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SEP
28
2009
Would Louisville Welcome These Memphis Billboards?
Mon @ 8:01 pm
News Channel: lgbt
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With National Coming Out Day coming up on October 11th, the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center wanted to make a big statement-- or rather five big statements in the form of billboards. Now up in five busy Memphis, Tennessee intersections, these billboards recognize the local gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender community.

“These people are your neighbors, they're the people that sit next to you in church, they're the people that you work with, they're in your families” says MGLCC Executive Director Will Batts. “We're productive members of society.”


I believe Louisville is ripe for an lgbt affirming billboard campaign like this. What do you think?



Unfortunately, the billboard with the gay Marine has already been destroyed by vandals.

"This particular billboard portrayed a good friend who was discharged from the Marines under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy," said Jonathan Cole, chair of the Shelby County Tennessee Equality Project. "This act of vandalism hurts in so many ways."






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