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March price tag now $1.8 million
Organizers of the April 25 March on Washington reported on August 8 that the final expenses for the event should be just under $1.8 million. That's an increase of almost $280,000 over the $1.5 million cost the committee announced in early July. In early August there was $55,000 remaining in bills to be paid, but March treasurer Billy Hileman said those should be retired by the end of August through sales of merchandise and collection of outstanding accounts.
By the time all monies are in, including profits from video sales, the Committee for the March on Washington, Inc. may even see a small surplus, although nowhere near the $70,000 surplus that was generated from the 1987 March on Washington, according to Hileman.
The 1987 March had expenses of only about $380,000, compared with the $1.8 million spent this year.
The committee is having an accounting firm review the event's books and issue a report in September; a full independent audit will be conducted at the end of the year. -Washington Blade
Navratilova to play in Colorado Denver-Martina Navratilova says she has no qualms about playing an exhibition match in Denver despite the state's anti-gay rights amendment.
"I've always been against the Colorado boycott," the lesbian tennis star, who has a home in Aspen, said August 25.
Navratilova said she is confident the amendment, which prompted a tourism boycott by some gay-rights activists, will be ruled unconstitutional.
And if it's not, she vowed to "move out of a state that doesn't consider me a fullfledged citizen."
She plays an exhibition match against Mary Joe Fernandez on Sept. 18.
Goldwater: Gay rights is a conservative stand
Moss Point, Miss., and Martinsville, Va. also reclassified Daddy's Roommate as adult non-fiction; and Gwinnett County, Ga, took the book off the open shelf and made it available only by special request.
Judith Krug of the American Library Association said, "Making a book no longer easily available to constituents and reclassification are degrees of censorship."
Publisher Sasha Alyson praised the 28 other libraries "that came under heavy attack for carrying Daddy's Roommate, yet refused to censor it in any way."
...And heterosexually ever after
Meanwhile, the anti-gay side has its own children's book out. Titled Alfie's Home, it tells the story of a boy who grows up gay after he was molested by his uncle, but then is "healed" into heterosexuality by his father, who takes him fishing and plays ball with him. The book is part of a series published by the International Healing Foundation in Bowie, Maryland (800-440-6579) which claims to "heal" gays. Author Richard Cohen appeared in the right-wing propaganda video The Gay Agenda.
Ferrari decries ACT UP boycott
Phoenix-based gay and lesbian travel guide publisher Ferrari Publications has denounced the boycott called on it by ACT UP Phoenix, saying the activist group has refused to enter into discussions with the company. The boycott was called after reports of a dispute between the publisher, Marianne Ferrari, and a former employee. According to a press release from the company, both parties in the matter have publicly stated that they resolved their differences and neither admitted wrongdoing.
The company claims that ACT UP chose to interpret the announcement as an admission of guilt on Ferrari's part and called the radical attack a “smear campaign based on false allegations."
Holocaust Museum holds gay
Phoenix-Crusty and plain-spoken, meeting, seeks artifacts
former Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater again is shooting from both hips over gay-bashing and any other attitude that curtails freedom. "There has always been homosexuality, ever since man and woman were invented," the 85-year-old former presidential candidate told the Advocate. "Don't raise hell about the gays, the blacks and the Mexicans. Free people have a right to do as they damn well please."
Goldwater, who has spoken out on the issue several times recently, said he's only had about 100 letters in response, and they were split about evenly.
"The Republican Party should stand for freedom and only freedom,” the forthright party patriarch said. "To see the party that fought communism and big government now fighting the gays, well, that's just plain dumb."
Goldwater told the Advocate that his grandson, Ty Ross of Scottsdale, and a grandniece are gay. Ross is quoted as saying his grandfather never made a fuss about him.
Goldwater has said repeatedly that President Clinton should simply order the military to accept gays.
Library monitors don't like Daddy's Roommate
The Alyson Wonderland division of Alyson Publications reports that five library systems across the country have taken steps to censor its gay-themed children's books.
In Mercer County, N.J., Daddy's Roommate and Heather Has Two Mommies were ordered removed from the children's section and placed in adult non-fiction by the County Library Commission, overruling the local Lawrence library decision to leave them where they were classified. In Bladen County, N.C., libraries carrying these two books, along with another Alyson children's book depicting gay parents, The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans, are required to keep them on the top shelf in the adult section.
Washington-Forty representatives from the gay and lesbian community attended the first fund-raising and outreach meeting targeted to that community on June 16 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They toured the museum and then met with its new chairman, Miles Lerman, a Holocaust survivor, who spoke about the need to become involved with the museum.
Lerman underscored the desire for more material about gays in the Holocaust. “I cannot tell you how hard I worked to get information on this subject. We need it. Please help us gather information, artifacts and oral histories through your own sources and contacts," he said.
Museum program director Steve Goodell described the museum's gay artifacts and future plans to offer public programs dealing with gay issues involving film, lectures, and panel discussions.
The museum still needs to raise $25 million. The contact for the gay fund-raising effort is Brenda A. Fraser, who can be reached at 202-488-2662, or at 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024. Checks marked with the code "8014" will be earmarked as gifts from the gay and lesbian community.
Louganis learns a new kick
New York-Olympic superstar Greg Louganis has traded his swimsuit for a Cats
costume.
No, he's not going into Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running feline musical on Broadway, but rather will appear in Jeffrey, the off-Broadway comedy, as a chorus boy who works in Cats.
The 33-year-old Louganis, who won four Olympic gold medals for diving, joined the show, now playing at the Minetta Lane Theater, on Aug. 31. Jeffrey, by Paul Rudnick, is about a gay man looking for love in the age of AIDS. Louganis plays a best friend of the title character.