APRIL 22, 1994

GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

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Nevada officials blast Oregon hate-mongers

Las Vegas--Mayor Jan Jones has confronted an Oregon-based anti-gay rights activist who accused her and other Nevada politicians of promoting child molestation by supporting gay civil rights.

"Take your hate and fear and take it somewhere else," Jones told Lon Mabon, head of the United States Citizens Alliance, parent organization for anti-gay rights initiatives in Oregon, Nevada, Washington and Idaho.

Mabon had scheduled a news conference April 6 at City Hall to discuss the initiatives and Jones stepped out of a City Council meeting to respond to comments he made about her and Gov. Bob Miller at a church earlier in the week.

Mabon repeated the comments that anyone who opposes his initiative, as Jones and Miller have, is saying "there's nothing immoral about homosexual activity, lesbianism and cross-dressing."

Miller said Mabon's claims that political

figures in Nevada condone child molestation are so ridiculous that they make Miller's point for him.

"This group has an underlying motivation, that they don't even attempt to conceal, of instilling hatred and intolerance," Miller said.

Miller and Jones are running for governor as Democrats. The two leading GOP candidates, Secretary of State Cheryl Lau and Reno Assemblyman Jim Gibbons, also oppose the initiative.

The initiative is called the "Minority Status and Child Protection Act" and would legalize discrimination against lesbians and gays in Nevada.

If 52,000 valid signatures are gathered by June 21 and voters approve the ballot question in 1994 and 1996, the Nevada Constitution would be changed to say that gays do not have the civil rights guaranteed to other minority groups.

Sister Spirit gets boost from San Francisco visit

Ovett, Miss.-Brenda and Wanda Henson say they will spend part of the $10,000 in donations received during a trip to San Francisco for security improvements at Camp Sister Spirit, a feminist retreat operated by the lesbians.

"I feel more empowered," Brenda Henson said of the March 31-April 7 trip. "Just to know that you've got that support-we needed that."

Brenda and Wanda Henson spoke on San Francisco radio stations, in churches and at a benefit dinner held in their nor, among other activities.

Brenda Henson said the $10,000 came

from a combined effort of about 30 San Francisco community organizations. She said, the San Francisco-based Prairie Fire Organizing Committee was the main group sponsoring the Hensons' visit.

Camp Sister Spirit has been the target of opposition in the Ovett area since November 1993. The Hensons are converting a 120-acre pig farm in rural Jones County into what they say will be a feminist educational and cultural retreat.

Brenda Henson said some of the funds from the California trip would be used to add more alarms, barbed wire fences and an emergency generator.

Last campaign for outed rep

La Crosse, Wis.-Rep. Steven Gunderson told about 150 people attending a 3rd Congressional District Republican caucus April 16 that his re-election campaign will be his last.

His campaign committee held an evening fund-raiser in nearby Onalaska after the caucus, featuring Rep. Newt Gingrich, RGa., as a guest speaker.

Gunderson has been criticized by party members for opposing the Defense Department's opposition to gays in uniform. He has declined public reply to comments about whether or not he is gay. Gunderson said his House statements in

favor of allowing gays in the military and a recent speech on gay rights before the Human Rights Campaign Fund in Baltimore, Md., have attracted more publicity than his stand on other issues.

During debate on an amendment to cut off funding to schools with gay youth programs in late March, Rep. Robert Dornan, R-Calif., outed Gunderson on the House floor. "He has a revolving door on his closet," said Dornan, in remarks that were later struck from the record.

Gunderson regrets that his belief in equal rights has been interpreted as disloyalty to the party, he said.

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