From: WAND_M@gold.colorado.edu
Subject: Colorado under 'travel advisory'
Followup-To: amend2-discuss@cs.colorado.edu
Originator: doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:38:40 GMT

Gay group issues a national warning
By Louis Aguilar/Gazette Telegraph of Colorado Springs
December 5, 1992

A national gay and lesbian group has issued a "travel advisory" warning that 
"adverse conditions" exist for homosexuals planning to visit Colorado.

The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund in Washington, D.C., issued the advisory, 
telling members to travel with caution and to avoid Colorado until Amendment 2 
is repealed, said William Waybourn, executive director of the fund. The Victory 
Fund is a national political action committee that raises money for openly gay 
and lesbian candidates.  The group met in Denver in 1991 but has canceled plans 
to return in 1993.

Meanwhile, a 200-person convention of college facility officials and students 
has dumped Colorado Springs as its October 1993 gathering site.  Its parent 
group, the Association of College Unions International, dropped Denver as a 
finalist for its 1998 meeting spot.  That convention attracts more than 1,000 
people, officials said.

The facilities group was planning to hold the three-day conference at the 
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado College and Pikes Peak 
Community College beginning Oct. 7, said Steve Gnadt, director of the student 
center at UCCS.

Gnadt said the decision to drop Colorado Springs was made Thursday night by a 
local planning committee because of "philosophical differences with Amendment 
2."  He added that the group hadn't yet contracted for hotel rooms; the 
convention is likely to be held at the University of rizona in Tucson.

The group is the second to pull out of Colorado Springs in retaliation for the 
controversial amendment adopted in November by Colorado voters.  The amendment, 
created by Colorado Springs-based Colorado for Family Values, prohibits laws 
protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination based on sexual orientation.  
The other convention to cancel is a 450-person gathering planned next year by 
the National Education Association.

"We cannot spend our money in Colorado," said Victory Fund co-chairman Dr. 
Scott Hitt, a Los Angeles physician.

"It would only prove tht discrimination pays."

In other Amendment 2 news:

*	Aspen and Snowmass have launched an ad campaign aimed at Hollywood.
	The ski resorts took out full-page ads in The Hollywood Reporter and
	Daily Vriety attacking the measure as "misguided and unjust."  The
	ads note that Aspen residents voted 3-to-1 against the initiative.

*	A contingent of Denver officials, including Mayor Wellington Webb,
	headed Friday to New York City where they will meet with the national
	press Monday and Tuesday in an attempt to head off the growing boycott
	mood.

*	Meetings are planned this weekend in Denver and Colorado Springs by 
	gays and lesbians and their supporters.  The meetings may result in
	the groups endorsing or rejecting the boycott.

		The Associated Press contributed to this report.







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