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Pansy 0 1•v1•s•1 on: Bubble gum punlc for queers Page BJ Community · Press LeVay: What sci•e nce says about being gay PageA3 FREE Providing a voice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Virginians since 1916 J't,~~1:l4~.9J7 Hawaiian court says "YesU I~ same-sex marriage - b~t don't paclc your bags yet by Rosemary Doud Assistant editor On .December 3, 1996 Circuit Court Judge Kevin Chang announced his judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in Hawaii's same-sex marriage case, Baehr v. Miike. The judgment was announced in a private session with the involved parties, and means that samesex marriage in the state of Hawaii is no longer banned. Chang ruled that the state had not justified its ban on same-sex <J marriage, and reject- § ed a11 the state's argu- :;:; ments put forth at the ~ trial. In addition, -5 Chang issued an ~ injunction to have the 0 ~ state begin to issue ~ decision by Judge Chang was expected, and marks the beginning of the next round in the fight for same-sex marriage in H ·aii. · The history of the fight dates back to 1980, when research on gay marriage possibilities in all 50 states led to the determination that Hawaii's constitution provided an excellent basis upon which gays could sue to attain legal marriage status. This concept finally began to materialize in 1990, when three same-s<!x couples, including Ninia Baehr and G. Dancel, applied to the Hawaii State Department of Health for marriage licenses. The applications were denied. marriage licenses to g same-sex couples. On the following day, Chang granted state Ninia Baehr and G. Dancel, flt'O of the plaintiffs in the Hawaii nwrriage In May, 1991, a lawsuit was filed, suing the Director of Health and the State of Hawaii, contending that case. Hawaii's marriage law attorneys' request for a stay of the injunction pending the outcome of their appeal to the Hawaii Supreme Court. This means that the state will not issue marriage licenses until the case is complete or until other action is taken to remove the stay. This is unconstitutional because it bars same-sex couples from obtaining licenses based on sex and sexual orientation. In October of the same year, the case was thrown out by a circuit court judge before trial. This ruling was See Marriage, pA6 Sentenced to llfe Edge of hope, edge of fear Note: This is part one of a series on how promising treatments for HIV are raising hopes, and questions, in gay America. -by Richard Shumate Contributing writer The crowd of about 100 was mostly male, mostly white, mostly gay. As these people walked into the why he had come out to this forum on this November night. He was trying, he said, "to figure out what in the hell I'm supposed to do now." The audience roared ·with a knowing laughter. These were people 'who bad been Jiving with HIV, or struggling against AIDS, or caring for and loving those slightly-tattered auditorium of an innercity high school, many stopped to greet and· hug long-time friends, fellow warriors. Some faces showed the strain of Protease inhibitors hold the promise of a way out of the AIDS nightmare. But they hove also given gay America a puzzle with oil new pieces. who had been staring into the pit of a holocaust. Up on the stage, facing the questioners, were activlsts and lawyers, psychologists and people in the insurance..business - learned men and women who'd gathered here battle, some bodies still , bore the obvious traces of ·wasting. But these were not, in either body or spirit, the walking dead. As the night's program began and the conversation grew, a weathered but still handsome Latino man with · m<2re than a trace of an accent s1>9ke up to ask a question, prefacing it with a simple, elegant statement of to offer their best advice as to what in the hell these people were supposed to do now. But as the night drew on, it became obvious that they would only be able to provide advice, not answers. This gathering took place in Atlanta's gay Midtown neighborhood, but it could just have easily taken place in Norfolk or --------------------------===-........ ------------....!.,,...._.------=-------- · Boston or Austin or any other Welcome to my home: 1he lives behind transgender sex worlc by Arie van der Ven Contributing writer Roxanne has not always been a hooker. In fact, she has probably worked for more employers than most of us, but was always fi red when they found out she was not "a real woman.'' Once it happened when the air-conditioning was out, and her five o'clock shadow became all too visible through her makeup. Once a company doctor checked her for a throat infection and found a well-formed Adam's apple. Many transgenders describe the daily dread of being found out, and the humiliation of being fired from jobs they perfonned successfully for years. One partici~ pant in a recent Boston study of transgenders from low income backgrounds remarked, "A "A normal woman might worry about loolclng grim in the mor11ing, but she doesn't hove to worry about losing her iob over II." fulJ .. or part~time in the role of the opposite sex. According to The Advocate, they are acquiring more political clout. A Bostonbased study, undertaken by three senior anthropologists for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (1995)~ found that job discrimination and the search for a place where they are accepted drives many transgenders out of lawful work into sex work (prostitution). Here they are considerably more vulnerabJe to HIV infection than their male and female colleagues. In a study done in Atlanta, and published_ in Social Science Medicine in 1994, researchers found 65 percent of transgender sex workers to be HIV-infected, many times the average for sex workers. These numbers- prompted the place where AIDS has taken its toll over the past 15 years. Because as gay America enters 1997, we are entering a new reality, a place where AIDS may no longer be the death sentence it once was. And we have begun to gather in forums such as this to sort out what that might mean. At last July's International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver, scientists reported a major breakthrough. Medical studies on a new class of drugs, called protease inhibitors, showed that, used in conjunction with existing AIDS drugs, they ·can give many - but not all - people with HIV a dramatic new lease on life. In some patients' blood, the level of the virus has become undetectable, leading to a still-unproven hypothesis that this treatment could even eradi- See Sentenced, p. All
Object Description
Title | Our Own, January 1997 |
Creator | Unitarian-Universalist Gay Community |
Date | 1997-01 |
Description | January 1997 issue of Our Own Community Press. |
Number of Pages | 20 |
Subject | Gay liberation movement; Gay rights; Gay men; Lesbians; Virginia; Periodicals |
Coverage | Norfolk, Virginia; Hampton Roads, Virginia |
Publisher | Old Dominion University Libraries |
Source | Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Perry Library |
Relation | Our Own Community Press, 1976-1998 |
Language | English |
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Title | Our Own, January 1997, pg 1 |
Date | 1997-01 |
Description | January 1997 issue of Our Own Community Press. |
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Pansy
0 1•v1•s•1 on:
Bubble
gum
punlc for
queers
Page BJ Community · Press
LeVay:
What
sci•e nce
says
about
being
gay
PageA3
FREE Providing a voice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Virginians since 1916 J't,~~1:l4~.9J7
Hawaiian court says "YesU
I~ same-sex marriage
- b~t don't paclc your bags yet
by Rosemary Doud
Assistant editor
On .December 3, 1996 Circuit Court Judge Kevin
Chang announced his judgment in favor of the plaintiffs
in Hawaii's same-sex marriage case, Baehr v.
Miike. The judgment
was announced in a
private session with
the involved parties,
and means that samesex
marriage in the
state of Hawaii is no
longer banned.
Chang ruled that the
state had not justified
its ban on same-sex |
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