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Out in the Mountains

VERMONT'S NEWSPAPER FOR LESBIANS, GAY MEN, AND BISEXUALS

 

Volume IX, Number 7

October 1994

Coalition Notes:

Anticipating A Queer Town Meeting on

November 12th

MIDDLEBURY -- The Vermont Co-
alition for Lesbian and Gay Rights is
busy planning its 2nd Annual Statewide
Conference: A Queer Town Meeting,
scheduled for Saturday, November 12th,
9 am until 6 pm at Middlebury College
in Middlebury.

This year’s Conference promises to be
even better than last year’s with a full
day of workshops, merchandise ven-

dors, networking opportunities, an en-
tertaining and informative keynote
speaker, a lunchtime fashion show, and
lots of cruising and schmoozing. (Oh
yeah, the food will be better too!) Mid-
dlebury College is wheelchair access-
ible, ASL interpretation will be avail-
able, and childcare will be provided on
site.

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"E  Y OF VER’-MONT

The Race to the House:
Sanders & Carroll
on Lesbian/Gay
Issues

Paul Olsen

WINDSOR/BURLINGTON -- The race
for Vermont's lone seat in the U.S. House
of Representatives is one of the more
interesting races of the 1994 campaign
season. Incumbent Independent
Representative Bernard Sanders is being
challenged by three-term Republican
Windsor County State Senator John
Carroll. Both Sanders and Carroll agreed
to be interviewed by Out in the Mountains
to discuss the upcoming election and
national issues of importance to lesbian
and gay Vermonters.

Fonner Burlington Mayor and two-terrn
U.S. Representative Bernard Sanders
views his reelection campaign as a
continuation of his longstanding fight for
social justice, decent paying jobs, a
peaceful world, a healthy environment,
and a fundamental change in our national
priorities. If reelected, Sanders pledges to

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Pearls: The Best or The Worst? Find out
when OITM’s Paul Olsen investigates
The Best and Worst of Gay Vermont,
page 12. '

Also in this issue:

Opinions in the Mountains, page 3.
Book Review: The Museum of Love,
page 17.

Write Your Auntie Pearl, page 18.

AIDS Memorial
Quilt blanketing
Rufland

Joseph Watson

RUTLAND -- From October 30th
through November 26th, 1994, portions of
the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on dis-
play in Rutland at the Chaffee Art Center
and the Rutland Free Library. Open hours
will be 10-4 Thurs. - Sun. and 10-7 Mon.
- Wed. The Quilt was developed by the
Names Project Foundation to com-
memorate those who have died from
AIDS. If all its panels were displayed to-
gether, they would cover six football
fields. The major sponsors of the effort
are Chaffee Art Center, Rutland Area Vis-
iting Nurses and the Vermont Community
Foundation.

The "Power of Thread" Host Committee,
which is a coalition of Rutland area cul-
tural organizations, health agencies, busi-
nesses and concerned individuals, re-
quested portions of the Quilt more than a
year ago. In a letter asking for volunteers,
the committee states, "The purpose in dis-
playing the Quilt in Rutland is tl1ree—fold:
first, to honor those who have lost their
lives to this tenible disease, including
members of our own community; second,
to have the display serve as the centerpiece
of a comprehensive educational effort de-
signed to heighten community awareness
and understanding of the HIV/AIDS pan-
demic; and third, to provide funding for 10-
cal groups dedicated to providing support
and care to those suffering from HIV/
AIDS, as well as their family members."

According to Chaffee A11 Center’s Karen
Ostrom, more than twenty requests have

been received from Rutland area residents

for panels that memorialize specific peo-
ple. "We are hoping to bring the human

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