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...Reads the headline: I'M PROUD OF MY LESBIAN DAUGHTER. In New York City last month, the Fund for Human Dignity unveiled a model national campaign that would feature gay-rights supporters in 60-second TV spots called "Stonewall Minutes." In one sample spot, attorney Thomas Stoddard of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund declares that "the days when gay people could never be themselves, when gay issues were never discussed, will never come again." That is undoubtedly true. But most gays would also agree with one of Kirk's main points: "Success will only come when...
...AIDS test can be protected by the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which bars discrimination against the handicapped by institutions receiving federal funds. "For the first time, a federal court has ruled that fear of contagion cannot form the basis for discrimination against seropositives," says Mickey Wheatley of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights group...
...fraternity and sorority rushes. Last April the University of Oregon forbade the purchase of liquor by the school's 16 fraternities. In New Brunswick, N.J., last month Rutgers University students were indicted for aggravated hazing following the drink-related death in February of an 18-year-old Lambda Chi Alpha pledge. The university has since suspended the fraternity for at least five years...
...sorority to the roster of campus Greeks: Lambda Delta Lambda, a nine-member lesbian group that received official sanction from UCLA last month as the first official gay sorority in the nation. The UCLA decision allows the sorority to meet on campus -- Lambda Delta Lambda does not have the money for a residence -- and to apply for student funds, but requires the organization to be open to all women. The members plan to volunteer in local charities such as a gay-lesbian support group for high school students. Said Lambda's Krisi Burk: "We're trying to get away from...
...about half the states have already decided that AIDS falls within the scope of state-level disability statutes. Last week's decision from the high bench sent a complementary message. "The message is of common sense in a time of crisis," proclaimed Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights organization. "It is that people deserve individualized treatment, compassion and fairness...