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NGLTF board meets in Washington, DC
CRIMES AGAINST GAYS
BECOMING MORE VIOLENT
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WASHINGTON, DC—The Board of Di
rectors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force (NGLTF) held one of its tri-annual
meetings at NGLTF offices in Washington,
DC April 28-30. At the meeting, notification
of two new foundation grants and three new
bequests was announced. The board also
passed several policy resolutions re-affirm
ing the organization’s commitments to pro
gressive coalition-building.
The Albert List Foundation of New York
City recently notified NGLTF that it will be
receiving a $75,000 grant to help support
NGLTF’s re-engineering efforts. That work
includes computer upgrades, publication pro
duction, new software acquisition and other
technology enhancements aimed at increas
ing the ability of NGLTF to deliver informa
tion and services more quickly to activists in
the field. The
Joyce Mertz-
Gilmore
Foundation,
which last
year helped
fund the
move to
NGLTF’s
new office
space, has
granted the
organization
$45,000 for
general sup-
NGLTF Deputy Director
Kerry Lobel
port of the organization’s work. NGLTF has
also recently been notified of three bequests
totaling $180,000 that will be received in the
coming months.
In other development and finance news,
the projected 1995 budget of $3.2 million
remains virtually unchanged after the board
reviewed first quarter financial statements
and fundraising plans for 1995.
NGLTFDeputy Director Kerry Lobel hi^-
lighted NGLTF involvement in the following
areas: Des Moines, Iowa’s multi-cultural cur
riculum battle; South Dakota’s and Utah’s
anti-same sex marriage bills; Montana’s “de
viate sexual conduct” debacle; media advo
cacy around the murder of Scott Amedure;
Alaska’s pending anti-same sex marriage and
anti-domestic partnership measures; and the
battle against anti-gay initiatives in Tampa,
FL and Maine.
“NGLTF has been effective in helping to
‘put out the fires’ that our community has
faced this year,” Lobel noted. “But we can’t
just put out fires—we must build the capacity
and abilities of our movement.”
To that end, Lobel outlined several up
coming Movement Building Institutes that
will be held in communities “that had been in
crisis earlier this year, and now have the
breathing room to strategize into the future.”
NGLTF just completed an Institute in Alaska,
and will soon be heading to Iowa, Utah and
South Dakota.
John D’Emilio, who will take the helm of
the Policy Institute (the research and publica
tion arm of NGLTF) in July, said he intends to
“help close the gap between local activists
and academics” by producing new research
and refashioning some existing academic re
search to make it more accessible to activists.
D’Emilio outlined three areas where Policy
Institute work may be focused in the near
future—family, religion and work. D’Emilio
identified these topics as areas where gay
men, lesbians, and bisexuals are able to “burst
out of our lavender bubble” and engage in
discussions with the larger community.
The board unanimously adopted three reso
lutions on critical national political issues:
welfare, affirmative action and immigration.
A preamble to each resolution reads, “Recog
nizing that the civil rights of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender people are inextri
cably linked to the civil rights of all people...”
The resolution on welfare reads: “[NGLTF]
opposes the elimination or reduction of gov
ernment programs that provide needed food,
housing, health care and other basic services.”
The resolution on affirmative action reads:
“[NGLTF] supports the establishment and
continuation of policies and programs that
attempt to address the continuing effects of
this nation’s legacy of gender and race-based
discrimination, and opposes the wholesale
elimination of the concept of affirmative ac
tion.” The resolution on immigration reads:
“[NGLTF] opposes all legislative measures
that deny immigrants provision of basic needs,
especially health care, and campaigns that
make immigrants scapegoats for societal prob
lems.”
“Current events call on us to be clear on
these issues as we move forward on the na
tional, state and local level in alliance with
other organizations and movements,” said
Board Co-Chair Deborah Johnson-Rolon.
“We recognize that in order for this society to
offer us the compassion and justice we seek as
gay and lesbian people, that compassion must
exist for all. We at NGLTF know that these
issues are, in fact, controversial. We believe
it’s important to take a stand, for our coalition
efforts and for our education work within our
community.”
One of NGLTF’s newest projects is the
creation of a video in response to the anti-gay
pTopagandavidsoGayRightsISpecialRights.
NGLTFboardmemberDee Mosbacher, nomi
nated for an Academy Award this year for her
short documentary Straight from the Heart,
will head this project.
Jesse Helms
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through the Ryan White Program over the last
five years, 2,500 in the past year alone.
A re-authorization bill does not include a
specific appropriation. It defines the program
in question with “such funding as Congress
may deem necessary.” A separate appropria
tion bill is needed to fund the program. In this
case, the proposed Ryan White re-authoriza-
tion changes the funding formula to shift
more money to rural states like NC where new
cases of HIV are rising rapidly.
If a re-authorization bill does not pass, a
program like Ryan White can still be funded
through an appropriations bill using the pro
visions of the original authorization that es
tablished the program. AIDS Action’s
Lubinski pointed out that appropriating money
without a re-authorization has occurred in
Washington, but is unlikely in the current
political climate where budget cutting has
become popular in the Congress. If the pro
gram did receive an appropriation without a
re-authorization bill, the funding formula
would not be changed and North Carolina and
other rural states would receive the increased
levels of funding now planned.
“The pressure is on Sen. Dole now,”
Lubinski said, “he can bring it to the full
Senate and lead the fight for it, if he wants to.”
JEFFREY GRANT KOENIG
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW
SUITE 400
1130 EAST THIRD ST.
CHARLOTTE, NC 28204-2624
(704) 335-5471