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- From: burkel@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (respect others' visions- live your own)
- Subject: _CO_&_A2_
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.050252.16816@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:02:52 GMT
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- REPERCUSSIONS OF A2
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- negative, as reported by the newpapers sited or live statements:
-
- -A Boulder citizen, a heterosexual college-age male, reports at
- a noon day rally that he was harrassed by a bouncer for a bar in
- Boulder's "Hill" area, a typical college student hangout. He was
- called a "pretty boy" after he objected to the bouncer's statement,
- "We're going to get one for the Jews next."
-
- -A professor on the CU-Boulder campus, working with the gay and
- lesbian faculty organization on campus reports at the same rally
- that she spoke to a landlord who was going to evict a tenant with
- AIDS from his apartment this month, "because A2 passed."
-
- -This in the Daily Camera 11/12/92: The Gay and Lesbian Community
- Center in Denver has received a half-dozen hate calls, as well as
- reports of torn-up yard signs, cars broken into and vandalized, and
- physical threats. "People walked by and noticed their 'No on 2'
- buttons and said things like, 'I should beat you up,'"said Jody
- Andrade, director of the center's anti-violence project.
-
- positive, also from newspaper reports and live statements:
-
- -Nov. 10th, a lawsuit challenging A2 named the Rev. Priscilla
- Inkpen, a CU campus minister, Aspen tennis start Martina
- Navritilova, Denver police officer Angela Romero and fout other
- private citizens as individual plantiffs in the suit. The plantiffs
- are being represented jointly by the ACLU of Colorado, the ACLU's
- Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, the Colorado LEgal Initiative
- Project (CLIP) and the Lamona Legal Defense and Education Fund.
- Boulder city leaders have also voted to use funds to fight A2,
- and plans to join the legal battle against it.
-
- -A group of about 300 met in Boulder last week to come up with
- strategies for fighting A2. Group leaders presented their plans
- and then everyone broke off into smaller groups to devise plans.
- Some of the work begun there is shown below:
-
- Colorado Legal Initiatives Project (CLIP)
- P.O. Box 4447
- Denver, CO 80201
- (303) 830-2100
-
- CLIP is filing the lawsuit to overturn A2 and an injunction to keep
- the law out of the books until it has gone through the court process
-
-
- Project VisAbility
- P.O. Box 1823
- Boulder, CO 80306
-
- P.V. is committed to grassroots organizing to convince CO that
- discrim. is wrong.
-
-
- The Equal Protection Campaign (EPOC)
- P.O. Box 300476
- Denver, CO 80203
- (303) 839-5540
-
- EPOC is expanding its coalition. ITs focus is on educating the people
- about civil rights vs. special rights.
-
-
- Boulder Organization for Non-Discrimination (BOND)
-
- BOND will be putting pressure on the system from within. This
- will include promoting positive images of homosexuals and working
- with the Democratic Party. BOND will also organize a "discrim watch"
- to publicize incidents of discrim, and will be talking to Boulder
- area businesses, asking them to defy A2 by including sexual
- orientation in their company policy on discrimination.
-
-
- Christians for the Advancement of Human Rights
- (303) 442-5059
-
- This group will be enlisting the support of the Christian community
- by speaking to congregations about what can be done to stop A2, and
- by introducing the Christian community to the gay community.
-
-
- Showing our Colors at Boulder's "Lights of December" Parade.
-
- No gay group has ever marched in the LOD parade. This year, a group
- will march under the rainbow banner. The parade is on December 4th
- at 6:30 pm. Meet at the corner of Pearl and 15th Street, bring a
- flashlight and wer white.
-
-
- March on Washington, Colorado Coalition
-
- Organizing the CO contingent for the national march on Apr.25, 1993.
-
-
- Discrimination is Bad Business
-
- Wants to create a list of businesses which have actively supported
- the No on 2 campaign and a list of supporters of A2. Will ask
- supportive businesses to put a "Hate-Free Zone" sign on their window.
-
-
- -Author and Gay rights activist Armistead Maupin has cancelled his
- Denver appearance because of A2 (Daily Camera 11/12/92)
-
- -Hollywood magazines that traditionally cover the stars' Christmas
- rush to Aspen now plan to ask "why aren't you abiding by the
- boycott? Why are you going to this state that promotes hatred?"
- (Colorado Daily 11/12/92)
-
-
- This is all the information I have at this time. I will let you
- know what is coming with the boycott as soon as I hear. At this
- time, many people feel that a boycott of only the areas that passed
- A2 (the western slope of Colorado, and areas excluding Denver, Aspen
- and Boulder) would be more fair. Others still feel that for a
- boycott to work it must affect all areas of Colorado and that the
- citizens of the state itself should work to boycott the individual
- hating companies in addition to the state boycott by outsiders.
-
- Again, I will keep you informed...
-
- Blessed Be
-
- Laura
-
-