Carlene Cheatam This is Me

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   Published on: 1/1/1996   Last Visited: 4/6/2007

   I'd like to thank Carlene Cheatam for bringing us together this evening, and thank you all for lasting to the bitter end.
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   , When the Rainbow Is Enuf. [See Footnote 1] I was inspired to join by Carlene. She was once actually a member , and I am not making this up , of Black and White Men Together, and I decided that if she was man enough to be a member of BWMT, I was black enough to be a member of the DC Coalition.
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   Also, Cheatam claimed in an interview in December 1995 that she was not lesbian but instead knew "the virtues of intragender affection" , suggesting that such phrasing would be less off-putting to non-gays.
   
   Footnote 2. Executive Director of Whitman-Walker Clinic.
   
   Footnote 3. Also Director of Abundant Life Clinic.
   
   Footnote 4.