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S P Cremation A Memorials For Your Companion • Same Day Service on Most Repairs Pick Up & Delivery NEIM YORK lesbian who was denied unemploy ment benefits because she isn’t mar ried to her partner asked a state agency to reconsider its decision Jan. 25. People from New York who quit their jobs to relocate with their spouses— or even with people they just are engaged to marry— qualify for unemployment. But w hen Jeanne Newland moved from Rochester to Richmond, Va., because her partner, Natasha Doty, took a job there, she learned people in same-sex relationships are ineligible. “It didn’t matter that I had paid into the unemployment system, that I’d spent six months applying for more than 150 jobs in this tight job market or that Natasha and I Right-wing liar Michael H eath prays for forgiveness have lived together for more than four years and are a committed couple by any defini tion,” she said. “All that mattered is that we’re “We don’t need a trial, because there’s no dis lesbians and that we’re not married— because agreement over what happened,” said Ken Choe, Lesbian and Gay Rights Project staff we aren’t able to be.” The American Civil Liberties Union filed attorney. “T he only disagreement is whether it’s papers Jan. 24 arguing that the denial violates legal to fire someone for this.” labor laws and the New York and U.S. constitu Peter Oiler was fired Jan. 5, 2000, after his tions. “The state didn’t mind that Jeanne New supervisors and company executives learned he land was a lesbian when they deducted unem occasionally cross-dresses as a woman away from work. He and his wife, Shirley, who will cele ployment taxes from her paychecks, and they shouldn’t deny her equal benefits because of it brate their 25th anniversary Feb. 4, lost their now,” said James Esseks, Lesbian and Gay Rights health insurance and nearly lost their home. Project litigation director. In October 2000, the ACLU filed a federal Newland, 38, continues looking for work in lawsuit on Oiler’s hehalf, claiming Winn-Dixie Richmond. Doty, 34, has a job in the computer engaged in sex stereotyping in violation of state technology field. and federal laws. During the past few months The women met in Los Angeles and moved attorneys have deposed the men who terminated in December 1998 to Rochester, where they him and have found no dispute requiring a trial. bought a home together. Newland’s previous “They are very clear that he wasn’t fired for career as an officer with the Los Angeles Police job performance,” C hoe said. “In fact, he Department ended after she suffered a perma received numerous raises and promotions.” Michael Istre, W inn-Dixie Louisiana presi nent injury in a high-speed pursuit. In Rochester, she worked as a technical support dent, gave a deposition Dec. 11 saying Oiler was fired because he didn’t conform to the compa staffer. ny’s stereotyped notions of how a man should MISSISSIPPI look, dress and act. “I was concerned about my tate S en. Patrick “A la n ” N u n n elee, business and what kind of impact and effect that this— this type of behavior would have on my R-Tupelo, has introduced a resolution th at would allow voters to decide in N ovem business and my customer base,” he said. Choe also cited a deposition from Oiler’s ber on am ending the state constitution to ban same-sex m ar supervisor, who said he was fired because members riages, w hether of the public who saw he cross-dressed away from work somehow would “put two and two together” done in Missis and associate him with Winn-Dixie. This, Grego sippi or a n o th er state. He in ry Miles speculated, could cause customers to troduced simi think the company approved of his personal life lar legislation and lead them to buy groceries elsewhere. in the January 2001 session, MAINE but it died in ortland Mayor Karen Geraghty has accused the leader of a religious-political organiza com m ittee. “It’s really rid tion of lying to help collect signatures in an effort iculous in 2002 to overturn her city’s domestic partner registry. Michael Heath, Christian Civic League of that such a bill is Patrick “A lan” Nunnelee even being con Maine executive director, was trying to collect sidered,” said Jody Renaldo, Equality Mississippi 42,000 signatures to force a statewide vote in November. He told the Portland. Press-Herald executive director. “We will fight tooth and nail to see that it dies again.” Jan. 8 that it was unlikely for the question to be T h e bill’s sponsor makes his hom e in the on the ballot because petitioners only had gath same city as the anti-gay A m erican Family ered 5,000 signatures. 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