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The school, however, preferred that Stewart
wear
more traditional male garb, insisting that it
he California Legislature has granted
domestic partner health benefits to would be a violation of the schools dress code
for Stewart to wear a dress, according to media
employees at the Capitol and at district offices
around the state, reports the May 11 Son Fran reports.
An Indianapolis federal judge saw things a
cisco Examiner.
little differently and ruled that Stewart’s deci
Blue Shield health, dental and vision care
sion
to wear a dress is a form of speech protect
coverage is now available to unmarried couples
who live at the same address and who are “in a ed by the First Amendment. The ruling was
close and exclusive relationship in which each is handed down just in time for Stewart to attend
responsible for their common welfare." The new the prom his way.
policy applies to same-sex and opposite-sex cou
NATIONAL
ples. Costs are projected to range from $170 to
teven
Dunlap
has a dream. It involves the
$340 for each covered partner and dependents.
Internet, banking, and gay men and lesbians.
More specifically, his dream involves combining
those three elements to create the Gay and Les
bian Bank, a virtual bank that would offer every
thing from joint checking accounts to mort
gages. All business would be conducted online.
The target market? Gay men and lesbians.
Accordion to Reuters, Dunlap hopes to win
regulatory approval for the bank in time to open
by National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11.
Dunlap thought about creating the virtual
bank after a frustrating effort to raise money to
build a gay and lesbian resort in Florida.
“Lenders snubbed their noses at it. No mat
ter how strong the business plan was, they just
The decision to implement the new policy
didn’t
want anything to do with it,” he said.
was made by the Assembly Rules Committee,
which functions like a board of directors and
NEW HAMPSHIRE
personnel department for Capitol employees.
t is no longer illegal for gay men and lesbians
Democratic leaders on the committee sent a
to serve as foster and adoptive parents in New
memo to the members of the Senate and
Hampshire. Earlier this month, Gov. Jeanne
Assembly rules committees requesting that each
Shaheen signed a law repealing the ban.
member vote by checking “aye” or “nay” on the
New Hampshire’s action leaves Florida as the
memo. The policy was approved on a party-line
only state in the nation with such a ban in place,
vote.
Republicans are upset with the method by states a May 3 United Press International story.
which the policy was approved and implement
ed. No formal hearings were held, and there was
little public notice. Although there have been
demands for a public hearing before the Joint
Assembly-Senate Rules Committee, no hearing
date has been set. It seems the new policy is
something of a fait accompli.
Having all the right people in the right
places at the right time appears to be a major
reason domestic partner benefits were finally
offered to employees of the Legislature. Both
Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, D-Los
Angeles, and Senate President pro tern John
Burton, D-San Francisco, support domestic
partner benefits. Additionally, California’s new
governor, Gray Davis, supports the expansion of
domestic partner benefits.
The old law, enacted in 1988, prohibited gay
men and lesbians from serving as foster or adop
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tive parents. Additionally, foster and adoptive
new mural on display at San Franciscos
parents were not allowed to have gay men or les
Mission High School features gay and les bians as either members of their households or
bian figures both past and present.
as long-term visitors to their homes.
The mural measures approximately 15 feet
When signing the bill, Shaheen said: "For
by 8 feet. It features 20 people, including poet
too long, too many qualified families have been
Langston Hughes, assassinated San Francisco denied the opportunity to provide a child in
Supervisor Harvey Milk,
need with a healthy, loving environment. This
singer Elton John, and
law will allow more children to be with support
author Truman Capote.
ive and nurturing families. That’s good for New
“This mural is the first
Hampshire and good for our children.”
of its kind at any school in
the nation and its about
NEW YORK
time,” school board presi
ohn Pickett, a gay man accused of killing his
dent Juanita Owen told
lover, can use “battered-wife syndrome" as a
The Associated Press. “With hate crimes con
defense at his trial, a Brix)klyn judge ruled in
tinuing across the country, and even here in San
April.
Francisco, what better way to educate all our
The landmark ruling by state Supreme Court
youth than to honor this wide array of meaning Justice John Leventhal marks the first time a
ful figures from history who just happen to be
man has used the defense strategy, which previ
gay or lesbian ?”
ously has been applied in cases involving beaten
and abused women.
INDIANA
The judge said Pickett’s attorney, Arthur
ale Stewart, a senior at Arlington High
Aidala, can call an expert on battered women
School, knew what he wanted to wear to and an expert on abuse in gay relationships,
his high school prom—a fashionable black for according to the April 24 Neu> York Post.
mal dress.
In December 1997, Pickett allegedly stabbed
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