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Show 18 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN OPEN DOOR Monday Saturday 10 a.m. OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE to 6 p.m. ELECTED iA NEW YORK 1025 Second Avenue CITY FIRST (basement) Salt Lake City, 84103 -- (801) 364-61- Kenneth Sherrill, political science professor at Hunter College, won his fight to become 34-year-- 52 ficials. Sherrill has announced his intention to name the Gay Independent Democrats his official clubhouse, making them the first gay political club in the city to have a representative on the Democratic committee. Running in a neighborhood that he estimates has a 25 per cent gay population, Sherrill called the gay support he received both the most encouraging and discouraging factor in his campaign. He found little support from big names in the movement but credited his win to gay people who worked theiraes off anet'tylig werent people whose names youd know. On primary day, over 50 volunteers from the ranks of MetChurch ropolitan Community House (a gay and (NYO, Identity bisexual counseling center), the the first openly gay candidate elected in New York City. Sherrill will represent the 69th Assembly District Part A on the New York Gty Democratic Committee. As a holder of this party post, Sherrill will be the channel for neighborhood concerns of his district, which stretches from 79th to, 98th Streets, between Central Park West and Amsterdam Avenue, in contacts with Democratic party of-- TODAY BELONGS TO YESTERDAY. The Open Book specializes in books dealing with s A. M 9 9bsS . - c human liberation: female, male, gay, straight, old, young. We believe that we will all be equal only when we are fre to be ourselves, in whatever way we choose. Gay Independent Democrats and the Gay Academic Union passed out leaflets to voters near the polls. Sherrill is a member of the Gay Academic Union, the Gay Independent Democrats and the New York Study Group. He lives with his lover in the West 81st Street brownstone they own. He is a past president of the West 81st Street Block Association. His prior political activities have included polling and consulting work for Bella Abzug, Herman Badillo and George McGovern. The post of Democratic district leader has a two year term; it pays no salary. Sherrill won the election in his 25,000 voter district on a $5,000 campaign budget using . - . l.lllll'l (prill .Hi'lffl iUhH ll.rlh .11111. il S,!l!l (Mir Is it possible? Yes, in more ways than you can imagine, the past may hold the answer to your needs today. And tomorrow. " The world today is filled with modern concoctions called bookcases, wall units, display cabinets, storage units, and just plain shelves. Their purpose? To house your favorite things like stereo components, works of art, books, objects of all kinds and substance. But nothing rmirmu-seemto do it 0' 'wf' bric-a-bra- c, s - better than an ri old, Morning m . $ 'rw wlelmul largely his own one-of-a-kin- fundi He received endorsements from incumbent Gty Council members Henry Berger and Bob Wagner, Jr., a primary candidate for Manhattan Borough president While Berger and Wagner carried Sherrills district, both lost their own primary battles. windows, sideboards with carved splash bar&and beveled mirrors, servers. All with drawers and storage space galore. For whatever you want to use it for. Its a beautiful notion. And one we'd hate to see you pass up. Especially since it might take another d hundred years or so before you get a better offer. Oik MtMm.nl limn Enqkiul. with hovnlnd rmrrnr SIRS from Cwnuiir. with intnrnlinq curing SI95 ?'?' in yourself. with leaded glass and rippled glass server. O'tk So satisfy the eclectic We have buffets wonderfully wood buffet, sideboard or a natural foods restaurant S5Z-9- & . tvA Govt Reverses Over 75 English and European sideboards, servers and buffets priced under $250. ( r,riifc Policy On Gay Organizations lIoMSC(lnticuc$) 1135 EAST 21ST SOUTH, SUGARHOUSE 484-148- 1 In a major policy revision, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has opened the door for gay educational and charitable organizations to receive full status without to for homosexualhaving apologize ity. Until now, IRS policy has been to refuse such status to gay groups unless the application included a disclaimer stating that homosexuality is a sickness, disturbance or diseased tax-exem- pt pathology. The turn-abocame last month when the IRS granted foil tax exempt, status (without the disclaimer) to the Fund for Human Dignity in New York. The Fund also is known as the Howard Brown Memorial Fund, in honor of its late founder. The IRS decision, which will allow the fund to solicit tax deductible concamtributions, culminates a two-yea- r the and its paign by organization legal counsel. . Gay organizations that acquired status under the former . . policy and now wish to have the language in their letters of exemption may apply to their IRS chanjd district director through their legal ut tax-deductib- le three-year-ol- d : tax-exem- pt counsel .. |