Word: lesbian
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Four years ago, a group of lesbian and gay Vermonters got together in the basement of an Episcopal church to plot the redefinition of marriage. Among them were a nurse, a few lawyers and a pair of Christmas-tree farmers. They thought the state should treat their relationships no differently from those of heterosexuals, and they eventually brought a lawsuit...
...famously cantankerous playwright, below left, inspired ACT-UP's famously confrontational protests for an AIDS cure in the late '80s. As a result, gay and lesbian civil rights are loud parts of public debate...
...homophobic graffiti scrawled on Muhammad's door last week, the fourth such personally directed attack he has faced this semester and the catalyst in his decision to resign, was the first such incident to occur since the pledge was signed. Muhammad, the advisor to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA), has been the focus of the recent homophobic vandalism in Mather. But such incidents have also plagued two other Houses this semester...
While the court's decision will have limited impact beyond the state's borders, it will have only practical implications for gays and lesbians in Vermont. That, says Cloud, is precisely the problem. "If the point of gay marriage is largely symbolic - and I think it is - then it's crucial for the state to say to gay and lesbian couples: Your relationship is deserving of the same respect and dignity as straight relationships." Vermont's Supreme Court, adds Cloud, walked away from the chance to make a landmark decision by declaring that the state must recognize gay unions...
...issue serves as "a stopping point for many middle-of-the-road Democrats." Americans' ambivalence over gay marriage is evidence in the Defense of Marriage Act, approved by Congress after Hawaii's 1993 preliminary move to ratify same-sex marriage. The act precludes the federal recognition of gay and lesbian unions, and allows individual states to ignore any of their neighboring states' more liberal laws. For example, if Vermont's legislature were to formally recognize gay marriages, a gay couple from New York who got married in Vermont would not be legally "married" when they went home to New York...