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• MK V nì'fi/r 17.2QQÛ TT ïtttuttïtm news The i fi i 1! i f :: i LDUULri i a V CALIFORNIA oters in the Super Tuesday election March 7 voted overwhelmingly in favor of Propo sition 22, a measure that amends the state’s fam ily code to say “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recogni:ed in Califor- V T h e a tre ments, she is credited with leading the success ful effort to secure domestic partner benefits for city employees. Toni A tkins was th e top vote-getter in the race for th e San Diego C ity Council’s 3rd Dis trict seat, securing her position as the leading contender in the N ovem ber general election. A longtime senior aide to Councilwoman Chris tine Kehoe, she is widely respected as an effec tive consensus builder. 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A L L IN S T A LLA T IO N S A R E D O N E O N E W IN D O W AT A T IM E F R O M IN S ID E. W E G U A R A N T E E N O M ES S ! NOW IS A G R E A T T IM E T O B U Y ! M E N T IO N TH IS A D A N D R E C E IV E A S P E C IA L D IS C O U N T . C A L L N O W F O R A C O U R T E O U S IN -H O M E E S T IM A T E O R VISIT OUR SHOW ROOM . Milgard VViixk m s According to exit polls, those who voted in favor of Proposition 22 claimed they did so to preserve the traditional family. Supporters of the measure, a k a the Knight initiative— after its sponsor, Republican state Sen. Pete Knight— insisted the initiative was needed to protect California from having to rec- ogni:e same-sex marriages contracted in other states. (No states currently allow such marriages, however.) Support for the ballot measure came from both men and women and from voters of all races and incomes. It was opposed by Democrats 2 to 1, but backed by Republicans nearly 6 to 1. Proposition 22 supporters insisted the mea sure was not an attack on lesbians and gay men, but rather an effort to protect the state’s right to define marriage. Opponents of the measure believed it was an attempt to promote anti-gay discrimination. They argued that defining same-sex relation ship's as second class would promote fear and violence toward gay men and lesbians. ❖ ot all the news was bad in California. According to the Gay and Lesbian Victo ry Fund, four lesbian candidates won their state primary' races on Super Tuesday. Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl, a Democrat, resoundingly beat a well-funded opponent in a very competitive race and is now on her way to becoming California’s first openly gay state sen ator. The Golden State’s first, openly gay state legislator, Kuehl was elected to the Assembly in 1994 and re-elected in 1996 and 1998. Jackie Goldberg, a Democrat, prevailed overwhelmingly in her bid for the Assembly rep resenting the Los Angeles-area 45th District. Goldberg was the first openly lesbian elected official in Los Angeles. She recently spearhead ed passage of the city’s new domestic partnership legislation. Christine Kehoe also came in well ahead of her nearest Republican opponent in an open primary bid for the San Diego-area 76th District seat in the Assembly. Currently in her second term on the San Diego City Council, Kehoe was the first openly gay person elected to office in San Diego County when she won her first race in 1993. Among her many other accomplish N he Laramie Project, a play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, premiered in February at the Denver C enter Theater and runs through April 1. T h e play is a collaboration betw een the New York-based Tectonic T heater Project and the people of Laramie, Wyo. According to a Feb. 27 Associated Press story, the nearly three-hour performance grew out of 18 m onths of preparation. Members of the theater com pany made six trips to Laramie for interviews w ith th e friends and relatives of Shepard, a gay college student murdered in O ctober 1998. T he thoughts and opinions garnered on those trips were stitched together by the troupe, working under th e direction of founder Moises Kaufman and Leigh Fondakowski. T he opening was attended by people from Laramie and members of the media. Said M att Galloway, bartender at the Fire side Lounge, where Shepard met his killers: ‘To actively step back and sit and watch everything unravel is surreal. I had so much anticipation. It is interesting to undo th e wound that you think is healed, but it hasn’t.” LOUISIANA tudents at McKinley High School in Baton Rouge w anted to start a Gay-Straight Alliance at the school. Seniors Martin Pfeiffer and Leslie Spillm an had promoted the idea at recent meetings of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate. 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