LAMBDA
The Carolina Gay & Lesbian Association Newsletter
Volume 15, Number 2
December 1988
Elections Bring Mined Results
The November elections brought mixed
results for the lesbian and gay
community. The most significant
victory was the defeat of Proposition
102 in California. Congressional
Representative Dannemeyer's initiative
would have eliminated anonymous HIV
testing and imposed mandatory reporting
of HIV-positive individuals. Jeff Levi
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force called the defeat "a great
victory for public health [and] a
statement by the people of California
that they will not be browbeaten into
accepting expensive and ineffective
'quick fixes' to the AIDS problem.”
orientation in Oregon. They also
expressed regret at the approval of
another California AIDS initiative,
Proposition 96, which allows court-
ordered testing of persons accused of
certain crimes. Critics of the measure
held that, in permitting testing of
those merely accused (and not
convicted) of crimes. Proposition 96
both undermines the principle of
innocence until guilt is proven and
provides a motivation for false
accusation of crimes.
Supporters of gay and lesbian rights
were disappointed, though, with the
passage of a referendum overturning a
state executive order banning
discrimination on the basis of sexual
In North Carolina State elections.
Republican Jim Gardner narrowly won
election as Lieutenant Governor.
Gardner has expressed his support of
Campus Watch's efforts to defund the
Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association
through the State Legislature.
The Funding Forum
For LAMBDA'S funding forum, we asked several people to contribute their views of funding and their positions on
Campus Watch. We solicited pieces from people who favored funding and who opposed funding, from people who
supported Campus Watch and who opposed Campus Watch. So far, we have received two responses: one from CGLA co
chair Liz Stiles, who supports funding and opposes Campus Watch, and one from Student Congress member Gene Davis,
who opposes funding but also opposes Campus Watch. Campus Watch leader Ed Cottingham declined our invitation to
contribute. We hope others will write to LAMBDA with their views...
Supporting Funding....
Opposing Funding....
Because the Carolina Gay and Lesbian
Association has been accused of such
things as being a political
organization and of "subsidizing
sodomy," I want to explain what we do
with our money. Then you can decide if
you think we deserve funding. We, the
students, represented through our
Student Congress members, should be the
ones to decide on the funding of all
campus groups.
My name. Gene Davis. Yeah, Gene Davis,
you know, the three-term congress
member who has taken stands against the
CGLA since I first arrived on campus.
My harsh, uninformed stance seemed to
signify the arrival of yet another
radical right-winger. Today, however,
my stance is neither harsh nor
uninformed, and I am certainly not a
radical right-winger. Today my stance
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