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Meanwhile… In The Mainstream Media… It Was “Gays Behaving Badly”

February 25, 2010 3:50 PM by David Badash

Last night’s protest at the Harold Ford/Stonewall Democrats event caused a great deal of “conversation.” My response, “Harold Ford’s Treatment No Better Than Tea Party Protests,” seems to have stirred up almost as much. Let me add this. Yes, I have a problem with the Tea Party style protest at last night’s event. But had [...]

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Pride

June 27, 2009 1:31 PM by David Badash
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Our Nation’s Fine Heritage Of Protest Politics



LGBT Pride events celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which occurred in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City. In the Stonewall Riots, a group of queers, including a lot of transgender persons and street persons, fought back against an otherwise routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a queer bar [...]

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Civil Rights

Why “The New Civil Rights”?

May 25, 2009 12:14 PM by David Badash
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Stonewall, Mattachine, World War II: Where We Came From     Editor’s note: I am honored to announce a new addition to The New Civil Rights Movement. Author and editor Dr. William B. Turner, known for his work on “Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy”, among other books, and a regular contributor to the Daily Kos, [...]

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