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VOLUME ONE. NO. 9—July 8, 19988--Augast Z1,1'988 F R E ,

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Give the People Light and they will find their own way

VI"heWisconsin LightStockholm Conference ShowsProgress Towards AIDS Cure JACKSON VOLUNTEERS DEMAND

OUSTER OF POLLY WILLIAMSBy Cindy PattonStockholm- Over 8,000 people from 140

countries gathered with the 4th 1fiterna-tional AIDS Conference held here fromJune 15-1e. About 3,000 papers . werepresented in workshops and in • postersessions.

'There Was nothing approaching a break-through in treatment. although data frontdozens of trials were ,presented, showingsome promise in some patients.

"The story this year is that we've addedmany new small pieces of data," saidJames Curran from the United StatesCenters for Disease Control (CDC)."Scientists are making much progress litvery small increments,"

Further developments In describingHuman immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)over the past year have shown that thevirus may react differently in differenttypes of cells, especiaily in macrophages,where the virus can apparently lie unde-tected in protective sacs. This means thatcombinations of Several drugs. in lowerdoses may he necessary to fully block virusduplication, According to Bo O'Berg of theSwedish Karolinski Institute, which' coils-berates with the National Cancer Institutein the U.S.

Perhaps the most optimistic report was aleas-cohort itudy of possible neurological

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rawycrs in WIS0611/01. fie face, Mie-Pereeiri 'called him "'The Perrie r Mason of the!Saeger State." He has • been called"colorful" and "controversial" find a"fighter for the underdog." At arm lawyertold Light, "Nearly everybixly in the legalcommunity knows he will go to all lengthsfor his clients" and these clients Includepoor elacke, other minorities, and Goysand Lesbians.

Eisenberg is all that end he Is a youngman in his 40's, of the • Notetuist-Schutztype. And he it running, running hard esthe ninth candidate for the office ofMilwaukee County clerk, a post now heldby Thomas E. eadelockL Zablocki has been

, in his Miele nt position since 1969,To spend a , couple of bouts with

Eisenberg leaves one drained. The man isa variable dynerne, g whirevin,d ofenergy, entering tbe • room in a gull. Office_staffers hurry in and out. Tiere are papersto sign. The work must go on, TV end radioStations cell for comments on recent U.S.Supreme Court decisions and Eisenbergknows them by heart. From hie cenversa-don you know that on the other end of theline are familiar names, names you heareveryday. Then someone brings in a littlekitten. Eisenberg, a eat fancier, pets endcuddles it — and all the while, never oncelosses track of the interviewers before himor the subject that Interests them, hiscandidacy for the °fact of County Clerk.

Do either of the reporters before himknow what the County Clerk does? Bothstumble arid admit they do net,

The County Clerk is one of six CountyConstitutional Offices. The others includeClerk of Courts, Ditteict Attorney andShetiff,

The Clerk (Eisenberg calls the word "anantediluvian misnomer") is the chief legalrecord custodian and manage! for Countygovernment. The purpose of the lob is tomonitor and record law making proceed-Ines of County Government and all govern-mental business with the county, Lasteearalone the Clerk's office received andprocessed millions of dollars in bids. inaddition and perhaps more familiarly. theClerk issues marriage licenses as well asthese for everything from hocking tohayride licenses, In fact, the Clerk has . 30%e pirate and distinct duties or Not-duet asmandated by Wiscoreen law — ladEiseriberg . knows ever/ single one as well

By Enema Miller•By a vote of nine to seven, Gays and

Lesbians were excluded from the WISCOr i-sin delegation to the Democratic National

Convention in Atlanta. Ignoring the picasOf Label. for ,Jackson organizer BruceColbuen and Several other Jackson dele-gates chosen at Congressional Caucuses,the sixteen Jacksoti delegates meeting at.

' the State Democratic Convention in LaCrosses completed the selection of theleaven slate by choosing Richard Condona Waukesha attorney over Bill Meunier theorganiY_er of Wisconsin Gays and Lesbiansfor Jackson. In so doing they may. have cutthe lavender stripe. from Jackson's Wiscon-sin Rainbow,

Meunier Fad organized Gays arid Les-bians around the state into a politicalnetwork . that allowed the Jackson cam-Paige to reach outside of Milwaukee andMadison and a few other bases of supportmaking it a truly statewide effort. The Gayand Lesbian network was so successful thateven CBS News did a story on it, and it weecited by the ...teekson staff es a goodexampk of what Gays and lesbians coulddo for his campaign. Condon was notinvolved in the Jackson campaign. He wasthe Wisconsin chairman of the Gephardtfor President campaign. Condon waspromised consideration foe a delegate spotif he endorsed ,Ilackson, which he did lifter

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.: Linforlrbed sources saytheetih held in Wills= on Tr(3rd, Steve Cobble, Jackson's ••**Ilona!Delegate Selection Coroalnator, Co•Chairsof the Wisconsin Jackson campaign, StateRepresentatives Polly Williams and DavidCie renb ach , a nd Willia ms" legisiativeaide, Larry Harwell met and agreed topromote a recommended 'stele to fill theeight at-large delegate p•ositions. Theyincluded! Condon on the slate because ofthe promise he was made.

The recommended elate was supposed tohave included Kathleen Nichols a MadisonLesbian. Williams, however. call GeneticBanks, the Secend Congressienal. Districtchairperson for' Jackson and urged her toreplace Nichols with her own choice, Bankswho Meunier caned "an honest, well,meaning person Who had no idea thatNichols was the' only member or ourcommunity on the slate,'` agreed to do sosince Nichols did not work Inehe campaign,and replaced het with Frances Cooper.

At the convention in La Crosse. whenBanks realized that there were no Gay orLesbian delegates. she attempted to re-move Cooper In favor of Nichols. Rep.Willianis refused to allow Nichols to be putback on the state, even though Banksassured her that Cooper would not object tobeing dropped.

'Meunier and others had objected toNichols being included if there was to be.only one slot for the Gay community, since6he -itas not involved in the Lesbian andGay campaign for Jackson. and becauseseveral Milwaukee activists felt her actionsres Chair of Governor Earl's Council . no.Lesbian and Gay issues . were objection-able, and because the Gay Network forJackson was promised that it would be ableto choose. the delegate that would repre-sent it. The major problem with Nicholswas . that she didn't work with the network.As tete Madison Gay .man put it "It's Justlike Kathleen to let others do the work andthen take the credit,"

Realizing that Nichols may be the wilyhope for a delegate Meunier urged that s/iebe kept on the slate despite his anger withher: Banks herself nominated Nichols atthe delegate meeting, . but she lost by awide margin.

Meunier was nominated by Karen einemof La Crosse, who told the delegate; that"There was nothing going on In Le Cruise

ith . ot .. laeonets:' ) canrepresent . -cray J„,esblitacommunity- at the convention and himoffered to provide Jesse for a Gay RightsRally to be held in Wisconsin. Meunier and

• other major figures on the Gay epic* sonnetwork, are satisfied that, while thenational campaign can not divorce itselfcompletely from its responsibility for whathappened, it is upset with the lack of Gaydelegates and I. trying to make amends,

Meunier hopes that Wisconsin's acti-viets will understand that this Aetuation inno way reflects uporeelhele efforts. "Every-

' site knows (het we were' the campaign in. over half the state, and won quite a few of

. Jesse's delegates. Wisconsin's politkians• *now that they ignore us at their peril...."

et/leerier alio hope; that because of 'the.efferta of Jackson'temai tonal . stiff Wiscon-sin's Gay and Lesbian will be willing tocontinue to support Jackson, Althietigh heconcedes that It is not likely that Gay .orLesbian support for Jackson will equal therevel it achieved ht 1988.

There is a feeling head by many that itmay be impossible to rally the communityfor Jesse again given what happened, OneMilwaukee activist said, "I know a lot ofpeople who voted for Jesse because Itappeared as though we were • • beingaccepted by the Rainbow Coalition. end

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GLPA News Senereesymptoms which earlier reports suggestedmight appear before the symptoms class-ically associated with AIDS and-ARC.

There has been great contrusecsy eweconcern about the possible emergence ofcognitive problems before the appearanceof other symptoms," said Gla A. Seines, ofthe U.S.- Who presented the collaborativework conducted with 1,543 HIV antibodypositive but asymptomatic gay and bi.sexual men.

e "Our study, which draws on the largestsample let date. shows no statisticallysignificant difference between these meeand the controls over a two-year period.We didn't even find it trend in the directionof early development of cognitive prob-lems." said Seines.

There is also an emerging consensus,Met there is no relationship betweenknowledge of HIV • antibody . statue andsubsequent behavior change, althoughmany policy makereht a session on "AIDSand . eociety" continued to . propoee testingprogramseas essential parts of the educe-lion process.

Jonathan Mann, head of the WorldHealth Organization (WHO) AIDS Project,Urged governments to focus on anti-.diseeiteination laws and 'education about. TURN TO STOCILHOINlitAGE 2

Attorney A1141 Eibinaber g

as what each involves.He le_geite correct when he says. that

"County Government cahoot exist for aday 'without this 'tree (Courity Clerk) •functioning properly."

His background it impressive., He work-- led hisevay through college s take }tit e.eeimothet he was a singer, a factory, worker,a landscaper,. a stand-up . mule, actor ofsalesman "and every kind of restaurantwork you can think of." He bas been asuccessful journalist and columnist, hottedhis own radio talk shows and. attendedMarquette Law School earning a Doctot ofJurisprudence. Since 1966 he has been thehead of a major Wisconsin law firm and InMIS was cited as one of America's bestlawyers. His current avocation in rave cardriving, He drives a Z-28 Camera at the

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Moody Drops FromU.S. Senate Race

Congressman Jinn Moody, has droppedout of the Wisconsin US. Senate race torun for re-election 'as Wisconsin's FifthDistrict Congress local Representative.

After giving hid word to candidates forhis old seat that he wouldn't "under anyeirc.untstinces." run for re-election,Moody changed his mind.

Moody was trailing badly in the sanestfor the Democratic U.S, Senate nominatibnand saw his fortunes take a turn for theworse when businessman Herb Kohlentered the race with a big media blitz. '

With the exception of Charlie Dee all ofthe candidates for Moody's seat teeremaining le the race, and Gay andLesbian support for these candidatesappears to be unshaken..

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RAY . Jame Jacksonexcept for what the Gay cecrununity did forJackson." Nancy Skanden of Sturgeon Bayalso pleaded the Gay case pointing out thatIn many places around the state Gays andLesbians were the campaign. But Williamsinitiated that not every one could besatisfied and prevailed. Many observersfelt that if Meunier had been straight , hewould have won easily.

Those Jackson delegates who are known'to have supported us included BMOCColburre Labor for Jackson chair. Linero,Clarenbach, Skanden, and Banks. Dele-gates who aft believed to have opposed usinclude Williams, Felmers Chaney, Press.dent of the Milwaukee Chapter of theNAACP, an organization that is supposedto be working for eqUality, and John andken ae cker. _Cedaty... oein..! . an

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