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aprii 7.2000 » i'iiìtinciunnew s Phone 5 0 3 2 7 4 -9 9 3 6 k Fax 5 0 3 2 7 4 -2 6 6 0 KAREN M. 5WEIGERT, MD O b stetrics a n d G ynecology that the state has no compelling or rational interest that would justify criminalizing non commercial, private, consensual sexual activity between adults, regardless of sexual orientation. Sm ith’s case has been consolidated by the high court with the cases of several accused prostitutes. The sex workers claim the sodomy law punishes prostitutes who solicit oral sex more severely than those who solicit inter course. Under the current sodomy law, oral sex for money is punishable by five years in prison. Offering vaginal intercourse for money or trade is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sen tence of six months. marketing effort to reach gay men and lesbians, in a March 16 Associated Press story. United, trying to recover from a two-year boycott that ended last summer, established a gay and lesbian marketing team the same year the boycott started. Its efforts include an ad campaign launched in gay publications late last year. The gay and lesbian travel market is consid ered a lucrative one. A study conducted by San Francisco-based Community Marketing found 85 percent of the gay men and lesbians surveyed took vacations in 1999, compared with a national average of 64 percent. Overseas trips were taken by 45 percent of gay men and les bians, while the national average is 9 percent. M ISSISSIPPI According to Tom Longman, an industry ust when supporters of gay adoptions thought analyst, major airlines appear willing to risk the they had dodged a bullet in the state Legisla potential backlash from the religious right wing ture, another shot was fired. Vigorous lobbying in order to secure a piece of the gay and lesbian by the American Family Association and the travel market. Mississippi Baptist Convention revived the pro To date, United’s list of “official airline” posed adoption ban. sponsorships include A ID S Project Los Angeles An unprece and Gay Games VII in Chicago in 2006. dented anti-adop tion law that would N EW Y O R K have banned gay he Stonewall Inn, the New York City bar and lesbian couples where many believe the modem gay rights C P from adopting— movement began, has been named a national and would have for- historic landmark by the Department of the Interior. bidden Mississippi from recognizing gay and lesbian adoptions granted by courts in other states— died last month in the Mississippi Statehouse. It was thought that the bill could not be revived this year. Just hours after the measures defeat, various media sources report, the House Public Health Committee amended an unrelated bill— which had already been passed by the Senate— to include the gay and lesbian adoption ban. The amendment does not include the refusal to rec ognize adoptions executed in other states. A March 16 story in The Record, a newspaper In the face of this new threat, the “Phone in Hackensack, N.J., reports that this is the first Home for Families” campaign has been time a gay site has received such a designation. Landmark designation is given to places consid relaunched. It’s urging people who now live in ered meaningful to the history and culture of the Mississippi, or who once lived in the state, to United States. call House members and encourage them to “I think it’s a really key site of the 20th cen block the bill. tury history of America. It’s where the gay and The telephone campaign was used to help lesbian rights movement began its activist defeat the original bill. phase,” said Andrew S. Dolkart, a Columbia University historian and one of the main propo N A T IO N A L nents of the designation. oping to overtake American Airlines— John Berry, an assistant Interior secretary considered by many to be the carrier of said, “I think that no one would argue that choice among gay men and lesbians— United Stonewall is an integral part of the story of mod Airlines has launched a major marketing effort em American history.” to become the “official airline” of the queer community. “Without a doubt, that’s definitely the goal,” ■ Compiled by KRISTINE C h A t w OOD, a Portland resident and longtime Just Out contributor. said Mario Baldessari, co-director of United’s J T Q mca À l U/ewsOv'* PC 1130 N.W. 22nd, S u ite 3 2 0 , Portland, OR 97210 Your fresh flower professionals JACKSON’S FLOW ERS 3804 N. E. 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