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Moving Beyond Race on the Gay Rights Debate
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The American Prospect
12/9/2009
"In the aftermath of California's Proposition 8, a flawed CNN poll lead to the widespread conclusion among media elites and activists on both sides of the fight for LGBT rights that the black community is adamantly and uniformly homophobic.
"...The emergence of openly gay black political figures may help shift perceptions of LGBT rights issues in the black community.
"...In Georgia, Simone Bell, a former LGBT-rights activist who worked for Lambda Legal, was elected to the state Assembly. 'Picking out black folks as particularly more homophobic than everyone is definitely a strategy of divide and conquer,' Bell says."
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