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ARIZONA
ailed March 13 it is legal for Pima
A judge
County to offer health insurance benefits
to the unmarried domestic partners of county
employees, reports the Arizona Daily Star.
The ruling came eight months after domestic
partners were to begin receiving benefits under
a new county policy. Enactment of the policy
was delayed by a lawsuit filed by a taxpayers’
group that opposed it.
The Daily Star says 90 percent of the county
employees who applied for benefits did so for
partners of the opposite sex. Only 10 employees
signed up for same-sex domestic partners.
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HAWAII
he fight for legal same-sex marriage is draw
ing some powerful support. Oswald
Stender, a trustee of Bishop Estate—one of the
largest land-holding entities in the state—has
joined the executive panel of Protect Our
Constitution, a political action committee
which aims to prevent the Legislature from
amending the state constitution to allow prohi
bition of same-sex marriage.
According to the Honolulu Star'Bulletin,
other prominent Hawaiians who have given
their support to the PAC include Assistant U.S.
Attorney Loretta Matsunaga and Wally
“Famous” Amos.
CALIFORNIA
a quarter of the San Francisco
M ore bars than
n keeping with tradition, the Big Apple’s St.
and restaurants that have been cited
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Patrick’s Day festivities involved the wearing
for violating the statewide ban on smoking since
NEW YORK
Jan. 1 have been gay bars, according to the Bay of green, widespread beer consumption, a mon
umental parade and the arrests of Irish
American queer-rights demonstrators.
According to United Press International, an
estimated two dozen
folks were arrested for
protesting the parade
because the Irish Lesbian
and Gay Organization is
banned from marching
As of early February, inspectors had cited a behind its own banner.
total of 14 establishments over their inability or
The Ancient Order
unwillingness to make customers comply with of Hibernians, the frater
California’s smoking ban. Of those 14, four have nal Irish Catholic group that organizes the
mostly gay clienteles: Reflections on Polk event, has suggested ILGO members march
Street, Trax on Haight Street, the San Francisco with banners representing Irish counties.
Eagle on Harrison Street and The Hole in the
In 1995, the Hibernians won a court ruling
Wall on Seventh Street.
that the parade is a private religious event and
The article says in all the cases the owners therefore they are not required to include any
were ordered to attend administrative hearings group which asks to march.
about complying with the new ban.
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even men arrested at an adult bookstore in
Livermore filed a federal lawsuit March 11
claiming they were targeted because they were
perceived as gay. The plaintiffs also accuse city
officials, business leaders and police of conspir
ing to shut down the store to clean up down
town’s image.
The men were allegedly alone in video
booths masturbating, visible to police only if
officers looked under a partition, according to
attorney Bmce W. Nickerson. City officials
contend the booths are public and the arrests
simply enforced decency laws.
Two dozen men were arrested, including a
junior high schcxd teacher who was sentenced
to two years probation, fined $250 and required
to register as a sex offender. Most of the arrested
| men agreed to plea bargains to avoid being reg-
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TEXAS
A judge has blocked the city of Houston from
enforcing Mayor Lee Brown’s executive
order banning discrimination against lesbians
and gay men in city government.
State District Judge Patrick W. Mizell agreed
with opponents who argued the mayor lacks
authority under the city charter to impose such
an order. Mizell said the charter authorizes only
the Houston City Council and the Civil Service
Commission to make rules regarding discrimina
tion.
After a briefing by city attorneys, Brown said
he is considering an appeal.
Brown signed the order in January, fulfilling
a campaign pledge to ban discrimination in city
government on the basis of sexual orientation.
UTAH
club, the East High Gay/Straight
A student
Alliance, is fighting discrimination—and
the Salt Lake City Board of Education—in a
lawsuit filed March 19 by three civil rights
groups on behalf of two students.
The students, represented by Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund, the National
Center for Lesbian Rights and the American
Civil Liberties Union chapters of Utah and
Northern California, claim the board is violat
ing the federal Equal Access Act, which requires
public secondary schcxils accepting federal funds
to allow all school clubs access to school facili
ties.
The lawsuit comes more than two years after
the Salt Lake City School Board voted to ban
46 noncurricular clubs rather than allow the
Gay/Straight Alliance to meet as a school-
sponsored club.
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