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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.
Carla Cmzan is intolerant, her
Popular college lacrosse coach
Diane Whipple, 33, was carrying
groceries into her apartment Debra Davis
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