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Sweating over your 1998
taxes? Stocking up on aspirin
before you even pick up the
forms?

Three local legal and financial
professionals are donating an
evening to help community
members develop financial sur-
vival skills. Not only will Donna
(DL) Lescoe, Susan Murray, and
Charlotte Vincent simplify com-
plex subject matter, they’ll pay
special attention to the needs of
GLBT taxpayers, investors and
consumers. ’

Best of all, Money, Law, and
Taxes is free.

Lescoe, an independent finan-
cial professional and registered
representative of Community
Investment Counselors, will
speak about the importance of
understanding and planning your
finances. She will cover the new
Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and
other beneficial’ retirement pro-
grams available to individuals
and small businesses.

A partner with the Burlington
and Middlebury. law firm of
Langrock, Sperry & Wool,
Murray has years of experience
helping lesbians and gay men

with their unique estate planning
needs. She will talk about draft-
ing wills, powers of attorney,
health care proxies, guardianship
nominations and partnership
agreements designed to protect
and define g/1 families.
Independent tax professional
Charlotte Vincent will explain

_ 1998 tax changes in residential

purchases and sales, educational
tax credits, capital gains, IRAs.
She will also address the evolv-
ing implications of Vermont 60
and point out tax-free income
available to employees.

Money, Law, and Taxes takes
place Wednesday, February 17,
from 6:30-8:30PM at the Fletcher
Free Library at 235 College
Street in Burlington. Bring your
families, bring your friends, and
bring your financial, legal and tax
questions.

For more information Contact
Donna Lescoe, 2 Maple Street,
Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-
1357

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for cultural
Pluralism linens

The University of Vermont
has created new services for
queer students, faculty, staff, and

the larger university community.

Onlanuary 26, UVM’s Center
for Cultural Pluralism began its
Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual,Transgender,
Questioning and Ally Services
Program. The services are intend-
ed to assess and help meet educa-
tional, developmental, socials
and safety needs of LGBTQA
folks on campus,

Besides helping to facilitate
educational programming, net-
working and ‘communications,
the program also provides
resource materials, training and
development, advising, mentor-
ing, assessment and research.

LGBTQA Services debuts
under the leadership of interim
coordinator Paij Wadley-Bailey.
An experienced student mentor,
graduate assistant and event
coordinator, Ms. Wadley-Bailey
has been involved with LGBT
issues, women’s rights and civil
rights advocacy for more than
three decades.

The Center for Cultural
Pluralism is hosting an open
house for those interested in
leamed more about the LGBTQA
Services Program and related
issues. The event runs on Friday,

‘January 29th from 4pm - 6pm.

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Although it isn’t happening in
Vennont, it is of local interest and
has local connections.

Third Annual True Spirit
Conference will be held at the
Best Western Maryland Inn in
Laurel, Maryland from February
26 - 28, 1999. This three day con-
ference focuses on the social,
physical, emotional, spiritual and
relational health of all gender
variant people on the FTM spec-
trum and their significant others,
friends, families, and allies.

For the third year, The True
Spirit Conference will provide
the only annual east coast confer-
ence event for people of trans-
gender experience, their friends,
families, allies-, and service
providers to gather together for
education, networking and sup-
port.

“True Spirit offers many
unique opportunities for partici-
pants that address a variety of the
real life needs and concerns of
people of transgender experi-
ence,” says Trey Maurer, True
Spirit 1999 media coordinator.

, One of those unique opportuni-

ties is making health screening
available on site including breast

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Hormel after several conserva-
tive Republicans accused him of
promoting homosexual views.

The White House accused
lawmakers of prejudice.

Hormel, who is gay, was
approved by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, but Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-
Miss., didn’t allow his nomina-
tion to come to the floor in the
face of scattered GOP objections.

Barry Toiv, a White House
spokesman, expressed confidence
Hormel would be approved by the
full Senate this year because a
majority back the 66-year-old San
Francisco philanthropist and heir
to the Hormel Meat Co.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -8

More than seven dozen United
Methodist Church pastors defied
their church to witness a commit-
ment ceremony between two
women.

The “holy union” ceremony
between Ellie Charlton, 63, and
Jeanne Barnett, 68, was blessed
by more than 90 United
Methodist ministers in a dramat-
ic mass defiance of a church law
against same-sex marriages.

.“I promise to love you the
rest of my Iife,” a tearful
Charlton told Barnett.

Behind them on the stage, the

ministers lined up on risers and
chanted a blessing that could
cost them theirjobs:

“O God, our maker, we glad-
ly proclaim to the world that
Jeanne and Ellie are loving part-
ners together for life.”

“If anyone wants to file
charges against us, this is what the
charges are for, praying this
prayer,” said the Rev. Donald
Fado, pastor of St. Mark’s United
Methodist Church in suburban
Sacramento, the organizer of the
ceremony that was part church
service and part civil rights
demonstration.

The unprecedented service
dramatizes the conflict that has
been simmering for years within

the United Methodist Church,
with 8.5 million members
America’s second biggest
Protestant body after the Southern
Baptist Convention.

In I996, the church’s legisla-
ture, the General Conference,
took a stand against clergy around
the country who had been quietly
performing same-sex couple
blessings. It added these words to
the‘ Methodists’ Book of
Discipline: “Ceremonies that cel-
ebrate homosexual unions shall
not be conducted by our ministers
and shall not be conductedin our
churches.” V ‘

exams, blood pressure checks
and other health maintenance ser-
vices. “Getting routine health
checks can be an exceptional
challenge for some trans people,”
continued Maurer, “so we try to
remove one of the barriers to
access by bringing the health care
provider to the conference rather
than sending people out to find a
provider on their own.”
Conference registration fee
ranges from $60 - $80 with work
scholarship and housing assis-
tance available on a first come
first serve basis. The Vermont
Contact for Free Spirit is Hank
Weiss, 453-5370; email:
HankVT@aol.com V

DISTRIBUTION
COORDINATOR
WANTED

Organize and oversee
the distribution of
, Out In The Mountains.

We need someone

willing to commit to
this task for several
months.
monthly.

IO-I5 hours

The amount of time it
takes you will depend
upon your talent for
recruiting other
volunteers.You’d be
surprised how good a
volunteer position like
this will look on your
resume.

Send a letter of
interest to:

OITM

PO Box 1078‘
Richmond, VT 05477
or oitm@together.net

  
   

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