Transitions.DIED: Costumer and gay activist Lee Brewster, 57, from cancer, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , May 19. Brewster owned Lee's Mardi Gras Boutique in New York and designed costumes for The Birdcage, among other films. APPOINTED: Craig Bowman, 31, as executive director of the National Youth Advocacy League, June 1. Bowman previously served as executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League. AWARDED: The Colin Higgins Courage Award to Greg Congdon, a Troy, Pa., high school football player and gay activist; Steven Cozza, a Petaluma, Calif., Scouting for All Scouting for All is an American advocacy organization. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose stated purpose is to promote tolerance and diversity within the Boy Scouts of America in the face of its policies requiring members to be heterosexual males who believe in God. cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found ; Dana Rivers, a Sacramento, Calif.-area transsexual trans·sex·u·al n. A person who strongly identifies with the opposite gender and who chooses to live as a member of the opposite gender or to become one by surgery. adj. 1. Of or relating to such a person. 2. teacher; and James Merrick, an openly gay Bakersfield, Calif., teacher. |
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