Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, November 10, 1994                   TAG: 9411100095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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2 STATES' ANTI-GAY MEASURES DEFEATED

The California legislative seat went to Democrat Sheila James Kuehl, who played the brainy Zelda on television's ``The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis.'' An attorney, she now teaches law, and defeated a former student in the legislative race.

Kuehl, 53, gave up acting in the 1960s.

Another California race included the state's first openly gay major-party candidate to seek statewide office. But Democrat and acting Secretary of State Tony Miller was defeated in a tight race for election to that post.

In an upset on the East Coast, Karen Burstein, a Democrat and former Family Court judge, lost a bid to become New York's attorney general and the state's first openly gay candidate to win statewide office. She lost to Dennis Vacco, who was the U.S. attorney for western New York during the Bush administration.

The measures rejected by voters in Idaho and Oregon would have prohibited state and local governments from enacting laws to shield gays from discrimination. Other provisions included requiring libraries to keep material on homosexuality away from minors.

In Florida, voters in Alachua County repealed the county's gay-rights provision.

Massachusetts voters re-elected both openly gay members of Congress, Reps. Gerry Studds and Barney Frank. Wisconsin Rep. Steve Gunderson, who has acknowledged having a male companion, also was re-elected to the House.

- Associated Press