Sexual Politics (April 2002) Barbara Fedders, issue editor, writes: This issue features articles that describe recent threats to sexual minorities and women in Massachusetts and around the country and explores progressive legal and organizing responses to those threats. The first article is an interview with Jennifer Levi, senior staff attorney at New England Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, on that organization’s lawsuit on behalf of seven Massachusetts gay and lesbian couples seeking to win the right to legally wed. Levi discusses the anti-gay animus the lawsuit has exposed and outlines her hopes for victory for these couples and for all gay and lesbian couples striving for fair and equal treatment. Cole Thaler takes as a point of departure a proposed Massachusetts constitutional amendment to reserve marriage and its benefits for unions of "one man and one woman" to discuss the "hotly contested territory" of the legal status of transgendered people. Thaler, a third-year law student at Northeastern University School of Law, is a founding member of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition and the Northeastern Law School Transgender Task Force. Susan Yanow, director of the Abortion Access Project, explores the negative ramifications for women’s reproductive rights of the Department of Health and Human Services’ new proposed rule that would allow states to cover "unborn children" of pregnant women under the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Yanow calls this proposal "a frontal assault on women’s reproductive rights." Finally, LGBT and labor activist Karen Wheeler outlines the organizing of the Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network in response to the anti-gay-marriage proposed constitutional amendment. To read the complete newsletter, join the Guild or order a subscription today.