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E//an is mom

WASHINGTON — Now even
Ellen DeGeneres’ mom is be-
coming famous.

Betty DeGeneres has be-
gun starring in 30-second tele-
vision commercials to urge
parents to love and support
their gay and lesbian children.

”Hello, my name is Betty
DeGeneres and my kid is ‘the
greatest. You know her. She's
Ellen and ‘she's gay,” Mrs.
DeGeneres says in the public
service announcement as she
and a group of children build
a huge American flag out of
red, white and blue boxes.

”For too long, gay Ameri-
cans have suffered discrimina-
tion,” she says. ”As long as our
sons and daughtersare ex-
cluded from the basic protec-
tion of law, we must share that
burden _ as a family.”

Mrs. DeGeneres, 67,
made the commercial as part
of her duties as a spokes-
woman for the Human Rights
Campaign.

/I/Iaraao’/'ng cop

WASHINGTON — A former
D.C. cop has pleaded guilty to
shaking down customers of a
gay bar.

.Fo_rme'r Lt. Jeffrey S.
Stowe, once a roommate of the
former police chief., also said
he would cooperate in an on-
going investigation of police
corruption in Washington.

Stowe and former Chief
Larry Soulsby roomed to-
gether in a $3,000—a—month
luxury apartment for which
they paid just $650 a month.

Stowe, 42, admitted steal-
ing $55,000 in police money,
including federal money set
aside for the witness protection
program. He also admitted
two counts of extortion in con-
nection with a scheme to shake
down men who visited a gay
bar. _

According to document,
Stowe-, who headed the

‘department's Special Investi-

gations Section, noted his tar-
gets’ license plate numbers
when they were parked out-
side the Follies Theater in
Southeast Washington.

He then used the num-
bers to locate the drivers and
ordered them to send money
to a post office box or risk hav-
ing photographs revealing
their sexuality sent to family
and co-workers.

Gay sa/7or

WASHINGTON — This time
the Navy went too far.

A federal judge says the
Navy should not have secretly
and anonymously obtained
evidence about a gay sailor
from America Online.

U.S. District Judge

Stanley Sporkin ordered that
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Timothy R. McVeigh, a 17-year
veteran, be reinstated to the
military.

”In these days of ‘big
brother,’ where through tech-
nology and otherwise the pri-
vacy interests of individuals
from all walks of life are being
ignored or marginalized, it is
imperative that statutes explic-
itly protecting these rights be
strictly observed,” Sporkin
wrote.

”This court finds that the
Navy has gone too far.”

The Navy overstepped

' the law in pursuing allegations

of homosexuality against
McVeigh that stemmed from a
sexually suggestive on—line
message and by linking him to
that message by secretly get-
ting his identity from AOL.
Because the message was
anonymous, Sporkin wrote,
the Navy broke the ”don’t ask,
don't tell” policy on gays in the
military by trying to identify
McVeigh as the author, and the
1986 Electronic Communica-
tions Privacy Act by getting
information from AOL with-
out a warrant or court order.

Vaccine Volunteers

CHICAGO — Anyone who vol-
unteers for an AIDS vaccine
test group would get free
medicine if they end up con-
tracting the virus.

The International Asso-
ciation of Physicians in AIDS
Care wants to use a live strain
of the virus in humans to de-
termine whether a vaccine can
be developed.

But the group has caused
controversy because some say
it could be endangering the
lives of those who volunteer.
So the group has lined up three
pharmaceutical companies to
provide free medicine to vol-
unteers if they need it.

More than 200 people,
mostly doctors and other
health care workers, have vol-
unteered. "We don’.t expect
people to progress_into AIDS,
but we're trying to avoid that
‘reckless’ label that some
people have assigned to us in
the world,” said Joe Zuniga, a
former Army soldier who was
discharged in 1993 for reveal-
ing he is gay.

The group hopes to begin
its trial in 2000. '

Gay spies

LONDON — Britain finally has
found some spies with style.

The nation's foreign se-
cret service agency has sent a
gay couple on an espionage
mission to one of Britain's larg-
est overseas missions.

Sir Gerald Warner, the
former deputy head of the M16
spy agency, accidentally dis-

 

closed the information, The
Sunday Times says.

”MI6 is the human end of
the intelligence and operates in
a straightforward way. It now
has a staff of 1,800 and has just
sent the first homosexual
couple abroad,” Warner said
during a talk to a local group
about his experiences.

The Daily Telegraph said
the gay spies were not seen as
a security risk because their
relationship was known.

Pastor dumped

DES MOINES, Iowa — A pastor
of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church has been fired because
he lives in an open gay rela-
tionship.

A disciplinary committee
of the church says the Rev.
Steve Sabin does good work.
But it said his relationship vio-
lated a policy that prevented
”practicing” homosexuals
from being ordained ministers.

Bishop Philip Hougen
said he had ”pastoral concern”
for Sabin, his partner Karl von
Uhl and Sabin’s 150-member
congregation at the Lord of
Life Lutheran Church ir1Ames.

”lt’s not a happy day
whenever we find it necessary
to remove a pastor from the
roster, especially a pastor as
talented as Pastor Sabin and
particularly a pastor who's
been doing a good job,” said
Hougen.

The decision upset some
members of Sabin’s congrega-
tion, which publicly supports
him.

”This is discrimination,”
said longtime Lord of Life
member Nancy Lewis. She
said clergy should be given the
same rights as congregation
members.

”It is all right for homo- I

sexuals in relationships to be
members of our congregations,
to hold office in our congrega-
tions. It is not fair that our pas-
tors who are homosexual can-
not have warm and loving and
committed relationships,” she
said.

Scoufs honor

CHICAGO — The city of Chi-
cago has ended its relationship
with homophobic Boy Scouts
of America programs.

The city agreed to end its
sponsorship of Scout programs

after the American Civil Liber- ’

ties Union sued, arguing that
the Scouts’ requirement that
boys take a religious oath vio-
lated the separation of church
and state. The ACLU also ar-
gued that the Scouts’ anti—gay
policies were discriminatory.

The ACLU called the
settlement a victory and urged
other cities to ”take a cue from
Chicago's action and end their
sponsorship of these discrimi-
natory programs.”