Lesbians and gays plan trip to Holocaust Museum

In late October the Cleveland gay and lesbian community will tour the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. This tour is sponsored by Chevrei Tikva (Cleveland's synagogue with an outreach to the lesbian and gay Jewish community). This tour will provide a special focus on Nazi persecution of gays and lesbians during the Holocaust.

This unique overnight trip is scheduled for October 29-30, 1994. Cost is only $199 per person, double occupancy. To reserve your space on this memorable and important tour, call Chevrei Tikva at 932-5551. The tour package includes:

Round trip airfare to Washington D.C. (from Cleveland Hopkins Airport);

Havdalah Service with Bet Mishpachah, Washington, D.C.'s Gay & Lesbian Synagogue;

One night at Sheraton City Center (double occupancy);

Sunday morning buffet breakfast; Sunday morning Interfaith Service; Specially designed group visit of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Reserve your seat today! Space is limited to approximately 100 people and is going fast. Your reservations and payment must be received no later than September 1. Scholarships are available. Please contact Chevrei Tikva for reservations or scholarship information at 932-5551.

Funding for this project is through the generous support of Lutherans Concerned, Liberation U.C.C., Gay People's Chronicle and the Harriet W. Zucker Memorial Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland.

Parmadale workers get weak bias protection

Parmadale, a residential treatment facility for court referred youth offenders with drug and violence problems, recently reached a compromise during contract negotiations with Social Employees International Union 1199 to end discrimination based on employees' "sexual preference.”

The non-discrimination clause reads: "The Agency and the Union agree to comply with all laws regarding employment discrimination based on an employee's race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, union activity, disability or veteran status. The Agency and the Union agree to comply with all laws forbidding employment discrimination based on an employee's sexual preference, provided the employee

does not espouse or promote the same to clients and visitors. This provision shall be enforceable only in accordance with the laws creating such protections."

"The compromise creates a Clintonesque 'don't ask, don't tell' policy," says a gay employee from Parmadale who requested anonymity.

The inclusion of sexual “preference" protection to the contract demands was made as a bargaining tool. Gay union members were surprised to see the protection accepted, but were angered by the insulting, closet-demanding proviso.

The contract is the first negotiated by Parmadale employees and grants most staff their first pay raise in three years. ✓

Cobb may not host event

Marietta, Ga.-Olympics officials are keeping mum about Cobb County's chances of hosting the 1996 volleyball competition now that the county has tried to soften its condemnation of gays.

Billy Payne, president of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, labeled as a good first step the proclamation by Cobb officials April 20 vowing not to discriminate during the Olympics.

But Payne refused to say when ACOG would decide whether to give Cobb permission to host Olympic volleyball.

Gay activists said the county's proclamation, which comes after the county drew national attention last summer for condemning the "gay lifestyle," is meaningless.

"This changes nothing for us," said Jon Ivan Weaver, head of Olympics Out of Cobb. "What this is doing is giving fuel to our group."

County commission chairman Bill Byrne released a proclamation saying the county will "provide the best in hospitality, facilities and amenities for all athletes and all visitors from all participating countries, without discrimination or hesitation."

Gay rights groups have been fighting to get Olympic volleyball removed from the county northwest of Atlanta because of a resolution by the commission last year that said that gays are incompatible with community standards.

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