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April 3, 1907 • vol. _ 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL A V a lir la I II la 1 a ' AM 'A el MI 1 Ili I I MI -AN W / • Am. IIIk I Poi": II I Md. repeal effort fails in committee; delay in vote blamed by Rick Harding , The Judiciary Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates Saturday defeated, by a vote of 15 to 7, a bill to repeal the state's sodomy law. Supporters of the bill expressed surprise over the lopsided voting . margin and attributed the resounding loss largely to the month-long lag between hearings on the bill and the committee vote. One committee member, who asked not . to be identified, said committee Chairman William Home (D-Eastern Shore), who . had gone on record opposing the bill, apparently delayed the vote on the bill to increase its chance of failure. Delegate Ken Montague (D-Baltimore City), who led support for the bill in the - committee, said that shortly after the bill's hearing on March 4, there appeared to be enough votes on the committee to pass the legislation. "But as the weeks wore on, and as those on the,committee who opposed the bill • lobbied hard against it," Montague said, support dwindled. Montague called the delay in voting on the bill "unusual" and noted that the committee voted much earlier on several bills which received committee hearings after the sodomy bill hearing. ' Continued on page 6 Direct mail to Gay markets: 'How did they get my name?' From groups to guessing zip codes ' by Katherine Bourdonnay and Larry Hartsell - When you go out to pick up your mail and find a fundraising letter from a group you have never heard' of before, do you pause for a second and ask yourself: How did they get my name? To answer that question it helps if you have an appreciation for just how large and sophisticated the direct mail industry is in this country. According to Karen Wysocki, spokeswoman for Direct Marketing Association in New York, $63 billion in the sale of goods and services was generated through direct mail in- 1983, the last,,year for which statistics were available. An estimated $31.9 billion, was raised for charities in 1985 through direct mail solicitation. With that kincl of money at stake, • compiling lists of people *likely to contribute or buy has become big and Continued on page 12 Utah DJ took her bar's list to court Gay and Lesbian membership lists are "a multi-edged sword," according to Babs DeLay, a Salt Lake City disc jockey who felt the sword's sharp edge. DeLay warned that neither bar owners nor patrons should take membership lists lightly. DeLay, who became entangled in a basketball coach's 1984 libel lawsuit, spoke to The Washington Blade about the role a membership list played in the Outcome of that trial. Jn 1983, DeLay was a Salt Lake City disc jockey with a successful radio program and a reputation for packing • them in at Puss 'n' Boots, a Lesbian bar where she worked. DeLay says she .X offered more. B "I was a performing disc jockey," she • says, explaining that she sang along with the songs and kept the patrons entertained. On an average Saturday Continued on page 12 Britt narrows the gap; but 50 percent are still undecided by Lou Chibbaro Jr. and Lisa M. Keen San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt's campaign to become the nation's first open Gay to be elected to Congress as a non-incumbent is entering its, final three days; and results of a poll just released by the daily San Francisco Examiner show Britt trailing Opponent Nancy Pelosi by 1.1 points. Britt supporters, while questioning the poll's reliability, say the poll nevertheless indicates that Britt has narrowed Pelosi's lead. An. Examiner poll taken two weeks ago showed Britt trailing by 18 points. The latest poll notwithstanding, the campaign to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Rep: Sala Burton (D-Calif.) has generated a great deal of activity and controversy within the Gay community. With the special election .set for Tuesday, both Britt and Pelosi supporters agree that the Examiner poll correctly shows that the race has settled into a contest between AO and Pelosi. The 12 other candidates in the race for the 5th Congressional seat have slipped below, 3 percentage points or less each, according to the poll. But while much of the attention in the final week of the campaign.has been focused on polls, a controversy has persisted within a segment .of Gay community which claims that not enough attention has been given to- Britt's shortcomings. While the overwhelming majority of Gay activists are endorsing Britt, others tontend that a considerable number of Gays have concerns about Britt's shortcomings as an elected official. They also contend that Britt supporters are "pressuring" activists .to endorse Britt publicly but that a number of activists who have done so are saying privately that they will not vote for him. Kim Corsaro, editor of the Gay monthly Coming Up!, said Britt's eight-year record oh the city's Board of Supervisors indicates he has failed to push effectively for rn legislation of interest to the Gay community. Corsaro and San Francisco activist Ron Baker have charged that Dritt has shown a lack of interest in working with many local Gay groups: Long-time Lesbian activist Del Martin says Britt has particular difficulty working with Lesbian city officials. Jo Daly, a Lesbian activist who served on the city's police commission for several years, said Britt sat on complaints from the Gay community about police treatment rather than bring the complaints up with her. Juanita Owens, who took Daly's seat on the commission, said she finds Britt "approachable," although there is "not a lot of dialogue" between her office ind Britt's. Owens and others say some in the Gay community are still bitter over allegations that Britt lobbied Mayor Dianne Feinstein to appoint hiiirto replace Harvey Milk after Milk's assassination in 1979. They say the Gay community at the time was pushing for another Milk associate, Anne Kronenberg, to get the job. Baker„ in a February 23 column in the New York Native, said Britt exhibits "weak" leadership. As an example, he said in 1984, Britt appeared to waffle on whether the city should close bathhouses because of the ADIS epidemic. "As the debate raged on and the tide moved from one side of the argument to the other," wrote Baker, "Britt made ameliorating noises, first to one side, then to the other, following the tide." Baker and others also charge that Britt "dropped the ball" on the highly controversial "domestic partnership" bill in 1982. The bill was approved by the Board but quickly vetoed by Feinstein. Baker complained that Britt was out of town on a speaking tour for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, of which he was an officer, at the time of the veto and that he failed to return to the city to orchestrate an override. Britt supporters refute But Britt and his supporters argue that there were not enough votes to override Feinstein's veto of the domestic partnership bill and say that most of the criticism of his leadership as supervisor has been both exaggerated and motivated by various players within Gay community's internecine factions. A number of Lesbian feminist attorneys Continued on page 7 Waldorf-Astoria takes a walk on the wild side 3 Grave marker's mystery is unveiled 7 Gay alumni groups bask in popularity 11 PBS to air documentary on Rita Mae Brown. 19
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Transcript | April 3, 1907 • vol. _ 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL A V a lir la I II la 1 a ' AM 'A el MI 1 Ili I I MI -AN W / • Am. IIIk I Poi": II I Md. repeal effort fails in committee; delay in vote blamed by Rick Harding , The Judiciary Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates Saturday defeated, by a vote of 15 to 7, a bill to repeal the state's sodomy law. Supporters of the bill expressed surprise over the lopsided voting . margin and attributed the resounding loss largely to the month-long lag between hearings on the bill and the committee vote. One committee member, who asked not . to be identified, said committee Chairman William Home (D-Eastern Shore), who . had gone on record opposing the bill, apparently delayed the vote on the bill to increase its chance of failure. Delegate Ken Montague (D-Baltimore City), who led support for the bill in the - committee, said that shortly after the bill's hearing on March 4, there appeared to be enough votes on the committee to pass the legislation. "But as the weeks wore on, and as those on the,committee who opposed the bill • lobbied hard against it," Montague said, support dwindled. Montague called the delay in voting on the bill "unusual" and noted that the committee voted much earlier on several bills which received committee hearings after the sodomy bill hearing. ' Continued on page 6 Direct mail to Gay markets: 'How did they get my name?' From groups to guessing zip codes ' by Katherine Bourdonnay and Larry Hartsell - When you go out to pick up your mail and find a fundraising letter from a group you have never heard' of before, do you pause for a second and ask yourself: How did they get my name? To answer that question it helps if you have an appreciation for just how large and sophisticated the direct mail industry is in this country. According to Karen Wysocki, spokeswoman for Direct Marketing Association in New York, $63 billion in the sale of goods and services was generated through direct mail in- 1983, the last,,year for which statistics were available. An estimated $31.9 billion, was raised for charities in 1985 through direct mail solicitation. With that kincl of money at stake, • compiling lists of people *likely to contribute or buy has become big and Continued on page 12 Utah DJ took her bar's list to court Gay and Lesbian membership lists are "a multi-edged sword," according to Babs DeLay, a Salt Lake City disc jockey who felt the sword's sharp edge. DeLay warned that neither bar owners nor patrons should take membership lists lightly. DeLay, who became entangled in a basketball coach's 1984 libel lawsuit, spoke to The Washington Blade about the role a membership list played in the Outcome of that trial. Jn 1983, DeLay was a Salt Lake City disc jockey with a successful radio program and a reputation for packing • them in at Puss 'n' Boots, a Lesbian bar where she worked. DeLay says she .X offered more. B "I was a performing disc jockey," she • says, explaining that she sang along with the songs and kept the patrons entertained. On an average Saturday Continued on page 12 Britt narrows the gap; but 50 percent are still undecided by Lou Chibbaro Jr. and Lisa M. Keen San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt's campaign to become the nation's first open Gay to be elected to Congress as a non-incumbent is entering its, final three days; and results of a poll just released by the daily San Francisco Examiner show Britt trailing Opponent Nancy Pelosi by 1.1 points. Britt supporters, while questioning the poll's reliability, say the poll nevertheless indicates that Britt has narrowed Pelosi's lead. An. Examiner poll taken two weeks ago showed Britt trailing by 18 points. The latest poll notwithstanding, the campaign to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Rep: Sala Burton (D-Calif.) has generated a great deal of activity and controversy within the Gay community. With the special election .set for Tuesday, both Britt and Pelosi supporters agree that the Examiner poll correctly shows that the race has settled into a contest between AO and Pelosi. The 12 other candidates in the race for the 5th Congressional seat have slipped below, 3 percentage points or less each, according to the poll. But while much of the attention in the final week of the campaign.has been focused on polls, a controversy has persisted within a segment .of Gay community which claims that not enough attention has been given to- Britt's shortcomings. While the overwhelming majority of Gay activists are endorsing Britt, others tontend that a considerable number of Gays have concerns about Britt's shortcomings as an elected official. They also contend that Britt supporters are "pressuring" activists .to endorse Britt publicly but that a number of activists who have done so are saying privately that they will not vote for him. Kim Corsaro, editor of the Gay monthly Coming Up!, said Britt's eight-year record oh the city's Board of Supervisors indicates he has failed to push effectively for rn legislation of interest to the Gay community. Corsaro and San Francisco activist Ron Baker have charged that Dritt has shown a lack of interest in working with many local Gay groups: Long-time Lesbian activist Del Martin says Britt has particular difficulty working with Lesbian city officials. Jo Daly, a Lesbian activist who served on the city's police commission for several years, said Britt sat on complaints from the Gay community about police treatment rather than bring the complaints up with her. Juanita Owens, who took Daly's seat on the commission, said she finds Britt "approachable," although there is "not a lot of dialogue" between her office ind Britt's. Owens and others say some in the Gay community are still bitter over allegations that Britt lobbied Mayor Dianne Feinstein to appoint hiiirto replace Harvey Milk after Milk's assassination in 1979. They say the Gay community at the time was pushing for another Milk associate, Anne Kronenberg, to get the job. Baker„ in a February 23 column in the New York Native, said Britt exhibits "weak" leadership. As an example, he said in 1984, Britt appeared to waffle on whether the city should close bathhouses because of the ADIS epidemic. "As the debate raged on and the tide moved from one side of the argument to the other," wrote Baker, "Britt made ameliorating noises, first to one side, then to the other, following the tide." Baker and others also charge that Britt "dropped the ball" on the highly controversial "domestic partnership" bill in 1982. The bill was approved by the Board but quickly vetoed by Feinstein. Baker complained that Britt was out of town on a speaking tour for the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, of which he was an officer, at the time of the veto and that he failed to return to the city to orchestrate an override. Britt supporters refute But Britt and his supporters argue that there were not enough votes to override Feinstein's veto of the domestic partnership bill and say that most of the criticism of his leadership as supervisor has been both exaggerated and motivated by various players within Gay community's internecine factions. A number of Lesbian feminist attorneys Continued on page 7 Waldorf-Astoria takes a walk on the wild side 3 Grave marker's mystery is unveiled 7 Gay alumni groups bask in popularity 11 PBS to air documentary on Rita Mae Brown. 19 |