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Out in the Mountains

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

 

    

Volume IX, Number 9 December 1994
Ups-N-Downs: Cherie, You’re So Very...

1994 In review I A  
HPMARMOH UNNERSITY or VERMONJ
WINOOSKI -- As unpredictable and '

varied as winter weather, so was the news DEC 6 1994

and events involving Vermont's "--
gay/lesbian/bisexual community. Ranging   .___ ~
from the uplifting experiences of Gay  _.-  
Pride Day and the Vermont Coalition for 
Lesbian and Gay Rights Conference to

the disheartening, if not deplorable, arson Cherie Tarn (aka Steven

fire at Vermont CARES to the surprising west) and friends raised

turn of events surrounding sex education $240 for C_()_T_s_

at Harwood High and the flip—flop stance
on gay rights by James Jeffords, 1994 has
proven to be quite a memorable year.

Vermont may indeed be the most rural
state in the nation, but rural does not mean
uneventful. Narrowing the past year's
events down to a I_etterman—esque Top 10
List was not an easy task. The list
contains funny, angering, surprising, and
history-making stories, even events that
will probably not be remembered next
year but were significant to 1994. Instead
of trying to predict what 1995 will hold
for our community (we'll leave that to
Jeanne Dixon and the National Enquirer),
let us reminisce over 1994 one final time.
Let the countdown begin!

Continued on page 16.

 

(Committee on Temporary
Shelter) in a benefit entitled
“Cherie’s Jubilee” held
October 23 at 135 Pearl in
Burlington. Cherie will be
hosting the “Merry Cherie
Christmas Show” on
December 15, also at 135
Pearl. (Photo by Staci Visco)

U.S. Congress’ Queer Year:
What they did right (not Right) in 1994

WASHINGTON, D.C. --

**The House voted 227 to 192 (a margin
of 35 votes) against legislation which
would have automatically discharged
all People With AIDS or HIV
infection serving in the Armed Forces.

**More members of Congress
cosponsored the Employment
Non—Discrimination Act (ENDA) in
1994 than in the previous 15 years of
the Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Bill.

**Idaho’s congressional delegation
agreed to publicly oppose the anti-gay
initiative on November’s ballot in
that state.

**The Senate held hearings on ENDA,
its first on behalf of lesbian and gay
civil rights.

** The Senate confirmed the nation’s first
openly lesbian (or gay) federal judge.

**Four congressional committees voted
to prohibit anti-gay/HIV
discrimination in health care.

**Congress gave final approval to the
Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement
Act, the first ever federal protection
on the basis of sexual orientation.

**Majorities in the House and Senate
pledged not to discriminate on the
basis of sexual orientation in their
hiring decisions.

**The House voted 224 to 194 (a margin
of 30 votes) to limit federal
interference in local school programs
serving lesbian and gay youth.
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