It's going to be a long, bumpy ride [in which author comments on various gay community issues, including Foundation for Equal Families (gay/lesbian rights group) announcement of lawsuit against federal government to force legislative amendments and the attacks that will result from the radical religious right; how few in community benefit from victories; how many in community are in penal institutions because they can't deal with their sexual orientation; true equality "will only come when individuals have access to support that confirms that they are valuable human beings..."; etc.]. By Gens Hellquist.
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 4-5 (61cm.)

No threat to "the family" [in which author mentions suit by Foundation for Equal Families against federal government to force rewrite of 58 laws that discriminate against gays; argues that this is not, as some claim, a threat to the "family," but that pressures on families come from broader issues, such as need of both parents to work; "both the expansion of human rights to include gays and the decline of the nuclear family are effects of a larger process"; creating a just society in which gay and lesbian couples are treated like heterosexual ones is no threat to "family"; etc.]. By Nils Clausson.
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 7 (40cm.)

Suing the feds [Foundation for Equal Families "have announced that they will launch an 'omnibus' lawsuit against the government if they don't act soon"; Foundation wants changes to 58 laws which discriminate against same-gender couples; details, reactions].
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 23 (35cm.)

EGALE postcard campaign [newsnote that, in response to Reform Party's success in legislating marriage definition to be union of man and woman, EGALE and Foundation for Equal Families have begun massive postcard campaign calling on federal government to recognize same-sex couples in all federal laws].
P130 (v17n5)(July 28, 1999): 25 (16cm.)