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espite acknowledgment by the Des Moines
City Council of discrimination against the
sexual minority community, the council voted
4-3 on May 18 not to include sexual orientation
as a characteristic protected under the city’s
human rights ordinance, reports the Des Moines
Register.
“It means we just start over again,” reasons
John Schmacker, president of the Des Moines
Gay and Lesbian Resource Center. “City coun
cil members come and go, but the gay commu
nity will be here forever.”
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Only a small amount of the drug—about
three handfuls of dried marijuana and three
dozen 4-inch plants—was found. No one was
arrested.
The raid was the latest skirmish over
Proposition 215, the voter-approved measure
legalizing marijuana for medical use in the state
of California.
In mid-May, U.S. District Court Judge
Charles Breyer banned distribution of the drug,
saying the initiative cannot override a federal
ban. In doing so, Breyer rejected arguments that
the clubs should be entitled to furnish the drug
because customers find it hard to survive with
out marijuana to ease the pain and side effects of
cancer and AIDS therapy.
Several other medical marijuana clubs have
refused to abide by his order. Clubs in Oakland,
Ukiah and the Marin County town of Fairfax
continue to operate.
rganizers of the fourth annual Gay and
Straight Youth Pride Day in Boston had
expected to attract a crowd of about 2,000 to the
May 16 gathering. According to police esti
mates, it drew closer to 7,500.
The Boston Globe says a section of Beacon
Street was closed to traffic as the larger-than-
anticipated crowd spilled into the street from
the steps of the state House.
“This shows me we are not alone,” said first
time attendee Daniel Penland, a 14-year-old
freshman at Bedford High School. "We can
reach out and connect here. It is a neat feeling.”
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Bell Atlantic employee is suing his
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to his live-in girlfriend—benefits he insists
would be hers if theirs was a same-sex relation
ship.
According to The Associated Press, Long
Island resident Paul Foray, who has worked for
Bell Atlantic for 28 years, is seeking $485,000 in
damages. Prior to filing this suit in U.S. District
Court, Foray unsuccessfolly sought $12 million
in state court using the same argument.
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bian population and would give the city one of
the nation’s broadest sets of domestic partner
ship policies, according to the New York Times.
The bill’s timing coincides with Republican
Giuliani’s attempt to gain national support for a
possible run for higher office. But his timing
leaves some party members baffled.
“For lack of a better term, it’s a very
Northeastern Republican bill,” grumbled
Colorado Republican Party Executive Director
Chris Baker. “Imagine him trying to campaign
on that kind of legislation down in Alabama. It
won’t work.”
currently, Beu /xtiantic extenas Denents to
same-sex partners of employees who cohabit;
opposite-sex partners must be married to
employees to receive benefits.
OHIO
hio residents with HIV who don’t inform
sexual partners of their status may soon be
subject to felonious assault charges—regardless
of whether the virus is transmitted—if a bill that
passed the state House May 12 makes it through
the Senate.
While nondisclosure of one's HIV status is
already illegal in Ohio, it is a crime that carries
no penalty, the Dayton Daily News reports.
Republican Rep. Ron Young’s proposal
would make nondisclosure a felonious assault
and institute second-degree felony charges for
sexual contact between an HIV-positive adult
and a minor, regardless of disclosure. Penalties
would apply to any type of sexual contact, with
or without a condom.
The bill passed the House 92-1. The lone
“no” vote was cast by Rep. Dennis Stapleton, R-
Washington Court House, who expressed con
cerns about enforcement and the possibility the
law might discourage people from getting tested
for HIV.
PENNSYLVANIA
n the heels of a successful May 7
Philadelphia City Council vote for domes
tic partnership benefits for lesbian and gay city
employees, activists are consolidating support
for the Pennsylvania Civil Rights Initiative.
The initiative promotes twin civil rights bills
to amend the Pennsylvania Human Relations
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Act and the Pennsylvania Fair Educational
egislation proposed by New York City Opportunities Act to include sexual orientation
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani would require the as a category in which people would be protect
city to recognize registered unmarried couples— ed from discrimination.
hetero- or homosexual—as having the same
Organizers hope to have the initiative intro
rights as married couples.
duced into the state Senate in June.
The proposal would fulfill a campaign
promise Giuliani made to the city’s gay and les ■ Compiled by W ill O’B ryan
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