Issue 27 Volume 38
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Seattle Pride Roundup
See Section 3 for all the fun and photos of this year’s Pride festivities!
Seattle Gay News SEATTLE’S LGBT NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Seattle’s Dyke March Local AIDS housing project has 25 year tradition gets major HOPWA grant
by James Whitely SGN Staff Writer
James Whitely
The Seattle Dyke March saw record attendance this Pride weekend, bringing out a crowd of nearly 3,000. After two hours of entertainment and speakers,
where they were met with tremendous cheer from Capitol Hill Pride by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer
United States Supreme James Whitely
the march set out from the south plaza of Seattle Central Community College, heading up E. Pine St., and going north on 12th Ave. They then headed west down E. Mercer St. and back to Broadway,
Festival patrons. Hundreds joined in on the route as the Spokane Giant-Ass Drum Corps led the march with their awesome bucket beat. The Seattle Dyke March is an annual tradition. The theme of this year’s Dyke March was “Connectsee dyke march page 20
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on June 29 that a Seattle housing project for people living with HIV/AIDS would receive $714,766 in HOPWA funds. HOPWA, the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS program, grants funding to states, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations for projects that help people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. It is the only federal program dedicated to housing that population. Seattle’s Housing Resource Group received the HOPWA grant for Kenyon House, a project they run jointly with Sound Mental Health and Bailey-Boushay House. “[Kenyon House] is 18 units of permanent housing plus services,” said Sarah Lewontin, executive director of Housing Resources Group. areas, meant to provide permanent Group projects, Kenyon House is Housing Resources Group man- affordable housing for low-income dedicated solely to housing people ages 28 properties, most of them people. in the downtown and Capitol Hill Unlike other Housing Resources see hud page 20
Grocery workers negotiating Take Gays or leave public money, new contract Gay shop steward interviews with SGN Supremes say file photo
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ployees. Aguve is a shop steward at the QFC in the Harvard Market on Capitol Hill. He is also on the bargaining team for his store. His union – United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 – is in its third month of contract negotiations with Kroger Foods, the corporate owners of QFC and Fred Meyer. Both of the other “Big 3” grocery chains – Safeway and Albertson’s – are also bargaining new contracts with UFCW 21. Besides the Big 3, PCC, Madison Market, Metropolitan Market, and other smaller grocery stores will have new contracts when negotiations are completed. In all, some 20,000 workers will be affected, according to UFCW 21’s Communications Director Tom Geiger. When Aguve was finally able to talk with SGN, he explained that he was filling in for a sick co-worker. QFC’s Broadway and E. Pike St. location “I’m in one of the luckier deby Mike Andrew called in to work at the last min- partments – the bakery,” he says. “My department is on a set schedSGN Staff Writer ute. Unintentionally, he illustrated ule. My days off are basically the QFC bakery worker Kyle Aguve one of his union’s biggest comhad to cancel his appointment to plaints – the lack of a predictable see grocery page 17 be interviewed by SGN. He’d been work schedule for grocery em-
United States Supreme Court
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a college club may not receive public funding if it excludes Gays from membership. In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, the court rejected an appeal from the Christian Legal Society, which sued to get funding and
official recognition from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. The CLS requires that members sign a statement of faith which forbids “unrepentant participation in or advocacy of a sexually immoral lifestyle,” including being Gay or Lesbian. Hastings College has a nondiscrimination policy which includes sexual orientation, and an open membership policy for student groups that want school
funding. It therefore denied recognition and funding to CLS in 2004. CLS then sued the school, claiming its members’ 1st Amendment rights of association, free speech and free exercise of religion were violated by the non-discrimination policy.
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