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Competency hearing set for killer
PONTIAC, Mich. — Oakland
County Circuit Judge Francis O'Brien
has ordered that Jonathan Schmitz be
sent to the state Center for Forensic
Psychiatry for an evaluation, to deter-
mine if Schmitz is competent to stand
trial on murder charges
Schmitz, 26, is charged'with first
degree murder in connection with the
shotgun slaying of Scott Amedure in
March 1995. The murder occurred three
days after the two men were part of a
Jenny Jones Show segment in which
Amedure surprised Schmitz by
announcing in front of the audience
that he had a "crush" on Schmitz, who
is heterosexual.
Jail psychiatrist Dr. D.S. Nair testi-
fied last week that Schmitz has had
episodes of paranoia and severe
depression. The trial is set to begin July
29.
Court won’t intervene in visitation
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Georgia State
Supreme Court last week issued a 4-3
decision refusing to overturn a lower
court's ruling allowing a gay father
unsupervised visitation rights with his
10-year-old daughter.
A juvenile court had previously
ruled that the man, who was not identi-
fied in court papers, could visit his
daughter only under the supervision of
his mother.
In a sharp dissent to the majority
opinion, Justice George H. Carley wrote
that the father is breaking state law by
engaging in sodomy, and "this criminal
conduct on his part cannot simply be
ignored by the courts."
The Supreme Court's decision did
not include the reasoning of the majori-
ty-
Regents say ‘no’ to benefits
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The
regents overseeing the University of
Maryland System voted last week not
to extend benefits to unwed couples,
turning down recommendations from a
subcommittee to approve domestic
partnership benefits.
Gay and lesbian staff and faculty
angered by the vote accused the regents
of caving in to political pressure from
the state legislature. But Regent and
former governor Harry Hughes said
the board was concerned that approv-
ing the recommendation would have
encouraged heterosexual couples not to
get married.
Tire board did approve a proposal
for the system to develop a policy of
non-discrimination toward sexual ori-
entation.
Louisville welcomes gays
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — According to
the latest Bluegrass State Poll, 56 per-
cent of Louisville adults questioned on
the matter indicated they would wel-
come gays and lesbians as neighbors,
and 65 percent said they favor laws pro-
tecting gays and lesbians from discrim-
ination in housing and employment,
according to a report in The Courier-
Journal last week.
The poll has a margin of error of 3.5
percent for the full sample, and 6.3 per-
cent for the 242 adults questioned in
Louisville.
These findings come in the wake of
two instances in recent years in which
the Louisville Board of Aldermen has
voted down proposals that would have
enacted statutes protecting gays and
lesbians from discrimination in housing
and employment.
Gay rights victory in Spain
BARCELONA — In a major boost for
gay rights in Spain, a court ruled last
week that a gay Columbian was enti-
tled to Spanish residency papers
because he and his Spanish partner
were a stable couple.
The High Court in Barcelona also
ordered the government to review the
necessary laws so that foreigners wish-
ing to live with their Spanish partners
can seek visas regardless of the sex or
marriage status of the couple.
The ruling, which comes after a
Spaniard contested an Interior Ministry
rejection of a residency visa petition
from his Columbian partner, follows in
the wake of several others in recent
months that are leading to a gradual
increase in rights for gays in Spain.
Bar owner fined for discriminating
BOSTON — The Massachusetts
Commission Against Discrimination
has fined the owner of Boston bar
$30,000 and ordered him to enroll his
employees in sensitivity training after a
gay mail and lesbian were ejected from
the now-defunct Stocks & Bonds
Restaurant and Dance Club owned by
George Varoudakis of Danvers.
Commission officials said the deci-
sion was the first in Massachusetts in a
case of anti-gay discrimination in a
public place.
The three plaintiffs in the complaint
were dancing with and kissing same-
gender partners when they were
thrown out of the bar in October 1990.
But MCAD Commissioner Charles E.
Walker Jr. noted that heterosexual cou-
ples behaving in similar ways were not
ejected.
"If you open your business to the
public, then you must serve the public
and not just one segment of the public,"
Walker said.
HIV-positive man wins tattoo case
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Civil
Rights Commission hearing examiner
Franklin A. Martens said this week that
Adam Gray, owner of 8-Ball Tattoo
Studio, was in the wrong when he
refused to give a tattoo to H. Edward
Dobbins Jr., an HIV-positive man.
Gray said that while he was con-
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1996, newspaper, July 19, 1996; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth616137/m1/7/: accessed May 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.