Gay Sailor WASHINGTON — The US Navy has been warned by a federal judge thatit had bet- ter follow his orders regarding a chief petty officer who won his job back despite allegations that he is gay. US District Judge Stanley Sporkin told the Navy it must justify its decision to assign Timothy R. McVeigh to clerical- work rather than returning * him to his supervisory post. McVeigh’s lawyer ac- cused the Navy of acting in bad faith. ”You: refused to pro- vide the reasons as to why Mr. McVeigh was not rein- stated other. than vaguely to re- « fer to the ’notoriety‘ of the case’ and the ‘confined conditions aboard a submarine/”—attorney Christopher Wolf wrote -in a letter-to the government law- yer in the‘ case. . I « - ”The=»Navy’s refusal to -reinstatehim to thechief of -boa‘t‘(-top enlisted man) posi- "tion I..=is a further indication of the Navy's bad faith,” he added. Wolf accused the Navy «or: dr‘a‘giging" its feet ‘and keep- ing’- the? decorated 1-7-year vet- eran ‘from' returning to his former duties that would let ‘advance his -career and re- tire With..f\:111 I-2e..I1€:.fi.t..s..5=1£,t.s9r.»2.0 Years. :-'”"‘9‘i -‘ 9 ‘ ' ' Justice Department attor- ney David Glass, representing the government, told the judge one chief-of-boat position had opened up, but McVeigh was I not deemed the best candidate. He did not provide details. Sporkin set a June 1 hear- ing, giving the Navy two months to comply with his January order in which he said the Navy wrongly enforced the Pentagon's ”don’t ask, don't tell” policy on gays in the mili- tary. Sporkin said the Navy went too far in investigating McVeigh, who was linked to an anonymous America On-line Inc. computer profile page that suggested he had a sexual in- terest in young men. Homophobe for president HOUSTON —— Here's a cam- paign slogan: Homophobe for president. That could be what faces Republicans in 2000. Washing- Cruise for A supporters last month.- _d.€I1.t Nixon, ' Gay AstroIogy’s’ ‘Website Lichtenstein ‘s horoscopes Gay Love Signs, Closets in your Cha Stone_waIi iroroscope ton conservative activist told Texas conservatives recently that he's leaning toward run- ning for president. He said abortion must be thecornerstone of the party's platform, and challenged the GOP establishment to ”stand against the agenda of the gay rights movement.” Loss of a friend NEW :YORK — The gay and lesbian community lost one of its early and most steadfast Former A, Rep. Bella Abzug, who became one of. the ‘ most influential andnrec,ogniz- gable leaders. of the women's liberation movement in the 1970s, died at the age of 77. She died of complications from heart surgery. _ J Along with_activists such as Gloria Steinem_ and Betty Friedan, Ms.;Abzug was in the vanguard of the emerging feminist movement. She was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War and a bitter foe of Presi- J Ailn .1975, she. introduced the first gay rights bill in Con- gress. J _ ' Canadian rights TORONTO — If you're think- ing of moving-, try Canada. We've got protections there. A . Canada's Supreme Court says that Alberta's’ provincial human rights code must offer specific protection to gays and lesbians. The ruling was a triumph for Delwin Vriend, 32, who was fired as a lab instructor by a Christian college in Edmonton in 1991 because he was gay, then told by_A1berta’s Human Rights Commission that he had no grounds for a complaint. Alberta is one of three Canadian provinces that have not included homosexuals in their human rights codes. The others, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, have pledged to make the change. The Alberta govemment’s lawyers argued before the Supreme Court in November that it should be up to elected officials, not the courts, to decide whether spe- cial protection for homosexu- als should be included in the human rights code. The high court rejected this argument and said Alberta should immediately amend its code to cover sexual orienta- tion. - Excluding homosexuals from the code ”sends a mes- sage to all Albertans that it is permissible, and perhaps even acceptable, to discriminate against individuals on the ba- sis of their sexual orientation,” the high court said-. Perot-benefits DALLAS — Ross Perot won't give domestic partners benefits to newlyrhired employees at his computer company.- _ He «says he won't with- . draw health insurance for the same-sexpartners of -gay employees already on the payroll. But noone else ge « them. ' — Gay rights organizations have criticized the decision-at P.e-rot Systems Inc;,~but Perot ‘ .says it's not discrimination. 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