Video of Prop 8 LGBT protest in Pinellas: “Am I not a citizen?” | The Political Whore
Video of Prop 8 LGBT protest in Pinellas: “Am I not a citizen?” | The Political Whore
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Not everyone at the protest was gay; Jack Crepeau, a volunteer with Equality Florida and Stonewall and a sociology professor, had just returned from his wife’s ultrasound; they’re having their first child. Crepeau’s sign: “Only divorce hurts marriage.” And Fountain’s sign — “Am I not a citizen?” — intentionally referenced the slogan of African-American protestors during the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike in 1968: “I am a man.”
