Word: gay
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Debate on a controversial gay rights bill stalled yesterday in the state Senate when opponents of the measure attempted to sidetrack the legislation with a less protective amendment...
Supporters of the bill said the substitute proposal is "innocuous and ineffective," and an attempt to prevent passage of any gay rights bill before the Senate disbands next month...
...Lewis' amendment is an attempt to gut the bill and prevent its enforcement," said William J. Hutchinson, chairman of the Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance. "It is simply an attempt to delay consideration of the bill. After it is discussed on the floor it will go back into committee for up to 45 days...
While editors at The Pilot defended the newspaper's stance, many of the bill's supporters and gay rights activists have contested the editorial as factually incorrect and reactionary...
...simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks. In February he asked for a list of state employees who are gay. Says Republican State Representative Jane Hull: "This state has had enough. It's just getting too damaging...