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Southern Voice
                                                        May 20, 1993
copied with permission from Southern Voice

          ANOTHER TENNESSEE COUNTY SIGNS ON TO ANTI-GAY RESOLUTION
    Activists consider boycott of area home to Dollywood and Gatlinburg

  Knoxville, TN--East Tennessee activists are considering calling a
boycott against Sevier County--home of popular tourist destinations
Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and other Great Smoky Mountain
spots--after commissioners in that county passed a resolution urging the
Tennessee Congressional delegation to oppose the federal gay and lesbian
civil rights bill.

  "It's obviously going to spread like a disease," Bill Holliday of
Knoxville told Tennessee's gay weekly Query.  "We've got to get other
Tennessee cities geared up to fight this resolution."

  Identical resolutions have now passed in four East Tennessee counties.
 In addition to Sevier, Knox, Blount, and Jefferson County commissions
have all signed on th the anti-gay resolution.  Blount County was the
first to pass the measure, and it contained a provision ordering the
county's executive to distribute it to the state's remaining 94 counties
for approval.

  The resolution calls the civil rights bill, which would be an
amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill if passed by Congress, "morally
offensive."

  Holliday told Query that the word should be spread across the
Volunteer State to stop continued passage of the homophobic resolution.

  "It's already scheduled to be considered in Anderson, Roan and
Cumberland Counties, and it will come to Chattanooga, Nashville and
Memphis," he said.  "We've got to stop it."
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