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Gay Rights Bills Come

Before Congress

Gay Peoples Chronicle

August 1985

Metroparks Entrapment Continues

By MARTHA PONTONI

Legislation designed to

protect the rights of

gay

people has again been introduced into the U.S. Congress.

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The federal lesbian gay Civil Rights Bill, 230, would amend both the 9ཥྛཿx Civil Rights Act of 1969 and the 1968 Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, public facilities, and federal programs. It was introduced by Reps. Ted Weiss (D-NY) and Henry Waxman (D-CA).

improve its chances of passage by removing aspects of previous civil rights legislation that evoked objections, this bill prohibits the use of statistical evidence to demonstrate discrimination and forbids the use of quotas as a remedy.

It defines sexual orienta-a tion as including "male and female homosexuality, heterosexuality or bisexuality by orientation or practice.

The 65 cosponsors of HR 230 include four representatives whose names appear for the first time as supporters: Democrats Lindy Boggs (LA), Joe Kolter

Lindy, and Chester Atkins (MA), and Republican John Miller (WA). Atkins and Miller, elected to the House for the first time this session, received contributions from the Human Rights Campign Fund during the election.

Four of the cosponsors are Republicans.

Among the cosponsors, as usual, is Louis Stokes of Cleveland. Curiously, Mary Rose Oakar is listed as a potential cosponsor.

The corresponding Senate bill, not yet reintroduced, will be sponsored by John Kerry, Democrat from Massachusetts. Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio is a potential cosponsor.

Although a Civil Rights

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bill for gay people has repeatedly been introduced during the past several Congresses, it has never come to a vote. Reps. Barney Frank and Gerry Studds, of Massachusetts, agree that it would certainly pass if voting were by secret ballot.

Other activity centers on removing the provisions that exclude gay people from entering the United States.

Bills for this purpose have again been introduced

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by Rep. Julia Dixon and Sen. Alan Cranston. However, Rep. Barney Frank's Exclusion and Deportation Amendments of 1985 (HR 2361) is given the best chance of passage. Revising several sections of the immigration law, this would eliminate homosexuality and several other features that are now grounds for exclusion.

HR 2361 has 39 cosponsors, including Ohio Reps. Seiberling (D-14), Stokes (D-21),

and Hall (D-3). Potential Ohio cosponsors include Pease (D-13) and Feighan (D19). If passed, this bill will be the first gay rights measure to make it through Congress.

If you would like to work for the passage of gay civil rights legislation, contact the Gay Rights National Lobby: (202) 546-1801, or P.0. Box 1892, Washington, D.C. 20013.

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