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Felicia Fontaine addresses hate speech participated in the effort that led to the enact and crimes against gay men and lesbians during ment of domestic partnership laws in Philadel a news conference Feb. 19 phia, is helping defend those laws in a case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and is battling University of Pittsburgh in an ongoing Continued from Page 19 lawsuit aimed at securing domestic partnership ALABAM A benefits for its employees. he leader of Soulforcc Alabama met un expectedly with C hief Justice Roy Moore on Feb. 19 at the State Supreme Courthouse in Montgomery. The Rev. Felicia Fontaine entered the build ing with three other people and asked to meet with Moore regarding his views and rhetoric about homosexuality after two previously mailed requests had gone unanswered. He arranged to speak with her immediately. The four activists entered the courthouse on the first anniversary of Moores special concur rence in a case involving cusrixly of children hy a lesbian mother. He laid out an extensive legal philosophy on homosexuality that used biblical citations to justify legal persecution of queers, stating, “The lifestyle'should never he tolerated.” According to Fontaine, the m eeting was cordial and most of the discussion was o f a per sonal nature. Mcxire explained that he was required to uphold the Alabama C ode and that if the law changed, then he would be hound to follow it. “I don’t believe his views changed in that one meeting, hut it opened the d m r for further dialogue,” Fontaine said. “People don’t think Roy Moore can change, hut no one ever Tom Tunney is Chicago’s first gay alderman thought George Wallace would change either, and he did!” ILLINOIS n a historic move, voters in Chicago’s 44th MASSACHUSETTS Ward elected restaurateur Tom Tunney as the he landmark case seeking the right of gay city’s first gay alderman Feh. 25. In January he and lesbian couples to marry in Massachu was appointed hy Mayor Richard M. Daley to setts was heard March 4 before the full bench of finish the term of Bemie Hansen, who resigned the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. A decision is for health reasons. likely sometime this summer. "Tunes have changed in Chicago,” said Bob Filed in April 2001 hy New England’s Gay & Kearney, Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund political Lesbian Advocates &. Defenders, Goodridge et director. “U ntil yesterday, Chicago was the al. vs. Department of Public Health involves largest city in America to have never elected a seven plaintiff-couples who seek the right to gay person to its council." civil marriage. GLAD js the same legal firm that T he six-way race included another gay can helped win a victory in 1999’s Baker vs. State of didate, neighborhood activist and attorney Rick Vermont, a mling that led the Legislature to cre Ingram. Tunney received about 5,000 votes, and ate the nation’s first-ever civil unions law. Ingram received about 2,000 votes. T he suit argues that the right to marry the “We are thrilled that the two gay men came person of o n e’s choice is protected under the in first and second out of the six candidates,” M assachusetts C o n stitu tio n . G L A D ’s brief said Rick Garcia, Equality Illinois political further argues th at the state can n o t justify director. “T hat tells us that gay candidates are excluding gay and lesbian couples and their more than just viable on the lakefront. This families from rhe hundreds o f protections m ar bodes well for our political future in Chicago." riage provides. v The seven couples have been in committed C O LO R A D O relationships between seven and 32 years. Four I aul Rosenthal is running for election to the of the couples are raising children; others have 4th District seat on the Denver City Council. faced health dilemmas. His election would he a historic victory for All are concerned about providing security the city, making him its first gay council member. for one another and their families, hut they lack Jennifer Viega, minority leader of the Colorado the automatic extensive protections available House, is the state’s only gay elected official. through marriage. 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