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- Baltimore Alternative, Feburary 1991
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- ["AIDS activists","LGBTQIA","LGBTQ issues","LGBTQ life","AIDS (Disease)","Baltimore (Md.)","Maryland"]
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- The Baltimore Alternative newspaper February 1991 issue.
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- 01 February 1991
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Baltimore Alternative, Feburary 1991
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BALTIMORE
ALTERNATIVE
February 1991 ▼ Volume 6, Number 2 ▼ Serving The Baltimore /Washington Community Since 1986
STATEWIDE
Activist Named to
Cable Committee
Openly Gay Resident Is First
Such Appointment by Potter
Steve Barchers, a gay activist, has been appoint¬
ed by Montgomery County Executive Neal
Potter to a three-year term on the county’s
Cable Communications Advisory Committee.
The 19-member committee, created in 1983. advis¬
es the county executive about cable television policy.
Barchers is a member of Montgomery Community
Television (MCT), the non-profit public access cor¬
poration that operates cable channels 21 and 49 on
Cable TV Montgomery (the county’s cable fran¬
chise). Barchers is also a founder and co-chair of the
Gay and Lesbian Association of Silver Spring
(GLASS).
Barchers is currently assisting the Montgomery
Gay Video Project in producing a monthly show fea¬
turing news, education, and entertainment that is
designed to promote a positive image of the lesbian
and gay community.
The show, Gay Perspectives, will be cablecast by
MCT over channel 49. The monthly show is believed
to be Maryland's first regularly-scheduled gay cable
show.
Barchers is a resident of Montgomery County and
is the second openly gay member serving on a
Montgomery County board.
LIFESTYLE
Mardi Gras
TRAVEL TO NEW ORLEANS for the Mardi
Gras, one of the great American get¬
aways. For an exciting look at this annual
event, see page 23
THE GULF WAR
The Home Front Worries Grow
The Congress,
AIDS, and the
Gay Agenda
BY CUFF O’NEILL
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Among the sundry domestic
issues that the Congress
has preempted with talk of
the Persian Gulf War are
many matters of concern
to the country’s gays, lesbians, and peo¬
ple with AIDS.
“It’s difficult to say right now what is
going to transpire,” said Gregory King,
communications director for the Human
Rights Campaign Fund, “but it’s clear
that the attention of Congress is on the
Persian Gulf right now. But that simply
is true for all Americans.”
Benefiting gays and lesbians is that the
first session of the 102nd Congress has
only just begun, with little legislation
pending. But now that the crisis has
turned into a war, crucial bills reauthoriz¬
ing AIDS research and education pro¬
grams, as well as prospective hate crime
bills, could fall victim to it.
Lobbyists are also quick to point out
that even with the war. Congress will still
have to deal with the appropriations pro¬
cess and expected anti-gay amendments
from Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) and Rep.
William Dannemcyer (R-CA).
See CONGRESS, page 6
Network News
Shows Hit by
ACT UP Protest
BY REX WOCKNER
THE ALTERNATIVE
Mi
January 23
Desperation”
embers of the radical
AIDS direct-action
group ACT UP disrupt¬
ed the evening national
news on CBS and PBS
as part of a “Day of
that saw the group stage
numerous actions across New York City.
Three activists jumped onto the set of
The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
just as Rather began broadcast. The face
of activist John Weir, author of The
Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, was
partially visible on screen as he shouted,
“Fight AIDS, not Arabs,” according to
observers.
Rather appeared flustered, broke for a
commercial, and then apologized for the
activists’ “rudeness” after the break,
observers said.
“He looked very befuddled,” said Ron
Geiman, publisher of the Milwaukee gay
magazine In Step. “And you could see all
the rest of the people in the newsroom
start looking up to the front.”
Geiman added the incident lasted
seven to eight seconds.
Jamie Leo, a spokesman for ACT
See NETWORK, page 7
Gay Soldiers to
Fight, Only to
Be Kicked Out
BY JOHN ZEH
THE ALTERNATIVE
Critical and sensitive issues
have surfaced for the
Pentagon: homosexuals
who received assignments
in the Persian Gulf, and
their advocates during the first full-scale
war, may be faced with discharge when
the war ends. Reaction has sparked a
political movement of lesbians and gays.
Gay-advocacy attorneys and veterans
groups say the armed forces have relaxed
their ban on gay men and lesbians due to
the all-out war, but will discharge them
when the fighting ends.
The Pentagon has denied a change of
policy, but at least 14 reservists who
declared their sexual orientation were
okayed for Persian Gulf service by unit
commanders, the Wall Street Journal
reported January 24.
About seven reservists from
California, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Illinois, and eastern seaboard states are
now in the Gulf, sources said. Their
deployment raised new and powerful
legal challenges to long-standing
Pentagon policy barring people with
homosexual desires or conduct from its
See SOLDIERS, page 8
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