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VICTORY IN TODAY'S COURT RULING AGAINST AMENDMENT 2 IN COLORADO CLOUDED BY
SIMILAR MEASURES SET TO APPEAR ON 1994 BALLOTS

NGLTF Supports Call to End Successful Colorado Boycott

Washington, D.C. -- (December 14, 1993) --The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force (NGLTF) issued the following statement today by the organization's
Executive Director, Peri Jude Radecic, in response to the court ruling in
Colorado this afternoon:

"Today's court ruling provides much needed relief from the barrage of
anti-gay attacks from the Far Right. It strengthens our defenses against the
onslaught of  pro-discrimination referenda that have been spawned from
Amendment 2 in Colorado," said Radecic. 

"Anti-gay measures passed in  Oregon, Ohio, and Maine are direct descendants
of Colorado's pro-discrimination measure, and more are on the way as 8 to 13
states face similar measures in 1994.

"The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force supports the call to end the boycott
of Colorado. The boycott has been a tremendously successful  civil rights
organizing tool and has sent a message around the country that it doesn't pay
to discriminate. It is now time for all of us to unite around healing
Colorado of the divisive cancer inflicted by the Far Right and work to
prevent its spread.

"Our movement can declare victory today. But that victory is clouded by the
sobering reality that the Far Right is building its political power for a
broader agenda on the backs of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. Colorado's
Amendment 2 was only the beginning of a long-range strategy by the Far
Right."

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