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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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Wednesday, October 10
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The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has reported that Tuesday night Howard J. Bayless III became the first openly gay man elected in the state of Alabama. Bayless, an attendee of the Victory Fund's Candidate and Campaign Training Program, as well as...
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