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Harris walks out of awards after homophobe is honored

by John Graves

Last month I reported that Buck Harris, host of Cleveland's The Gay '90s radio show, had said that USA Today was incorrect in reporting that racist and homophobic New

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York radio talk host Bob Grant had received an award from the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts.

Harris later told me he was mistaken and that Grant had, in fact, received the 1996 "Freedom of Speech Award” along with attorney Alan Dershowitz and Michael Elsner. He went on to say that he is extremely upset with NARTSH because he had not been sent a ballot for the awards, had not been informed of the outcome of the balloting, and because Grant had been nominated and given the award.

Harris, a NARTSH board member and cochair of the conference where the awards were presented, protested Grant's award by disrupting the awards ceremony and walking out of the banquet. He was joined by feminist attorney and talk show host Gloria Allred. Harris is pressing his protest of the award selection process, and the selection of Grant for the award with a strong letter of objection to the other NARTSH board members.

While at the NARTSH conference, Harris rubbed shoulders with White House advisor George Stephanopolous, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, TV talk host Dick Cavett and, of all people, that notorious right-wing homophobe, G. Gordon Liddy. Harris was on Liddy's June 25 show discussing gay marriage, and claims Liddy has stooped to new depths of homophobia. Liddy will definitely not be on the guest list when Buck and his partner get married.

By the way, hope you caught Fran Henry's excellent feature profile of Harris in the June 2 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Sunday magazine section.

Azure C., an exotic supermodel on the ABC soap opera The City, was revealed to be transgendered last month, shocking her new fiance, Bernardo Castro. In a report in the June 7 edition of TV Guide, The City's writers indicated they did not write the storyline for shock value alone and said, "We've slowly built these characters so the audience would have a real investment in them. It's not our intention to do a sensational story that goes nowhere, but rather one that's about acceptance on the part of the other characters and the viewers. We hope the audience will see Azure not as some sort of freak but as someone who was

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a female from the moment of conception. It was nature that made the mistake; it was surgery that fixed it. The other women on the show will be very accepting—and it will cause them, one by one, to reveal secrets of their own."

Bernardo, who slept with Azure for the first time last week, will have more trouble with the issue as the show's writers want to "explore what it means to be macho in the Latino culture." Actress Carlotta Chang plays Azure C. on The City, which can be seen weekdays on ABC at 12:30 pm.

For lesbian and gay news, message boards and chat areas, check out Qworld on the Internet. Qworld, at www.qworld.org, includes e-zine links with art, cartoons and stories such as a six-part series about lesbian golfers.

A domestic helper played by Kyra Sedgwick catches the eye of the wife of the couple she works for in the upcoming film Losing Chase, scheduled to air on Showtime August 18 at 8 pm. The wife is played by Hellen Mirren.

The U.S. Figure Skating Association has rescinded a ban it imposed last April on Christine Brennan, a sports writer for the Washington Post, for what the association said was opinionated coverage. The association was particularly upset by remarks Brennan had made about the association's attitude toward gay skaters.

The owner of the Los Angeles lesbian bar Michelle's XXX, the bar's customers, and the lesbian strippers who work there are the focus of a segment of the HBO sexual issues documentary Real Sex Quickies: Strippers which has been airing on HBO this summer.

Friday, June 21, the National Day of Compassion for people living with HIV and AIDS, found most of broadcast television's talk shows and soap operas honoring the day with shows with an AIDS or HIV theme for the second year in a row. As they did last year, ABC's General Hospital devoted the entire show to its annual Nurses Ball variety show AIDS benefit. This year, the Nurses Ball featured lesbian folk-rock star Janis Ian performing "When Angels Cry," a theme which was heard frequently during the show's AIDS storyline last year.

The Nurses Ball started on a sad note when Lucy learned that John Hanley has passed away that morning. The benefit show was doubly sad this year in light of the fact that actor Lee Mathis, who played the part of John Hanley since 1994, died of AIDS complications on May 1.

ESPN's Mary Carillo, bisexual tennis legend Billie Jean King and retired tennis great turned lesbian activist Martina Navratilova became the first all-woman broadcast team in television history to cover both the women's and men's competition at Wimbledon on June 24.

MTV made television history on June 28 by airing a special all lesbian and gay edition of its dating show Singled Out. Chuck Woolery, host of Love Connection, the other dating show on broadcast TV, has said in the past that he would never have same-sex couples on his show.

Syndicated newspaper columnist Neil Chetnik was very supportive of same-sex marriages in his "Men's Column," which appears weekly in many papers, including the Sunday Plain Dealer. Chetnik has written other gay-supportive columns in the past.

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