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Page 14 Community Connections, November 1992 - NATIONAL NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Massachusetts Governor William Weld signed an executive order September 23 giving unmarried couples, including gays and lesbians, bereavement and hospital visitation rights. The order applies only to the state's 3,OCX) managers, and so far not union workers.-Southern Voice, 10/1/92 Seventy-five people are the first to enroll at the LeVay Institute for Gay Education, an institute begun by Salk Institute researcher Dr. Simon LeVay and city planner Chris topher Patrouch last spring. The primary goal is to offer education with a gay per spective.- Southern Voice, 10/1/92 The Proctor and Gamble Company has adopted an anti-discrimination policy for gays and lesbians.— Southern Voice, 10/1/ 92 The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts became the state's first city to pass an ordinance broadening the legal definition of families to include gay and lesbian couples. The new law extends health Forward Strides Documenting our progress toward freedom and justice Summarized from press reports across the nation coverage to partners, as well as guarantees gay and lesbian couples visitation rights to hospitals and detention centers.--Southern Voice, 10/1/92 On September 10 Sabrina Sojourner be came the first black lesbian to be elected to the Washington D.C. Democratic State Committee. Sojourner was the sixth les bian or gay man to become a member of the 60-member committee- Washington Blade, 9/18/92 A panel of military and civilian experts on government security clearances recom mended to the federal government agen cies this month that Gay federal workers not be denied security clearances, even if they are closeted to their families, co- workers, or friends. The panel, the Secu rity Practices Board of Review of the Federal Emergency Management Agency by John Yelton & Cynthia Janes (FEMA), approved the recomendations on September 4. -Washington Blade 9125192 Cambridge, MA - The Cambridge, MA City Council voted 5-4 last week in favor of a domestic partnership law that will allow lesbians and gay men to register as domestic partners. The law will require the city to provide benefits to domestic partners of city employees. —Washington Blade, 9/25/92 The Fulton County, GA Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Au gust 19 to add sexual orientation to its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. Commissioner Nancy Boxhill, whose dis trict includes the highest concentration of openly gay people in Atlanta, introduced the legislation which covers county em ployees and businesses that contract with the county. -Washington Blade, 9/18/92. A poll taken to measure a variety of attitudes on social issues for The Salt Lake Tribune showed that 64.5 % of the people in Utah support legal protection for gays and lesbians in job and housing discrimi nation. Pollsters were surprised by the results in the typically conservative state. -Washington Blade, 9/18/92. Twenty-one year old Military Police man Jason Skerik came out in a press conference in Atlanta on Sept. 3, and is now facing military discharge hearings. Skerik says his unit fully supports him and that one of his superiors "told me that he didn't know any gay people before, and that I had opened his eyes for the rest of his life." —Southern Voice, 9/24/92. Clothing manufacturing company Ba nana Republic is explicitly targeting gays in their new ad promotions. The Septem ber issue of GQ and Vanity Fair carry the ads featuring same-sex couples. Gay/ lesbian publications such as Out will also carry the ads. —Southern Voice, 9/24/92. In August, Archbishop Peter Camley of Perth, Australia ordained David YOUR BEST NEWS SOURCE Morning Edition WEEKDAY MORNINGS AT 6 AM Weekend Edition WEEKEND MORNINGS 8-10 AM All Things Considered EVERY DAY AT 5 PM PLUS REGULAR 5-MINUTE UPDATES AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. - Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund NO COMMENT Editorial reprinted from the Alamance News, Graham, NC Thanks to Chris Ingle and the North Carolina Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCCGLE). THE MOUNTAIN AIR NETWORK WCQS National Public Radio FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA rhe A Alamance A, ^^ Tbt M, IUvi*W *• Thr W«W MoM lithrowh t« Krn Fa M tkart Tbt Paayit al Manaaca taut) VOLUME 54, NO. 38 PAGE 2-A THE ALAMANCE NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1992 Backlash against "gay rights" The general public can usually be pretty tolerant, but if pressed too hard, or too long, they will respond -- mightily. Thus, it is not too surprising to us that the "gay rights" movement is now meeting with a backlash of resistance. Out west, homosexual activists have often succeeded in their efforts to establish special rights for homosexuals. But the public ap pears to be about fed up. Four years ago, Oregon voters overturned their governor’s executive order barring : "discrimination" against homosexuals by 53 ■ percent. . Now ballot initiatives are assured in : Oregon and Colorado to reverse other pro tections granted for homosexuals. Oregon’s : proposal even goes so far as to call homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse." Shocking, indeed. That’s what modern psychologists and psychiatrists called it until recent years. Earlier this year, Springfield, Oregon adopted a city or dinance explicitly opposing homosexual rights. Also, in the.nation’s capital, efforts are under way in Congress to block the city s proposed new ordinance to permit homosexual marriages. We think the Oregon initiative’s leader has summed up most people’s views: "most of society is wiling to tolerate a subculture built around a homosexual lifestyle. What we want to do is establish a barrier. The state must ultimatelv say that homosexuality is wrong."
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