For Immediate Release: Daily Vigil For LGBT Civil Rights American Equality Bill Legislation

[Tommy News]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 7, 2010

Daily Vigil For LGBT Civil Rights American Equality Bill Legislation

Media Contact: Iana Di Bona, 718-309-8598, quee...@gmail.com

New York City Activists are staging a daily vigil asking for one of our heroes, Sen Gillibrand to file the American Equality Bill. They are asking you to call her campaign office at 212-481-2010. These brave activists are on the front edge of the movement, and deserve our support. Watch a Granny Peace Brigade activist show you how it is done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FOvIqFOz4 

Join the QueerSOS on FB (http://bit.ly/QueerSOSonFB )
Support the American Equality Bill (AEB) Project on FB (http://bit.ly/AEBnow )

Media Contact: Iana Di Bona, 718-309-8598, quee...@gmail.com

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                      QUEER SOS!:   NAACP PRESIDENT:  STILL NO DREAM OF LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHTS!

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.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!    www.queersos.com ;  http://bit.ly/queerSOSfb 

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Tommy