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LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

fightthegoodfightnow

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6. Question

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 08:29 PM

Oct 2012

Do you think that Obama's support for gay marriage will further the conversation of gay rights in the African American community?

I just heard the President of the NAACP speak at an HRC dinner and literally wept when I heard him talk about his mixed marriage parents struggle to have their marriage legally recognized and his comparison of that experience to gay marriage.

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