Screaming Tom

SoVo: Longtime local activist and partner relocating to Singapore

Unbelievable - Ray Hom is finally leaving the country. This is the
best news I have heard in ages.

I don't know who wrote this story but it is so inaccurate to the
point to be called "fiction" or "plagerism."

SoVo: "After attending the 1998 Gay Games in Amsterdam as a
spectator, Hom returned to Atlanta determined to rally a robust
delegation of Team Atlanta athletes for the 2002 games in
Sydney, Australia."

This is a direct quote from a 1999 press release I (Tom
Dempsey) sent out. I was the one to return from Amsterdam and
helped establish the bid for the 2006 Gay Games bid and
brought Team Atlanta back into existence.

SoVo: "In 2001, when Atlanta Games, Inc., efforts were underway
to attempt bringing the 2006 games here, Hom was asked to
jump on board as co-chair."

Long-time readers of QueerAtlanta will recall Ray Hom forced
me off the board as co-chair with the help of Margie Archer. I
don't recall asking Hom to harcher me and screw Atlanta in the
process.

The sad thing is many people will read this story and believe it.
Shame on Southern Voice for printing this garbage and the
out-right lies.

Tom Dempsey

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On the move
Longtime local activist and partner relocating to Singapore

By VAN GOWER
Friday, May 07, 2004


This weekend's Human Rights Campaign Dinner will be
bittersweet for Ray Hom and Kent Grogin. After almost a decade
of activism in Atlanta — including Hom's two years as co-chair of
the local HRC dinner — the couple departs later this month for
Singapore.

http://www.southernvoice.com/2004/5-7/locallife/feature/move.cfm

posted by Tom Dempsey @ 5/11/2004