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80% say lesbians and gays should have equal rights
Most people believe gays and lesbians should have equal rights at the workplace, according to a poll released April 26.
Eighty percent of people interviewed for the USA Today-CNN-Gallup poll said lesbians and gays should not be discriminated against in terms of job opportunities. But 44 percent said gays want rights that other Americans don't have. The poll also shows:
48 percent of those interviewed think civil rights laws should not include gays and lesbians; 46 percent disagree.
56 percent think gay rights leaders are pushing the issue too hard.
● 49 percent think gays want the same rights as others; 44 percent say they want special rights.
56 percent of the women polled agree with extending civil rights protections to gays, compared with 35 percent of the men interviewed.
Dayton has anti-gay march
Dayton-About 190 people opposed to gay civil rights laws marched in a demonstration at Courthouse Square on April 25.
The event, sponsored by the Miami Valley Pro-Family Coalition, was in response to the lesbian-gay March on Washington that day. About 20 supporters of gay.rights also turned out in the rain.
"I think it speaks to how highly charged the issue is," said
"We aren't bashers," said Melody Morris, of suburban Huber Heights. "We aren't people who are out to destroy any person. We believe in equal rights for all people. But we do stand firmly that there doesn't need to be a protected minority status for the homosexual community."
Dan Goldstein, 41, of Dayton, who said he is gay, was among the dissenters. "Everybody's entitled to their views," he said. "I've been who I have been my entire life, and that's never going to change. I think that the rights really should be for anybody. Sexual orientation, I don't think, is really the issue."
D.C. passes sodomy repeal
Washington-A measure repealing the District of Columbia's 45-year-old sodomy law was hailed by gay rights activists, but religious leaders vowed to lobby Congress to block its implementation. All D.C. legislation must be reviewed by Congress.
Gay activists called the law, making "sodomy" a felony, one of the harshest in the nation. The council overturned the law in 1981, but conservative congressional lawmakers nullified the decision.
Until this year, all other bills to repeal the law had been stalled in the council's Judiciary Committee.
Kowalski, Thompson finally move in together
Clearwater, Minn.-Sharon Kowalski has moved to her new home a decade after a car accident left her brain-damaged and two years after her lover Karen Thompson won the right to be her guardian.
Kowalski and Thompson had been partners for four years and had exchanged rings before the 1983 accident left Kowalski brain-damaged and paralyzed.
Kowalski moved to Thompson's home April 29, then the two attended a concert Thursday night at St. Cloud State University, where Thompson is a professor.
The couple's home along the banks of the Mississippi River was made handicapped accessible, with wheelchair ramps, wide doorways, lowered light switches and grab bars in the bathroom.
Their case focused national attention on guardianship rights of lesbians and gays. Thompson fought Kowalski's parents for eight years until she won guardianship of Kowalski in December 1991.
Since then, she has worked to move Kowalski from a Minneapolis-area nursing home to her home near Clearwater.
University of Akron Gay-Lesbian Student Resource elects officers
On March 1 elections were held for officers of the University of Akron's Gay and Lesbian Student Resource (GLSR), the school's gay student group. For this year Matt Burs is president, James Helms is vice president, and Sandy Perron is administrator. On April 5 Myke Heidenreich and Shirley Roberts were appointed the committee co-chairs. The appointed student chair is Veronica Johnson. There are also two speaker co-chairs who chose not to have their names published.
Rights bills move in four states
Lesbian-gay civil rights bills were passed by three state lawmaking bodies in April, and failed in a fourth. None of the passed bills shows promise of becoming law.
The Oregon Senate passed a bill on an 18-12 vote, which now goes to the House, where a similar bill in 1991 failed to get a hearing. The bill has the governor's support, but the Oregon Citizens Alliance has vowed a referendum if it passes.
Both houses of the Maine legislature passed a rights bill for the first time April 13, but Gov. John McKernan has said he will veto it because a referendum provision was deleted. An anti-gay group, Concerned Maine Families, already has launched a referendum petition drive for 1994.
A Louisiana Senate committee approved a gay civil rights bill, largely as a gesture to the bill's sponsor, but it died in a House committee.
And a Washington state rights bill, sponsored by openly-gay Rep. Cal Anderson, died quietly in a Senate committee after passing the House 57-41. So quietly, in fact, that lesbian-gay activists, who had worked 16 years for its passage, were unaware that the committee was even considering it.
Antiques for AIDS raises $5,000 On Sunday, April 18, Church Antiques, 12628 Larchmere Blvd., hosted a benefit for the Health Issues Taskforce called Antiques for AIDS. Featuring door prizes, a silent auction, refreshments and entertainment, the event raised almost $5,000 for HIT through the admission donation, sales of donated silent auction items, and 15 percent of all Church Antiques sales.
Food that was left over afterwards was donated to Kamana Place, an intermediate care facility on the West Side run by the AIDS Housing Council.
During the afternoon, HIT staffed an information booth and DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation for AIDS) had their unique AIDS-related jewelry for sale. Entertainment was provided by Richard Salamone, One Wish, and Providence Hollander.
Congress gets pro-gay media blitz in response to fundie tape
A grass roots group of gay and lesbian television industry professionals, backed by actress Cybill Shepherd and other heterosexual supporters, have delivered their own video volley on Capitol Hill. One thousand copies of To Support and Defend, a 28-minute video produced by Julian Siminski and Rob Wilson, were delivered to members of Congress and to officials in the Pentagon.
Members of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and the Campaign for Military Service have taken part in the effort to show gay men and lesbians in a light other than that of the homophobic video The Gay Agenda.
"Other videos now circulating through Congress have preyed on ignorance and fear to spread stereotypes of gays and lesbians," said co-producer Wilson. "To Sup port and Defend is a dignified, honest effort to put a human face on this [ban on gays in the military] issue. So far, the debates have neglected those most affected. This tape