Cross country.1 BOISE, IDAHO “Boise” redirects here. For other uses, see Boise (disambiguation). Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the county seat of Ada County and the principal city of the Boise metropolitan area. The state house on February 6 overwhelmingly approved a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The bill now goes to the state senate, where similar proposals have died in each of the last two years. 2 DENVER, COLO Colo Colorado (old style state abbreviation) COLO Columbus, Ohio COLO Co-Location COLO Colonial National Historic Park (US National Park Service) COLO Cost Of Living Option . Three dueling measures dealing with the rights of same-sex couples were launched in the Colorado legislature: The first would permit civil unions, the second would provide limited reciprocal benefits to all cohabiting individuals who are unable to marry, and the third would constitutionally define marriage in the state as the union of one man and one woman. 3 DUBUQUE, IOWA The city council on February 6 approved the addition of 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. as a protected characteristic under the city's human rights ordinance. 4 MILWAUKEE, WIS. A preliminary injunction A temporary order made by a court at the request of one party that prevents the other party from pursuing a particular course of conduct until the conclusion of a trial on the merits. A preliminary injunction is regarded as extraordinary relief. issued by district judge Charles Clevert Jr. on January 25 prevented the state from stopping hormone treatments for several transgender transgender or transgendered adj. Transsexual. prison inmates until a lawsuit regarding the matter can be heard in court. 5 ALBANY, N.Y. Republican governor George Pataki signed a bill on February 3 allowing same-sex domestic partners to decide the disposition of a deceased partner's remains. 6 WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. A financial settlement was reached on February 6 between Aron Petela and the owners of Mike and Katy's Causeway Cafe, who fired Petela in October after learning he is HIV-positive. 7 TALLAHASSEE, FLA FLA Florida (old style) FLA Macromedia Flash (file extension) FLA Flash Files (file extension) FLA Fair Labor Association FLA Front Line Assembly . Two efforts by antigay groups to get constitutional same-sex marriage bans on the November ballot failed to gather the necessary signatures by a February 1 deadline. |
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