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JUNE G1
OUT OF THE PAST • SEE PAGE 3
1992-1993
• Marines assault Wilmington man
• Southern Poverty Law Center
takes its first gay case
• National LGBT march in DC
VOLUME . XSSUE 21
SINCE 198«
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MARCH 2 .2002
Mautner Project launches national
African American Lesbian
Heaith Study
SO long.
Transgender civil rights
activist, Sylvia Rivera dies
Rosie O joins ACLU against
Florida’ gay adoption ban.
Day Of Silence
project
Wednesday-April 10,2002
A guide for including your
school is available online.
Laramie Project MARCH 9 HBO
Matthew Shepard MARCH 16 NBC
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MCC-Charlotte gets
high praise for
its 22 years
Spedal guest, special services,
and spedal events highlight
Church's weekend
celebration
by David Stout
Over the weekend of February 8-10,
the Metropolitan Community Church of
Charlotte celebrated its 22nd anniversary
with special services, special fundraisers
and one very special guest.
Rev. Elder
Troy Perry, the
founder of the
worldwide
Universal
Fellowship of
Metropolitan
Community
Churches ,
presided over
the weekend's
offerings.
He was the
featured guest
at a UNC-C-
sponsored
public
reception
highlighted by a screening of Cod, Gays
and the Gospel, a 30-minute videotape on
the early struggles and triumphs of Rev.
Perry and his future fellowship. After the
film. Perry took questions from the
see MCC-CHARLOTTE on 8
Newly formed:
SC Equality
Coalition
21-member coab'tion represents
dozehs of LGBT groups in SC
by Sarah Lundy
The Post and Courier
CHARLESTON, SC — Representatives
of gay and lesbian organizations from
across South Carolina met in Charleston
and designed a three-year plan to help
improve the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender people. '
This first-ever statewide group plans
to call itself the South Carolina Equality
Coalition — made up of delegates and
observers from numerous LGBT
organizations, clergy. PFLAG and AIDS
services groups.
see COALITION o/> 29
Rev. Elder Troy Perry,
founder UFMCC
Black Church Week of Prayer
for Healing of AIDS: March 3-9
RALEIGH, NC — March 3-9
2002 marks the thirteenth
national anniversary of the
week-long event designed to
educate and mobilize
African American churches
to become community
centers for HIV
prevention, treatment,
education and
compassionate care.
Although great strides have
been made in the fight against
AIDS, the African American
community continues to be
disproportionately affected
and infected by HIV/AIDS.
Since 1995, churches in
Wake and Durham
counties have come
together for Black Church
Week of Prayer for the
Healing of AIDS to call
attention to the crisis %
HIV/AIDS has created in
the African American community.
The Black Church Week of Prayer for the
Healing of AIDS brings attention to the role
African American churches can play in the
AIDS crisis. The African American Church
continues to be the cornerstone of its
surrounding community. As headquarters
for disseminating information on issues of
health, politics and social change, the
African American Church plays a central
role in the lives of most African Americans.
Given this, and
considering the
proliferation of AIDS
cases in African
American
communities, it is
essential that
religious
organizations lead
the struggle to
stop the spread of
the disease.
All events are
open to the public
and will feature
presentations by
local residents
IKirg with HIV/AIDS.
Black Church
Week of Prayer,
for the Healing
of AIDS events
are sponsored by
the ■ Alliance of
AIDS Services-Carolina in
partnership with local African American
Faith Communities.
There are many area churches taking
part, please contact Alliance of AIDS
Services or go online for more details.
info: Schedule of Events
Allionce of Al DS Services-Carolina 919-212-9450
www.aas-c.org/oasc/events.html
Senator is finally ashamed of
something...
Jesse Helms regrets not getting
in the AIDS fight sooner.
by Leah D. Sepsenwol
Maybe he forgot. He rvers in the fight from
the very beginning. He fought the victims,
the .caregivers and the Congress.
Helms spoke recently in Washington,
DC at “The Prescription for Hope”
International Christian AIDS Conference,
organized by Franklin Graham’s world relief
charity, Samaritan’s Purse.
He said, “I have been too lax too long in
doing something really significant about
AIDS.” He promised it will be on his agenda
until he retires next year. “ I am not going to
lay it aside for the remaining months I have
in office.”
For twenty of his thirty Senate years he
blamed the dead and dying for the disease.
Senator Jesse Helms says about African
AIDS fundina, "I am so very ashamed
that I hove done so little."
This time he did not mention homosexuals,
but said “There is no substitute for the joy
see HELMS on 8