Summer photo display Page 5 Vol.5, No. 10 August 1987 © 0Wisconsins Lesbian/Gav Newspaper Member: Madison Sustaining Fund United funding cut Society, that he had increased his MADISON—The United, Madi- support for the lesbian and gay sons only gay and lesbian advocacy agency, has had its 1988 funding cut community every year he had been in by the city of Madison by $3,000. office and, that if he were re-elected, he would continue that commitment. Ina July 20 City Human Resources In a July 15 letter explaining the Hearing, Pam Davis, Treasurer of the Board of the Directors; Kate Nolan, funding cuts, Lynn Haanen, Chair of co-President of the Board; and Cindy the Community Services Commis- sion, said that the "Commissions Desch, United coordinator, spoke recommendations are directed toward services responding to areas of major concern identified during the past year and with the potential for the greatest impact in meeting critical needs with the limited funds available." Davis countered at the hearing that The Madison AIDS Support Network new Board of Director: and officers for "gays and lesbians fit your categories 1987-1988: front, Marjorie Hurie, vice-president; Bob Enghagen. president; Bob of major concerns by their sheer Doornek, treasurer; back, Tim Tillotson; Doug Fletsch; Kelley Banjo: Terence numbers and—since we have relative- Gilles; and Tim Holthaus, treasurer. ; ly few laws banning discrimination against us-1 submit that our need other funding. For 1988, it will have year totaled $824,860. S. for advocacy services is a critical one. Haanen applauded the discussions $19,200 in other funding, combined "The United takes cases that the occurring between The United and with the Citys allocation, for a total di7,T(4w Pam Danis Equal Opportunities Commission the Gay/Lesbian Resource Center budget of $32,200. against the funding cuts. wont touch. Our clients are often regarding a merger (a move which Davis said that The United has not For 1988, The United requested closeted for fear of discrimination. subsequently failed, though discus- gotten an offer to change the $17,500 from the City and received These are people who slip through the sions are still underway regarding a proposed allocation, though the $13,000, $5,000 to be used for ad- cracks. The system is inaccessible to merger of counseling services). Haan- Commission could change its recom- vocacy and $8,000 to be used for them without an advocate .. 1 en wrote that the Commission be- mendation at a later date. Davis, counseling. For 1987, The United had would ask the members of the panel lieves that the agency (The United] however, added, "I am not optimistic received $16,000 from the City, to be to consider whether 20.000 oppressed has greater potential for supporting that such a change will be made." equally divided between advocacy people constitute a major concern?" its services through private She said that members of the board and counseling. of the United will be talking with Haanen cited in her letter to The fundraising." At the hearing, Davis cited Mayor United that Human Resources fund- Since 1986, The Uniteds funding Mayor Sensenbrenner or his aides in Sensenbrenners statement. made at ing proposals for 1988 constituted a has diminished from 56% by the city the near future. to 40% in 1988. In 1986 it received en April I mayoral candidates de- 5291 increase over 1987 funding. Gene Thomas is co-President of bate sponsored by the Ten Percent Available funds for allocation (his $17,100 from the City and $13,570 in The Uniteds Board of Directors. • Will UW end ROTC discrimination? MADISON—An ad hoc committee policy as well as the intent of state the majority with heterosexual prefer- . land] it is surely rational to appointed by the University of Wis- law; and, if political and legal ences. It is hardly irrational to con- decide not to send people into a consin-Madison Faculty Senate is changes fail, to discontinue the clude that one more set of problems jurisdiction where their conduct is moving closer to approving a docu- universitys affiliation with the can be avoided by the exclusion /of likely to violate a law that is meet which would call for termina- ROTC Programs. gays]." constitutional." lion of the universitys ROTC con- As a land grant university, UW- Baldwin also cites last years Su- As to AIDS-related concerns, the tracts if it continues to discriminate Madison is required to offer ROTC preme Court decision of the Bowers majority report cites that, since against gays and lesbians. or a substitute program. vs. Hardwick case, in which the court screening for the HIV infection is The committee, formally known as Villasenor said he expects the already done, this is a more effective the "Ad Hoc Committee on Relation- committees final vote on the above way of controlling health problems, ship between the University of Wis- recommendations to pass, probably for "it also excludes infected in- consin-Madison and ROTC Pro- by a 6-2 vote. dividuals who are not gay." grams in regard to University Non- Professor Gordon Baldwin, Villasenor has sought the help of discrimination Policies," was ap- ROTCs official representative on the Wisconsin Senator William Prox- pointed last year and is expected to committee, has already written drafts mire. Proxmire wrote that, in regard reach its final conclusions in August. of a minority opinion. to changing policies at a national According to committee member Baldwin is a professor of law as level, "there is no likelihood that the Rick Villasenor, the committee will well as director of ROTC Officer current ROTC policy on sexual orien- make three recommendations, all of Education on the Madison campus. tation will be changed . not with which have been approved on straw In a recent interview with Isthmus, this Administration." Proxmire urged ballots in recent meetings. Baldwin described his politics as that the issue be decided "locally by The recommendations, according probably more conservative than the University and student body." to a draft of the final report, call for U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee The committees recommendations the Faculty Senate and UW-Madison Robert Bork. will go to the Faculty Senate this fall. administration to challenge the legal In his minority report, Baldwin Villasenor said that he hoped the basis for exclusion based on sexual cites traditional arguments for the Faculty Senate would take "a fair and orientation; to pursue vigorously, by exclusions of gays: Members of the enlightened view" of the report, but political means, a change in prohibi- military often live in close and con- Risk Villasenor acknowledged that "well have to tive statutes based on sexual orienta- fined quarters—on ships, subma- upheld Georgias right to its sodomy fight against the homophobic and lion and/or conduct, since they vio- sines, in crowded barracks. etc. We laws. Baldwin writes, "Some of our blindly pro-military forces in our late University of Wisconsin-Madison have enough difficulty coping with military bases are in Georgia midst." • Milwaukee mayoral profiles: Dennis Conta 1980 when he ran against the current School, from which he received a Editors note: This is the first in a SPEAK ITS NAME Mayor, Henry Maier. That time Masters Degree in Public Adminis- series of profiles/interviews with Mil- Conta lost. Now, in 1987, he is tration. He holds also a Masters in waukee mayoral candidates on gay/ MILWAUKEE—Dennis 1. Con- running again, believing, as he says, Social Work from UW-Milwaukee. lesbian rights in Milwaukee and Wis- las office in Milwaukees Germania that Milwaukee is ready for a change He served eight years as a Democrat consin. This project has been funded Building has large windows that offer after 28 years of Maier. in the Wisconsin Assembly. by a grant to SPEAK ITS NAME a good view of City Hall. Conta looks Conta was born and raised in the (The mayoral election to be held in from the Wisconsin Community and hopes that one day soon he will Bayview section of Southside Mil- April, 1988, is non-partisan.) Fund. reside there as Mayor of the Cream waukee. He attended Ripon College. In his campaign, Conta is actively City. He has had that dream since He went on to Harvards Kennedy continued on page 3 Pop 2 OUT: August 1987 "Homo" Least Offensive—In the No Roast Beef for Georgia—A wake of a crackdown by the FCC on roast beef dressed in high heels was broadcast obscenity, Variety reported the disqualified from the Miss Georgia pa- results of a survey of 92 radio stations. In a Nutshell geant, according to Gay Community According to Philadelphia Gay News, News. The roast beef, sponsored by a 48% put bitch in the "cant use" or college newspaper, met, however, all of "probAbly cant use category; 43% nixed the pageant requirements: never married, "bastard," but only 31% found "home ers because passengers would think Elder Beastly BellStie Boys Pay Up—Aft- never cohabited with a man, never had an to be offensive to prevailing community er Beastie Boys member Adam Horowitz gay and associate him with AIDS. Elders abortion and had no plans to marry standards. The words boobs" and said in a magazine interview that he attorneys and the Canadian Union of before the end of its reign. "crotch" received almost 100% accept- "hates faggots," believes gays are psycho- Public Employees countered that Wardair MCC. logically ill and are child molesters, a New was unreasonably restricting Elders per- "Straight" Shirts in East Lans- sonal freedom. York gay radio program exposed the ing—The Michigan State University Di!dos for Illinois—A bill which bigotry and called up CBS Records to Lesbian/Gay Council has filed a griev- would have outlawed over-the-counter complain.