An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles on legal advocacy efforts for gay rights around the country and the five big gay rights law firms - Lambda Legal Defense Firm, National Gay Rights Advocates, Lesbian Rights Project, Texas Human Rights Foundation, and Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders - and analysis of how AIDS changed the legal landscape for the gay rights movement, an anti-discrimination executive order in Washington State, homophobia in Georgia fueled by AIDS phobia as that state's attorney general appeals a sodomy law case previously repealed by the courts citing a need for the law in order to 'protect' society from sexually transmitted diseases, a holiday gift drive benefiting AIDS patients in local hospitals organized by the local PFLAG chapter, the capture of lesbian peace activist Judith McDaniel by Contras on the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border, reviews of gay interest media, and ads for gay-friendly businesses, events, and groups., Volume 17, Number 1