From: Michael Doherty <doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Two more groups to stay away because of Amendment 2
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Originator: doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:34:22 GMT

Daily Camera                           reprinted without permission
Boulder, Colorado
01/27/93

Two more groups to stay away because of Amendment 2
Associated Press

DENVER -- Two groups that planned to bring a combined total of almost
5,000 people and almost $4 million to Denver for conventions have
canceled those plans to protest the passage of Amendment 2.
     The Rhode Island based American Mathematical Society on Tuesday
canceled plans to hold its annual three-day convention in Denver in
January 1995, boycott leaders and Denver convention officials said.
     The group had planned to bring about 4,000 members to the
convention, which would have pumped an estimated $3.6 million into
the local economy, said Denver Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau
spokeswoman Jean Anderson.
     The society's announcement marks the withdrawal of one of the
largest conventions since Amendment 2, which bars the passage of laws
or regulations that protect the civil rights of homosexuals, was
passed by voters Nov. 3.
     Also Tuesday, the Western Alliance of Arts Administrators
announced that it had canceled plans for it annual convention in
Denver in 11994. The group was expected to bring about 700 delegates
to town for four days, adding about $300,000 to the local economy.
     Alliance officials said their decision was based on reports of
increased violence against gays and lesbians since Amendment 2
passed.
     "We cannot, in good conscience, expose our membership, and our
gay and lesbian members in particular, to an environment where we
know that there has recently been an increase in violence," said Evan
Kavanagh, executive director of the alliance.
     The group stopped short if calling for a boycott of Colorado
events by individual artists.
     Denver convention officials said they were disappointed by the
two cancellations because they had hoped that an injunction barring
Amendment 2 from taking effect might encourage boycotters to
reconsider.
     A Denver district judge issued an injunction Jan. 15 blocking
Amendment 2 from taking effect until a lawsuit challenging its
constitutionality is resolved.
     "People are still boycotting, but what change do they hope to
make?" Anderson said. "At this point, we don't really understand what
the boycott is supposed to do. We had hoped the injunction would end
the boycott."


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