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Texas Gay Pride Festival
Kicks Off Gay Pride
Celebrations Across The StateThe Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas (LGRL) announces its 3rd Annual Statewide Gay Pride Festival scheduled for June 7 at Fiesta Gardens, 2101 Bergman, in Austin. The Festival will kick off Pride celebrations across the state in honor of Gay Pride Month.
Last year, over 4,000 people attended the festival and over 5,000 are expected this year, from all over the state. The day-long event features great live music, an outdoor power brunch, an arts and crafts area, community booths, lots of beer and a variety of foods and beverages.
The following musical guests will appear thoughout the day-long celebration: Trish Murphy, Terri Hendrix, Quatropaw, 10" Maria, Sheri Frushay, Miss Xanna Don't & the Wanted, Handful, Capitol City Men's Chorus, Austin Babtist Women and many more.
The Texas Gay Pride Festival begins on June 7 at noon and continues until 7pm.
The Texas Gay Pride Festival is sponsored by LGRL of Texas, Coors Light, the Texas Triangle, Miller Lite, Whitehead Chiropractic, the Austin Chronicle and 107.1 KGSR.
For more information, contact Dianne or Andy at 512.474.5475 or E-mail lgrltexas@aol.com.
AIDS Activist Dies
Hank Carde (1947-1998), a retired naval officer and AIDS advocate, died on May 12 after a long battle with AIDS. Carde fought the unresponsive AIDS care bureaucracy in the District of Columbia where he helped motivate and mobilize people living with HIV to work for improved city services to reduce hardship, untangle bureaucracy and improve the lives of those with HIV. Fred Miller, AIDS Action board member, was quoted as saying, "In the end, the only battle against AIDS Hank lost was his own."
HIV Names Reporting
In the May, 1998 issue of Out Maga- zine, it was reported that the CDC may soon announce a plan which will require all states to collect the names of those who test positive for HIV. Thirty states have such a system in place, and AIDS Action has been leading the fight for a system using coded data rather than names. AIDS Action's Zingale says, "The real issue is access to care, and no one is pushing to change Medicaid eligibility from having AIDS to having HIV."
Gay Books Now Online
Gay Sunshine Press, the nation's oldest continuous Gay book publisher (since 1975), has just announced that its books are now available on the Internet. The new website includes all the books currently available from the press, as well as those from the second imprint of Leyland Publications-almost 100 books in all.
Gay History, Sex, Politics and Culture are the focus of the quality books published by San Francisco's Gay Sunshine Press. Under the direction of its publisher, Winston Leyland, Gay Sunshine publishes Gay male books as part of the burgeoning Gay Cultural Renaissance, defined as "a rediscovery of the Gay Cultural heritage and its expression, especially since Stonewall, through art, music, literature, film and in many other ways." To date these Gay Sunshine books include work by such famous writers as Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Christopher Isherwood, Jean Genet and Allen Ginsberg, as well as much work by younger American writers and Gay literature in translation from other cultures (Latin America, Russia, China, Japan, Middle East).
Leyland Publications, a second imprint, publishes books on popular aspects of Gay sexuality and culture, such as its famous Meatmen series of Gay comics and Gay male erotica (fiction/nonfiction).
Gay Sunshine Press and Leyland Publications can be accessed on the Internet through one of the following two domains:
www.gaysunshine.com or www.leylandpublications.com.People without Internet access can obtain an illustrated catalog of books from both presses by sending $1.00 (postpaid): G.S. Press/Leyland Publications, P.O. Box 410690, San Francisco, CA 94141.
Navy To Promote
"Don't Ask, Don't AOL" SailorJust months after losing a court decision for breaking the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" policy in pushing officer Timothy R. McVeigh out of military service, the Navy has selected him to be promoted to its highest enlisted rank.
In January, U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Sporkin ruled the Navy broke its own rules in investigating McVeigh, especially in seeking out his America Online (AOL) screen name identity. The judge further stated the Navy had violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by seeking the AOL information without a court order. McVeigh, an 18-year Navy veteran, was part of only 15 percent of those eligible for promotion to Master Chief Petty Officer. "I see this as a very positive development, and McVeigh has a stellar record," said Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) Staff Attorney Dixon Osborne. "I'm pleased that the Navy has seen fit to promote him."
At a June 1 hearing, Judge Sporkin will determine whether or not the Navy has complied with his order to reinstate McVeigh in the same or a comparable capacity. [GLAAD]
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