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Article: Log Cabin fever. (dissension within US' largest organization of gay and lesbian Republicans)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 18, 1997
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The first resignation came at the Log Cabin Republicans' national convention in August. By January two more members had left the group's board of directors. All three men offer similar reasons for their departure--in their view Log Cabin, the nation's largest organization of gay and lesbian Republicans, is off track.
"My biggest fear is that the organization is going to self-destruct," says Jim Gardner, an executive with a California-based medical manufacturer. Gardner, who lives in Washington, D.C., called it quits at Log Cabin's San Diego convention, held in conjunction with the Republican National Convention in the same city.
At the same time ...