Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1993 Page: 1 of 32
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The Community Newspaper for Gay and Lesbian Dallas
FRIDAY, JANUARY 1,1993 VOLUME IX, NUMBER 36
Gay leaders praise Cabinet picks
1992 IN REVIEW
Year marks
community's
political
coming-out
1992 was a watershed year for the
gay and lesbian community given the
amazing level of attention gay
concerns received from politicians
during an election season. But the
General Election is hardly all that
happened during a year that saw many
important gay and lesbian victories —
and defeats. Here are the major news
stories of 1992, beginning in January.
President-elect Bill Clinton
The newly-formed Oak Lawn
Concerned Citizens Coalition
announced the fust week in January
plans to hire off-duty police officers to
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Aspin at Defense Department is expected to ease the
way for gay recruits; Surgeon-general choice lauded
By Cliff O’Neill
O'NEILL NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON — Gay and lesbian
activists here are expressing a sense of
cautious optimism over President-elect
Clinton’s recent choices for key Cabinet
positions.
Among the appointments with
which they had struggled hardest was
that of Defense Secretary. With Clinton’s
announcement Dec. 22 that the
appointment will go to Rep. Les Aspin
(D-Wisc.), gay and lesbian groups
expressed a measure of relief.
As head of the massive Pentagon
bureaucracy, Aspin will be in charge of
helping institute Clinton's pledge to lift
the Defense Department ban on gays
and lesbians in the uniformed services.
For one thing, gay and lesbian
observers expressed enthusiasm about
Aspin’s perfect voting record on their
issues in the past few Congresses. And
while he never co-sponsored either the
federal gay and lesbian rights bill, or a
measure calling for repeal of the
Pentagon ban, he is expected to help
move along the controversial policy
change.
“I think Les Aspin has done a lot of
things behind the scenes,” commented
Peri Jude Radecic, acting executive
NATIONAL
director of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force. “His staff has been really
good and supportive and has been
present during key briefings on the Hill.
[He] has been attentive and has spoken
to us on many occasions.”
Radecic also praised Aspen’s “decent
voting record, except for his lack of
leadership around the gay rights bill and
not being more public . . . about where
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Superb Pissarro exhibition
closes a chapter for DMA
Brettell departure creates doubt about quality exhibits
Reviewed by David Taffet
With the resignation of Dr. Rick
Brettell as director of the Dallas Museum
of Art, the museum loses an
exceptionally capable individual with a
proven ability to bring quality
exhibitions to Dallas. Until his arrival,
any quality exhibit that might have been
attracted to the Southwest would have
gone to the nationally renowned — and
ART
far superior — Kimbell Museum in Fort
Worth.
Brettell resigned after Dallas police
filed charges of public lewdness against
him, stemming from an incident
involving an undercover officer in
Reverchon Park. Brettell pleaded no
contest to the charge and later resigned
as museum director, although he intends
to stay on for a time.
Replacing him will not be easy, and
the Pissarro “cityscapes” exhibition on
display through January 31 stands as
poignant proof of Brettell’s capabilities.
“Had it been worthwhile, the
rejection, the humiliation, the suffering?
Yes! His efforts had borne luscious fruit,”
remarked Irving Stone, in his
biographical novel Depths of Glory,
about French Impressionist painter
Camille Pissarro. Best-known of the
impressionists, of course, was Monet,
but Pissarro, oldest of the group, was
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Inside —
NEWS: Major gay groups
endorse Colorado boycott;
Texas Supreme Court set to
hear 21.06 appeal; More______________
TRAVEL They serve no practical
purpose, but all known societies
have built monuments to
document their culture .................
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CALENDAR: Events scheduled
over the next ten days; Notices;
Entertainment and broadcast
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GOSSIP: The year in dirt; Heda
Quote remembers the beet of
the best trom the circuit over the
past year.
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1993, newspaper, January 1, 1993; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth616406/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.