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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
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