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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

August 21, 1992

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National Notes

Metzenbaum introduces bill to end military ban on gays

Senator Howard Metzenbaum introduced a bill in July that seeks to end the military's anti-gay policy. The bill, S. 3084, is similar to a House bill, H.R. 5208, introduced in May by Rep. Pat Schroeder of Colorado.

"Let's not obfuscate the issue by talking about morale," said Metzenbaum, refuting the Pentagon's stated reason for the ban. "What is impotant when the bullets are flying is whether the soldier or sailor or officer is brave, smart, and well-trained. Heroes come from every race, gender, and sexual orientation." The bill presently has seven co-sponsors in the Senate.

St. Louis Pride Day festival is marred by violence

A number of gays and lesbians were attacked while leaving the site of the St. Louis Pride festival on June 28th, and walking to their cars in Forest Park.

The Lesbian and Gay News Telegraph received reports from at least 40 people who were verbally abused or assaulted by individuals and groups of youths who regularly hang out in the park.

Although the youths were primarily African-American and the festival goers were largely white, it was not a racist attack. Victims and observers reported a high percentage of homophobic slurs were used.

The small number of police present seemed to have been mainly concerned with getting attack victims to their cars and telling them to go home, in what some witnesses said was a near riot.

The Pride Committee arranged meetings with the police to discuss future protection and for the police to take reports, anonymously if necessary, from those assaulted.

Oregon anti-gay initiative gets enough signatures for ballot

The Oregon Citizens Alliance, a rightwing group, has succeeded in placing it's anti-gay amendment of the state constitution on the November ballot there. On July 17, state officials certified 115,000 signatures; 89,000 were needed.

The measure, a statewide version of one passed by voters in Springfield, Ore. last May, would gut existing city gay rights laws, and prevent any future one from being enacted. Local and state agencies would be prohibited from facilitating gay groups, for example, by letting them use

parks or meeting spaces. Libraries would have to remove all positive or neutral books on the subject, and gay businesses could not be granted licenses.

A similar measure is also headed for a vote this fall in Colorado. A wide range of community and religious leaders, and elected officials in both states have come out against the initiatives.

British Columbia is seventh province with gay rights law

The British Columbia legislature on June 11 amended the province's Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation discrimination. The province became the seventh of Canada's 12 provinces to pass such legislation. It joins New Brunswick, which passed its gay civil rights law in May, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Yukon Territory.

There are presently seven U.S. states with gay civil rights laws: New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Rhode Island.

Judge orders life insurer to pay AIDS death benefit

Issuing a stern rebuke and warning, a New York state judge has dismissed an attempt by a life insurance company to rescind the $50,000 policy of a man who died of complications due to AIDS. The judge also forced the company to pay $127,000 in attorneys' fees to the policy holder's estate.

Judge Ira Gammerman of the state Supreme Court in New York County said the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company engaged in improper and discriminatory conduct when it searched its files to invent a reason to rescind a $50,000 life insurance policy after the policy holder, Jeffrey Duke, began making AIDS-related claims under a separate disability insurance policy.

Paris police injure protesters of Mexican anti-gay murders

Paris--The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) protested at the Mexican Embassy in Paris against the murders of five gay activists in Mexico City on July 12.

French riot police injured nine people who were protesting outside the Mexican Embassy on the Rue de Longchamp.

The ILGA, a world-wide federation of 300 lesbian and gay organizations from 50

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