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William Darrow, the Florida International University professor who conducted the study, said recent reports of medical developments in the fight against HIV/AIDS may have led men to believe there is a cure for the disease and that caution is no longer necessary. ▼ ▼ ▼ The religious right’s attempt to organize a boycott of Walt Disney Co. after the company granted domestic partnership benefits to same- sex couples appears to have fallen short of the mark. The company’s profits actually rose 27 percent during the fourth quarter. Alan Klein, na tional com m unica tions director for the Gay and Lesbian Alli ance Against Defama tion, said, “Appar ently the American public is not buying the bigoted boycott rhetoric of religious radicals.” MASSACHUSETTS Gov. William F. Weld said Dec. 4 that if the Hawaii Supreme Court upholds the recent ruling to allow same-gender marriages, his state will be forced to acknowledge the validity of such unions, reports The Boston Globe. Although he did not specifically endorse a new state law to recognize such marriages, Weld said he views the federal Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, and that his highest obligation as governor is to the U.S. Constitution rather than the will of Con gress. MICHIGAN Jonathan Schmitz, the man who was con victed of murdering Scott Amedure in 1995 after Amedure revealed he had a crush on Schmitz on the Jenny Jones show, was sentenced on Dec. 4 to a minimum of 25 years in prison for the crime, according to a Reuter report. Last month jurors found Schmitz guilty of second-degree murder, taking into account the effects of mental illness and Graves disease put forth as a defense by his attorneys. Schmitz will probably become eligible for parole after 20 years. ▼ ▼ ▼ A jury in Wayne County ordered Pinkerton’s Security and Investigation Inc. to pay $10 mil lion to Sean McBride, the victim of an anti-gay crime in 1994. McBride, now a paraplegic, was harassed by three loiterers in the lobby of his apartment building over a period of half an hour, after which he was shot six times. A Pinkerton guard in the lobby stood by and did not inter vene. McBride’s attorney, Carol McNeilage, told