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HOUSTON VOICE • DECEMBER 31, 1999
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plained to officials. Sexual harassment suits
involving two gay men are rare because
judges typically dismiss the cases as simple
horseplay, legal observers noted.
Transsexual can't marry man, Texas
court rules
A transsexual who transitioned from
male to female remains legally a man,
despite having completed sex reassignment
surgery, a Texas court ruled late last month.
Christie Lee Littleton, a male-to-female
transsexual, married Jonathon Mark
Littleton in 1989, a decade after completing
sex reassignment surgery, according to
court documents. Littleton sued Dr. Mark
Prange for medical malpractice after her
husband died in 1996. Prange's attorneys
argued that Christie Littleton did not have
standing to bring the lawsuit, because she
remained a man and therefore could not
qualify as Mark Littleton's "surviving
spouse." A Texas district court agreed, and
Littleton appealed the ruling to the 4th
Court of Appeals in San Antonio. The three-
member panel of the appeals court upheld
the lower court's decision on Oct. 27, ruling
3-2 that chromosomes—not genitalia, outward appearance, or even legal documents
like a birth certificate—determine gender.
Ministering in the suburbs
An openly gay rookie minister with
experience in caring for people with AIDS
has found an unlikely home—a small
church in suburban Houston in Fort Bend
County. Rev. Bill Clark began his duties as
the first full-time minister of Henry David
Thoreau Unitarian Universaiists
Congregation in Stafford in September.
Since then, the 80 or so members of the
congregation have been nothing but supportive, Clark said.
Texas sodomy appeal moves forward
The 14-month-old legal battle of two
men against the state's ban on gay sex
continued in a packed courtroom, marking the next step in what legal experts
have called one of the strongest fights yet
against the 120-year-old sodomy law.
And when Tyrone Garner, 32, and John
Geddes Lawrence, 56, walked into the
14th Court of Appeals with a team of
attorneys, it started the second challenge
in three days to sodomy laws in two
Southern states. "In 1999, it's too late in
the day to say we can draw a line that discriminates along sexual orientation,"
Ruth Harlow, an attorney with Lambda
Legal Defense & Education Fund, told the
three-judge panel of the Court of
Appeals. "It's too late in the day to deny
the right to privacy between two consenting adults." Harlow told the Appeals
Court the state ban on gay sodomy is
unconstitutional and violates privacy
rights.
December
Mayor declares 'AIDS emergency'
Houston Mayor Lee Brown marked
World AIDS Day Wednesday by announcing a nearly five-year, $3 million effort to
battle a growing AIDS epidemic in the
city's black community. Brown was
flanked by local elected officials, AIDS
activists and service providers in declaring a state of emergency in Houston's
black community over AIDS, two weeks
after the Ryan White Planning Council,
the area's leading funding source for
AIDS care, criticized Brown for not
speaking out on the issue.
City health officials had repeatedly
said they first wanted to develop a comprehensive approach to addressing startling new statistics that show 61 percent
of new HIV infections in the Houston
area this year are among African-
Americans.
Texas activist takes new role
with Millennium March
After two years of planning, the
departure of its founder and numerous
attacks on the way it is being planned,
details of the Millennium March on
Producers Steve Baker (above) and Russell
Byrd made the difficult decision to close down
TV Montrose in April.
Washington planned for April 30 are finally
becoming clear. The march's new vision is
largely due to the work of Dianne Hardy-
Garcia, executive director of Lesbian Gay
Rights Lobby of Texas (LGRL). She has taken
over as co-executive director of the march
and is running the event's Washington D.C.
office. As executive director of a large and
powerful statewide gay and lesbian organization, Hardy-Garcia has become one of the
most vocal and influential activists in Texas.
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