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U.S. entrance for Games

Washington-The Clinton administration will allow foreigners with HIV to attend the Gay Games in New York June 18-25.

Attorney General Janet Reno approved a waiver March 22 to the rule barring people with HIV from entering the United States.

Visas granted under the waiver will allow stays of up to 10 days. The Gay Games

take eight days. Two additional days were allotted for travel.

Reno acted after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised her there was no public health reason to prohibit the brief stay and the Department of Health and Human Services determined that visits up to 90 days would not harm public health.

More of Oregon falls to OCA

Salem, Ore.-Voters in three Oregon towns and one county adopted ordinances that discriminate against gays, despite a state law that renders them unenforceable.

Mail-in elections March 22 in Marion County and its towns of Turner, Albany and Junction City brought to 20 the number of local governments in Oregon that have passed such ordinances.

Marion County, population 228,000, includes Salem, the state capital. About 61 percent of the voters taking part approved

the measure countywide; the winning percentage in the three towns ranged from 59 percent to 79 percent.

All of the alliance-backed local ordinances would be moot, however, if a law passed by the 1993 Legislature survives constitutional challenges. The law bars local governments from enacting or enforcing such ordinances.

A Marion County judge upheld the law earlier this year. The OCA is appealing the decision to the appeals court.

Frank to hold Ovett hearings

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to mediate the dispute. They also are seeking damages of at least $50,000 apiece.

Hendry is head of Mississippi for Family Values, a group of Ovett-area residents opposed to the retreat. Allen is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richton.

Reno called in the CRS in February after the Hensons reported receiving a handwritten threat in the mail. She told the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force she “considers the threat of violence in Ovett to be real." Frank, a member of the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights, went to Mississippi in 1964 to help blacks register to vote.

Frank said he will hold the hearing unless the dispute is resolved, despite a request from Rep. Mike Parker, D-Miss., that he back off.

"This is a local matter and we feel it should be handled locally," said Parker's chief of staff, Arthur Rhodes, who said the case has more to do with land use than with civil rights.

"Just like we don't have the right to build a landfill anywhere, they don't have a right to build this retreat anywhere they please," he said.

Rhodes argued that local residents oppose the retreat but are not trying to drive the Hensons off their land.

Henson said the U.S. Attorney's office, FBI and local authorities have done little so far to resolve the controversy. She said flags and signs on the property have been torn down, residents have been verbally harassed and one woman was shot at in early March. The Hensons plan to host the Gulf Coast

Women's Music Festival at the camp over Memorial Day weekend, but frankly warn anyone attending that the situation there is dangerous.

"I wake up every morning, glad to see the sun," Henson said. "I've never been this afraid in my life."

House outing

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"He's in, he's out, he's in, he's out, he's in. I guess you're out because you went up and spoke to a huge homosexual dinner, Mr. Gunderson," said Dornan, referring to a speech given by Gunderson at a March 12 Baltimore fundraiser for the Human Rights Campaign Fund.

Rep. William Ford, D-Mich. urged that Dornan be silenced. After first refusing, Dornan relented and agreed to withdraw his

comments.

Afterward, Gunderson's spokesman, Kevin Kennedy, said, "It's one of those things that isn't dignified with an answer. Right now, we're concentrating on the bill." Gunderson, in the House since 1981, has regularly declined comment on his personal life.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., commended Gunderson and said coming out can attract publicity that is irrelevant to public service.

"This is not an easy situation that he finds himself in. In a perfect world, none of this would be necessary," said Frank, one of two openly gay House members.

Mexican is first to get asylum

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Silberstein said Garcia's case was different because the INS did not oppose asylum, but instead "recognized that sexual orientation is clearly a social group." He said another distinction was that Garcia was not under a deportation order, but instead walked into an INS office and applied for asylum.

Garcia, from Coahula, Mexico, said police arrested him for walking in certain neighborhoods, patronizing certain bars and attending certain parties. They falsely accused him of crimes and extorted money from him. He said that once, as a teenager,

he was raped by a police officer.

After crawling all night across the Mexican border on his stomach, Garcia stayed in Chicago and Miami before he wound up in San Francisco, where he has worked as a volunteer and a paid employee for gayrights and AIDS organizations.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said about 25 gay men and transgenders were killed in Chiapas state between June 1991 and February 1993 and that a Mexican government report had found irregularities in the local investigation of the killings. ✓