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18 news ALABAMA together would get some o f the rights married couples have. wo men facing capital murder charges in A May 26 Associated Press report indicates the heating and burning death of a gay man the bill, sent to the Assembly by a 23-14 vote on entered innocent pleas last month. May 25, would allow couples to register with the Charles Monroe Butler Jr., 21, pleaded inno state as dom estic cent by reason of mental defect or disease, and partners. T h at would Steven Eric Mullins, 25, pleaded innocent, T he give them the right Associated Press reported May 20. f 1 to visit their partner According to authorities, the two men have in the hospital, will confessed to beating 39-year-old Billy Jack their property to Gaither to death with an ax handle last Febru each other and act as ary and then throwing his body atop a pyre of their partner’s co n burning, kerosene-soaked tires. Mullins and servator if he or she Butler claim the attack occurred because were incapacitated. Gaither made a pass at one of them. T h e bill’s sponsor, All three men lived in or near Sylacauga, a Sen. Kevin Murray, says it “has nothing to do town approximately 45 miles outside Birming with physical relationships.” T h e measure’s ham. biggest supporters are senior citizen groups, the Gaither’s family has expressed the desire to Los Angeles Democrat told the AP. have both men sentenced to the death penalty. There are about 500,000 unmarried couples in California and 93 percent are heterosexual, CALIFORNIA according to a Senate analysis of Murray’s hill. ackie Goldberg, a two-term Los Angeles T he group includes about 35,000 senior citizen councilwoman who is a lesbian, has decided to run next year for the state Assembly seat cur couples who would lose pension benefits if they married. rently held by Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, reports a May COLORADO 14 Los Angeles everal hundred gay men are expected to Times story. converge on Boulder from July 29 to Aug. 1 Term limits for the Gay M en’s Health Summit to launch a require that the multi-issue, multicultural gay m en’s health two Democrats movement. give up their T h e summit aims to broaden gay men’s current politi health efforts beyond its recent focus on HIV cal offices. prevention to include a wide array of health Goldberg is issues that gay men encounter. a teacher by training. She began her political “W e are determined to transform health pro career as a member of the Los Angeles Unified motion for gay men from H IV prevention to a School District’s board. In 1993, she joined the Los Angeles City Council as the first openly gay broader focus on wellness, community building, or lesbian member. and multi-issue health advocacy,” says Eric Goldberg said she decided to run for the Leg Rofes, longtime community organizer and the islature because she views it as an opportunity to summit’s coordinator. continue her work on such issues as education, Tire National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s the living wage, health care, job training and Policy Institute will host a forum examining economic development. how activists can incorporate health concerns into advocacy at the local and national levels, and how a policy agenda may be moved forward. or same-sex couples who want to be parents A series o f sessions will focus on gay men in and want both parents legally recognized, their teens and some new legal precedence is being set in C ali 20s and explore fornia. the generation’s A lesbian couple recently gave birth to a relationship to baby hoy. Because of a prebirth legal decree sexual health and issued by San Francisco family law judge Donna HIV, interactions Hitchens, both women were automatically rec with older gener ognized as the baby’s legal parents, reports a May ations, and rela 1 story in the San Francisco Examiner. tionship to gay T he ruling is based on the women’s intent to identity and com create a child together. T he recognition of munity. intent is part of a legal trend that started with A plenary ses surrogate births. It is now beginning to he sion will explore applied to same-sex parents. the relationship between masculinity and T he prehirth decree eliminates the long, health in various gay male communities. costly and uncertain practice of second-parent Those seeking to register or make housing adoption. Although Florida is the only state that reservations should download materials from explicitly outlaws same-sex adoptions, courts in the Boulder County A ID S Project Internet site, only 20 states have allowed them. www.hcap.org, or contact Mark Beyer or Matt Prehirth rulings, while still rare, have been Brown at (30 3 ) 444-6121 or via e-mail at sum- used to confer parenthcxxl on both gay fathers mit@hcap.org. and lesbian mothers. Intent is the critical ele ment in these cases. NATIONAL T he National Center for Lesbian Rights, test long used to d etect cervical cancer headquartered in San Francisco, is working with in women may prove to he effective in an alliance of attorneys to develop and test new the early d etection o f anal cancer in HIV-pos legal strategies to help lesbian and gay parents. itive gay and bisexual men. It would “he our goal to have intention T h e research results appear in the current become a very significant factor in determining issue o f the Journal o f the A m erican Medical if someone is a parent," says Kate Kendell, exec Association. T h e test in question is the Pap utive director of NCLR. smear, which is used to find evidence of the human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause precancerous lesions on nder a bill that has passed the California the surface o f the cervix and the anus. Senate, unmarried couples who live T h e research reported in JA M A concen- T W hen friends talk a to u t rea 1 estate, fríen ds tell friends about Donald. r J G O LD DREAM TIME Located inside: “A Twist in Time Salon" N eed a go o d h a ir day? G ive m e a c a ll a n d we w ill m a k e it h a p p e n ! Donald Falk, gri A s s o c ia t e B roker Office (503) 335-9898 ext. 107 falkd@hasson.com Goldwell Certified Colorist Working with you a n J making it kappen! 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