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GAYLE'S CHRONICLE

An Independent Chronicle of the Northern Ohio Lesbian and Gay Community

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BY BRIAN DEWI

Volume 9, Issue 3 August 6, 1993

Suhadolnik waves budget threat at Kent gay course

State Sen. Gary Suhadolnik says he may use a budget measure to stop a proposed Kent State gay sociology course.

In a letter to KSU President Carol A. Cartwright, Suhadolnik wrote that establishment of the course "Sociology of Gays Lesbians" is an indication of “a university that needs serious correction."

Suhadolnik, R-Parma Heights, wrote the letter the first week of July in support of Richard Heinz, a Kent student who is trying to get the university to abandon the course. "From time to time we do budget correction bills," Suhadolnik said in a July 21 phone interview from his Parma Heights residence. "We probably need to put some restrictions on universities. Language on some budget bill could concern spending money on these types of things."

Cartwright said the three-credit course, to begin in the 1994 fall semester, is not required and does not "advocate homosexuality as a lifestyle."

Heinz has said he will ask university

Protests and lawsuits greet new ban

Intense activity on several fronts has continued in the weeks following President Clinton's announced policy on gays in the military. Protests were staged across the country, from Providence to San Francisco,

in the streets and on college campuses. Attention is shifting to the courtroom as well, with the start of many anticipated lawsuits on both sides of the issue. Congress too has

Changing of the guard at Garden Party

by Doreen Cudnik

On Sunday, July 25, the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center held its fourth annual Garden Party, a brunch and auction to benefit the Center. Each year, the Garden Party takes place at an exquisite home, and this year was no exception with Dr. R. John Anderson graciously opening up his 1928 Mead-Hamilton English cottage in Bratenahl to those in attendance who wished to tour it. Champagne awaited at the end of the tour.

Outside on the lush grounds, people mingled and put in their bids on the silent auction items. These items ranged from objets d'art to gift certificates for dinner at some of Cleveland's most exclusive restaurants to services such as massage therapy. Continued on Page 3

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kept the wheels in motion as both the Senate and the House begin attempts to codify the changing policy into law.

Protests continue

Demonstrations by policy protestors in the wake of Clinton's announcement were loud and varied. In Washington, U.S. Park Police arrested 27 people outside the White House July 20, including well-known former Clinton aide and advisor David Mixner, and Tim McFeeley, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund. Those arrested were charged with demonstrating without a permit. On the same day, San Francisco was the site of 41 arrests in a protest held outside the Federal Building. Activists were charged with disruption and attempting to carry signs into the building. But other protests, such as those in Providence. West Hollywood and Detroit were largely peaceful, with many leaders calling for a national gay and lesbian march on the 1996 Democratic Convention to protest the decision.

Meinhold & Steffan suits roll on

With these protests as a backdrop, the fight has returned to the courtroom, a tactical measure to be employed by both sides of the debate. With Clinton's new policy now clear, the administration filed suit with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on July 30, appealing a district judge's ruling in the case of gay sailor Keith Meinhold.

Last August, Meinhold was discharged from the Navy, under the old policy, after he

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announced on television that he was gay. On Jan. 28, U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. overturned the discharge on grounds that the Defense Department's ban on gays serving openly in the armed services violated the Constitution's equal protection guarantee. Hatter ordered Meinhold reinstated, and the

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donors to withhold contributions if the course is offered. He said the course would be a waste of university resources and would amount to "institutionalizing gay ideology."

State Sen. Robert D. Nettle, D-Akron, whose district includes Kent State, said July 21 that Suhadolnik never spoke with him about the matter.

"I'm not happy about that," Nettle said. "The Legislature should do the legislating of the state and leave the education up to the universities... We've got to be open. Gary is an extreme conservative in that respect and it wouldn't surprise me he sent a letter of that nature."

The course would be taught by Beth Rushing, a sociology professor who taught a similar course at Wake Forest University in 1987-88.

Robert Johnson, another sociology professor who will help teach the course, said sociologists "study gays and lesbians partly because it's a current and very visible social movement."

Ohio State University offers studies on gays and lesbians in society through parts of several sociology courses concerning gender, Ohio State spokesman Steve Sterrett said.

The Kent proposal, originally made by the school's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Union, was the subject of heated discussion on the campus last winter. A conservative student group, Friends Among Nations, of which Heinz is a member, sponsored a demonstration against the proposed course. The picket turned ugly, with about 300 FAN members and counter-demonstrators jeering and Continued on Page 6 throwing trash at each other.

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