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- From: czmt@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Season Marie Taylor)
- Subject: Officially Declaring a Boycott
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.175342.2418@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:53:42 GMT
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- I remember earlier someone asking if GLBO leaders had declared an official
- boycott on Colorado, and saw this in our campus newspaper this morning
- (not a wonderful source, but okay)
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- from _The Daily Tar Heel_ (cheesy name, I know) reprinted without permission
- "Gay officials call for Colorado boycott" by Richard J. Dalton Jr.
-
- The National Network of Lesbian and Gay officials passed a resolution
- Sunday in Chapel Hill calling for an economic boycott of Colorado in
- response to a law banning legislation to protect gays and lesbians from
- discrimination.
-
- More than 60 openly gay and lesbian officials met this weekend for the
- Eighth Annual International Conference of Gay and Lesbian Elected and
- Appointed Officials.
-
- The resolution said the Colorado measure and similar initiatives
- encouraged discrimination, prejudice and violence against gays and
- lesbians. It called for a boycott not only of Colorado, but also other
- areas that pass similar measures.
-
- The NNLGO is a member of several other organizations, such as the National
- League of Cities and the National Association of State Legislators, and
- will encourage those groups to adopt similar resolutions, according to
- West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman, who drafted the resolution.
-
- Heilman said the resolution sent a signal to gays and lesbians.
-
- "I want to encourage members of the gay and lesbian community not to go to
- Colorado until this discrimination ends," he said.
-
- Many supporters of the resolution referred to the boycott of Arizona for
- its refusal to designate a Martin Luther King holiday.
-
- Opponents of the resolution said gay people from Colorado should decide
- whether their state should be boycotted. Some people also said the group
- should not boycott areas in Colorado that had laws to protect gay rights
- before the referendum was passed.
-
- But others said failure to fight this measure could stymie the response to
- future referendums and bolster the opposition.
-
- David Scondras, a city council member in Boston, said no one would
- question a boycott if a measure eliminated laws protecting blacks or Jews.
-
- Minnesota Sen. Allan Spear, D-Hennepin, who supported the resolution,
- recalled the 1991 Louisiana election in which David Duke , an ex-Klansman
- and Nazi sympathizer, ran for governor.
-
- "Every organization i know of threatened to boycott Louisiana if he were
- elected governor," he said, "I don't see why we shouldn't try to get that
- kind of support, too."
-
- [goes on to discuss resolution to end ban of gays and lesbians in the
- military]
-
- Well, this is a bit longer than I intended--sorry. Hope it helps.
-
-
- season
-
- --
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- Season Taylor \ / "thought i knew my mind/like the back of my hand/
- czmt@gibbs.oit.unc.edu\/ the gold in the rainbow/nothing panned out as i
- (yes, as in the 4) planned" --indigo girls
-