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Austin City Limit
Kopkind, Andrew | May 30, 1994 issue

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The article reports that on May 27, 1994, voters in Austin, Texas, repealed by referendum an ordinance passed by the City Council last September that extended health and other benefits to nonmarried spouses of city employees. The Austin vote was not a clear-cut case of homophobes against gays. In fact, only twenty-nine of the ninety-eight employees who registered as domestic partners were in same-sex couples, and organizers fighting the referendum acknowledged that voters offered plenty of reasons for repeal.

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REFERENDUM; UNMARRIED couples; CIVIL service; EMPLOYEE fringe benefits; AUSTIN (Tex.); TEXAS; UNITED States
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