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Deputy Secretary Micque Glitman
today, with the March 1987 OITM
that pictured her on its cover.

ITM was then reporting on the

introduction of H.247, the les-
bian and gay anti-discrimination
bill. Guess who is at the press con-
ference table: Howdy Russell,
then-Rep. Micque Glitman, and
Tim Mazur from the ACLU.

Glitman, now the Deputy

back

March 1  

Secretary of VTrans (and married
to photographer Glenn Russell and
the mother of two children), said in
a recent interview, “I was thinking
a lot about it during the civil
unions debate. I have a hard time
appreciating what a major shift this
has been for so many people. I was
stunned then by how much contro-
versy it generated. I couldn’t
believe how many people were
opposed to it. Who would oppose a
law that made discrimination ille-
gal?” She added, “I used to
describe it as if someone threw
this bill that was similar to a
grenade into the hall of the House.
It just exploded. One legislator
came up to me and said, ‘Why are
you doing this? You’re not one of
them are you?’”
- Above all, Glitman

recalled, “It was a fun time, break-
ing new ground.”

The bill eventually passed ‘

— afier more years of hearings at
which the radical right spoke their
slanders about our character and
more and more of us stood up and
spoke our names and told what it i
was like to be thrown out of apart-

 

ments, threatened with physical
harm, and fired from jobs simply
because of being gay or lesbian.
Finally, our persistence and our

votes and the truth of our lives won ‘

the day.

Also in that issue:

coverage of the introduction of the
HTLV-Ill (now known as HIV)
anti-discrimination bill — also spon-
sored by Micque Glitman (and
passed the following year as H.460
and signed into law by then-
Governor Madeleine Kunin at a
“gala AIDS benefit”); a how-to-
use-a-condom article from Terje
Anderson of Vermont CARES; let-
ters about domestic violence within
lesbian and gay relationships; a
piece on coming out at Vermont
Law School; an article on the New
Alliance Party (a national third
party with a radical-left line on
class and race, whose dogma
included gayness as a “political
choice”); and the news that UVM
was considering adding gays, les-
bians and bisexuals to its nondis-
crimination policy statement V

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he Vermont Pioneers, a
I Burlington-based gay ice
hockey team, won the gold

medal at last month’s Gay Hockey
Tournament in Montreal. In only its
third tournament appearance and
with a team that includes members
from Ottawa, New York, and New
Hampshire as well as Vennont, the
Pioneers defeated the Washington
(DC) Nationals 3-1 in the
Recreational Division championship
game.

Washington scored first to
take a l-nothing lead. But Vermont
came roaring back with three unan- ,
swered goals.

. According to Paul Kaiser,
who plays right wing on the team,
there were eight teams in their divi-
sion. The Vemiont Pioneers (“We’re
the state that’s pioneering civil
unions is where we got the name,” he
said) played five games in three days
on their drive to the gold. “Our first
game was Friday at 10 p.m.; our sec-
ond at 9 Saturday morning, then the
third at 11 a.m. We were dying by
that last day, when we played at l
p.m., and the championship at 4

_ Teams from Quebec,
Montreal, New York City, and
Washington, DC, along with a
“World” team were among those who
went down to defeat as the
Vermonters skated to victory. Kaiser
laughingly agreed that his team’s win
could be characterized as a
“Cinderella story,” since the “mostly
30-something” team plays together
only at tournaments. “We were in our

    

Vermont Team Takes Gold in

Northeast

third tournament playing against
teams that’ve played in these tourna-

ments for eight or ten years.”

Kaiser and some friends
skate in a local Full Stride league and
decided to put together a team for
gay tournament play. They’d like to
put together a local gay and lesbian
team in a local lesbian and gay
league. “We’re open to anyone, we’d
even take straight people.”

The Pioneers played their
first tournament in New York City
last summer. The second tournament
was last October in Toronto. Kaiser
says that although his teammates are
“pretty competitive weekend war-

Gay Hockey
Tournament

riors,” the locker room atmosphere is
“light and easy.” “We joke around a
lot. That’s what makes it such ajoy
to win and go to these things. Our
team has great chemistry.”

Each player was awardeda
gold medal, and the team’s name wil
be engraved on the championship
cup, which remains in Montreal.

“Another goal of ours is I0
host a tournament in the future, and
we are developing a web site,” said
Kaiser. V

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