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Cincinnati Pride Day marked with scholarships

Cincinnati-About 700 people took part in the Gay Pride march here June 12.

Elias Farajaje Jones, associate professor of theology at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, spoke at the rally. "We're here, we're queer, we're proud and we're noisy," he said.

The Greater Cincinnati chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays announced its first scholarships. The $500 awards went to Lisa Heubner, a graduate

student in women's studies at the University of Cincinnati, and Samuel Michaels, who will be a senior this fall at the university's Conservatory of Music.

Goldwater says ban should go

Washington-Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP presidential candidate, says the military is sure to drop its ban on gays eventually, and it ought to be soon.

In a June 10 Washington Post column, the 85-year-old former Arizona senator said "you don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight." (The Plain Dealer ran the column June 14.)

Goldwater, long a symbol of conservatism, vowed to help persuade lawmakers to go along with the idea, but expressed doubts about how much he could do as a lobbyist.

In his opinion article, the former senator said that "lifting the ban on gays in the military isn't exactly nothing, but it's pretty damned close."

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Goldwater also supports abortion rights and has frequently challenged the Christian fundamentalist wing of the Republican Party. He opposes a compromise on the ban and said conservatives who supported the ban were ignoring their movement's core principle: "that government should stay out principle: "that government should stay out of people's private lives."

Gay color guard and protesters greet Colin Powell at Harvard

Cambridge, Mass.-Gen. Colin Powell spoke of the role of U.S. troops in Europe at Harvard University's commencement, but was drawn to another, thornier issuethe military's ban on lesbians and gays.

Protesters stood on a dais in silent protest and many of the 29,000 present carried placards and balloons reading LIFT THE BAN when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke June 10 amid tight security.

About 200 of the more than 5,800 graduates, and some faculty members, stood and turned their backs on Powell when he received an honorary doctorate.

be settled in the same way the military has Powell predicted the controversy would dealt with such explosive matters as racism and the Tailhook scandal.

"We found answers to them that made us stronger," he said. "We will do the same, my friends, with the very difficult issue of gays in the military."

The university sanctioned a color guard of gay veterans. They carried an American flag and the gay rainbow flag.

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Conflicting Presbyterian votes

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June 7 reaffirmed the church's ban on the ordination of gays, but authorized a threeyear study of the issue.

The next day, the assembly voted 268226 to urge President Clinton and Congress "to end all discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the U.S. military." They also condemned Colorado's anti-gay rights law.

But delegates defeated a resolution urging Presbyterian churches hosting scout troops to allow gay scouts.

Clinton signs HIV immigrant ban

Washington-President Clinton signed into law June 10 a bill codifying into law the Bush administration's ban on HIVpositive immigrants. The medical research bill also removed a ban on fetal tissue research. As a candidate, Clinton had opposed both bans.

One of Clinton's first acts as president was to issue an executive order lifting the ban of fetal tissue research, an action codified with the bill-signing.

But when both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly earlier this year to continue the ban on HIV-positive immigrants, Clinton accepted defeat without putting up much of a fight.

Clinton said the nation needs to "deal with AIDS better for all of our people and for those who are here in our borders who are not citizens. We've got all we can do to do that." White House officials also have said it would be inappropriate for Clinton to hold up funding for women's health research because of the ban.

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Cabinet members bar anti-gay bias

Washington-The Clinton administration is taking some limited steps to make gays more welcome in the civilian federal work force. Two Cabinet members-Secretaries Mike Espy of Agriculture and Federico Pena of Transportation-have adopted policies barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Pena underscored his support for diversity in the workplace June 15 by speaking at a Transportation Department ceremony organized by the Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Employees (GLOBE).

In an unusual public showing of administration support for gay rights, Pena told the lunch-hour gathering in the department's courtyard he is committed to equal rights for all.

AMA votes to allow gays in

Chicago The American Medical Association voted June 15 to ban discrimination against gay physicians who want to join its ranks. By a voice vote, the words "sexual orientation" were added to their non-discrimination bylaw. Similar measures were rejected several times previously in the past four years.

"We are not condoning any lifestyle at all," said the AMA's outgoing president, Dr. John L. Clowe. "The only thing the board wishes to do is change the bylaws."

Benjamin Schatz, executive director of the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (AAPHR) said the vote was an acknowledgement that gay and lesbian physicians are an increasingly vocal force in medicine.

The Journal of the AMA refused in May to run an AAPHR ad encouraging passage of the bylaw change.

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