8 City Council Candidates Draw
50 To Lambda Caucus’s Forum
Eight city council candidates attended the
Lambda Political Caucus candidates’ forum
at the Oct. 4 Acceptance meeting and seven
of them either expressed warm support for
ending job discrimination against gay men
and lesbians or eagerness to learn more
about the problem.
It was the first time such a large contingent
of local politicians had met face-to-face with
a Charlotte gay organization. More than 50
people were in the audience.
The forum was one of the prime ingre
dients in the caucus’s program to involve
more Charlotte gay men and lesbians in the
political process leading to the Tuesday,
Nov. 8 elections.
The caucus also published and distributed
a pre-election position sheet — atilt avail
able in gay/lesbian establishments — de
tailing candidates’ stance on passing an or
dinance making it illegal for the city to dis
criminate against gay men and lesbians in
housing, hiring and promotions.
The position sheet was the second distrib
uted within a month by the caucus. Before
the Sept. 27 party primaries, a position sheet
based on a NOW questionnaire was distrib
uted.
The latest position sheet was based on
candidates’ statements during the forum, on
the NOW questionnaire, and from other ap-
p>earances before Acceptance.
The caucus sheet listed favorable can
didates in bold type: Democrat Harvey Gantt
for mayor, and these city council candidates
— Democrat Pam Patterson (District 1),
Gagner, 2 Others Form
Fund For AIDS Victims
Charlotte has a new organization for help
ing AIDS victims.
Chris Lemmond, former Tags bartender,
former Tags manager Hugh Gagner, and Ke
vin Jochems, friend of Charlotte AIDS victim
Nat Strickland, formed the Charlotte AIDS
Relief Fund in October, concerned that prac
tically no funds were available to help AIDS
victims with expenses.
The group has already received the sup
port of the Scorpio, which will give one third
of proceeds from an AIDS benefit on
Wednesday, Nov. 16, to CARF (virtien Q-
Notes deadlined, the Scorpio planned to
send two thirds to the Gay Men’s Health
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Crisis in New York, the recipient of more
than $2,500 the Scorpio raised during a
summer benefit), and from the Brass Rail,
which has pledged all proceeds from its
AIDS Auction on Sunday, Nov. 13, to CARF.
QCQ has also given tacit support by wel
coming CARF’s request to use the QCQ
mailing address: P.O. Box 221841, Charlotte
28222.
Lemmond, Jochems and Gagner, who is
acting secretary-treasurer, are now inter
viewing persons to serve on the board of
directors that will manage CARF and have
talked with an attorney about applying for
nonprofit, tax-exempt status. They are also
assisting in publicizing the Scorpio and
Brass Rail events, and have pledged their
willingness to assist other clubs with bene
fits.
They learned from Strickland and Dr. Da
vid Durack, head of the AIDS unit at Duke
University Hospital, that AIDS victims often
need help paying for laboratory tests and for
travel/lodging expenses. In many cases,
treatment otherwise is free; in some cases,
AIDS patients become eligible for funds for
the permanently disabled.
But before eligibility is determined, AIDS
patients and men who feel they may have
AIDS live in jeopardy of not receiving diagno
sis or treatment because of the high cost.
Durack said that research at Duke is fo
cusing on a possible monocyte connection in
AIDS and that 12 AIDS patients are under
treatment at Duke out of a total of 20 North
Carolina cases.
Duke accepts donations for its AIDS re
search. Checks should be payable to Duke
University Medical Center with “Attention Dr
Durack: to be used for AIDS’’ written in the
bottom left corner. Send to Dr. William An-
lyan, Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke Uni
versity Medical Center, Durham 27710.
* * *
Interested in working with or making a do
nation to CARF? Can Gagner at 535-6660.
Democrat Charlie Dannelly (District 2), both
Democrat Ron Leeper and Republican Jim
Soukup in District 3, Democrat Evan Web
ster (District 6), Democrat Nell Fisher (Dis
trict 7), and at-large candidates Republican
Minette Trosch and Democrats Willie Strat
ford, Ed Harris and Bob Davis. Four at-large
candidates will be elected.
Republican Ann Hammond, unopposed in
District 5, attended the Acceptance forum
and was favorable. Democrat Laura Freeh,
unopposed in District 4, did not attend but
said on the NOW questionnaire that she sup
ported asking the Community Relations
Council to “look into it” if discrimination is a
problem.
The caucus position sheet did not list Re
publican at-large council candidate Richard
Vinroot in bold type even though he at
tended the forum.
Mayoral candidate Gantt, appearing be
fore Acceptance in June, not only promised
support for antidiscrimination legislation, but
also promised at least one gay/lesbian ap
pointment to the Community Relations
Council. Gantt’s opponent, Ed Peacock, ad
dressed an Acceptance meeting in late May,
but flatly refused to back antidiscrimination
legislation.
A nonpolitical part of the caucus agenda
for 1983-84 is completion of a survey of
Charlotte gay/lesbian grocery shopping hab
its. Information in the survey will be used in
polling grocery stores on their policies and
practices in hiring/promoting/firing gay men
and lesbians.
The grocery survey and poll is part of a
long-range program to encourage busi
nesses to adopt antidiscrimination clauses in
written personnel policies.
• • •
The next caucus meeting will be Monday,
Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m. For directions to location,
call Henry Raines at 527-8217, or the Gay-
/Lesbian Switchboard, 525-6128. The cau
cus plans to launch a membership drive early
in 1984.
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