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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

History Repeating

We’ve come a long way in the past forty years — I should know; I’m old enough to remember. But then again, we haven’t.

My colleague Dan Savage, probably best known for his “Savage Love” newspaper column where he gives sexual and marital advice to straight people (and who better than a gay man for the job) has picked up on this story from Fort Worth, Texas.

Most residents of Fort Worth have never even seen the inside of a gay bar. Fort Worth’s police chief Jeff Halstead is counting on that fact—counting on the average person’s ignorance about gay bars and certain stereotypes about gay men—to get a half a dozen Forth Worth police officers off …

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