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Episcopal bishop comes out

Salt Lake City--An Episcopal bishop who led the Utah diocese and recently retired as dean of the Episcopal Divinity School disclosed that he is gay.

Bishop E. Otis Charles wrote a letter to other bishops just before the annual meeting of the House of Bishops in Panama in late September.

"I have promised myself that I will not remain silent, invisible, unknown," Charles wrote. "The choice for me is not whether or not I am a gay man, but whether or not I am honest about who I am with myself and others."

The 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church in 1991 ruled against allowing practicing lesbians and gays into the ministry. The United Church of Christ is the only major Christian denomination to officially allow ordination of gays and lesbians. The Unitarian Univeralists also ordain gays and lesbians.

Charles, 67, led the Utah diocese from 1971 to 1986, before he moved on to the divinity school in Cambridge, Mass.

He and his wife, Elvira, have five children and nine grandchildren. Charles said he told his wife in 1976 about his struggle with sexual identity. They have separated. He said he plans to live in San Francisco and she in Connecticut.

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"To say that the years since 1976 have been painful is totally inadequate. They have been wrenching for us and our family," Charles said.

Bishop George E. Bates, current Episcopal leader of Utah, said in a written statement that Charles "has my full support in communicating the realities of his life to those he has loved and cared for."

Charles said he expects to continue his work as a priest.

Navratilova out of suit

Denver-Tennis star Martina Navratilova is one of three people who have withdrawn from a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado's Amendment 2.

Papers filed in court October 6, less than a week before the issue is scheduled to go to trial, said Navratilova is withdrawing, along with the suit's only "Jane Doe," a closeted Denver lesbian employed in Jefferson County. Doe feared the suit would result in her outing.

A third person, Bret Tanberg, a heterosexual man with AIDS, died on February 2. Navratilova withdrew her name because tennis commitments prevent her from giving the necessary pretrial depositions, said Jean Dubofsky, the attorney leading the legal team heading the challenge.

Books flood Nunn's hometown

Perry, Ga.-Spurred by a lesbian newspaper columnist, Americans have sent 50 books on gays and lesbians to the public library in the hometown of Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga.

The books started coming in after Deb Price, a columnist with the Detroit News, visited Perry, Nunn's hometown, 20 miles south of Macon, this summer.

She wrote in an August column she couldn't find books that would allow a fairminded Perry resident to understand gay people, and invited readers to send books on gay issues to the library.

"We have received material from various parts of the United States-California, Minnesota, New Orleans, Detroit, Alabama, Atlanta," Houston County library director Judy Golden said. “Everywhere her column has appeared, we have received material both pro and con."

Since May 1992, Price has written a weekly column on gay issues. Syndicated by Gannett and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, the column is published in dozens of newspapers nationwide. She is based in Washington, D.C.

In the library, she said, she couldn't find more than four books in the card catalog under the entry "homosexuality." Two dated to the '70s and were written by Anita Bryant. The others were by journalist Randy Shilts.

Ms. Price noted in her column that Shilts' Conduct Unbecoming had been checked out only once.

Gay Peace Corps worker sues

Washington-A gay Peace Corps volunteer claims in a lawsuit that he was fired from his Peace Corps duties for being gay, even though he had been encouraged to come out at work, which he did. He says the discrimination started immediately.

The charge was made in a $5 million lawsuit filed against the Peace Corps in U.S. District Court September 30 by Paul T. Correri, a 64-year-old widowed grandfather who is a veteran of the Army and Air Force.

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