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Home alone on Christmas? Not Hollywood's swank set: Arnold and Cher, Rupert Murdoch and Marvin Davis and other star lights atop the Hollywood power tree. They're usually skiing or schmoozing in Aspen, the Rocky Mountain town that is the glitterati's Gstaad. This Christmas, though, the slopes may be a bit less congested. And some of the entertainment elite who winter at Colorado resorts may notice the soot of a guilty conscience tarnishing their white Bogner ski togs...
American ski spots are not often political hot spots. But on Nov. 3, by a 54%-to-46% vote, Coloradans approved Amendment 2, which mandated "no protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation." The vote voided laws in Aspen, Denver and Boulder that prohibited bias in jobs or housing based on sexual orientation. Says Robert Bray of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force: "Colorado is thus the first state in U.S. history to sanction discrimination against gays...
...civil rights for gay Americans, Tinseltown's liberals lack the Sisters' guts? Whoopi Goldberg and director Jonathan Demme are among the handful of movie shakers to announce support for the boycott, and a few producers have scratched plans to shoot films on location in the state. But most Hollywood-Aspen celebs are mum on the subject; shhh! has replaced schuss. Politicized performers, who during the South African boycott easily refused to play Sun City, find it tougher to say they ain't gonna ski in snowtown. Well, most of them didn't have Sun City gigs, but a lot have...
...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...
...legislation makes it illegal for the state to adopt or enforce any laws that allow a bisexual, gay or lesbian person to claim discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Not only is the state prohibited from introducing gay right legislation, but the existing statutes in Boulder, Denver and Aspen were overturned by Colorado's referendum, known as Amendment...