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Vol 1. No 3. December, 1997
International Pink Briefing
In a historic and hugely symbolic gesture to gay men and lesbians, President Clinton delivered a speech to the nation's largest gay and lesbian political organization, the Human Rights Campaign, and pledged his support to the struggle for gay equality
The Reuters News Agency reports lawyers representing Robin Shahar, a lesbian attorney whose job offer with the state of Georgia was withdrawn when it was learned she was planning a gay wedding ceremony with her partner, are appealing their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the Georgia Supreme Court upheld a policy allowing Atlanta city employees to include unmarried straight and gay partners in their health benefits coverage. The decision overturned a lower court ruling that deemed the inclusion of gay partners as contrary to the laws of the state.
The Los Angeles Times reports Vice President Al Gore and his senior advisors were reportedly "stunned" by the coast-to-coast headlines generated by praise of the ABC sitcom "Ellen" in a speech he made to Hollywood film and TV executives two weeks ago.
The Supreme Court of Canada harshly questioned a lawyer representing the Alberta government over the province's exclusion of gay rights in its human rights charter, the Associated Press reports. The exclusion is being challenged before the high court after a six year legal battle.
The Cape Cod Times reports followers of Fred Phelps this weekend brought their anti-gay message to Provincetown, one of the most gay-friendly resort communities on the Atlantic coast.
CBS affiliate KIRO reports Washington voters decisively rejected the statewide gay rights initiative, I-677. With 7,371 of 7,420 precincts reporting, 40 percent (507,337) voted in favor of banning workplace discrimination against gay men and lesbians, while 60 percent (746,305) voted against the measure.
The Raleigh News and Observer reports the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that a Tennessee man cannot be deemed an unfit father for being gay.
The Associated Press reports bishops of the State Lutheran Church in Denmark have unanimously approved gay marriages, albeit with a number of unusual restrictions.
Robert Acremant, the man charged with the 1995 murders of two prominent lesbian activists in Oregon, was sentenced to death by a Jackson County Circuit Court jury, the San Jose Mercury reports.
A recent poll conducted by the National AIDS Fund indicates almost one third of U.S. employees surveyed believe their employer would dismiss or forcefully place on disability an HIV-positive worker who was displaying early signs of illness.
A Dutch Parliamentary panel this week approved legislation designed to sanction gay marriage and give lesbian and gay couples the right to adopt children, the Associated Press reports.
An Australian slaughterhouse worker who shot a gay man through the chest with a high-powered crossbow, dismembered the body, and stored it for four months in his refrigerator, was found guilty of murder, the Sydney Morning Herald report.
The Washington Post reports Maryland's Court of Special Appeals unanimously overturned Circuit Court Judge Lawrence H. Rushworth's decision last August prohibiting a divorced gay man from seeing his children in the presence of his live-in lover.
A likely candidate for the 2000 presidential race, House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, met with several leaders of national gay and lesbian organizations to discuss ways in which the party could assist gay and lesbians candidates through the next election cycle.
The bishops of Denmark's state Lutheran Church voted unanimously Oct. 28 not to perform gay weddings. Since 1989, gay Danes have been able to register their partnerships at city halls and acquire all the rights of matrimony except access to adoption, artificial insemination and church weddings.
A policeman in Bauska, Latvia, has been forced to resign after coming out of the closet in the mainstream newspaper Atspulgs. Gatis Bugoveckis' superiors insisted he name other gay cops or leave his job "voluntarily," said the Latvian Homosexuality Information Center (HIC), which acquired audio tapes of the conversations.
Predrag Bosnjakovski wants to start a gay movement in Bosnia- Herzegovina. "We are at the bottom of society here, living completely in hiding so far as our feelings are concerned," Bosnjakovski wrote to the International Lesbian and Gay Association. "It is quite impossible to express sexual love for somebody of the same sex openly, so many of us take opportunities to do so furtively after dark in public parks, which of course tends to confirm the popular prejudices.
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