Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesbian rights lobbyists applauded Bulger's decision, saying it limits new opposition to their cause and may speed passage of the bill, which the Massachusetts legislature has considered for the last 17 years...
...News has been good since the Senate went back into session last week," said Arline Isaacson, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus. "Two amendments and three motions to delay the bill have already been defeated...
David LaFontaine, lobbying director of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, said he thinks Bulger's ruling guaranteed the bill would pass the Senate, where supporters have a solid majority...
...survey by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force of 2000 respondents found that 40 percent of gay and lesbian people had been threatened with violence and 90 percent had experienced some kind of victimization because of their sexual orientation. The task force's 1987 report found that the number of cases of violence and intimidation against gay people rose 300 percent since...
Kevin M. Cathcart, a Boston attorney and ex-director of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders says. "We receive phone calls regularly from people who are exposed to some kind of discrimination at work...