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A PUBLICATION or TH: LEXINGTON BAY AND LEBBIAN SERVICES DRaANIZA'rInN
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With the elections coming up in Teenage Gay/Lesblan Support
November, the GLSO News looks at races of (800) 247'TEEN
interest to Bluegrass gays and lesbians. State Thurs. - Sun. 7pm-Midnight
representative Leslie Trapp—who was iffy and . .
unhelpful on gay issues in the last regular protection—yet he has done nothing to ensure
legislative session—faces someone even worse, that we receive whatever limited protection he
Ernest Fletcher, who has issued some frankly anti- WOU'd mete out, if any. See page 4-
gay statements. Elsewhere around Lexington, the Baesler‘s Republican opponent is
questionable Stan Cave is running unopposed. Matthew Wills, bUt there is now a write-in

But the main events are the races in the campaign for Lexingtonian Keith Elston. Elston
Kentucky Senate and the US. House of views his chances of winning as minimal, but has
Representatives. agreed to stand for office as a way of allowing gay

Kentucky state Sen. Tim “Sodomy" phttpet and lesbian (and other) voters a visible protest
faces former Lexington Urban County Council vote. Since Elston believes that neither the
member Don Todd. phttpot has led the effort to Democratic nor the Republican candidate is likely
contradict the wisdom of the state Supreme Court, to work for the interests of the sexual-orientation
through his bills that would have provided for a minority, a write-in campaign Wi” allow the votes 0f
state constitutional amendment to recriminalize the dissatisfied to be counted and aggregated '“ a
sodomy. Under the guise of self-proclaimed way that will be apparent to whoever WlnS. Elston
“caring and compassion,” he has attacked and has encouraged his followers, “if you’re gomg to
smeared the homosexual population through his waste yourvote, waste 't for me.”
tirades in which he spins dubious statistics into
lurid character assassination. For instance, he
claims on the Senate floor that only “one percent The deadline for registering to vote
of the gay men in the United States live to be 65. is OCTOBER 10. If you have moved
There is three times more alcohol and drugs . .

. . . . and need to change your registration,

among the gay population. SUICIde lS exponen- - , _
tially higher." And the caring, compassionate or If you aren t rBSIStered’ 9° to the
solution is to make us criminals? See page 6. county clerk’s office on Main Street.

US. Rep. Scotty Baesler has shown an Or call the Lea ue of Women Voters
unwillingness to listen to our concerns. He 9 - -
opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act at 255756?” Stop reading ””5" GO
because he thinks it provides too much register DOW- 60- D0 it-