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Thursday, June 05
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Source: Associated Press via Chicago Tribune , Wisconsin Law Journal Madison, Wis. -- The "Christian" attorney for an anti-gay activist will have to pay about $120,000 in court costs for what the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday called a "frivolous" libel suit he filed against gay activists in the state. Milwaukee attorney James Donohoo filed a defamation suit against gay rights group Action Wisconsin on behalf of New Orleans talk-show host and anti-gay activist Grant Storms. In 2003, Wisconsin Christians United invited Storms to speak at the "International Conference...
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Friday, May 30
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Source: Oshkosh Northwestern , Capital Times Wisconsin's ban on marriage equality does not violate the state's constitution, Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess ruled Friday. In his decision, Niess said the two questions contained in the constitutional amendment "are two sides of the same coin. They clearly relate to the same subject matter" -- the preservation of marriage. Niess rejected the argument by plaintiff William McConkey that the amendment violated a constitutional prohibition against a referendum posing more than one question to voters. McConkey said today he was...
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Thursday, May 29
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Source: Capital Times , Associated Press via Chicago Tribune Madison, Wis. -- Back in 1994, Carolyn "Biddy" Martin was part of a Cornell University committee that was in charge of drafting a policy to make health insurance and other benefits available to same-sex partners. At the time, Cornell was joining a growing number of universities and businesses that were recognizing benefits equality for gay and lesbian couples. Flash-forward 14 years, and Martin now finds herself days away from being appointed the next chancellor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which still doesn't provide...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Source: Capital Times , Rhinelander Daily News , WISC TV Felicia Melton-Smyth photo via Capital Times MADISON, Wis. -- Felicia Melton-Smyth was one of those people who take up a cause and make a difference. And despite the fact that she stood out in a crowd, she did it largely unheralded. Melton-Smyth, 41, was stabbed to death in her hotel room Monday while vacationing with a group of friends in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She was a volunteer with the AIDS Network in Madison for more than a decade, and her death left her friends speechless. Melton-Smyth was killed in her hotel room in Puerto Vallarta...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: Racine Journal Times , WISN-TV Racine, Wis. -- Last week, students at Washington Park High here nominated Urial Gomez as one of several students who will run for prom queen in an election to be held later this month. The prom is a big deal in Racine, where the annual high-school party was once featured in a documentary film called "The World's Best Prom." Students at Park started voting last week for the seniors who might be elected to the school’s prom court. It’s early in the process that will ultimately lead to the five boys and five girls who will make up the court. Gomez...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: New Richmond News | Associated Press via KARE Eau Claire, Wisc. -- School officials here say they’ll look into the case of a teacher who told five health classes about her sexual orientation. Administrators confirm that South Middle School instructor Stephanie Rowe told her students last week that she’s gay. At least one parent said Rowe had no business talking about her sexual preference. Parent Karen Peikert says Rowe is an outstanding teacher, but should stick to the curriculum. She did not explain to Associated Press why she believes a discussion of sexual orientation is inappropriate...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: Kalamazoo Gazette , Newhouse News Service A Kalamazoo lesbian who did diversity training at local nursing homes says she wouldn't want to think about moving into a retirement home or having to live in a nursing home. "Wow, that's hard to picture," said River Artz-Iffland, who worked as the adult and senior services program coordinator for the Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center from 2002 to 2005 and now works as a psychotherapist. "I think everyone has fears about needing so much physical care, about turning your life over to caregivers, and being gay or lesbian...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: Associated Press via WBAY TV , AP via Capitol Times MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former University of Wisconsin-Platteville student has settled a civil lawsuit against one of two men who beat him up because he was gay. Brett Timmerman filed a lawsuit in September, 2006 accusing two University of Wisconsin-Platteville students of accosting him outside a restaurant in 2005. His lawsuit, filed in Grant County Circuit Court, sought unspecified damages for emotional distress and attorney fees. According to the lawsuit, Timmerman was an openly gay man who was attending UW-Platteville in 2005. The suit...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Holmen Courier King shooting Holmen, Wisc. -- A few parents in this Wisconsin town near Lacrosse objected at a Monday school board meeting to a proposed vigil to honor victims of anti-gay violence, including 15-year-old Larry King, who was murdered in his Oxnard, Calif. classroom because he was gay. It wasn’t on the agenda, but homosexuality occupied 15 minutes of the Holmen School Board time at its meeting Monday night. Three audience members spoke to the board opposing the district allowing students to have a gay/lesbian vigil April 25. The organization the speakers referred to, called...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Wisconsin State Journal , Associated Press via La Crosse Tribune , WKBT WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Mourners are remembering former Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus this afternoon. Visitation is scheduled from noon to 5 p.m. at the state office building named in his honor in Waukesha. Following that, there will be a Masonic service and prayer service, but no eulogies. The 81-year-old known for his loquaciousness died Wednesday at his Waukesha home while watching television. He had suffered from heart and breathing problems. In just one term in office -- the only elected position he ever held -- Dreyfus...
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Monday, December 10
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Source: Associated Press via Minneapolis Star-Tribune (AP) Few people took Bill McConkey seriously when he filed a lawsuit in July trying to overturn Wisconsin's new ban on gay marriage and civil unions. The relatively unknown University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh political science instructor was acting as his own lawyer and didn't have the backing of the state's major gay rights group. But his challenge to the amendment -- approved by 59 percent of voters last year --has picked up steam in recent weeks. A Dane County judge ruled the lawsuit can go forward on grounds that McConkey was harmed...
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Thursday, November 29
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Source: Capital Times Madison, Wisc. -- A University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh political science teacher's legal challenge to a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions can proceed, a Dane County circuit judge ruled Wednesday, throwing out a motion by the state to dismiss the lawsuit. Judge Richard Niess ruled that William McConkey, an instructor, had legal standing to file the challenge to the ban, which was approved by 59 percent of Wisconsin voters in a referendum after receiving approval by consecutive sessions of the Legislature. McConkey was representing himself...
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Monday, October 15
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Source: Advocate A noted Wisconsin Republican leader could face up to 52 years in prison if found guilty of enticing a minor with drugs and alcohol last year. Donald Fleischman, chairman of the Brown County Republican Party, allegedly fondled a 16-year-old juvenile facility runaway, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette . The preliminary hearing is set for October 29. The teen told authorities that Fleischman took him to a hotel and then a cabin in 2006. When he tried to sleep, Fleischman would fondle him. On one occasion, he awoke to find Fleischman masturbating on the edge of the bed. Police...
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