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Sunday, May 11
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Source: Southern Voice , Associated Press via WTVM Montgomery, Ala. -- LGBT advocates expressed both surprise and delight when the Alabama House on Tuesday passed a bill that would expand the state's existing hate crimes law to cover crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation. "It is a very happy day to be gay in Alabama," Danny Upton, executive director of Equality Alabama. "I'm just almost speechless," he told Atlanta's Southern Voice . "This is something that people told us could never happen." But, if the House vote was unexpected...
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