Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Millions More. or Fewer. Or something.

At the Millions More Movement rally two weekends ago in DC, organizers decided at the last minute (or at least, announced at the last minute) that they were cancelling the planned speech by Keith Boykin, president of the National Black Justice Coalition and the one openly gay speaker on the day's roster. The NBJC had it's planned pre-rally and then marched to the site of the MMM rally in protest.

You'd have missed the whole story reading the Times article.

Here are the stories in Metro Weekly and the Post.

The Post article goes so far as to include: "Longtime Washington gay activist Phillip Pannell said he thought the offer of a speaking spot to a national gay representative was a ruse by march organizers to silence critics in the days leading up to the event."

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