From: WAND_M@gold.colorado.edu
Subject: After the Vote
Followup-To: amend2-discuss@cs.colorado.edu
Originator: doherty@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:55:45 GMT

>From the Gazette Telegraph, Colorado Springs
December 13, 1992

Nov. 3 - Colorado voters approve Amendment 2 with 53 percent of the vote--66 
percent in El Paso County.

Nov. 4 - Amendment 2 critics hold candlelight vigils and protests.  A coalition 
of state and national leaders unveil plans for a constitutional challenge of 
Amendment 2.  And talk of a boycott begins when a Los Angeles group, Coloradans 
& Californians for Fairness in the Nation, asks artists, entertainers and 
tourists to stay away from Colorado.

Nov. 12 - A lawsuit filed on behalf of seven gay and lesbian Colorado residents 
(and one heterosexual man with AIDS) challenges the constitutionality of 
Amendment 2.  Plaintiffs also included Denver, Boulder and Aspen, the only 
Colorado cities that had prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Nov. 18 - The debate on Amendment 2 goes prime time when singer Barbra 
Streisand mentions it during a speech at a televised AIDS benefit.  "There are 
plenty of us who love the mountains and rivers of that truly beautiful state, 
but we must now say clearly that the moral climate there is no longer 
acceptable, and if we're asked to, we must refuse to play where they 
discriminate."

Nov. 17 - Atlanta approves a resolution that bans spending city funds for 
travel to Colorado.

(Note - these dates the order of the dates are as they appeared in the GT.)

Nov. 19 - Calls for a boycott grow daily, and groups begin to cancel 
conventions in Denver.  The creators of Amendment 2, Colorado for Family 
Values, counter that boycotting could be a double-edged sword.  "It's really 
too bad that some militant homosexual groups can't respect what the majority of
the people voted for in this state.  Based on the huge number of phone calls we 
have received, there are plenty of our supporters who would be happy to take 
their place on the slopes and in hotels," says Kevin Tebedo, Colorado for 
Family Values spokesman.

Nov. 23 - A group called Boycott Colorado forms in Denver.

Nov. 30 - Colorado Springs suffers its first financial loss from the backlash 
over Amendment 2 when the National Education Association cancels a 1993 
convention.  Separately, the Women's Sports Foundation drops the city from a 
list of five possible sites for a headquarters.

Dec. 2 - Denver Mayor Willington (sic) Webb urges the national television 
audience of the "Arsenio Hall Show" not to boycott Denver or Colorado. "As 
mayor of Denver, I'm going to protect the rights of gays, lesbians and everyone 
else."

Dec. 3 - The nation's mayors say they will reconsider holding their annual 
convention in Colorado Springs next summer.  Up to 1,500 are expected to attend 
the U.S. Conference of Mayors convention.

Dec. 4 - The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund in Washington, D.C., issues a "travel 
advisory", warning that "adverse conditions" exist for homosexuals planning to 
visit Colorado.

Dec. 7 - State House Minority Leader Sam Williams announces plans to draft 
legislation to overturn Amendment 2.  Other lawmakers and Gov. Roy Romer 
quickly dismiss the plan as premature and say it will likely fail.

Dec. 8 - New York City Mayor David Dinkins recommends a travel boycott of 
Colorado.

Dec. 10 - Amendment 2 critics form Ground Zero in an attempt to shift the 
budding nationwide boycott of Colorado to Colorado Springs.

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