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Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 19:20:42 +1200
From: Jonathan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Chain Submission re Gay / Lesbian Rights, To American Airlines (fwd)
To: Tomas Kriha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thomas Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Simon Sheppard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sarah Pritchett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nikki Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matt Velde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Heather Peacocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
George Hills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fiona Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Evan Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donna Loveridge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dave Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bevan Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Antony Cottle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anna Fifield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please consider signing this and forwarding it on.
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American Airlines is a major sponsor to and supporter of groups like GLADD,
the Human Rights Campaign, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the AIDS
Action Foundation, DIFFA, AmFAR, and scores of community-based groups
representing gays and lesbians. It is also the first airline to adopt a
written non-discrimination policy covering sexual orientation in its
employment practices.
As a response, an unusual joint letter was released to the media on Friday,
March 14th from the Family Research Council, Concerned Women of America,
American Family Association and Coral Ridge Ministries, and radical right
leader
Beverly LaHaye also went on Christian "talk radio" on Friday to blast
American
Airlines, because "American's sponsorship of homosexual 'pride' events
constitutes an open endorsement of promiscuous homosexuality."
She and the other groups have written Bob Crandall at American to complain
that the airline has "gone beyond mere tolerance" of gays and lesbians.
The
full article appears in Friday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and has possibly
been picked up by other newspapers around the country.
It has come to the attention of the gay and Lesbian community that American
Airline's switchboard and e-mails are being bombarded now by homophobic
and hateful callers who have been urged by LaHaye and others to DEMAND the
company terminate its gay-friendly policies.
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***if you are the 25th, 50th, 75th, 100th, etc. person to sign this
petition then please forward this to American Airlines at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
To American Airlines: We, the undersigned, support your gay/lesbian right
polices and commend you for your efforts in ending discrimination. Thank
you for your dedication to such issues and please continue to remain active
in the struggle to end discrimination.
1. Marybeth Kurtz, Philadelphia, PA
2. Jen Faust, Goucher College, Balto. MD
3. Heather Riley, UMBC, Balto., MD
4. Katy Schuman, UMBC, Balto., MD
5. Rebekka Gold, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.
6. Danielle Hirsch, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.
7. Jerrod Wendland, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.
8. Jon Morgan, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH.
9. Keri Rainsberger, Indiana University, Biana University, Bloomington.
11. Court Singrey, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
12. Carol Fischer, Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
13. Patrick Wojahn, University of Wisconsin--Madison.
14. Dee Michel, University of Wisconsin--Madison
15. Adam L. Schiff, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
16. Tim Bratsos, San Francisco, CA
17. Craig Hibbs, San Bruno, CA
18. Edwin S. Blacker, Washington, DC
19. R. Thomas Rodriguez, Washington, DC
20. Rumi Matsuyama, Hyattsville, MD
21. Bart Broome, San Francisco, CA
22. Brad Vanderbilt, San Francisco, CA
23. Jean Drolet, San Francisco, CA
24. Russell Sveda, Washington, DC
25. Jacki Thaw, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
26. R.C. Rangel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
27. C. David Fancher, Birmingham, Alabama
28. Henry O. Compton, Birmingham, Alabama
29. H. Perry Stevens, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama
30. Deborah A. Nicholson, Boston, MA
31. Ian Thal, Jamaica Plain, MA
32. amy elizabeth eisenberg, college park, md
33. Simon Booth, Wellington, New Zealand
34. Graham Cameron, Wellington, New Zealand
35. John Tovey, Kapiti Coast, Aotearoa/New Zealand
36. Jonathan Milne, Christchurch, New Zealand
37. Sarah Pritchett, Otautahi/ Christchurch, Aotearoa/ New Zealand
