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ietuuary 1.2ÛÛ2 » Ju st out 21 news Eric Brown A U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania last month awarded $312,000 to 19-year-old Timothy Dahle as compensation for the pervasive anti-gay abuse he faced in the Titusville Area School District. Kevin Jennings of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network called the settlement “breathtak ing” and said the judges delivered “a message that should be heard by admin istrators nationwide: Pro tect all your students equally, or pay the price.... It may be the second- largest cash settlement ever imposed by the courts Gay teen Timothy Dahle has settled his lawsuit with a school district upon schools that have in Titusville, Pa. chosen to ignore, rather than address, student-on-student abuse based on Jan. 26, 2001, when she was attacked by two sexual orientation.” presa canarios, a breed known as “war dogs” and “fuzzy guns.” The mauling was so horrific, offi cers on the scene received trauma counseling. C A L IF O R N IA Marjorie Knoller, 46, and Robert Noel, 60, ssemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Holly face 15 and three years in prison, respectively. wood, said Jan. 16 his civil union bill will not advance this year. The California Family Protec The married lawyers have been in jail for almost tion Act would have established a Vermont-style a year, unable to post bail. system in the state, granting same-sex couples all They took in Bane and Hera as a favor to of the rights, benefits, protections and responsibil Paul Schneider, a 39-year-old imprisoned mur ities that straight couples receive with marriage. derer whom they legally adopted. The couple “I knew when I introduced this historic leg are linked to the Aryan Brotherhood, vicious islation that it would be a challenging, multiyear dog rings and lurid allegations of bestiality. Whipple’s partner, Sharon Smith, also is pro process for it to pass,” Koretz said. “We scored a huge victory this year. We put civil union on the ceeding with a civil case against Knoller, Noel and her landlord. She previously won a court map in California and began the dialogue. We opened many eyes to the need for full legal ruling declaring it unconstitutional to exclude recognition of committed same-sex couples.” same-sex couples from wrongful death lawsuits. Meanwhile, right-wing homophobes also “Having dogs of this type is like having cus tom-made 357s with fangs,” attorney Michael were claiming victory. Ken Connor, Family Research Council president, noted 61 percent of Cardoza said. “Keeping these hyperaggressive, the state’s voters in March 2000 approved massive animals inside a small apartment in an urban setting defies reason.” Proposition 22, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. M IN N E S O T A “As goes California, so goes the nation,” he said. “For the sake of marriage as we know it, it’s Minneapolis public school met its legal obligation by giving alternate restroom imperative that Californians remain vigilant to see to it that the will of their vote is not over options to a teacher who did not want to share facilities with a male-to-female trans library turned by homosexual activists.” Jean Harris, California Alliance for Pride employee, the American Civil Liberties Union said in papers filed Jan. 17. and Equality executive director, lashed out at Unsatisfied with Southwest High’s accom the rhetoric, saying civil union opponents “are modation, Carla Cruzan filed suit, com plain continuing to unravel the misrepresentation ing the situation violated her religious free they perpetuated in passing Proposition 22.” That campaign, she noted, clearly stated it was dom and created a hostile workplace based on sex. She lost and is appealing to a federal not intended to deny gay and lesbian families appeals court in St. Louis, which will hear the basic protections under the law. “Yet...Sen. Pete Knight [Proposition 22’s case later this year. The A C LU says Cruzan, sponsor] is using the same initia not the school, was unreason tive to attack measures, including able in demanding her person the civil union bill, that would al beliefs dictate Debra Davis’ provide basic rights to lesbian, gay, restroom access. It notes bisexual and transgender Califor Southwest High’s handling of nians,” Harris said. “The truth of the transition received wide the matter is that these opponents spread approval. just want to treat gay Californians “From students who plas as second-class citizens.” tered the walls with signs sup porting Debra to the Out4Good office in the Minneapolis dis he criminal trial involving trict itself, this community is a the owners of the dogs who model for every school in the killed a San Francisco lesbian country,” says J.J. Kahle of the began Jan. 24, the New York Times Gay, Lesbian and Straight Edu reported. It was moved to Los cation Network’s Minnesota Angeles in an effort to find an chapter. “While it’s too bad that impartial jury. 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