Interesting developments right here in New Mexico


	"Gay UNM employees will be able to provide their partners with
health insurance and benefits that married copules have long taken for
granted following a new policy announced by UNM Equal Opportunity
Programs last week.
	The policy, formulated by EOP and approved by UNM President
Richard Peck and the President's council, includes all the benefits
normally offered to married employees' spouses, including health
insurance,free tuition and use of University facilities> Gay employees
will also be entitled to bereavement leave if their partner dies. 
	University policy already prohibited discrimination against
gays and lesbians.
	The benefits will not come automatically, however. To prevent
fraud by heterosexual roommates, a gay couple will have to either
submit a signed affidavit or provide evidence of a long-term
commitment-joint bank accounts, a joint lease or mortgage or providing
a partner is named as the main beneficiary in one's will or life
insurance policy, for instance."

	As quoted in the Daily Lobo, The Independent Voice of UNM
	Thursday, April 21, 1994, Vol 98, number 144


	So the state of affairs continue to look up in the Land Of Enchantment



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