Ah, it's pathetically ignorant, perpetually re-elected NC U.S. Congresscritter Virginia Foxx opening her trap again to contribute batsh*ttery to the public discourse and historical record with the ludicrous claim on the House floor that the Republican party had a progressive record on civil rights and Congress passed legislation in the 1960s without much help from Dems.
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If you couldn't be there, this is the next best thing. Armed with my trusty video cam (and help from the Equality NC folks to get a place to set up the cam at the last minute), I recorded the main program of the Equality NC Gala.
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President Obama announced an end to the HIV Travel and Immigration Ban during the signing ceremony for the vital Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act this afternoon.
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From a press release from American Progress:
Brent Childers used to call himself a “Jesse Helms Republican” who justified his homophobic beliefs through biblical interpretation.
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"People don't go to demonstrations or marches to be talked to death, they don't go to be harangued, they don't go to listen—God forbid—to poetry.
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Brent Childers is a straight ally who is Executive Director of Faith In America, an organization working to end "religion-based bigotry and prejudice.
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The White House announced Monday that it will nominate Chai Feldblum, LGBT rights scholar and advocate, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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"From early days of AIDS crisis, he was there for us," recalled Smith. "He was battling for us, taking on a then very powerful Jesse Helms, who wanted to see us in concentration camps.
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison once scored as high as 50 on gay rights ...Dallas VoiceJesse Helms to cut off funding for local gay community health centers.
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My state is getting over its fringe-conservative hangover, having turned Blue in the last election, but we’ve still got a General Assembly full of lawmakers willing to honor a bigot and homophobe like the late Jesse Helms.
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I got the chance to speak to N.C. Sen. Julia Boseman (D-New Hanover) on Thursday — about 24 hours too late to include her comments in my article yesterday — about her lone vote no on a resolution honoring the late U.
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D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics hears four hours of testimony on anti-gay referendum: "Both sides presented legal and political arguments about whether the same-sex marriage issue should be in the hands of voters or the politicians who represent them.
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Some of North Carolina's legislators wanted to honor the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, one of this nation's greatest anti-gay and racist bigots, by passing an honorary resolution.
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My state is getting over its fringe-conservative hangover, having turned Blue in the last election, but we've still got a General Assembly full of lawmakers willing to honor a bigot and homophobe like the late Jesse Helms.
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When the North Carolina General Assembly took up voting on a resolution honoring the late U.S. Sen.
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Openly lesbian NC state Sen. Julia Boseman was the lone dissenting vote in a resolution honoring the life work of the greatest homophobe to disgrace the halls of Congress, U.
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Lesbian senator votes against Jesse Helms resolutionQ-Notes - Carolinas LGBT news sourceJulia Boseman (D-New Hanover), North Carolina's only openly gay or lesbian state legislator, voted against a resolution honoring the life of the late Jesse .
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Yes it is true a bunch of self-rightest assholes in the NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY, wanted to honor is right out confess bigot Jesse Helms.
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A resolution honoring the late conservative figurehead Jesse Helms was almost unanimously passed on Tuesday in the North Carolina legislature, except for a lone no vote by out lesbian state senator Julia Boseman.
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A resolution
honoring the late conservative figurehead Jesse Helms was
almost unanimously passed on Tuesday in the North Carolina
legislature, except for a lone no vote by out lesbian
state senator Julia Boseman.
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