Bill Clinton to receive advocacy award from GLAAD

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/03/us-billclinton-idUSBRE93217C20130403

Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will be honored with an award for his advocacy for gay marriage, gay and lesbian lobbying group GLAAD said on Wednesday.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which promotes understanding and acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, said Clinton will be recognized for backing gay marriage and for campaigning against laws that ban marriage and civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.


Clinton will receive the first Advocate for Change Award at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on April 20. He announced his support of gay marriage in 2011, a decade after he left office.

Last month Clinton, 66, urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which he signed into law in 1996, saying it was unconstitutional.


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1. Are you sure this isn't an Onion article?

Bill Clinton, the president who signed DADT and DOMA? Instead of vetoing and forcing Congress to override? That Bill Clinton?

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2. LOL

Just lol.

That's the gay establishment for you.

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3. He is only receiving the award so GLAAD can sell tickets to the event.

I appreciate his change of heart; but he does not deserve this recognition.