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Arkansas sodomy law tossed out
U.S. Supreme
Court asked to
review Texas law
Lambda Legal to file papers next
week appealing 1998 sodomy
convictions of 2 Harris County men
By Dennis Vercher
Dallas Voice Staff
The U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to
review the case of two Harris County men
convicted in 1998 of violating the Texas
"homosexual conduct" law.
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund said it would file the request with the
high court next week, after two state appeals
courts rejected defense attorneys' claims that
the sodomy law violates the right to privacy
and equal treatment.
"I am very excited about proceeding for-
See APPEAL on PAGE 13
State Supreme Court says statute
applying only to gays violates
right to privacy, equal treatment
By Dennis Vercher
Dallas Voice Staff
An Arkansas law barring sex acts between s
consenting adults of the same gender is uncon- <£
stitutional, the state's supreme court ruled last I
Friday. jj
The 5-2 decision upheld a ruling by Pulaski |
County Circuit Judge David Bogard that j
struck down the 1977 law. In a suit brought by o
seven gay and lesbian plaintiffs, Bogard ruled £
on March 23, 2001, that the law violated con- i
stitutional guarantees of privacy and equal i*
treatment.
The state attorney general had appealed
Bogard's decision to the Arkansas Supreme
Court.
In a 21-page opinion written by Associate
Justice Annabelle Clinton Imber, the high court
said that the state is not permitted "to enforce
a majority morality on persons whose conduct
does not harm others." The court based its
opinion on the Arkansas Equal Rights
Amendment, which it said "serves to protect
Susan Sommer, who repre-
sented the seven gay plain-
tiffs, called the decision "a
great victory for Arkansas."
minorities at the hands of majorities."
One of the plaintiffs, Randy McCain of
Sherwood, called the ruling an important vic-
See ARKANSAS on Page 23
New HIV drug produces dramatic results
1-20, available next year, shown
effective in patients who have
exhausted other treatment options
By Emma Ross
Associated Press
BARCELONA, Spain — A new drug that
attacks the AIDS virus in an entirely different
Way could dramatically restore the health of
HTV patients whose infections have outfoxed
all existing medicines, research indicates.
Studies presented Monday at the 14th
International AIDS Conference found that
patients for whom current drugs had stopped
working were twice as likely to have virus con-
centrations decrease below detectable levels if
they added the new medicine, known as enfu-
virtide, or T-20, to
their cocktail.
Experts said the
drug, expected to
be on the market
next year, could
save the lives of
people who have
exhausted treat-
ment options.
"If you have multi-
ple drug resistant
virus, the disease
will progress. We have plenty of patients that
are dying with multidrug resistant virus," said
Dr. Robert Siliciano, professor of medicine at
Johns Hopkins University, who w'as not con-
nected with the study.
"We have people lining up, waiting for this
drug to become available," he said.
Previous studies have estimated about 15
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percent of HIV patients have virus strains that
are immune to all current types of drugs.
James Locke, 50, of London, was one such
patient. He contracted HIV in 1984 and by the
mid-1990s, his virus started to show resistance.
By 2000, the side effects of the drugs were so
bad he had to stop taking them. In April of that
year, he enrolled in the T-20 study.
"It was really quite remarkable. Within
three months my viral load dropped substan-
tially, to the point of almost undetectable,"
Locke said. "What the\ [the scientists] have
done is given me hope, and more importantly
they've brought back my dreams."
Current HIV drugs block either of two sub-
stances the virus uses to make new copies of
itself once it is inside a blood cell. Over the last
seven years, those drugs have turned HIV
infection from a death sentence into a manage-
able chronic disease, but scientists say the
See DRUG on PAGE 29
FEATURE ^
Gay retailers Mark ym
Brian Sonna and Larry &
Grocedose branch out
from their Deep Ellum
gift store and set up
a second outlet in
downtown Dallas.
STAGE
With her new show,
Shut Up and Love Me,
performance artist
Karen Finley continues
to shock audiences by
examining attitudes
toward sexual taboos.
BOOKS
David Nimmons pens a
thought-provoking read
about the gay commu-
nity regarding domestic
violence, altruistic
benevolence and innate
superficiality.
PROFILE
Dallas leather leader
Mark Frazier receives
NLA's Lifetime
Achievement Award for j
his many contributions
to the kink and leather J,
community. Si
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