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Buttino case settled
San Francisco-The Clinton administration tentatively settled a fired gay FBI agent's lawsuit December 10 by committing the FBI to ban discrimination against gay employees or applicants.
The resolution of the suit by Frank Buttino, fired in 1990 after 20 years with the FBI, came a week after Attorney General Janet Reno prohibited the FBI and other Justice Department agencies from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
The proposed settlement goes further and forbids discrimination on the grounds of "homosexual conduct among consenting adults in private."
Buttino, 48, will not get the reinstatement he originally sought in the suit, but will get partial restoration of his pension rights and $53,000 in legal fees.
The settlement also says the FBI will reconsider the application of Dana Tillson and offer her a job unless it discovers some new disqualifying information.
Tillson testified that she applied in 1987 and got high marks until the FBI learned she was a lesbian, a fact she had not tried to hide.
New figures for HIV infection
Washington-About 40,000 Americans are infected with HIV each year, and probably about half a million in all are now infected, new research suggests.
For the first time, survey data is available on a randomly chosen cross-section of Americans. Conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, it concludes that 550,000 Americans are actually infected.
However, the researchers cautioned that theirs is a conservative estimate, because it covered only people who live at home, not prisoners, the homeless or hospitalized patients. In addition, young men in the study
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Study shows blood-swapping slows AIDS progression
Washington-French researchers say swapping antibody-rich blood plasma between AIDS patients appears to significantly slow the advance of the disease.
The approach, which doctors call passive immunotherapy, reduced the number of new AIDS symptoms in people in advanced stages of the disease, they reported Dec. 15.
However, this approach, even if it is confirmed to work, has a drawback: the limited source of blood.
The doctors removed blood plasma-the cell-free portion of blood-from people with AIDS and gave it to the study subjects. The people who gave up the blood did not seem to suffer a disadvantage, and those who got it appeared to benefit.
Those in a placebo comparison group were three times more likely than the antibody patients to get new AIDS symptoms.
Montana sodomy law contested
Helena-Saying Montana law encourages discrimination and violence, six people filed a lawsuit December 6 to overturn the provision making gay sex a felony.
The lawsuit, filed in Helena District Court, challenges a state law that subjects people to up to 10 years in jail and to fines of up to $50,000 for having consensual gay sex.
Rosemary Daszkiewicz, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the challenge is based on the Montana Constitution's guarantees of individual privacy.
She said Montana's penalty for sexual contact betweeen consenting adults of the same sex is the most severe in the U.S.
Earlier this year a pair of bills giving gays legal protection were killed. One measure legalizing gay sex was buried in a committee and another was rejected by the Senate on a tie vote.
Meinhold signs up again
San Francisco-Openly gay Petty Officer Keith Meinhold re-enlisted in the Navy December 16 as the government resumed its court battle to expel him.
Meinhold swore to uphold the Constitution for the fourth time in a ceremony held an hour before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was scheduled to hear opening arguments in his nationally watched case.
The panel will rule on whether the military's ban on gays is constitutional.
The oath was administered by Lt. Zoe Dunning, a lesbian reserve officer who also is fighting Navy efforts to kick her out. Meinhold, 30, a decorated sonar instructor, signed on for two years. He first enlisted in the Navy at age 17. He was discharged in August 1992 after coming out on national television. A federal judge in Los Angeles later ordered the Navy to reinstate him.
Baltimore and Boston are the latest cities to recognize lesbian and gay couples.
The Baltimore Board of Estimates' unanimous action to include partners of lesbian and gay city workers in benefits packages drew no opposition at the December 15 meeting.
Boston City Council has also recently approved a family rights law that gives unmarried couples the same rights as married ones, regardless of sexual orientation.
Under the ordinance that passed 8-3 on December 15, couples may register at City Hall as domestic partners, ensuring rights to hospital and jail visits, some legal protections and access to school records.
Gays can march in Boston St. Patrick's parade, permanently
Boston-For the third year in a row, a judge has ruled the organizers of Boston's 93-year-old St. Patrick's Day Parade cannot prevent a gay group from marching because of sexual orientation.
What makes the December 15 ruling different is that Suffolk Superior Court Judge J. Harold Flannery made the injunction against the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council permanent.
Temporary injunctions paved the way for gay marchers in the parades last March and in 1992.
Flannery ruled that the parade is a place of public accommodation, since the council welcomes various other groups with differing philosophies to march each year.
The judge also found that the veterans' group was wrong in discriminating against the gay marchers. Massachusetts includes sexual orientation in its laws protecting the civil rights of individuals, as well as in its public accommodations statute.
The judge stopped short of ordering the organizers to include gays in the parade, but barred them from refusing to allow marchers to participate because of their sexual orientation.
Topeka mayor vetoes picket ban
Topeka, Kan.-An ordinance that would have kept protesters from picketing church services has been vetoed by Mayor Butch Felker, who argued that it could end up in a costly court battle.
The measure passed the city council on a 5-4 vote in early December, and Felker vetoed it December 14 after seven days of consideration.
The ordinance would have banned picketing within 75 feet of a church from 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after a service. It was aimed mainly at the Reverend Fred Phelps Sr. of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Phelps and his followers are often seen at various Topeka locations, carrying picket signs with anti-gay messages. They often target the funerals of people with AIDS.
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