Subject: ACTION ALERT: Anti-Gay Bill Must Be Defeated!!!
From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 21:29:56 -0500

FROM:  Eric J.C. Astacaan, Public Policy Associate
             Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center

TO:  Everyone

DATE:  April 6, 1996
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ACTION ALERT:  Please cross-post as widely as possible!!!

California State Senate Will Consider Anti-Gay Bill SOON
                      Please Act NOW to Stop it!!!

Assembly Bill 1982, passed by the State Assembly, would deny
recognition of same-gender marriages performed legally in other states.
This means that same-gender marriages performed legally in
Hawaii (pending Baehr v. Lewin's success) would be illegal in California.
The bill is now in the State Senate Judiciary Committee where
we must stop it.
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT ALL SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
(SEE BELOW) RECEIVE LETTERS AND CALLS OF OPPOSITION
FROM OUR COMMUNITY.

All across the United States, state legislatures are attempting to enact
laws that would prohibit same-gender marriage.  These efforts have been
turned back in a dozen states.  We can do the same here in California.

                    Lou Sheldon, Focus on the Family,
                  and other homophobes are mobilizing.
                                    
          HERE'S WHAT MUST BE DONE TO DEFEAT THEM!!!

CALL AND/OR SEND LETTERS OPPOSING AB 1982 TO:

                             Senator _________________
                             State Capitol, Rm. ____
                             Sacramento, CA  95814

Senate Judiciary Committee Members

Sen. Charles Calderon (D-Whittier), Rm. 4039, (916) 327-8315
Sen. Bill Lockyer (D-Hayward), Rm. 205, (916) 323-2234
Sen. Henry Mello (D-Santa Cruz), Rm. 313, (916) 445-5843
Sen. Jack O'Connell (D-Ventura), Rm. 2187, (916) 445-5405
Sen. Nicholas Petris (D-Oakland), Rm. 5080, (916) 445-6577
Sen. Hilda Solis (D-Los Angeles), Rm. 4090, (916) 445-1418
Sen. Tim Leslie (R-Roseville), Rm. 4081, (916) 445-5788
Sen. Ray Haynes (R-Riverside), Rm. 4082, (916) 445-9781
Sen. Cathie Wright (R-Simi Valley), Rm. 4052, (916) 445-8873

SHORT, PERSONAL HANDWRITTEN LETTERS ARE
THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF COMMUNICATING WITH
OUR STATE SENATORS.

In addition, you may send a copy of your letter to your own state
senator.  If you do not know who your state senator is, please call
your county registrar's office which may be found in the government
pages of the phone book.

SHARE THIS ACTION ALERT with your family, friends and
colleagues to ensure maximum mobilization efforts.

For more information, please call the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian
Center's Public Policy Department at (213) 860-7350 or
e-mail us at:

[email-masked] or [email-masked].