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TexasTowelie

(112,220 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 06:59 PM Jun 2015

Houston Gay Pride Rejects Anti-LGBT Activist’s Application To Appear In Parade



Dave Wilson (above), a well-known anti-LGBT activist in Houston, was granted preliminary approval to appear in the city’s gay Pride parade taking place later this month.

However, Pride Houston Inc. has now rejected Wilson’s application after his entry was brought to the group’s attention.

Wilson, of Houstonians For Family Values, led efforts to pass a charter amendment prohibiting domestic partner benefits in Houston in 2001. He also made headlines in 2013 when he deceived voters into thinking he was black to get elected to the Houston Community College board.

Wilson recently led a petition drive to enshrine a transgender bathroom ban in the city charter, which was ultimately rejected.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/06/houston-gay-pride-rejects-anti-lgbt-activists-application-appear-parade/

[font color=330099]Cry me a river. Too bad, so sad.[/font]

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
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Houston Gay Pride Rejects Anti-LGBT Activist’s Application To Appear In Parade (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2015 OP
What the hell does some homophobe want to rain on everyone's parade for anyway? nightscanner59 Jun 2015 #1
Bullying. Betty Karlson Jun 2015 #2

nightscanner59

(802 posts)
1. What the hell does some homophobe want to rain on everyone's parade for anyway?
Sat Jun 20, 2015, 07:08 PM
Jun 2015

Tell the old buzzard he can participate behind the barricades with those nasty Westboro idiots.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
2. Bullying.
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 02:24 AM
Jun 2015

That's what it is: a grown man acting like a bully, because no responsible adult has disabused him of those stupid notions when he was a kid.

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