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OCR Page 1 of 16May 21, 1999
Vol. 30, No. 21
Pride and joy
Festive occasions
y
Washington's Black Lesbian and
Bonnie Morris looks for meaning
Gay Pride activities start May 26.
behind women's music festivals.
10
See page 65
See page 39
The
SERVING THE NATION'S CAPITAL SINCE 1969
Washington Blade
Gays and transgendered people
judge to overturn the jury verdict.
The FDA proposals would
don't think at this point it's appro-
expressed outrage last December
The jury found a Fire Department
anonymous donors but also (
priate for me to overturn what
when the D.C. Corporation
rescue worker and a D.C. govern-
wish to father a child with a
they're doing or stop what they're
Counsel's office, which represents
ment doctor responsible for the
doing."
the city in court, filed a motion
Continued on page 6
Advocates call
GMHC
for prevention
protes
Researcher: 'Let's move on'
Nation's larg
from youth suicide statistics
expects son
by M
by Kai Wright
About 100 staff mem
Researchers from Harvard and Johns Hopkins
Gay Men's Health CI
universities declared in a study published this
largest AIDS organizat
month that a Gay or bisexual sexual orientation is
outside the agency Tue
the strongest independent indicator of risk for sui-
they said is a board of (
cide attempts among adolescent males. It is the
tant decisions about the
third study in the last three years to conclude that
out consulting the staff.
Gay youth are at a higher risk than their peers for
The demonstrators sa
suicide attempts.
is putting together a plar
Gay youth advocates reacted by declaring the
organization without fir.
debate on Gay youth and suicide resolved. They
"The board has not re
called on the research community to begin asking
decisions," said Rob (
questions about how Gay youth manage to survive
direct marketing. "They
and excel in adolescence in spite of being such a
opinion on anything."
by Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal
high-risk group for suicide and other life-threaten-
But members of the
Leslie Sadasivan looks through photos of her son, Robbie
ing behavior.
have been meeting with
Kirkland, in his bedroom in Strongsville, Ohio. Robbie, 14,
Even the study's lead author, Dr. Robert
organization's future fc
was a Gay teen who committed suicide.
Continued on page 23
impression that employ