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Jewish/Lesbian Feminist Scholar to Speed

Nationally known lesbian feminist
activist/writer/teacher Evelyn Torton Beck
will make two Vermont appearances Oct.
14 ‘and 15, sponsored by Vermont New
Jewish Agenda’s feminist task force, with a
grant from the Haymarket Fund.

On Friday, Oct. 14, Beck will speak on
“Insider/Outsiders: Feminism and Jewish
Community” at Temple Sinai in Burlington
after services with begin at 8 p.m. The
public is welcome.

On Saturday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m.,
Beck will speak on “Judaism, Justice and
Feminist Community” at the Unitarian

Gay Natl News from page3

“Behavior like Circle K’s under-

scores the need for federal AIDS anti-dis-
crimination legislation,” said Basile. “If
the company had issued a policy exclud-
ing Black people with sickle cell anemia
they would be roundly rcpudiaated. This
is the same thing against gay people.”

Anti-Gay Humphrey Amendment From
Appropriation Bill; Federal Aids Pro-
grams Boosted

Washington, D.C., August 9... A
House-Senate conference has deleted the
anti—gay amendment that would have de-
nied federal funds to any eduction, health,
or research program that called homosexu-
ality “normal,” “natural,” or “healthy.”
The U.S. Senate had passed the am-
emdment, sponsored by Gordon
Humphrey (R-N.H.), last month by 82-15.

The conference resolved other differ-
ences between the House and Senate ver-
sions of the appropriations bill, and boosted
federal funds available for AIDS programs.

Church in Montpelier. A $5 donation is
requested (sliding scale $3—8). Childcare
will be provided if requested by calling
Michele Marcotte (229-0417) by Oct. 7. l

Beck may be best known as the editoi
of Nice Jewish Girls: aLesbian Anthology. 3
She has also published widely on amt];
Semitism, racism and homophobia. At that
University of Maryland, she is the directoil
of the Women’s Studies Program and at.‘
filiate faculty in Jewish Studies.

As a lesbian feminist thinker, shehasi
been interviewed by such magazines as Oll }
Our Backs, Lilith and Gay Communityl‘

FDA Agrees to Lambda's Demand tel
make AIDS-Related Treatment Avail-l
able to Patients

(New York, N.Y., August 15, 1988)l
Lambda Legal Defense and Education

Fund announced today that it has obtained ',,

apromise from the Food and Drug Admini- I
stration to vastly expand the availability of
trimetrexate, a treatment for pneumcystisl
carinii pneumonia, the disease which
causes the death of the majority of people.
with AIDS.

The FDA has also agreed to establisha ,‘
registry providing information on AIDS~
related treatment research and has issuedt
policy statement regarding the unethical\
use of placebos in research on treatmentfoi 
AIDS. !

Lamda Legal Defense and Education
Fund is currently celebrating its fifteenlhl
year as the nation’s oldest and largest legal u
advocacy orgainization working to furtheil
the civil rights of lesbians and gay men,
Since 1983, Lambda has also been in the
forefront of the fight against AIDS-relatedi
discrimination, having filed and won the
first cases of such discrimination under‘
both state and federal law. 

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