From: WAND_M@gold.colorado.edu
Subject: Chronology
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Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:51:31 GMT

Gazette Telegraph, Colorado Springs
January 16, 1993

May l2.  Colorado for Family Values, a Colorado Springs-based group, succeeds 
in getting an anti-gay rights amendment on the November ballot.

Nov. 3.  Colorado voters approve Amendment 2 with 53 percent of the vote.  In 
El Paso County the measure passes by 66 percent.

Nov. 4.  Protests against the amendment's passage begin.  A coalition of state 
and national leaders unveil planas for a constitutional challenge.  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 is filed challenging the amendment's constitutionality.  
Plaintiffs include gays and lesbians and Denver, Bouder and Aspen, three 
Colorado cities that had prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Nov. 18.  The debate over Amendment 2 attracts national attaention when singer 
Barbra Streisand mentions it during an AIDS benefit.

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

Nov. 23.  The group Boycott Colorado forms in Denver.

Nov. 30.  The National Education Association cancels a 1993 convention planned 
in Colorado Springs.  The Women's Sports Foundation drops the city from a list 
of five possible sites for its headquarters.

Dec. 2.  Denver Mayor Wellington Webb urges the national television audience of 
the "Arsenio Hall Show" not to boycott Denver or Colorado.

Dec. 3.  The nation's mayors announce they will reconsider holding their annual 
convention in Colorado Springs in 1993.

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

Dec. 10.  Critics form Ground Zero in an attempt to shift the budding 
nationwide boycott of Colorado to Colorado Springs.

Dec. 16.  Los Angeles becomes the sixth major city to officially condemn 
Colorado and bans official travel to the state.

Dec. 17.  Colorado Springs Mayor Robert Isaac appeals to the U.S. Conference of 
Mayors not to shift its annual convention from Colorado Springs, but the group 
decides to choose another city.

Jan. 4.  BACK OFF Colorado Committee is formed by a Colorado Springs resident 
to target cities, groups and celebrities who endorse the boycott of Colorado.

Jan. 9.  Hispanic journalists vote to move their convention out of Denver

Jan. 10.  Eighty-five organizations form a coalition to repeal Colorado's 
English Only and anti-gay rights protection laws.

Jan. 11.  Opening arguments begin in Denver District Court on an injunction to 
halt the amendment from becoming law until the November lawsuit is settled.  
And U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., announces she has introduced a bill in 
Congress that would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Bill to prohibit discrimination 
against homosexuals.

Jan. 14.  Judge Jeff Bayless imposes a temporary restraining order preventing 
Gov. Roy Romer from signing Amendment 2 into law.

Jan. 15.  Bayless grants a temporary injunction order preventing the amendment 
from becoming law until the courts decide on whether the measure is 
constitutional.

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