Volume 15 Issue 14 September 11 - 24, 2008 The Milwau ee LGBT Film/Video Festival Final Days • Complete Guide Inside iR i t Orf LIM nI ' i FALL ARTS PREVIEW WRAP UP LOGO Star Jennie McNulty Shines Bright in Superior Plus lots more in entertainment inside! WHY BE SHY? GET TESTED for HIV, at BESTD Clinic. It's free and it's fast, with no names and no needles.We also provide free STD testing, exams, and treatment. Staffed totally by volunteers and supported by donations, BESTD has been doing HIV outreach since 1987. We're open: Mondays 6 PM-8:30 PM: Free HIV & STD testing Tuesdays 6 PM-8:30 PM: All of the above plus STD exams and treatment Some services only available for men; visit our web site for details. BESTD cum(' Brady East STD Clinic 1240 E. Brady Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 414-272-2144 www.bestd.org DIES "Legal couple status may support a relationship," LESBIAN RIGHTS PIONEER DEL MARTIN researcher Robert-Jay Green said in a statement an- Lesbian Rights Pioneer Del Mar- things. nouncing the findings. tin Dies "I also never imagined there Surprise! Log Cabin Republicans Endorse Mc- San Francisco - Just two months would be a day that we would ac- Cain-Palhi Ticket: The Log Cabin Republicans after achieving a life-long dream, tually be able to get married," Lyon (LCR), who refused to endorse George W. Bush for the legal marriage to her partner of wrote. "I am devastated, but I take reelection in 2004, announced their endorsement of 55 years, lesbian rights pioneer Del some solace in knowing we were Senator John McCain for President of the United Martin - whose trailblazing activism able to enjoy the ultimate rite of States on September 2: LCR's board of directors spanned more than a half century - love and commitment before she voted 12-2 to endorse both McCain and Alaska Gov- died August 27 at a local hospice. passed." ernor Sarah Palin for Vice President. Martin was 87 and had been admit- 1972 In 1972 Martin co-founded "On the most important issue that LGBT Americans ted to the hospital two weeks earlier with Lyon the Alice B. Toklas faced in the last decade - the federal marriage amend- with a broken arm. Democratic Club, the first gay po- ment - Senator John McCain stood with us. Now we Martin began her crusade for les- litical club in the United States. stand with him," LCR President Patrick Sammon bian equality in 1955 by co-found- Martin also helped spearhead a said. Sammon avoided mentioning McCain's previ- ing the a lesbian social-turned-political organization successful campaign to get the American Psychiatric ous support of gay marriage bans at the state level and Daughters of Bilitis. The organization started a Association to remove homosexuality from its roster his public endorsement of similar measures coming newsletter, called The Ladder, which grew into a of mental illnesses in 1973. this November in California, Florida and the sena- magazine focused on lesbian politics and culture for Martin's activist reach also had extended into the tor's home state of Arizona. nearly two decades prior to Stonewall. feminist movement when she became the first open The LCR statement completely ignored the selec- first Alaska Martin and her life partner Phyllis Lyon, were lesbian to serve on the board of directors of the Na- tion of Palin as Vice-President. The -term a reading a speech written by legally wed June 16 by San Francisco Mayor Gavin tional Organization for Women. governor offered fiery House writer Matthew Scully the Newsom. Theirs was among the first same-sex nup- In 1995, Senator Dianne Feinstein named her as a veteran Bush White day as the LCR endorsement. She also is a fer- tials in California. The couple had been plaintiffs in delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, same vent evangelical Christian who signed her friends' the lawsuit that got the state ban on same-sex mar- where she and Lyon, focused attention on the needs high school yearbooks with Bible verses, slashed $1.1 riage lifted. of aging gays and lesbians. million from the most recent state budget for services "Ever since I met Del 55 years ago, I could never Though she always went by Del, Martin's given for unwed teenage mothers prior to learning her own imagine a day would come when she wouldn't be by name was Dorothy. She was born in San Francisco in daughter Bristol was pregnant, and is on record giv- my side," Lyon, 83, said in a statement released fol- 1921. Her first marriage, at age 19, was brief but pro- ing "God's reasons" for the war in Iraq. Palm's home Martin's passing. "I am so lucky to have duced a daughter, Kendra Mon. 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