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In addition to the extension of equal ben efits, Tribune added sexual orientation to its company-wide nondiscrimination policy, fol lowing the Times-Mirror practice. Tribune Company employees active in the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association worked effectively with management before and following the merger to urge the adop tion of equal benefits and to raise other con cerns of gay and lesbian employees in the workplace. Karen Bailis, an NLGJA board member and assistant news editor at Newsday, said, “Tribune has shown it values me and my gay and lesbian colleagues and all employees by offering these benefits. It’s gratifying to know that our education efforts and the lobbying conducted by gay and non-gay employees has resulted in tangible success.” Robert Dodge, NLGJA President noted, “Equal pay for equal work — that’s the prin ciple behind domestic partner benefits for gay and lesbian workers. On average, benefits ac count for 39 percent of payroll, which means that gay and lesbian employees in commit ted, long term relationships are effectively being paid less than their married coworkers.” Dodge specifically cited as an example Tri bune online journalist Christine Badowski, who revealed how this breakthrough affects herself, her partner and their son, Sam: “For the first time, like any married couple, we have real choices about our family’s future. My partner, Julie, now has the ability to stay home with Sam — and to work a couple dif ferent jobs for our friends who have their own businesses, but cannot offer her essential health benefits. And, who knows? We might even consider a second child if she’s able to be home full-time.” The number of news media companies and associated unions offering domestic partner (DP) benefits has more than doubled (from 26 to 73) since 1997, according to a study conducted in 2000 by NLGJA. ▼ Wolfson departs Lambda Legal to continue pursuit of marriage rights by Peg Byron Special to Q-Notes NEW YORK— Evan Wolfson, a pioneer ing lawyer for the nation’s leading lesbian and gay legal organization, will leave Lambda Le gal Defense and Education Fund to explore new strategies for securing full equality for lesbians and gay men, including the freedom to marry. After twelve years on staff, Wolfson’s last day with the organization will be April 30, Lambda announced March 22. Lambda Executive Director Kevin M. Cathcart said, “For over a de cade, Evan has personified Lambda’s passion and vision for equality. From his pursuit of the freedom to marry to his argument before the United States Supreme Court against the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay policy, his voice has rallied in numerable people, gay and non-gay, to the cause of jus tice.” “While we will miss Evan’s enthusiastic presence in our daily work lives, we are very pleased that he will continue to work with us so closely as an independent force toward the goals we share,” Cathcart said. In addition to serving as director of Lambda’s Marriage Project, Wolfson litigated cases ranging from one that drew protests from the Ku Klux Klan when he represented a Florida deputy sheriff fired for being gay to another that resulted in domestic partner ben efits for New York City employees. In June 2000, the National Law Journal honored Wolfson by naming him one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America. “Evan’s dedication and strategic work have helped fuel this liberation movement and ben- efitted many people along the way. His exem plary commitment will continue now, and Lambda will continue to work with him, as he approaches the next stages of our civil rights movement as a broad thinker and leader,” said Legal Director Ruth E. Harlow. “With Evan at the helm. Lambdas Mar riage Project put this cause on the political map. Moving forward, we will redouble our efforts to end discrimination in marriage, through public education, policy advocacy. Evan Wolfson continues conquest for marriage rights. and litigation,” Harlow said. The new Marriage Project Coordinator will be Lambda attorney David Buckel. “I am proud to have had the honor of work ing for an organization as visionary and solid as Lambda. I will continue to be a partner of this extraordinary, dedicated group as we move forward,” Wolfson said, adding, “I am thank ful for the many colleagues who have taught, inspired, and supported me, and done so much good. And I am excited that now I will have the chance to figure out how best to build on the work we have done, win the freedom to marry, and enlarge possi bilities for gay and non-gay people alike. “I will now take this spe cial opportunity to confer with diverse leaders and or ganizations around the country, seek out new strat egies, resources, and voices, and, as Lincoln put it, ‘think anew’ about how best to advance the needed sustained campaign to se cure the freedom to marry,” Wolfson said. Wolfson’s tenure at Lambda spans dramatic changes in the legal and cul tural position of lesbians and gay men in America. Representing James Dale in his challenge to the Boy Scouts’ dis criminatory policy, Wolfson helped spark the present nationwide response against that dis crimination. As director of Lambda’s Mar riage Project, Wolfson was co-counsel in the landmark Hawaii case which launched the ongoing national discussion about gay people’s freedom to marry, and advanced cru cial legal theories that courts around the country are beginning to heed. Wolfson also contributed his expertise to Baker v. Vermont, which led to the creation of “civil unions,” a new legal marital status for same-sex couples in that state. At Lambda, Wolfson championed diverse clients such as lesbian and gay military per sonnel seeking the right to serve; gay parents wishing to adopt children and preserve visita tion rights; a man with AIDS fighting for life saving medical treatment refused by his in surer; and a woman denied work as a Dallas police officer because of the state’s anti-gay “Homosexual Conduct Law.” ▼ Q-Notes — Bringing you legal news and more!
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