Subject: QUEER SOS!: NAACP PRESIDENT (on video): STILL NO DREAM OF LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHTS!
The QUEER SOS! kicked off with a bang & the NAACP:
CALL NAACP
202-460-4966AND ASK: When will the NAACP support equal civil rights for the LGBTQ community?
SEE NAACP President Fail to Answer our question:
http://www.facebook.com/l/0a4e4kjb05Tv2-8Hb8WFwnGZ1uA;www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcsuU1QNCSg
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For immediate release (9/22/10, NYC)
Last night, NAACP President Ben Jealous made that group's first appearance in history at the NYC LGBT Community Center, dedicating his speech to Bayard Rustin, the gay hero of the black civil rights movement.
But in 1964 when the Civil Rights Act passed, Mr. Rustin's rights were pushed aside by the NAACP and his "sexual orientation" was excluded from protections under the non-discrimination law he helped orchestrate.
Forty-six years later, the NAACP is still denying that dream to the LGBTQ community.
In this video, watch Mr. Jealous struggle and fail to answer one simple question:
Does the NAACP support the addition of "sexual orientation and gender identity" to the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
http://www.facebook.com/l/0a4e4kjb05Tv2-8Hb8WFwnGZ1uA;www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcsuU1QNCSg
Offering "crumbs to make bread," he could not escape the topic from Queer SOS! activists, Todd (Tif) Fernandez and Alan Bounville - as well as Liz Abzug, the daughter of famous Congresswoman Bella Abzug, who co-filed the first bill ever to add "sexual orientation" to the CRA in 1974 -- a bill that died without NAACP support.
How can it be in 2010 that the NAACP - a self proclaimed leader on civil rights for ALL - still does not believe we are equal? How can they deny us the dream of full and equal protection under the laws that enabled Barack Obama to become President?
WHEN do our CHILDREN get to have that DREAM?
WHEN will the NAACP support EQUAL LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHTS?
CALL THEM AND ASK:
202-460-4966(The QUEER SOS! demands the immediate filing of The American Equality Bill, one bill to add SO+GI (sexual orientation & gender identity) to the 1964 Civil Rights Act NOW!
http://www.facebook.com/l/0a4e4IXyIpgQN5_6q4OA0yOWX0Q;www.queersos.com;
http://www.facebook.com/l/0a4e49vBWHTc4Uoz5fUI7nwQvsA;bit.ly/queerSOSfb
