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Wed Sep 9, 2015, 12:14 PM Sep 2015

Bernie smacking down antigay slurs 20 years ago

This just went out to entire queerty email list--great exposure!

In 1995, one year after the Clinton administration enacted Don't Ask, Don't Tell to address and reenforce the ban on openly gay military servicemen and women, then-representative Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivered the following smack-down to then-representative Randall "Duke" Cunningham of California. It's worth a re-watch...
[link:http://www.queerty.com/bernie-sanders-smacking-down-antigay-slurs-in-congress-20-years-ago-is-worth-revisiting-20150909?utm_source=Queerty+Subscribers&utm_campaign=02cf5df413-20150909_Queerty_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_221c27272a-02cf5df413-428011861|

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Bernie smacking down antigay slurs 20 years ago (Original Post) Disabled15 Sep 2015 OP
Oops Disabled15 Sep 2015 #1
Thanks for sharing this here! smokey nj Sep 2015 #2
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