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Beyoncé Ignored the LGBT Community in Houston
Huffington Post ^ | Posted: 11/04/2015 4:12 pm EST | Carlos Maza

Posted on 11/05/2015 12:59:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise

It kills me to write this post. I have spent more time worshiping Beyoncé than just about any other pop star. I've spent countless hours dancing to "Grown Woman" alone in my apartment. I've been the only guy in a dance class aimed at teaching the "Single Ladies" dance, and I loved every second of it. Beyoncé has been queen in my life since the first time I watched the "Crazy In Love" video.

But.

Over the past few months, Beyoncé has repeatedly refused the opportunity to speak out against the legalization of discrimination against LGBT people in her hometown...

Last night Houstonians voted to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), a city ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of 15 different characteristics, including race, sex, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. HERO’s repeal is likely the biggest setback for LGBT civil rights since the 2008 passage of Prop 8 in California.

In August, I found out that HERO would be going up for a public repeal vote, and my stomach turned. Laws like HERO tend to lose, badly, when they’re put up for a public vote. I thought about my friends in Houston -- activists I had worked with on HERO for months, people who had dedicated their work, their free time, and their emotional energy to ending discrimination in their hometown. I imagined watching their hard work erased at the ballot box. I imagined having to sit through another expensive, brutal campaign about whether it should be legal to discriminate against LGBT people. I wanted to help.

So I did what any god-fearing gay man does in his time of need. I turned to Beyoncé....

- LGBT Program Director, Media Matters

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


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To: a fool in paradise

Homos turned a Boston area Macy’s mens room into a gay brothel. They advertised it as a “safe” meeting place for gay men. They also employed aggressive homo pedos in the teen boy’s clothing section of their store. One, not knowing mom was in ear shot, hit on my son. I scared the you know what out of him. He ran for his sick little life.


41 posted on 11/05/2015 12:15:23 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: rfreedom4u

We will be reading about this insane man doing a Jeffrey Dahlmer on young men soon.


42 posted on 11/05/2015 12:16:52 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: a fool in paradise

Beyonce is a lesbian. Her husband is gay. Beyonce had a fake pregnancy. You can google her name and folding stomach to see a video of her sitting and her pregnant tummy folding in two.


43 posted on 11/05/2015 12:58:32 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: a fool in paradise
But...but....she is so beautiful and glamorous.
44 posted on 11/05/2015 1:00:22 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Voting is now the lesser of all evils.)
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But...but....she is so beautiful and glamorous.


45 posted on 11/05/2015 3:56:04 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"...I have spent more time worshiping Beyonce..."

I stopped reading there.

46 posted on 11/06/2015 9:26:13 AM PST by simpson96
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To: a fool in paradise

Whoa. This cretin actually admits the public doesn’t want these laws and they vote against them.


47 posted on 06/13/2016 9:29:59 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Mr. Obama is trying to link political opposition to the such bathroom bills to the terrorist act in Florida. “Hate” must end, so says the muslim President who freed terrorists from Gitmo, does not permit snooping of mosques, and who’s FBI has dropped investigation of numerous domestic terrorists (including the Orlando one) who went on to kill Americans.


48 posted on 06/13/2016 6:41:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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