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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The 1995 federal budget that President Bill
Clinton submitted to Congress last month calls for
the removal of a congressional amendment that
bars the District of Columbia government from
spending money to implement its domestic part
ners law. In spring of 1992, the D.C. Council
passed a law that enabled same-sex and hetero
sexual couples to register with the city as domestic
partners. In September of that year, Congress passed
an amendment that barred the district from using
funds to implement the plan.
try have an opportunity to talk to each other," said
Phill Wilson, founder of BGLLF. “I hope that this
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he future with
other partici-
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GEORGIA
Organizers for the 19% Olympic Games in
Atlanta are being pressured to move the volleyball
competition from Cobb County, where county
commissioners passed a resolution last year that
legalizes discrimination against sexual minorities.
‘The Cobb County commissioners have made it
clear the lesbian and gay athletes and spectators
will not be welcome in their county,” said Tim
NEW YORK
McFecly, executive director of the Human Rights
A poll published in the Feb. 14 issue of
Campaign Fund. “The Olympic Committee has a Newsweek found that 74 percent of the 750 adults
responsibility to choose another venue rather than surveyed think that sexual minorities should be
reward a county that supports discrimination.” protected from job discrimination and that 81
Letters can be sent to: Juan Antonio Samaranch, percent favor housing protection. However, more
president of the International Olympic Commit than 60 percent say they oppose same-sex mar
tee, Chateau de Vidy, CH-1007, Lausanne, Swit riages and adoption rights for sexual minorities.
zerland.
The telephone survey was conducted by the
Princeton Survey Research Associates.
Resources supporting and empowering women
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PENNSYLVANIA
An international Asians and Friends Network
is being organized by about 25 Asian groups in the
United Sates, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.
The international group, called the Umbrella Com
mittee, willsupport member organizations by shar
ing information, developing friendships and facili
tating networks. It may also assist emerging groups
in Asia to promote gay and lesbian civil rights. For
more information, write: International Friendship
Weekend, PO Box 219, Sewickley, PA 15143.
Women who drink coffee should also drink
plenty of milk to prevent osteoporosis, according
to a report published in the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association. Previous research has
shown that caffeine increases urinary excretion of
calcium. In a new study, researchers found that
women who drank two or more cups of coffee a
day and at least one glass of milk a day for about
40 years had a bone density 6.5 percent higher
than women who drank two cups of coffee but no
milk each day.
MARYLAND
A bill may pass the state Legislature that will
require physicians, medical laboratories and insti
tutions to report the names of people who test
positive for HIV antibodies to the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene. Gov. William Donald
Schaefer has supported the bill for the past three
, years. Last year, a similar bill was defeated by one
vote in a Senate committee. Members of the AIDS
Legislative Committee, which opposes the bill,
say it has a good chance of passing.
SOUTH CAROLINA
A regional officeof State Farm Insurance Com
pany has canceled a policy covering South
Carolina’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
The insurance company cited a policy that forbids
the coverage of high-profile, controversial busi
nesses. The policy had cleared the local offices and
was stopped when regional officials became aware
of the policy. The center opened in October 1993.
WISCONSIN
The state Supreme Court ruled last month that
a Madison woman can temporarily have regular
visits with the 5-ycar-old boy she raised with her
former lesbian partner. The court refused to block
an appeals court ruling that allows Sandy Holtzman
to see the boy despite objections from the boy’s
biological mother. The appeals court is reviewing
a circuit court ruling that said Holtzman has no
rights to visit the boy under state law. The appeals
court said Holtzman would likely lose, but allowed
her to visit the boy while reviewing the lower court
decision.
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Open lesbian Cathrecn Godre, who is running
for the Dane County Board of Supervisors, has
MASSACHUSETTS
received
the recommendation of the Gay and Les
About 40 lesbian and gay activists from the
United States met for three days in March in bian Victory Fund. Godre currently serves as guard
Dedham for a working retreat sponsored by the ian ad litem for Dane County, with the bulk of her
Human Rights Campaign Fund and organized by practice consisting of child abuse and neglect
Torie Osborn, former director of the National Gay cases. She has received strong support from Wis
and Lesbian Task Force. Attendees represented consin state Rep. Tammy Baldwin and former
about 15 groups, including NGLTF, the National Rep. Dick Clarenbach. The retiring supervisor,
Minority AIDS Council, the Black Gay and Les Richard Wagner, who is openly gay, also supports
bian Leadership Forum, the Gay and Lesbian Al Godre.
liance Against Defamation, and the American Civil
“As the radical right escalates its attacks on our
Liberties Union’s Gay and Lesbian Rights Project. community, we must have open lesbians and gay
The gathering covered ways to strengthen commu men in positions of power who are ready to con
nication between groups and further networking. front the hatred,” Godre said.
“It is helpful and imperative that gay and les
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