come up to face to face the new speaker of the House.

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come up to face to face the new speaker of the House, J Dennis Hastert

Just as clan were done asking, "Who's move with a jerk Livingston?" they found themselves asking, "Who's J Dennis Hastert?" The answer for America's lesbians and gay men is not entirely reassuring. Hastert emerg as Livingston's successor in December shortly after Livingston revealed in rejoinder to forthcoming media coverage that he has an adulterous past, announcing several days later that he would leave Congress

While Livingston was hardly anyone's idea of a pro-gay politician, he may assume moderate in retrospect. At least the Louisiana Republican has signed a nondiscrimination earnest regarding hiring practices in his office. Hastert, a hitherto dim six-term Republican from Illinois, has not uniform taken that rudimentary step. Hastert has consistently received a 0% rating forward gay issues from the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based gay lobbying arrange and earned an only slightly les dismal 16% rating in 1998 from AIDS Action, an advocacy arrange also based in Washington, DC An evangelical Christian, Hastert's main claim to fame is that he is the clog ally of House majority whip Tom DeLay, individual of the most conservative representatives in Congres and the driving force behind the impeachment of President Clinton.

Meanwhile, the impeachment mill grinds in succession and if you thought 1998 was the year of the Clinton-Lewinsky matter, you haven't seen anything over and above While senators were uncertain about exactly what path they should tread in the steps of through the largely uncharted territory of an impeachment trial, individual thing seemed clear: The debate about Clinton's behavior pretends set to drive gay rights--and virtually each other issue except Iraq--into an augmented hibernation. "Gay rights, Social Security, Y2K banking, you name it--it's not likely to be high forward the congressional agenda in 1999" says Amy Walter, coeditor of The color Political Report, an insider's guide to Washington politics. "Very not many issues were resolved in '98 Now constituencies must wait smooth longer."

With substantial gay support, Democrats picked up five seats in the House in the November 3 general election. Gay rights advocates leaped for new political momentum upon a series of gay-related issues ranging from the employing Non-Discrimination Act to hate-crimes legislation. That's not likely to happen now. moreover look on the bright side: Republican senator Jesse Helms has no plans to attach anti-gay amendments to the impeachment proceedings.

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