NAACP Centennial Convention Seen as Possible Turning Point in LGBT Support
July 22, 2009
The Detroit NewsJuly 22, 2009
At the recent centennial celebration of the NAACP's founding and courageous achievements, President Barack Obama challenged the nation's oldest civil rights group to throw itself in the coming 100 years into eradicating the "prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination" that still mar America. "The pain of discrimination is still felt in America...by our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked, still denied their rights." [Link]