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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-
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Toni A tkins was th e top vote-getter in the
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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
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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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O n e m orning in February, the students
efforts were met w ith resistance from other stu
dents opposed to the formation of the club.
Protesting students held up signs, while others
ran through the halls banging on doors. The
dem onstration began and ended several times,
starting up again w hen th e media appeared.
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