school materials depicting or advoating ho- mosexualiy. The bill died in the senate. Call the Misouri Task Force for Gay and Lesbian Concerns: (800) 576-5128. MONTANA In January the state legislature killed a bill to decriminalize gay sodomy. NEBRASKA A bill prohibiting antigay discrimination in employment passed the state leg- islature’s Business and Labor committee despite opposition. Action on the bill can continue in January. NEVADA In June, Gov. Bob Miller signed a bill re- pealing the state’s gay sodomy law. The bill was opposed by a number of rightwing groups and local churches. NEW HAMPSHIRE In June, the Portsmouth City Council de- feated a gayrights measure, 54. A citywide referendum on gay rights was defeated in the Nov. 3 election. NEW MEXICO In March, the House tabled the state’s gay- rights bill, which passed the Senate earlier in the year. NEW YORK In July Senate Republicans defeated a gay- rights bill by blocking it from being ad- mitted to openfloor debate. The bill had al- ready passed the state Assembly. In New York City, city employees were granted full health benefits for domestic partners, after a five year battle with the Lesbian and Gay Teachers Association. The city legal- ized domestic partnership registration ear- lier this year. NORTH CAROLINA House judiciary committee in April killed a bill that would have decriminalized sod- omy. In March, the Raleigh City Council defeated a proposal to ban antigay dis- crimination in employment. OHIO Cincinnati voters approved by a 62%- 38% a bill repealing the city's human- rights ordinance (sexual orientafron was added to protected statuses last year). Gayrights lawyers won a legal injunction barring the measure from taking effect. In August, Billy Inmon, previouslypthe manager of the Ohio State Fair, an- nounced his candidacy for governor in 1994, running on a platform that “op— poses special rights for homosexuals.” OKLAHOMA Several antigay bills were introduced to the state Legislature in January, including a Color- adostyle bill, but all were killed in committee. OREGON In July, the state Legislature voted to over- turn a number of local ordinances similar to the statewide Measure 9 that failed in the 1992 election. The state legislation, signed by Gov. Barbara Roberts, is being appealed. The Oregon Citizens Alliance plans another measure for Nov. 1994. On Nov. 8, Oregon City and Keizer became the most recent cities to vote for antigay amendments. NGLTF Fight the Right Project Field Office can be reached at (503)221-0115. PENNSYLVANIA Nov. 6, gay activists and Nazis clashed in a riot in New Hope at what has been called the Nationalist Party’s Gaybash ‘93. About 300 actiasts showed up to protest the gathering of about 50 neo- Nazis. Two neoNazis were roughed up by the crowd. Jerry Knight, a state rep, can- didate from Eric, lost in the Nov. 1992 election after consistent gaybashing. In York, a petition for the City Council to consider an anti—gay rights amendment failed to get enough signatures. RHODE ISLAND In June, the state House defeated a gay civ- il rights bill which the Senate passed in May, In 1992, the bill passed in the House, but not the Senate. ‘ SOUTH CAROLINA In April, a House committee added gays, lesbians and bisexuals to a list of convicted criminals who are barred from adopong children. The bill will be introduced to the full House in 1994. A bill to define sod- omy as “oral or anal sex” and make it a fel- ony is in committee. TENNESSEE _ Three county commissioners rejected a resolution to ask the state legislature for gay rights. Also, the city denied a parade permit for gay pride day in Chatanooga. The ACLU has filed suit. TEXAS In Austin, religious right activists are gearing up to protest the city's newly en- acted domestic partners law, Gaynet re- ported. The House and Senate Confer- ence Committee agreed to keep gay sodomy in the state penal code. The Tex- as Supreme Court is reviewing lower court decisions that rulded the sodomy laws unconstitutional UTAH The State Board of Education in June barmed textbooks portraying homosexuality as a “desirable or healthy lifestyle”. VIRGINIA In September, a judge grarned custody of the son of a lesbian to his grandmother, de- claring the mother “unfit.” ’ 17 March 1994 WASHINGTON The Citizens Alliance of Washington has started a Stop Special Rights PAC and is planning an antigay initiabve for No- vember, I994. In April, a bill that would have banned antigay discrimination was killed in Senate committee after being ap- proved by the House. 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