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news notes Compiled by Clay Ollis Q-Notes Staff Carolinas sumption. letter to the Southwest Florida Boy Scouts Council, Charlotte HIV/AIDS People Support Inc. (CHAPS) secretary Charles Belknap wrote that, although his group is not a gay organiza tion, it could not support a policy that singles out people because of their sexual orientation. Queen city plans pride event CHARLOTTE — The Queen City will host its first annual Pride celebration to pro mote the visibility of the GLBT community. The first Charlotte Pride celebration will be held on Saturday, May 5, 2001 at Marshall Park in Uptown Charlotte. The celebration will include performers, speakers, vendors and possibly an art exhibition. Charlotte Pride will also be spon soring other visibility events throughout the year including Cay Day at Paramount’s Carowinds amusement park. National More GLBs vote GOP According to exit polls from the Voter News Big Service fVNS), around four percent of exit-poll voters identified as CLB (as yet, transgender voters are not distinguished). Of those, 25% voted for Ceorge W. Bush. That’s up from 22% of CLB voters in 1992 and 23% in 1996 who voted for the Republican candidate. In congres sional voting, 30% of self-identified CL voters selected COP House candidates. May appeals decision PHOENIX, AZ — An Army general re jected a state representative’s appeal of the Army’s decision to dismiss him from his reserve unit after he said in a legislative debate that he is gay. Major Gen. John L. Scott said Arizona Rep. Steve May should be honorably discharged for violating the military’s “Don’t ask. Don’t tell. Don’t Pursue, Don’t Harass” policy. May, a Re publican who was re-elected November 7, ac knowledged his sexuality during legislative de bate in February 1999, while an honorably dis charged civilian. He was called back to the Army a few weeks later, during the Kosovo crisis. Getting GLBTs to quit ATLANTA — A national GLBT forum on cutting tobacco use in the GLBT community was held November 8 and 9 in Atlanta. Orga nized by the American Legacy Foundation (ALF), an independent public health organiza tion, the goal of the Forum was to provide ALF with tangible recommendations for reducing tobacco use among GLBT youth, increasing quit rates among GLBT smokers, and reduc ing exposure to second-hand smoke. The Fo rum brought together more than JO tobacco control experts and activists from the CDC and other health organizations, universities, and the GLBT community. The American Legacy Foundation, created by the legal settlement between the tobacco companies and Attornies General in over 40 states, has designated the GLBT community as one of five priority popu lations in the battle to decrease tobacco con- Bias laws apply to TGs HARTFORD, GT — The Connecticut Commission on Human Rights ruled Novem ber 10 that the state laws prohibiting sex dis crimination include transgender people within those protections. The ruling clarifies that trans sexual people may bring claims of sex discrimi nation and defines transsexual people to include a broad range of individuals who do not con form to gender stereotypes regardless of whether or not they have or intend to have surgery. The ruling also includes ihtersexed people, for ex ample people who are born with ambiguous genitalia or chromosomal ambiguity. Novell changes charity policy PROVO, UT — Networking software com pany Novell announced a new change in its employee matching-funds policy in November, after being criticized for singling out the Boy Scouts in an earlier change. Citing the ban on gay scoutmasters, the corporation had an nounced it would no longer match employee donations to the BSA. Now the company says it will match employee donations to the United Way, but not to any individual charities. G&L Bank founder fired PENSACOLA, FL Steven Dunlap, founder of the G&L Bank, the first Internet bank marketed primarily to GLBT customers, is suing to get his job back after he was fired by the bank’s straight chief executive officer on October 17. CEO Kay Griffith accused Dunlap of inciting employees to leave, making false and misleading statements, failing to perform some assigned duties and other misconduct. Dunlap sought a restraining order that would prevent the bank from using his name and reputation within the gay community for marketing. International Group bans Scouts’ food PORT CHARLOTTE, FL —A nonprofit agency that gives food to people infected with HIV said it won’t accept food from the Boy Scouts’ annual food drive. In an October 24 TG doctor explores genders SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Dr. Joan Roughgarden is methodically re-examining the way biologists think about sex, arguing for the existence of more than two genders and pre senting evidence of widespread homosexual activity in the wild. Roughgarden’s work is the outgrowth of a personal experience that has shocked scientists in the field. Until two years ago, the doctor was John Roughgarden. Then she underwent sex-reassignment surgery. Dr. Roughgarden believes a wide diversity of per spectives, including.gay and transsexual scien tists will increase understanding of sex and mating. Brothers, Sisters bans gays OWENSBORO, KY — Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Owensboro will no longer allow open gay or lesbian to, volunteers after a 10-9 vote by its board Wednesday night. Board members ac knowledged that, while homosexuals may be “good” people, “children may not understand matters concerning sexual preference.” The de bate on whether to continue to allow homo sexuals to mentor children surfaced recently after a case manager quit when the agency al lowed an openly gay man to volunteer. PA bans adoptions The Pennsylvania Superior Court issued a decision November 8 banning second-parent adoptions for gays and lesbians. The ruling, which prohibits judges from allowing gays and lesbians to adopt their partners’ children, was made against two couples who were seeking right to be recognized as equal parents under the law. Currently, if the legal parent of the child becomes unemployed or dies, the stability and welfare of the children could be threatened be cause they would not be able to get coverage on the partner’s health insurance. Furthermore, the children can be uprooted because if the le gal parent dies, the partner would have no le gal claim to the children that they had been raising together as equals. “No” to marriage statement LAGUNA BEACH, CA — Dr. Robert Edgar, General Secretary of the National Coun cil of Churches, withdrew his signature from the document “A Christian Declaration on Marriage” cosigned by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Southern Baptist Con vention, and the National Association of Evangelicals. In a November 17 letter to the NCC Assembly, Edgar explained that he no longer supported the ecumenical declaration be cause many churches interpret the document as a condemnation of same-sex unions and was concerned that misinterpretation of the decla ration could lead to attacks on GLBT people. Edgar earlier acknowledged that NCC mem ber communions are divided over same-sex unions, but restated the group’s support for GLBTs. German partner law passed BERLIN — Germany’s lower Parliament chamber passed a life partners bill recently on November 10. One part of the bill passed by the Bundestag does not need approval by the upper house and extends to registered couples such spousal rights and responsibilities as hos pital visitation, health insurance, tenancy, in heritance and child custody. A second part of the bill relates to taxes and welfare benefits, and must be approved by the Bundesrat, Germany’s more conservative upper house. 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