Across the nation.Cook Country, Ill. Dozens of same-sex couples in Chicago lined up to sign a new domestic-partner registry on October 2. The registry affords no legal protections, but its establishment was hailed as a symbolic victory. Washington, D.C. The U.S. Senate on September 25 confirmed Michael Mosman to a U.S. district judgeship in Portland, Ore. In 1986, Mosman urged Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell to uphold Georgia's antigay sodomy law A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as sex crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but is typically understood by courts to include any sexual act which does not lead to procreation. . This May he assured gay advocates that he now supports equal rights. Concord, N.C. The Baptist Convention of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. expelled the 101-year-old McGill Baptist Church for accepting two gay men as members and later baptizing them. Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla. The Royal Colonial Apartments on September 30 reached a $75,000 settlement with a gay couple after the complex was sued for refusing to rent them an apartment because of their sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. . |
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