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...doorstep, where a national gay-straight alliance, the Republican Unity Coalition (R.U.C.), was founded two years ago and counts former President Gerald Ford among its board members. Or visit Casper, Wyo.--hometown of Vice President Dick Cheney, who has warmly embraced his openly lesbian daughter Mary--where Guy Padgett III, a member of the city council, decided last week to come out publicly for the first time, in this article. Or drive through the Medicine Bow National Forest to much maligned Laramie. It's actually the Berkeley of Wyoming, the only town in the state with a four-year university...
...Padgett knows what being out in Wyoming can mean. He went to school with Matthew Shepard--their little smiling faces are just pages apart in the ninth-grade yearbook--and when Padgett moved back to Casper from Yale University, Shepard was part of his circle. "We weren't that close," says Padgett, 26. "But it felt very personal when he died. It hit me very hard. If you had asked me two weeks before if someone could be killed in Wyoming for being gay, I would have said no. We are a state that respects individuality, and we are immune...
...That Padgett made it to the city council is a measure of the state's devotion to the "Don't ask, don't tell" orthodoxy. After he started seeing men in Wyoming, Padgett discovered what many other lesbians and gays here already knew: if you stay out of roughneck bars like the Fireside (where Shepard met his killers), and if you avoid propositioning heterosexuals, you'll be fine, because straight Wyomingites will keep their end of the bargain--they won't ask. "Wyoming is a state of fences," says Bob Hooker, 43, a Wyoming AIDS activist who was born...
...waiting to see what TIME would say about Fidel Castro's crackdown on Cuban dissidents [WORLD, May 19]. Tim Padgett's thoughtful and balanced appraisal of Oswaldo Paya, the Cuban dissident who stayed in the country to work for democratic reform, was worth the wait. Paya's drive calling for a plebiscite on free speech and multiparty elections has placed the emphasis on a hopeful future. Castro has run Cuba as his feudal estate for 44 years, but his naive supporters are finally seeing him for the tyrant he is. As Padgett wrote, Paya has succeeded in "wresting the Cuba...
...makes people remember how good things were when I was President." And as if to highlight his revived potency, the sports-car enthusiast announced last week that he and his wife, Chilean TV celebrity Cecilia Bolocco, 37, are expecting their first child. Said Menem: "I always win." --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Uki Goni/Buenos Aires