I think 1998 will be a great year. It is certainly beginning the right way. On Freedom to Marry Day, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union will hold a press conference to publicly announce what I am…
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Word Column #2
Okay, so I’m getting old and cranky. When I opened the paper and read that the voters in Maine had rescinded the state’s new gay antidiscrimination law in a
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Word Column #3
Recently, the publisher of the Word shared with me a “critique” of this paper, and my column, from a national gay paper. The writer had evidently come across a copy, and professed amazement upon learning that my “earnest” efforts were not in the…
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CommentsWord Column #4
One of the things Executive Directors of ACLU affiliates do is make speeches. I probably make ten a month, of one sort or another. Last week, I spoke to a Republican women’s group, many members of which were old friends from my more active…
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Word Column #5
Shortly after I became Executive Director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, I received a call from someone representing a gay publication, wanting to know whether I would be as accessible to the community as my predecessor had been. As I…
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