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Could it be that, in support of 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...
...staters take their ski dollars to antiabortion Utah? Should the voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south. We didn't boycott the South...
...boycotting works too. Arizona lost an estimated $500 million in business in the two years after it defeated a motion to declare Martin Luther King Jr.' s birthday a state holiday. The voters finally decided that an extra day off was preferable to permanent blacklisting. A successful boycott of Colorado would send a muscular message to other states considering such an initiative: Don't. "Sanctioning discrimination," says Anderson, "is bad for business." Does it really matter, then, if a boycott is also bad for the pleasure of Hollywood royalty...
...made a fortune in California before taking up his post in July, appealed the decision to the Serbian Supreme Court, but that body is headed by the same man who heads the Electoral Commission. Leading opposition figures, citing other electoral shenanigans from the Milosevic camp, have threatened to boycott the elections altogether. (See related story on page...
...antigay vote spurs boycott talk on Aspen's swank slopes...