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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Re: Austin, TX joins Colo. Boycott
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.170734.1806@PacBell.COM>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:07:34 GMT
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- > snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass) writes:
- >> buckmr@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
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- >>Are you saying hat AUSTIN, TEXAS has had a gay rights ordinance on the
- >>books since 1974??
- >
- >I don't see how Austin could have an equal rights ordinance for g/l
- >because of Texas law 26.01....but it is a real hip place. Austin was
- >one of the first cities in the nation to ban discrimination in housing
- >and on the jobs in the case of AIDS....
- >
- >Don't think Texas when you think about Austin....It is sort of like
- >a Shangrila in the middle of the whole of the Bible belt, which starts
- >just on the north fringes of town......
-
- It's not the same since they closed down the Armadillo
- World Headquarters. But any town that has Esther's Pool,
- Barton Springs and bats under the bridge is OK w/me :-)
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