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              <text>Immediate Release&#13;
&#13;
BALTIMORE GAY ALLIANCE&#13;
P.O. Box# 13438 Baltimore, Maryland 21203&#13;
&#13;
phone 235-HELP&#13;
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LEGAL ACTION COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES 1977&#13;
&#13;
Delegate Bert Booth has announced that she will&#13;
reintroduce her bill (last year's HB 1004) to ban anti-gay&#13;
discrimination in employment by amending the Human Relations Code of Maryland, Article 49B. Last year, the bill was soundly defeated in the House Judiciary Committee after Maryland gay groups got off to a late start in their lobbying efforts.&#13;
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This year, work has begun earlier. Delegate Booth is&#13;
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&#13;
Support from local civic and professional groups has been&#13;
solicited, and NOW will be helping to circulate literature.&#13;
We have been fortunate in finding a contact person&#13;
to distribute literature in Kent County, but we still need&#13;
persons to write their representatives from the less urban&#13;
sections of Maryland. There is also an urgent need for persons willing to testify in Annapolis about their own experiences with employment discrimination.&#13;
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Contact numbers (not for publication):&#13;
Tim Tasker 296-3172&#13;
Gail Vivino 243-2745&#13;
Dana Rethemeyer 752-1554</text>
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