Word: antigay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Sue Anderson, executive director of Denver's Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Oregon's heinous Measure 9, which declared homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse," lost on Election Day, though it was supported by 43% of the electorate -- the same percentage that voted nationwide for Bill Clinton. Antigay activists will try again, says Anderson, "and use Colorado's wording, because it worked...
...Seattle this year, the public health curriculum will include for the first time a two-lesson segment for juniors and seniors on sexual orientation. In lower grades, teachers and administrators are being trained to take seriously any incidents of antigay graffiti and name calling. "School buildings are not automatically going to be safe and comfortable places for kids unless adults take an active role in making them that way," says Pamela Hillard, coordinator for sexuality and HIV education for the Seattle public schools...
...antigay vote spurs boycott talk on Aspen's swank slopes...
...that she played just an hour apart, Navratilova set aside competitive advantage for queenly benevolence and conceded the (not so crucial) points. When she adjourned to the pressroom after winning both matches, she spoke briefly and blandly of her play, then waded more eagerly into political controversy over an antigay amendment to the Colorado constitution that she is suing to have overturned, and vowed to quit her beloved Aspen home if she fails...
Among other state measures of national significance were antigay initiatives in Colorado and Oregon. Colorado's Amendment 2, which forbids civil rights protections for homosexuals, passed, 55% to 45%. But Oregon's Measure 9, which sought to define homosexuality as "wrong, unnatural and perverse," went down to defeat, 44% to 56%. In Maryland voters approved a proposition guaranteeing the right to abortion. Iowa voters turned down an equal-rights amendment after a bitter fight that drew such national figures as Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson to the state to lobby against...