programs and community education. More than 20,000 people were reached last year.

HIT is exploring several strategies to serve its growing number of cases more quickly, such as "decentralizing" with other agencies. Currently someone applying to HIT for services must wait 10-14 days before being evaluated. And while working with a strained budget and limited resources, Interrante is determined not to

have the quality level drop.

As to why the projected deficit was so large in late 1992, the executive director called it a combination of internal and external factors. Internally, it was HIT's own lack of flexibility and capacity; externally, the recession's effects were more widespread than anticipated. And if the fundraising had not been a success? Interrante did not relish the possibility, stating that program trimming "was not a reasonable solution."

For 1993 the expenses are budgeted currently at $625,000, which includes raises for the staff scheduled to receive them. The year's fundraising will be more diverse and extensive to adapt to the current economy. The AIDS Walk, which was not as successful as had been hoped, will undergo changes also. HIT will seek a broader base of support among other organizations as is done in other cities.

City rights law moving ahead

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Stonewall has also solicited evidence and testimony of discrimination based on sexual orientation. Public hearings were held to gather testimony. To gather evidence of rental discrimination, couples were trained and then sent out as both heterosexual and homosexual couples to document cases of housing discrimination. And, numerous petitions have been gathered in support of Stonewall's efforts.

Another area where Cleveland is lacking is that its current housing legislation does not meet the national legislative requirements as passed in 1989. Current Cleveland legislation must be updated to meet "substantial equivalency" with the national legislation or risk loss of access to federal funds, according to Stonewall's assessment.

All of these actions come at a time when anti-discrimination legislation is at the center of national attention. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently announced it has

cancelled its June, 1993 meeting in Colorado because of that state's passage of an anti-gay rights law. Stonewall Cleveland board member John Nolan commented that many performers and people with media access have called for a boycott of tourism throughout the state. "As Cleveland extends its efforts to become a convention city, it must move ahead with legislative updates and thus avoid a potential negative image," said Nolan.

Columbus and Cincinnati have recently passed human rights ordinances which provide protections against many forms of discrimination, including sexual orientation. Stonewall's leaders are urging interested persons to write to Cleveland Mayor Michael White and to their own city council representatives, urging them to enact anti-discrimination legislation in employment, housing, credit, healthcare and public accomodations.

For more information contact John Nolan at 398-4241 or Keith Sutton at 281-9205.▼

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