Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Saturday, June 25, 2005

The Hillsborough County Commission approved by a vote of 5 to 1, with one abstention, a hateful, disrespectful and discriminatory policy that orders the county government to "abstain from acknowledging, promoting or participating" in gay pride recognition or events." The measure was passed on June 15, after a Gay and Lesbian Pride Month display at the West Gate Regional Library in Tampa angered some busy body Neo-Puritans who had difficulty walking to another library stack, like normal people might do.

The commission also voted to require a supermajority vote of 5 to 2 to overturn the policy. It is clear that these five hillbillies are scared to let citizens read different points of view. If they did, they might realize that their right wing representatives were ignorant yahoos who degrade the county.

Here is my solution: Next time you visit Florida, skip Tampa and spend your hard earned tourist dollars in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Key West. These places not only respect diversity, they also have better beaches.

11 Comments:

One sure way to fight back against this nonsense is in the pocket book. We hold a lot of financial clout and power and should damn well start using it. These fundamentalist creeps are obsessed with the almighty dollar and power and as a minority, we can start hitting them where it hurts, they certainly don't mind doing the same to us with boycotting anything remotely gay. I actually am not going to spend any of my tourist dollars in any bible belt state that is pushing the degradation and humiliation of gay people, and that includes Alberta in my own country. Tim W.
posted by Anonymous, at 6/25/2005 7:49 PM

You're only really hurting the gays who work/live in Tampa when you call for a boycott.

It would be better to show strong support with numbers. Next year, have a HUGE influx of gays attending gay pride would really irk them.
posted by cowboy, at 6/26/2005 12:10 PM

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