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AUGUST 28 . 2004
N.J. governor scandal: step forward or big mess?
Gay activists applaud James McGreevey's
decision to come out while decrying his
impending resignation
by Donald Miller
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock
for the past few weeks it's been impossible to
miss the media firestorm that accompanied
the announcement by N.J. Governor fames
McGreevey that he had been involved in an
extramarital affair with a man and that he
would resign from his position Nov. 15.
“My truth is that 1 am a gay Arnerican,”
McGreevey told journalists at a packed news
conference, asking forgiveness from his wife
who stood beside him during the press con
ference Aug. 10.
“Shamefully, I engaged in an adult con
sensual affair with another man, which vio
lates my bonds of matrimony,” the father of
two said. “It was wrong, it was.foolish, it was
inexcusable.”
Three days later media outlets reported
that McGreevey’s revelation was prompted
by the threat of blackmail.
Speaking under condition of anonymity,
two officials identified the'man involved in
the affair as Golan Cipel, an Israeli poet who
worked briefly for the governor as his home
land security adviser, despite having no
security experience.
One source, a senior McGreevey political
adviser, said Cipel threatened McGreevey
several weeks ago that unless he was paid
"millions of dollars,” Cipel would file a lawsuit
against the governor charging him with sexu
al harassment. That source said a lawyer for
Cipel “indicated that should the money be
paid, Cipel would disappear until after the
.2005 election.”
Allen Lowy, the attorney for Cipel,
announced the following day that a “verbal
deal” that would have stopped therfiling of a
lawsuit was struck with McGreevey’s attor
neys five minutes before the scheduled start
of the news conference.
“We had a deal,” Lowy said. “The next
thing I know my secretary told me he’s in the
process of resigning.
“1 was very surprised. 1 understood that
they were satisfied and it was over.”
Lowy confirmed the deal would have
involved the payment of money to Cipel, but
would not say how much money was offered
as part of the settlement. '
see NJ. GOVERNORon 7
N J. Governor James McGreevey and his
alleged former lover Golan Cipel (inset).
Victory Fund endorses lesbian
in N.C Senate race
Julia Boseman currently serves as Vice Chairman of the New Hanover County
Board of Commissioners
by Dave DeCico
The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund announced that its recent endorsement of five more
candidates puts its number of endorsed gay, lesbian and transgender candidates for public
office at 50 for 2004.
Among those endorsed is Julia Boseman, a Democrat running for N.C. state Senate in the
Ninth District, the district covers the same area she represents as the first openly LGBT offi
cial elected to the New Hanover County Board of
Commissioners.
Boseman was born and raised in New Hanover
County and graduated from the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington in 1989. She received her law
degree from North Carolina Central University in 1992
and has been a practicing attorney in Wilmington for
more than a decade. She was elected to the New
Hanover County Board of Commissioners in 2000 to
serve a four-year term and currently serves as vice
chairman.
She easily won her Senate primary with eight
percent of the vote and will face Woody White (R) in
the Nov. 2 general election.
White was recently appointed to the Ninth
District seat to fill the unexpired term of his law
partner, Patrick Ballantine, who is the Republican
nominee for governor.
During White’s brief time in office, he
If elected, Julia Boseman could
prove to be a formidable asset
against an effort to pass an
anti-gay marriage amendment
in N.C. in 2005.
see VICTORY FUND on 21
CSRA Rainbow
Alliance kicks
off billboard
campaign
Effort places gay supportive billboards
in Aiken, S.C., and Augusta, Ga.
by Donald Miller
AIKEN, S.C. — Over the past year gay
supportive billboards have popped up around
the Palmetto State. The Alliance for Full
Acceptance (AFFA) in Charleston initiated the
billboard campaign and the Columbia-based
South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Pride
Movement (SCGLPM) continued with the
efforts.
You may have seen the billboards before
— CtNotes reported on the initial program —
touting the phrase “Gay or Straight ... all
Americans deserve equal protection under
the law.”
Now Aiken and Augusta’s Central
Savannah River Area (CSRA) Rainbow
Alliance has picked up on the campaign and
placed three billboards in the Aiken area, with
pthers'to follow soon in Augusta.
The campaign kicked off July 25 as three p
see EQUALITYon 22