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Center St. Hickory, NC (704) 322-8103 Open Wed.-Sun. cun « « • k * * 4 * i t * k i I ( > >1 I Clinton to speak at HRC dinner WASHINGTON, DC— President Clinton will be the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) gala national din ner on November 8. “President Clinton’s par ticipation at this event will be historic,” said Elizabeth Birch, HRC’s executive director. “The president’s attendance will make the first time a sitting president has participated at a gay and lesbian civil rights event.” In addition to Clinton’s keynote address, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the legislative arm of this country’s historic civil rights movement, will receive one of HRC’s National Civil Rights Awards. Dr. Dorothy Height, chairperson of LCCR, will be accepting the award. Actress Ellen DeGeneres and her parmer, Anne Heche, will also be attending the event. DeGeneres will also be accepting an HRC Na tional Civil Rights Award for her very public coming out last spring. On September 8, HRC named DeGeneres’ mother, Betty, as the organization’s National Coming Out Project spokesperson. The sold-out national diiiner will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington and will be attended by 1500 guests. Last year. President Clinton provided a vid eotaped message to the HRC’s OutVote con vention during the 1996 campaign. That event was designed to inspire volunteer involvement in political campaigns for state and federal of fice seekers who are supportive of equal rights for lesbian and gay people. The dinner occurs two days before the first White House Conference On Hate Crimes, scheduled for November 10. The conference will examine bias-motivated crime and seeks to find solutions to curb this escalating social problem, one of HRC’s highest priorities. ▼ Gay doctors criticize proposals giving police access to records by Sue Rochman Special to Q-Notes SAN FRANCISCO—^The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) has announced its opposition to the Clinton administration’s proposed legislation on medical records and patient confidentiality, noting that such access will seriously compromise patient care by leav ing gay men, lesbians and people who are HIV positive open to discrimination or harassment. “Although we support the administration’s attempt to create legislation that would codify the privacy of the patient-provider relationship, we are dismayed that the recommendations do not restrict federal and state law enforcement agencies fi-om gaining access to medical records without patient consent,” said GLMA Direc tor of Public Policy Marj Plumb. The proposed legislation, presented to Con gress by Secretary of Health and Human Ser vices Donna Shalala on September 11, would elFectively deny patients the right to control who has access to information on their HIV status or sexual orientation. GLMA fears a patient’s medical records potentially could be used by law enforcement officials to charge someone with sodomy or to target people who are HIV-positive. GLMA is also concerned that information contained in medical records about sexual orientation could be used against gays or lesbians seeking child custody or visitation. “The ramifications of police access to the medical records of people who legitimately fear discrimination because of their sexual orienta tion or HIV status are for reaching,” said GLMA Executive Direaor Ben Schatz. “I fear that under the proposal, doctors may have to warn their patients that they have the right to remain silent and that anything they say may be used against them in a court of law.” In June, Plumb testified before the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics of the Department of Health and Human Services specifically addressing the concern that the pro posed legislation would not adequately protect gay men, lesbians and those who are HIV-posi tive. At that time, GLMA stressed the need for legislation that would acknowledge societal bias and discrimination and strictly limit uimeces- sary disclosure of confidential medical records. GLMA’s Kipon Anti-Gay Discrimination in Medicine: Results of a National Survey of Les bian, Gay, and Bisexual Physicians notes that when a patient’s sexual orientation is disclosed, gay/lesbian patients run a serious risk of en countering discrimination. ▼ QfiHPa^oUND. THE BEST IN THE AREA! NOT RECOMMENDED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. WEAK HEARTS, OR STOMACHS! HAYRIDE, WOODED PATHS, AND HAUNTED HOUSE ALL IN ONE SPOOKY AND GROTESQUE ADVENTURE! NEW ADDITIONS EACH YEAR. >ens 8pm until... Admission $7 Lazy Daze Campground (803) 548-1148 Exit 88 off 1-77 “the baseball exit” Mon Tut Wtd Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 It 12 13 14 15 16 ii 18 19 2i » 1A 2$ U ■I 29 30 31 N«r>l CHARLOTTE i Caro winds Blvd. 1 (EXIT 88) Gold Hill Rd. H f". r- M HfiSiACHE ' ROCK HILL
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