From TV Role in 'Dobie Gillis' to Rights Fight in Legislature
By JESSE McKINLEY (NY TIMES)
Published: May 14, 2006
Photo: Rich Pedrocelli/AP

...So this year, Ms. Kuehl, a state senator representing western Los Angeles, introduced a bill to assure that lesbians and gay men get what she feels is their due in California textbooks. The bill, which passed the Senate on Thursday and is now headed to the Assembly, would forbid the teaching of any material that "reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation," and add the "age appropriate study of the role and contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender." For Ms. Kuehl, 65, the bill seems to have as much ...Read it at NY Times (free registration)