Word: antigay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will vote against this bill, though I am not for same-sex marriage, because I believe that this debate is fundamentally ugly [and] flawed." --Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.), the only Senator up for re-election to vote against the antigay Defense of Marriage...
ANITA BRYANT, 56; BERRYVILLE, ARKANSAS; singer, former antigay activist...
...good news may be that this is all the gay bashers have left. Recognition of a near marriage equivalent--domestic partnerships--is now official at more than 450 U.S. corporations. Even the Coors Brewing Co.--long associated with a right-wing, antigay agenda thanks to Coors family members' generous support of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation--began offering gay partners the same benefits as spouses in 1995. Coors had previously been the target of boycotts by gay-rights groups, but claims it changed its policy simply because, in the words of spokesman Joe Fuentes, "Peter Coors [Joseph...
...foundations of Golden, Colorado, one of the most heavily organized Christian communities in the U.S. It has not caused the Rocky Mountains or the share price to tumble, and a Silver Bullet is still a Silver Bullet. Indeed, the fact that some in the Coors family continue to fund antigay organizations while adopting partner benefits tracks the state of play on the marriage- preservation bill. Many Senators, though inclined to vote for it rather than step into a conservative trap, also support an amendment offered by Senator Edward Kennedy that would guarantee gays equal rights on the job. Even some...
Soon flyers appeared on windshields in church parking lots denouncing the "Sodomite music teacher." Next the parents of Crane's 140 students were mailed packages that bore no return address and contained an antigay video called Gay Rights/ Special Rights, produced by the California-based Traditional Values Coalition; a 100-page antigay treatise titled "Setting the Record Straight" by the Colorado-based Focus on the Family; and a letter exhorting parents to "perceive the grave dangers that your child is facing." National religious-right groups deny involvement. "Their point," says a skeptical Crane, "is to flood people with misinformation...