From: burkel@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (respect others' visions- live your own)
Subject: _CO_&_A2_
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:02:52 GMT


			REPERCUSSIONS OF A2

negative, as reported by the newpapers sited or live statements:

-A Boulder citizen, a heterosexual college-age male, reports at
a noon day rally that he was harrassed by a bouncer for a bar in
Boulder's "Hill" area, a typical college student hangout. He was
called a "pretty boy" after he objected to the bouncer's statement,
"We're going to get one for the Jews next."

-A professor on the CU-Boulder campus, working with the gay and
lesbian faculty organization on campus reports at the same rally
that she spoke to a landlord who was going to evict a tenant with
AIDS from his apartment this month, "because A2 passed."

-This in the Daily Camera 11/12/92: The Gay and Lesbian Community
Center in Denver has received a half-dozen hate calls, as well as
reports of torn-up yard signs, cars broken into and vandalized, and
physical threats. "People walked by and noticed their 'No on 2'
buttons and said things like, 'I should beat you up,'"said Jody
Andrade, director of the center's anti-violence project.

positive, also from newspaper reports and live statements:

-Nov. 10th, a lawsuit challenging A2 named the Rev. Priscilla
Inkpen, a CU campus minister, Aspen tennis start Martina
Navritilova, Denver police officer Angela Romero and fout other
private citizens as individual plantiffs in the suit.  The plantiffs
are being represented jointly by the ACLU of Colorado, the ACLU's
Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, the Colorado LEgal Initiative
Project (CLIP) and the Lamona Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Boulder city leaders have also voted to use funds to fight A2,
and plans to join the legal battle against it.

-A group of about 300 met in Boulder last week to come up with
strategies for fighting A2.  Group leaders presented their plans
and then everyone broke off into smaller groups to devise plans.
Some of the work begun there is shown below:

Colorado Legal Initiatives Project (CLIP)
P.O. Box 4447
Denver, CO 80201
(303) 830-2100

CLIP is filing the lawsuit to overturn A2 and an injunction to keep
the law out of the books until it has gone through the court process


Project VisAbility
P.O. Box 1823
Boulder, CO 80306

P.V. is committed to grassroots organizing to convince CO that
discrim. is wrong.


The Equal Protection Campaign (EPOC)
P.O. Box 300476
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 839-5540

EPOC is expanding its coalition. ITs focus is on educating the people
about civil rights vs. special rights.


Boulder Organization for Non-Discrimination (BOND)

BOND will be putting pressure on the system from within. This
will include promoting positive images of homosexuals and working
with the Democratic Party. BOND will also organize a "discrim watch"
to publicize incidents of discrim, and will be talking to Boulder
area businesses, asking them to defy A2 by including sexual
orientation in their company policy on discrimination.


Christians for the Advancement of Human Rights
(303) 442-5059

This group will be enlisting the support of the Christian community
by speaking to congregations about what can be done to stop A2, and
by introducing the Christian community to the gay community.


Showing our Colors at Boulder's "Lights of December" Parade.

No gay group has ever marched in the LOD parade. This year, a group
will march under the rainbow banner. The parade is on December 4th
at 6:30 pm. Meet at the corner of Pearl and 15th Street, bring a
flashlight and wer white.


March on Washington, Colorado Coalition

Organizing the CO contingent for the national march on Apr.25, 1993.


Discrimination is Bad Business

Wants to create a list of businesses which have actively supported
the No on 2 campaign and a list of supporters of A2. Will ask
supportive businesses to put a "Hate-Free Zone" sign on their window.


-Author and Gay rights activist Armistead Maupin has cancelled his
Denver appearance because of A2 (Daily Camera 11/12/92)

-Hollywood magazines that traditionally cover the stars' Christmas
rush to Aspen now plan to ask "why aren't you abiding by the
boycott? Why are you going to this state that promotes hatred?"
(Colorado Daily 11/12/92)


This is all the information I have at this time. I will let you
know what is coming with the boycott as soon as I hear. At this
time, many people feel that a boycott of only the areas that passed
A2 (the western slope of Colorado, and areas excluding Denver, Aspen
and Boulder) would be more fair. Others still feel that for a
boycott to work it must affect all areas of Colorado and that the
citizens of the state itself should work to boycott the individual
hating companies in addition to the state boycott by outsiders.

Again, I will keep you informed...

Blessed Be

Laura

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