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Irish queers banned from New York St. Pat's parade again

New York-The organizers of the St. Patrick's Day parade are again denying the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization a place in the procession. The January 31 announcement marked the third consecutive year that the organizers have turned down the gay group's application to march.

Last year, U.S. District Court Judge Kevin Duffy ruled that a parade is a form of constitutionally protected free speech, and that the parade organizers couldn't be forced to include a group whose beliefs conflicted with theirs.

ILGO spokeswoman Anne Maguire said her group plans to hold a protest march along the parade route on the morning of the parade. Last year the group protested on the sidelines.

In Boston, gays also have gone to court for the right to march in that city's St. Patrick's Day parade. In December, a judge issued a permanent order blocking the organizers from keeping gays out.

Washington House passes rights

Olympia-The state House approved a gay civil rights bill January 28 and sent it to an uncertain fate in the more conservative Senate.

The vote was 54-43. It was the third trip through the House for HB 1443, which would add gays and lesbians to the protections of

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"I'm absolutely thrilled," the sponsor, Rep. Cal Anderson, D-Seattle, said after the vote. "It's a very good signal to the Senate."

Supporters said the measure provides basic civil-rights protections to gays, but no special rights. Opponents said the legislation adds the state's "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" to homosexuality.

Senate Majority Leader Marcus Gaspard, D-Puyallup, says the issue is not a Senate Democratic priority and that it's too early to tell whether the bill will pass this year.

Anti-gay petition filed in Nevada

Carson City-Proponents of anti-gay proposals in the Pacific Northwest have filed a similar petition in Nevada, saying critics who accuse them of intolerance are uninformed.

"The tide has changed on this issue," said Lon Mabon of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, whose group drafted the Nevada petition filed January 25, and helped to form the organization that will circulate it.

Word of the anti-gay petition prompted Gov. Bob Miller to warn last week against its message "of intolerance and discrimination." And gay rights activists promised an all-out campaign to stop the proposal.

The petitioners need just over 51,000 signatures to get their proposal on the November ballot in Nevada. Mabon said the group would try for 70,000 to 75,000 names, which must be turned in by June 21.

New Hampshire governor is against gay civil rights law

Concord, N.H.-A bill aimed at outlawing housing and job discrimination against gays will get a fight from Gov. Steve Merrill. The bill will cause divisive debate, he said.

"I do not favor the initiation of discussion in New Hampshire that will divide its citizens at a time when we ought to be working together," Merrill said January 27 after a legislative hearing on the bill.

The legislation would make it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of sexual orientation, although it doesn't address same-sex marriages or adoption rights of gay couples. It already is illegal to discriminate based on age, sex, race, color, ethnic background, physical or mental disability, marital status, religious or political belief, but sexual orientation is excluded

from the state law.

New Hampshire already has a law protecting gays who are victims of hate crimes.

Initiative not wanted in Idaho

Boise, Idaho-A statewide survey conducted last fall by the Boise State University Survey Research Center found strong opposition to both a proposed anti-gay initiative and any additional restrictions on

abortion.

The survey found two-thirds of those polled were aware of the initiative, and 54 percent of them opposed it. Twenty-six percent supported it but an inordinately high 20 percent were not sure.

The initiative has been opposed by nearly every civic and political leader.

Mississippi defeats AIDS bill

Jackson, Miss.-The Mississippi House for the second time has refused to endorse non-discriminatory policies for state employees infected with HIV or AIDS.

The House defeated the bill 69-50 on January 27-exactly one week after the House voted 68-51 to send the bill back to the House Judiciary Committee.

Rep. Ed Blackmon Jr., D-Canton and committee chairman, said he tried to address some of the problems lawmakers complained about in the first version. But he said the main obstacle was misunderstanding about AIDS.

New York to review transit ads

New York-The Metropolitan Transit Authority is devising guidelines on how to use sex-oriented ads on the city's subways and buses. Bernard Cohen, director of policy and planning for the MTA, told a public hearing January 27 that the guidelines would be based on court rulings on obscenity and free speech, and would consider community standards in New York.

Councilman Thomas Duane was joined by other legislators and Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, in defending an ad placed by the Gay Men's Health Crisis that promoted use of condoms, latex gloves and a water-based lubricant to prevent the spread of AIDS.

They said Councilman Noach Dear was trying to censor the ad even though it was educational and protected by the Constitution.

Cohen said the guidelines could be submitted to the agency's board by next month.

New Hampshire senator wants to outlaw gay marriages

ognizes same-sex marriage, a state senator Concord, N.H.-Although no state rec-

has introduced a bill to outlaw them in New Hampshire if they eventually are recognized elsewhere.

"I'm not against homosexuality, I just say it doesn't meet the definition of a marriage when there's a union between members of the same sex," Sen. David Wheeler, R-Milford, told the Senate Judiciary Committee January 24.

But Marcus Hurn, a constitutional lawyer and gay rights advocate, pointed out no state validates same-sex marriages. If a state did recognize such unions, the bill would declare adopted children of such marriages living in New Hampshire as illegitimate.

Hawaii moves to 'clarify' marriage

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"The bill merely codifies our marriage laws and why the state is involved in the licensing of opposite sex couples," Tom said. "The bill doesn't have anything in there that is not already in the law."

Rep. Annelle Amaral opposed the measure. "The intention of the bill is to articulate a public policy with respect to marriage that marriage is for the purpose of procreation," she said.

If that is the public policy, "then I wonder why it is we are not amending this bill to assure that the people who are licensed then to marry, in fact are certified to procreate. I have to believe that this is merely a guise to deal with another problem and that is the problem of same sex marriage," she said.

"That being the case, then I don't see how we can say this is not a civil rights bill,' Amaral said. She cautioned that if the state is saying that procreation and children are the compelling state interest in licensing

marriages, then the state is creating a new standard in divorce cases.

Among the first to oppose the bills were the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, the American Civil Liberties Union and attorney Daniel Foley, who represents three gay couples who brought suit after being denied marriage licenses.

Foley said the bill would make it the official policy of the state that those who are unwilling to, unable to or do not procreate and raise their own biological children are less worthy and of less value than those who do.

That same policy would apply to children who are adopted, step children or those in foster homes, he said.

Magie Tanis of the Hawaii Equal Rights Marriage Project questioned the bill's statement that the state's compelling interest in licensing marriages is the welfare of the children. "In a state in which abortion is legal and birth control is practiced, it cannot possibly have as a compelling state interest the propagation of children," she said.