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directed towards the gay and lesbian community. This is just the latest," Grossheim said.

What is surprising and distressing to many of the gay and lesbian activists in Cincinnati is that Tillery, who is African-American, has in the past been supportive of civil rights issues, including gay and lesbian rights. In 1992, he accepted the endorsement of Stonewall Cincinnati in his bid for city council.

Karen Carter, an African-American lesbian activist and Stonewall Cincinnati board co-chair said that she was disappointed in Tillery's retreat from his formerly stated position on civil rights for gays and lesbians. In response to his citing the “overwhelming"

victory of Issue 3 in his statement to the press, Carter said, "Just because an issue is popular, that doesn't make it constitutional."

"Either you believe something is the right thing, or you make a political choice,” Carter said. "I believe Tillery made a political choice in this matter."

"The pressure here is definitely affecting our organizations financially," Grossheim said. "And that's exactly their battle plan— to keep us tied up with these kinds of issues and court battles. They've got more money than we do, and they're perfectly willing to use it to literally drive us out of existence financially."

"If you want to look at a community under siege," Grossheim continued, “just look at Cincinnati."

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crimination in housing, jobs and public accommodations. Voters repealed it in a November 1992 ballot initiative. The city began enforcing it again in October 1993 after the courts held the 462 signatures that forced the referendum were invalid because some were not registered voters.

A new repeal effort led by the AFA-backed Repeal Homosexual Ordinance Committee collected enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot this year.

Citizens for a Fair Tampa, a coalition of civic, religious, business and community groups, filed the suit challenging the validity of the measure's language while also mounting a vigorous campaign to defeat the measure at the polls.

Before the scheduled vote, polls showed that 6 of 10 voters opposed the measure.

CFT campaign manager Nadine Smith called those efforts and the court ruling "a victory for the citizens of Tampa. Across the city, people have sent a strong message to the AFA that its agenda of discrimination is not welcome in Tampa."

As in Cincinnati in 1993, the referendu 's supporters in Tampa used the propaganda

video Gay Rights, Special Rights in an attempt to convince African-American voters that lesbian and gay civil rights dilutes African-American civil rights. The video was used in Tampa in public and private screenings and was aired on the city's Christian television station.

However, in a predominantly AfricanAmerican city council district, eight of the nine candidates for a hotly-contested council seat opposed Referendum 1. La Gaceta, a weekly Latino newspaper, prominently displayed its support for the No On One efforts.

"When the Radical Right came in and tried to use the African-American community," said Mandy Carter of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, "we had leaders willing to step forward and say, 'What are you doing positively for our community? Why focus on these divisive campaigns?' Engaging with our opponents in that manner has been very effective here."

Last year, the AFA led a campaign to place a similar anti-gay amendment on the statewide ballot. The wording of that amendment was found unconstitutional by the

courts.

Voters in West Palm Beach on January 11 defeated an effort to strike sexual orientation from that city's Human Rights Ordinance.

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emotional testimony a close family member who is lesbian.

Herseth said that experience has forced him to look at the issue as one involving basic human rights.

"If at some time some of you could have the perspective that I have, it wouldn't be so easy to kind of flippantly say that these people are not entitled to the same kinds of protections that you and I are entitled to," he said.

It is already policy in all 50 states not to marry same sex couples. However, states recognize marriages made in other states, and a state supreme court case in Hawaii may open the way for that state to legally sanction lesbian and gay marriages.

Three countries, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, legally recognize same-sex marriages.

Hold the clock

The Utah marriage ban did not come up until just minutes before the mandatory end of the 1995 session at midnight March 1, and only after Senate President Lane Beattie, RWest Bountiful, lifted it from the bottom of the calendar.

Democrats, who were waiting for the bill with amendments in hand, cried foul.

"We had other priorities on the board," said Minority Leader Scott Howell, D-Sandy, who crossed his arms and glared as the bill passed 24-1. "I think it's wrong what we did tonight."

So did opponents of the bill. David Nelson, founder of Gay and Lesbian Utah Demo-

crats, said he plans to challenge the vote, which he believes came after the midnight deadline.

"It was sneaky, underhanded and railroaded," Nelson said.

"We had an agreement that we would not lift any bills to the top," Howell added. "They violated every rule they asked us to abide by."

The timing was close. Nelson said the vote came one minute and 20 seconds after midnight. Beattie said it was before the deadline on his watch.

Richard Strong, director of the state Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, declared that the vote met the deadline. If it had come after, the vote could have been declared invalid.

But Strong also said that none of four clocks in the chamber had the same time as any other, and that the computer vote recorder noted the bill passed three minutes after midnight.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Norm Nielsen, R-Orem, would prohibit same-sex marriages in other states or countries from being recognized in Utah.

Nelson said he will asked Gov. Mike Leavitt to veto the bill, but doubts he will. He also plans to petition the International Olympic Committee to abandon Salt Lake City as a possible site for the 2002 Winter Games.

"There is a price tag with this kind of legislation," he said.

The Utah Log Cabin Club, a Republican gay-rights organization, said it would join a class-action suit challenging the law's constitutionality, but would not support an Olympics boycott.