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National: Millennium March Updates, p.27 1999: The Year’s Top Stories, p.4 Happy Holidays from The Front Page! Serving the Carolinas' Gay & Lesbian Communities for Twenty Years December 17. 1999 Bob Page Named to “Power 25” List The owner of Replacements Ltd. of Greensboro, a leading seller of old and new china, crystal and silver patterns has been chosen as one of die most influential out gay and lesbian executives in corporate America. Bob Page ranks 23rd on the Power 25 list, recently announced by the Gay Financial Network (gfii.com), which hon ors openly gay and lesbian executives who have advanced the cause of gays and les bians. Gfii.com is an online provider of financial and business news, information and services geared specifically for the gay and lesbian community. Also on the list are David Bohnett, founder and CEO of Geocities; Barry Diller, media mogul and; chairman: of tile USA Networks; Kathy Levinson, President and COO of e*trade; David Geffen, the movie and music producer who is chief executive of Dreamworks SKG as well as the David Geffen Foundation; Andrew Tobias, the treasurer of the National Democratic Committee and well-known author; Joan Garry, executive director of G.L.A.A.D; Brian Graden, executive vice president and head of Programming for MTV; and Steve Fuchs of Hampton Industries/Nautica. Liam Sullivan, a spokesperson for Replacements, told the Greensboro News Record (12/13/99), that Page “was ecstatic to be included in the community of all those entrepreneurs.” Page “has taken a national role” in urging the corporate world to support gay men and lesabiaris, according to gfh.com, and that work has been recognized by awards from the Triad Health Project and the Human Rights Campaign. Of the 600 employees at Replacement’s Ltd., more than 150 are gay. The company reported $70 million in sales during its last fiscal year. Selecting the Best Jeffrey L. Newman, President and COO of gfii.com,personally led a special research team at gfii.com, compiling a list of poten tial nominees from both the private busi ness sectors, as well as those at public and non-profit organizations. According to gfii.com, to be considered for the list indi viduals have to meet three criterion: 1. They “must not only exercise their cor porate influence to shape the direction in which their own organization is headed on issues affecting the gay and lesbian com munity, but are also in a position to serve as role models to the mainstream corporate community as well:” z.. dcmuo ucmg gay ur icsuiaii, cauii per son considered for the list must be “publicly out about their sexual orientation. This helps to reinforce the positive aspects of such gay and lesbian role models and cor porate influence:” and 3. The way in which the person used his or her sexual orientation and position of power together. “For instance, this year’s top corporate executive, Kathy Levinson, the president of E*Trade, easily could have remained silent about California’s Knight Initiative. Instead, risking public scrutiny, she publicly donated $300,000 to fight the pending legislation and has used her corpo rate clout to encourage others to do the same.” Of the owner and president of Replacements, Ltd., gfh.com said “If Robert L. Page was as successful at match ing couples as he is with finding hard-to find replacements for china, crystal and sil ver, he would surely be America’s most beloved gay businessman. “As it is, his company, Replacements Ltd., hosted one million visitors this year at its Web site, replacements.com. Gfii.com further noted that in 1981, Page left an accounting career to start Replacements Ltd. so he could pursue his continued on page 25 Bob Page Stars Come Out Against Knight: The stars of Will & Grace appear in a TV commercial opposing a California ballot initiative to ban gay marriages. Eric McCormack (Will), Debra Messing (Grace), Megan MullaHy (Karen) and openly gay actor Sean Hayes (Jack) are featured in a 30-seocnd spot opposing Proposition 22, an initiative on the March state ballot sponsored by Republican state Sen. William ‘Pete'' Knight. The ‘Limit on Marriage’ initiative would rewrite the state Constitution to specify that only marriages between a man and a woman are valid in California. E-mail comments to the cast of Will & Grace to wil landgrace@nbc.com. Wockner News photo by Bob Gofdon Ammiano Loses SF Mayoral Race By Bruce Mirken Contributing Writer After a campaign that felt like a crusade but in which he was outspent by roughly eight to one, openly gay San Francisco mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano lost deci sively to incumbent Mayor Willie Brown Dec. 14. But the feisty president of the city’s Board of Supervisors vowed to keep fight ing for the issues that propelled his candida cy — gentrification, affordable housing, open government and sensitivity to neigh borhood concerns — and made it clear he expects tto run again four years from now. “We have moved the mountain,” the can didate told the enthusiastic crowd at his election night party. “The mountain is still there, but we have moved it” With all but about 14,000 ballots count ed, Ammiano trailed Brown 59.8 percent to 40.1 percent. The uncounted votes could boost Ammiano a bit as most are “provi sional ballots”, which may include a high percentage of new voters registered by Ammiano’s campaign at the last minute and who did not receive polling place informa tion in the mail. But Brown’s victory by a healthy margin was not in doubt. Ammiano, a reluctant candidate, had entered the race as a write-in candidate just three weeks before the Nov. 2 general elec tion, following a months-long drive by activists to persuade him to run. To the astonishment of pollsters and even some of his supporters, he swept past two much bet ter financed opponents, riding a tide of grassroots enthusiasm to land a spot in the December runoff against Brown. But Ammiano’s army of some 4,000 vol unteers, many of them novices to politics, ultimately proved no match for the incum bent’s well-oiled campaign machine and massive fundraising advantage. “Ammiano was unable to flame the debate,” noted Tim Redmond, editor of the Bay Guardian, an continued on page 25 Next issue: January 7. Deadline: January 3.
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