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42 more newspapers will carry same-sex union notices

by John Graves

GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, has found 42 more newspapers that will run same-sex commitment ceremonies in their wedding sections.

When the New York Times announced August 18 that it would include the ceremonies, GLAAD noted that 69 other papers around the country will also do so.

The publicity from the Times announcement brought the other papers to GLAAD's attention, bringing their list to 111. The Cleveland Plain Dealer is the only Ohio newspaper on the list.

walk or swim in front of these million-dollar houses."

Tomlin to play toy in Disney film

Lesbian comic Lily Tomlin, who will appear in at least 13 episodes of West Wing this season, will join James Carville, Dolly Parton, Lou Rawls and Travis Tritt in providing the voices for animated toys made of ordinary household items in a new feature from Disney set for release in 2005.

USA Today describes the movie, tentatively titled My People, as an "Appalachian tale with bluegrass music."

Many of these newspapers carry wedding They're in a Boston marriage

and union notices as paid advertisements.

The complete list of papers who include same-sex unions in wedding announcements is available on GLAAD's web site at www.glaad.org.

No hoi polloi near my house

David Geffen, the openly gay entertainment mogul, is suing to block use of a walkway that runs along his Malibu compound that allows people access to the beach that is, by law, open to the public like all beaches in California.

According to New York Times correspondent Timothy Eagen (August 27), Geffen is taking the lead in an ongoing battle in which wealthy landowners have been trying to keep the public from using the beaches in front of their property.

Geffen promised to provide access to the path to the beach 19 years ago but, according to Eagen, the path was never opened. Now Geffen is claiming that the access amounts to an unlawful "taking of property without compensation" and feels "it is unsafe, dirty and impractical" to allow the public to use the path.

Steve Hoye, leader of the non-profit group Access for All, says, "The real issue here is money. These people who live on the beach here think that the public cannot be trusted to

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall and actress Martha Plimpton will play lesbians in David Mamet's new play Boston Marriage, described as a "Victorian comedy," that is set to open in New York's Public Theater somețime in November.

Tribute to Father Mychal

The National Enquirer paid tribute to Father Mychal Judge, the openly gay chaplain of the New York Fire Department killed at the World Trade Center on September 11. Although they never said he was gay himself, the supermarket tabloid noted he had been one of the first New Yorkers to minister to gay men living with AIDS in the early 1980s.

In a feature article by Susan Crimp, Judge's successor, Father Christopher Keenan, said, "He always put other people first and other

people second. We celebrate his life not so much because he died a hero, but because he lived as a hero."

John Graves is the producer and host of Gaywaves, a lesbian-gay public affairs show on Cleveland's WRUW 91.1 FM Fridays at 7:30 pm, and at www.wruw.org. See what's coming on TV in the Couch Potato Report, under "Entertainment" at www.lgcsc.org. Dave Haskell, Jim McGrattan and Kim Jones also contribute to this column.

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