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just out V soptom bor 16, 1994 ▼ 7 national news No response in the streets High Level Performance In today's hot market, you need a Realtor who is experienced, efficient and quick. Whether buying or selling — I promise to put on my running shoes for you. Scott Gov. Pete Wilson vetoes California domestic partner legislation ▼ by Rex Wockner “1 don’t think that many people even knew it was around,” Frutchey said Sept. 12. “It hasn’t been in the press that much up here.... There was a lot more advance press about AB 101. This is a bill a lot of people didn’t even know was up for The measure would have allowed approval.” same-sex and unmarried heterosexual couples to Chris Thomas, editor of the San Jose gay register with the secretary of state. Registered newspaper OutNOW! agreed. "Throughout the partners would have been granted hospital visita history of AB 2810, it’s received very little inter tion rights, the right to will each other property, est in many parts of the Bay Area,” he said. “Other and the right to act on the behalf of a partner who gay newspapers have traditionally buried news became incapacitated. It would have been the first about it deep inside, and there have not been any such legislation in the country. high-profile awareness campaigns as there were In contrast to Wilson’s September 1991 veto for AB 101. The possible reasons for all of this are of gay and lesbian civil rights law AB 101, there many—we expected the veto all along; some was no visible response from queers in the streets segments of the gay community don’t care about of San Francisco, Los Angeles or San Diego. ‘traditional’ relationships; you name it.” In a prepared statement, Wilson said, “Gov In 1991 some 8,000 protesters rioted at the ernment policy ought not to discount marriage by State Office Building in offering a substitute re San Francisco, smashing lationship that demands every window on the much less, and provides ground floor, tossing much less, than is needed computers out of second- both by the children of floor w in d o w s , and such relationships and, setting fires in the build ultim ately, much less ing that caused damage than is needed by soci totaling $250,000 ety.” In Los Angeles in Government has an 1991, dem onstrato rs obligation, Wilson said, marched on the Ronald to “encourage and re Reagan State Building, ward marriage and the splashed red dye on it, formation of strong fami and broke windows. The lies— families that pro next evening, several vide the fundamental and thousand people marched best hope of preventing In 1991 some 8,000 across West Hollywood increasing welfare de and burned the state flag. pendency and increasing protesters rioted at the State Various protests contin teen-age crime and vio ued for a month, with Office Building in San lence. A society that de some observers dubbing Francisco, smashing every them “Stonewall West.” values m arriage, and which accepts illegiti 1991 in San Diego, window on the ground floor, 600 In gay macy as commonplace, men and lesbi encourages the explo tossing computers out of ans rallied at the state sion of teen-age out-of- building downtown. windows, and setting fires wedlock births that Cali “I think a lot of people fornia has in fact experi in the building that caused saw AB 101 as water enced.” shed civil rights legisla damage totaling $250,000. He stated: “AB 2810 tion,” said Jeri Dilno, edi is unnecessary to achieve tor of San Diego's Gay & its specific aims in terms Lesbian Times. "I don’t think the domestic part of hospital visitation, conservatorship, and testa ners bill ever caught the same kind of political fire mentary disposition. There are already provisions with people. in existing law allowing the naming of any indi “This bill was kind of technical and didn’t vidual as a beneficiary in a will or creating a have an emotional edge to it. It was a partial bill to durable power of attorney. Therefore, these goals start with, giving only limited rights, and I think of AB 2810 can be achieved by exercising appro people just didn’t understand it as being civil priate foresight.” rights legislation, or the lack of it passing being a Wilson added, “I am issuing an executive threat to their rights. order that will allow competent adult patients to “I think they are wrong,” Dilno added. “But designate whomever they choose as hospital visi because it had a more subtle tone to it, it wasn’t tors.” good for sloganeering. Also, the lobbyists delib The bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Richard Katz erately played down the gay side of it, saying it (D-Los Angeles), labeled Wilson’s veto as “para was good for senior citizens [who often live noia, right wing rhetoric.” Katz said the measure together unmarried to protect their Social Secu reaffirmed “a basic family value—the ability to rity benefits]. The other side of that coin is that it care for someone you love.” didn’t catch the political awareness of the gay and Longtime gay activist Chuck Frutchey, who lesbian community.” lives in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro Dis A year after the 1991 protest, Wilson did sign trict, said lesbians and gay men probably didn’t a scaled-down state gay and lesbian civil rights riot or demonstrate—as they did when Wilson law that bans discrimination in employment and vetoed AB 101 in 1991— because the partners bill housing. had a low profile in the media. % Scott Bottaro [Ä D H - 234-1887 W — 287-9370 Bridgetown Realty VENUE $ 295 ! ept. 11, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed California’s domestic partner leg islation, AB 2810, which had cleared the state Assembly and the Senate. S REG $329 HYBRID STYLE BIKE UPRIGHT BARS. COMFORTABLE SADDLE. THE PERFECT CITY BIKE WITH STYLEI Effective, quality healthcare. KODIAK REG $399 $ 375 ! 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