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PAGE 6 T Q-Notes T December 12, 1998 Vol. 13, No. 16 - December 12, 1958 Mailing Address; PO Box 221841 Charlotte, NC 28222 Phone-. (704) 531-9988 Fax-. (704) 531-1361 E-mail-, editor@q-notes.com Website: http://www.q-notes.com Publisher & CEO Jim Yarbrough Editor David Stout Associate Editor Dan Van Mourik Arts Editor Brian D. Holcomb Typesetter Dan Van Mourik Administrative Assistant... Brian M. Myer Personals Brian M. Myer Advertising Sales Jim Yarbrough National Advertising Representative Rivendell Marketing Company, Inc. (212) 242-6863 Contributing Writers: John Bowersox, Peg Byron, Tracey Conaty, Dan Cullinane, Steven Fisher, Kevin Grooms, Ira Gruber, Brian D. Holcomb, William Horn, C. Lichtenstein, Paula Martinac, Brian M. Myer, Jeffrey L. Newman, Rhona Sacks, David Stout, Dan Van Mourik Q-Nous is published every other week in Charlotte, NC by Pride Publishing & Typesetring. 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Index Articles AIDS Quilt coming to Charlotte 1 AIDS report cards issued to coincide with World AIDS Day 4 Charlotte home to new museum 20 Georgia Supreme Court overturns anti-sodomy law 3 HIV insurance caps violate ADA 8 HIV suppression treatments studied.. 13 MCC Charlotte to buy building 1 New House AIDS leadership rated.... 8 Phelps targets the Carolinas 1 New study debunks myth of gay/lesbian wealth 10 Three confess to Shepard murder .... 13 Features Deborah Cox is supposed to be here 14 Dior now a minister and gets Ph.D... 17 Judge Warren takes the stand 1 New info superhighway map coming 16 Q-Culture Recommends 20 Columns The Art of Meeting Women 14 Classifieds 24 Community Cards 27 Curbside 30 The Drag Rag 21 GLAAD Notes 17 Lesbian Notions 22 News Notes 12 Out and About 30 Out In Hollywood 21 Out In The Stars 16 Out There 25 Personals 28 QFYI 29 Advertising Deadlines Issue Date Deadline Holiday Break - next issue Jan. 9 Jan. 9 Mon., Dec. 28 Jan. 23 Mon., Jan, 11 1^ at &-AfftetS Ki8lR!&A letters Support Our Advertisers They keep Q-Notes free for you 300 Stonewall ....5 Jeffrey Grant Koenig, Attorney 17 Adult Video Stores ..31 Leah’s Bookkeeping & Tax Service 27 Alyson Adventures .. 18 Liaisons The Arcade ..23 MCC Charlotte The Art of Meeting Women ..30 Mann Travels 7 The Back Door ..19 Tom Martin, Massage Therapist.... 27 The Brass Rail ..29 The Masquerade Michel Brown, Financial Investments ..27 Menu by Melissa 27 eSA Real Estate ..13 National Viatical Resources 17 Cafe Dada Newsstand International 7 Calhoun House ..13 Joe O’Connor, Realtor 11 Candles & More ..20 Oleen’s Central Records ..29 Paper Skyscraper 20 Central Station ..14 Parkview Video & News 16 Charlotte Business Guild .20 Personal Photography 27 Charlotte Singles Line . 12 Pink Fairy Travel Jeff Childs, Broker/Realtor .27 Posh Pets 27 Classic Images Salon .27 Positive Living Resources 7 Club Cabaret .14 Priscilla’s Consignment Corner .11 Q-Notes Online 18 Cosmos Cafe ...8 Queen City Antiques 30 The Cove Rainbow Path The Crystal Room ...5 Ray’s House Maintenance 27 Empire Chauffeured Limousines .27 Carol Reinard, Realtor 24 Edwin G. Farthing, Attorney .27 Repo Records 21 Flying Colors .22 Rent Georgetown Body Works ...3 Scorpio Lounge '. 15, 18 Good or Days ...8 Scott Lawn & Landscaping 25 Good Year Tire .27 Sharon Memorial Park 17 Lisa Griffin, Family Therapist ...7 Sir Speedy Printing 30 Tony Hall, Realtor .27 Southern Center for Law 27 Rick Hendrick Honda .25 Subway Home Resources Co 27 Summit Painting Service 27 Individual Benefits, Viatical Services . 13 Time Out 16 J & B Cleaning Service 27 Tutto Mondo J & W Cellular Phone & Pagers ..4 Warehouse 29 32 Ken, Massage Therapist 27 Vinson Washburn, Realtor 22 Klutts Property Management 29 White Rabbit Books & Things 9 Hateful “thoughtcrimes” While we revel in the victory of our new, more moderate legislatures, I would caution against rushing headlong into the passage of laws which may not be in the best interests of a truly free society. Perhaps it is a good time to take a second look at hate crimes legislation. I wonder if placing such a high priority on pass ing laws which rest on rather shaky philosophi cal and, perhaps, constitutional grounds is a good idea. Almost all of our laws are designed to pre vent certain kinds of behavior. What a person thinks or feels is usually not a factor when we determine whether his or her actions were le gal. We use the defendant’s state of mind only to determine whether his or her actions were justifiable (in the case of self defense) or ex plain the degree of severity of the crime (as in pre-meditated murder.) Should crimes such as murder, assault, battery or harassment be con sidered more heinous simply because the per petrator hated the victim because of his sexual orientation or other group affiliation? How difficult is it to prove that an assault occurred as a result of someone’s hatred and bigotry? I think that much hate crime legisla tion would be effectively unenforceable. While I fully agree we have the responsibil ity to educate the public about issues relating to the GLBT community, I believe we also have an obligation to allow people to be bigots. Should Archie Bunker have been strapped to the rack and forced to love his neighbor George Jefferson? Maybe part of living in a truly free society is allowing the seeds of truth and op portunity to spring up where they will, even though some of our seeds will fall on fallow ground. How much of this effort could be channeled into working for what I believe are more im portant goals? Of the highest priority should be workplace discrimination and same-sex re lationship recognition along with the accom panying rights and privileges that heterosexual couples enjoy I would argue that we already have these rights. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the “pur suit of happiness” was one of our “inalienable rights.” 5(^at we really need is to have our leg islatures recognize our rights! More importantly, our law-enforcement officials must protect these rights and our Judiciary must punish those who seek to deprive us of our rights. The death of Matthew Shepard was tragic...as are the countless other incidences of crimes perpetrated against the members of our community But let us not commit further in justices rushing to judge a person’s behavior on the basis of his or her thoughts and feelings. Hate is wrong and need not be nourished, but in a free society, it must be allowed to exist. “Thoughtcrimes” are for the negative-Utopla described by Mr. George Orwell...wor for America. — Eric Griggs Gastonia, NC The time has come Over 30 million people throughout the world will die of AIDS unless truly effective treatment against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is developed and given to them. You and I have watched co-workers, friends and loved ones sicken and die from AIDS. We’ve seen beautiful lives wither away, become only a memory and a patch on the Quilt. We’ve heard certain religious leaders self- righteously condemn those suffering from HIV. “AIDS is God’s punishment,” they gloat, while preaching against sex education for young people, who are now being infected with vari ous STDs, including HIV, at astounding rates. We’ve remained silent as government and medical decisionmakers pushed the direction and dollars of AIDS research toward expensive, privately-licensed drugs and away from less costly, natural, immune-based approaches proven successful in preventive vaccines and therapeutic immune globulins for influenza, rabies and hepatitis B viruses. We’ve paid the price for a giant pharmaceu tical firm to receive exclusive US license to sell the “orphan drug” azidothymidine (AZT, Retrovir). AZT was created as a cancer treat ment in 1963 at the Detroit Cancer Founda tion. Its inventor. Dr. Jerome Horwitz, did not patent AZT because, in his words, “we found no use for it in cancer research.” Thirty years later, the world’s largest clinical trial of AZT, the British-French Concorde Study, indicated that AZT fails to prolong the lifespan of those infected with HIV. Yet one billion dollars a year of medicaid money, research grants, donors’ dollars, insurance premiums and life savings still go for sales of AZT. Why? After several years of trying and failing to interest the “best and brightest” AIDS research ers in immune-based therapy, and after attend ing the 1989 Third International AIDS Con ference in Washington, DC as an observer, I formally submitted a proposal in April 1992 for use of a strain-specific therapeutic HIV vac- See LETTERS on page 10 Subscribe! i Subscriptions are by 1st and 3rd class mail in sealed envelopes mailed in Charlotte, NC. I Subscription rate for one year (25 issues) is $52 (1st class) or $28 (3rd class). 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