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NEWS
Speakers urge letters
to Senators on Bork
One anti-abortion protester arrested at rally
Gay leaders
praise AIDS
policy bills
Introduced by Waxman
A newly-introduced bill in Congress
providing for increased availability of
confidential AIDS counseling and HIV
antibody testing received the endorse-
ment of two national gay and lesbian
rights groups.
Spokespersons for the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force and the Human
Rights Campaign Fund indicated sup-
port for the proposals, introduced in the
House of Representatives by Rep. Henry
Waxman (D-CA) and in the Senate by
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA). The
bills would provide $400 million a year
for expanded confidential testing and
counseling, and would provide broad
safeguards against discrimination of
those who test positive for the presence
of HIV antibodies.
Jeff Levi, executive director of
NGLTF, praised the legislation’s ap-
proach. “Counseling and testing are vol-
See PROPOSED, Page 5
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By Dennis Vercher
Raucous anti-abortion demonstrators
tried but failed to disrupt impassioned
speeches by an array of local, state and
national progressive activists and lead-
ers at a rally held Sunday to protest the
nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to
the Supreme Court.
Nearly 400 people braved tempera-
tures near the century mark during the
two-hour rally in Lee Park, at which
speakers condemned Bork’s ideological
stands on civil rights issues and his
notion that the Constitution should be
interpreted solely on the basis of the
original intent of the document’s fram-
ers. Several speakers encouraged atten-
dees to write to Senators and express
objections to Bork’s confirmation, and to
hold Senators accountable should Bork
be confirmed.
Bork, 60, was nominated by President
Reagan to replace retiring Justice
Lewis F. Powell, who is leaving the
Court due to poor health. Bork is a
former professor of law at Yale Univer-
sity, and was U.S. solicitor General from
1973 to 1977. The Solicitor General rep-
resents the government in cases before
the Supreme Court.
“We have stood in fear of this moment
since 1980,” declared Dallas city council-
A Texas Department of Health re-
quest for a half-million dollars in fed-
eral AIDS prevention funds is far too
low, said gay officials who allege that
the Health Department consistently
fails to appreciate the scope of the AIDS
epidemic in Texas.
Mike Richards, AIDS educator for
the Dallas-based AIDS Resource Cen-
ter, and Glen Maxey, state lobbyist for
gay/lesbian concerns, also said TDH’s
federal funding requests for AIDS con-
stantly fall below the requests of other
states with similar levels of the disease.
“The Department of Health is just
twiddling their thumbs,” Maxey told
The Dallas Morning News. In Texas, he
said, “We’re not dealing with the fact
that AIDS. . . is going to mushroom on a
curve that New York and California
Norma McCorvey, Roe v. Wade plaintiff.
person Lori Palmer. “[President Rea-
gan] knows how to frighten us out of our
Constitutional wits, and that fright is
Judge Robert Bork.” Palmer con-
demned Bork’s views on abortion, civil
rights, affirmative action, one person/
one vote and the right to privacy.
“The Constitution is a flexible tool to
serve our changing nation through all
times,” Palmer said, disparaging what
she called Bork’s “absolute arrogance”
in thinking that “he alone possesses the
See SPEAKERS, Page 15
were on two or three years ago.”
And Richards added, “The depart-
ment has an overall laidback attitude.
Why are they not asking for funds that
we can prove we legitimately need?”
The two men said their comments
were spurred by the fact that Florida
and New Jersey, states with AIDS rates
similar to Texas, consistently request
and receive more federal AIDS money.
For $24 million in federal funds made
available earlier this year, they point
out, Florida requested $3 million and
received $2 million. The Texas Depart-
ment of Health, however, requested only
$1.3 million and received $980,000.
TDH’s current $510,000 request com-
pares with Florida’s request for $2.6
See REQUEST, Page 5
Buchmeyer
to address
21.06 case
The federal district court judge
who authored a 1982 decision tem-
porarily striking down the Texas
“homosexual conduct” law will ad-
dress a special DGA banquet, DGA
President William Waybourn an-
nounced. District judge Jerry Buch-
meyer of Dallas will speak at the gay
rights awareness event, planned for
Saturday, Sept. 12 at the Fairmont
Hotel.
Judge Buchmeyer’s decision in the
Baker v. Wade case was handed
down August 17, 1982, overturning
section 21.06 of the state penal code,
which Buchmeyer’s opinion claimed
denied homosexuals the Constitu-
tional rights of privacy and equal
protection. Although a 3-judge panel
of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld Buchmeyer’s ruling, the en-
tire Fifth Circuit chose to re-hear the
appeal, ultimately reversing the deci-
sion and re-instating the Texas sod-
omy law. The Supreme Court re-
fused to hear an appeal sponsored by
the Texas Human Rights Founda-
tion, allowing the Fifth Circuit’s en
banc decision to stand.
Buchmeyer said he would use the
speaking engagement as an oppor-
tunity to comment on the appeals of
his original decision, which has been
hailed by legal and jurisprudence
professionals as a landmark gay
rights ruling.
Waybourn praised Buchmeyer as
“someone who significantly raised
the self-esteem of gays across Texas
with his 1982 ruling when gays
needed it most.”
Invitations to the dinner are being
mailed to gay leaders and organiza-
tions across the state, but anyone
may attend. Tickets are $50 per per-
son. For details, contact DGA at
528-4233.
U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer
Gay officialssayTDH losing
out on federal AIDS money
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Friday, August 7, 1987
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