Celebrating 40 Years!
Issue 02 Volume 41
Where we stand
Same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships
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Seattle Gay News SEATTLE’S LGBT NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Rainbow Crosswalk location selected Pike and Broadway intersection is top choice
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Pike and Broadway is bustling, has history, and is recognizable.”
by James Whitely SGN Staff Writer
MORE CROSSWALKS After a recent Internet poll conTO COME ducted by Social Outreach Seattle The top three vote-getters were (SOSea), the location for Capitol Hill’s first Rainbow Crosswalk has Pike and Broadway with 214 been selected. More than 700 votes votes, East Olive Way and Broad-
“Inevitably we will have more crosswalks painted. It’s just a matter of raising the money. We are hoping that some business owners will step up and sponsor some of them. The neighborhood was actively involved. People really got into this thing.” were cast and the people have spoken: the crosswalk will be painted at East Pike Street and Broadway. “Pike and Broadway is the perfect place to begin the project,” said Shaun Knittel, SOSea’s founder and director. Pike/Pine and Broadway are iconic in Seattle. Locals and visitors know that they are entering Capitol Hill, they also know they are entering the city’s historical and cultural center.
way with 206 votes, and Pine and Broadway with 170 votes. The closeness of the votes shows that the community is still very divided on where the crosswalk should be placed. For Knittel, who said he was very happy with the results, this just means that more crosswalks ultimately will need to be painted. see crosswalk page 18
This crosswalk in West Hollywood, California, gives an idea of how the crosswalks on Capitol Hill may look.
DOMA overturned?
Supreme Court will hear DOMA, Prop 8 cases in March
Spanish scientists announce ‘therapeutic’ HIV vaccine
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The Justices of the United States Supreme Court
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer The U.S. Supreme Court announced January 7 that it will hear arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry on March 26, and Windsor v. United States the next day. Hollingsworth is the case in which the Ninth Circuit Court struck down California’s Prop 8, and Windsor is the case in which
the Second Circuit ruled DOMA unconstitutional. The Prop 8 case will be argued by Ted Olson and David Boies, the AFER (Americans for Equal Rights) team that first brought suit to invalidate the measure in 2009. “Our Constitution guarantees loving couples like AFER’s plaintiffs – Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo – nothing less than full federal
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marriage equality,” AFER said in a statement. “Prop 8, DOMA, and laws like them harm countless Gay and Lesbian Americans, singling them out for unequal, second-class treatment under the law.” Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker originally ruled in 2010 that Prop 8 violated the equal pro-
by Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer
Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily slow down the growth of HIV in infected patients. The vaccine, based on immune cells exposed to HIV that had been inactivated with heat, was tested on a group of 36 HIV-positive see doma page 8 people and the results were the
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best yet recorded for such a treatment, the team told Agence France Presse on January 3. “What we did was give instructions to the immune system so it could learn to destroy the virus, which it does not do naturally,” said Felipe Garcia, one of the scientists on the research team at Barcelona University’s Hospital see HIV page 15