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JUNE 01
OUT IN THE PAST • see page 3
1992-1993
Quilt covers the pain of AIDS
Homophobic City Council is a pain
1993 - a painful year for AIDS
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SALT LAKE 2002
Winter Olympics welcomes
lesbians and gays —openly
Jimmy James & company
performing at Sensations
Editorial: page 6
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Q-POLL
online: www.q-notes.com
Do you feel an LGBT TV
channel is a good idea?
choose one:
. Yes. Replacing the cable
and network programming.
. Yes. Supplementing cable
and network programming.
. No. It is further isolates us
from the mainstream.
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FEBRUARY 18.2002
Black History Month prompts
GLAAD Media Resource Kit
GLAAD partners with black
LGBT organizations —
project promotes fair,
accurate and inclusive
representations of black
LGBT people in the media
SAN FRANCISCO, CA —
The Gay 8f Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation released
its first-ever Black History
Month Media Resource Kit,
a comprehensive online
media reference designed to
encourage inclusive
coverage of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender
people of color. GLAAD's
Black History Month Media
Resource Kit includes a
detailed glossary of terms
for use when covering the
black LGBT/same gender
loving (SGL) community; a
discussion of issues
affecting black LGBT/SGL •
people: a media contact list,
organization list, and
publication list; and other
resources. The kit also
includes a 1043 word, free-
use op-ed piece entitled
"Beyond Gay: Black Men
and AIDS" by Phil Wilson,
founding director of the
African American AIDS
Prevention and Training
Institute (AAAPTI). The kit
is being sent to mainstream,
LGBT and African American
newspapers, magazines,
and electronic media outlets
across the country.
The Black History
Month Media Resource' Kit
serves as a springboard to
encourage media not only
to be inclusive of black
LGBT/SGL people in their
coverage of the month-long
celebration, but also to offer
tools to avoid
misconceptions and shatter
stereotypes , . about
LGBT/SGL people of color.
In developing the Vesoulte
kit, GLAAD partnered with
several black LGBT and SGL
organizations, including
AAAPTI, the National Black
Lesbian & Gay Leadership
Forum, Gay Men of African
Descent, and Southerners
On New Ground.
. "Gay Men of African
Descent is honored to be a
part of GLAAD's Black
History Month Media''
Resource Kit to respond to
the lack of recognition of
LGBT contributions during
see RESOURCE on 14
AIDS Care Service's Latino outreach
funded by Duke Endowment
MCC St. Jude
Center gets
Fund award
by Bo Dean
WILMINGTON — Following close
behind ^their already momentous grant
from the Gill Foundation, the Fund for
Southern Communities has awarded St.
Jude's MCC r'Community Center in
Wilmington with $3,000 to support
programming to provide personal support
as well as political rights for members of
' the LGBT community.
The FSC has given 19 grants totaling
$49,000 to community-based organizations
in: North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia.
"The Fund for Southern Communities is
especially excited about this round of
■ grants, that include community responses
to new realities since September 11. The
Fund is supporting groups across the
see ST. JUDE on 14
by Larry Roth
AIDS Care Service
Through the Forsyth Medical Center
Foundation, The Duke Endowment has
allocated $42,000 to fund a Spanish-
language outreach project of
AIDS Care Service. The
project will help local
Spanish-speaking
people get access
to medical and
social services.
If all goes as
planned. The Duke
Endowment intends to
commit an additional
$50,000 in the second and third
years of the project, for a total of
$92,000. The funds will be used to
hire a Spanish-speaking
outreach worker who
will make
contact with local HIV + Latino people and
their families.
We have been impressed with the
number and range of services that AIDS Care
Service has developed in a relatively short
period of time,” said Eugene W. Cochrane, |r,
vice president and director of the health care
division of The Duke Endowment. “The
significant collaboration between this
organization and Forsyth Medical Center
should greatly enhance the diagnosis and
care of Latinos with HIV, and we are pleased
to be able to make this grant.”
AIDS Care Service proposed the project
because Spanish-speakers frequently do not
get tested for HIV or diagnosed as HIV
positive until very serious symptoms have
developed. Early diagnosis and treatment
could add enjoyable years to their lives.
“Deep-rooted cultural traits prevent
Latinos from accessing services,” according
to Alejandra Koval, a bilingual Trustee of
AIDS Care Service. The language barrier also
has been a problem. The Baptist Hospital
infectious diseases clinic reports that its
caseload of Hispanic HIV-infected persons
has risen sharply in the last eighteen
months. Many of those people live in
poverty.
The Forsyth Medical Center Foundation
submitted the project proposal to The Duke
Endowment in partnership with AIDS CAre
Service. Forsyth Medical Center expects to
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100 years of poetic prose
from Black LGB authors
Book to be released in June, 2002
Black Like Us features fiction by 40
authors from the turn-of-the-century,
through the Harlem Renaissance and
the post-war era, to contemporary gay
life. Includes extensive bibliographies.
“Black Like Us shapes and lovingly
nurtures a literary tradition that has
been marginalized for far too long,” said
John D’Emilio, author of Sexual Politics,
-Sexual Communities.
see AUTHORS on 13