Dumped Gay Leader Cheryl Jacques Surfaces

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/010604jacques.htm

For the first time in the five weeks since she was ousted from the head of the nation's largest gay rights group Cheryl Jacques is speaking out publicly about the future of the LGBT civil rights movement.

Jacques is urging gay leaders not to pull back and put gay marriage on "the back burner".

"In determining our path going forward, we should look to the past and learn from the leaders of the civil rights battles that have come before us," Jacques says in her newly opened website.

[Maat]

1. Hope she establishes her own human rights organization.

That's the one I'll be donating to (and I'm a hetero-old-married-prude-mom), but I CARE! And I want to support human rights any time I can. Count on my support, Cheryl! Stand by your principle!

[Quetzal]

2. You and I must be thinking on the same wavelength

That is exactly what I was hoping she would do as well.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. You rock!

Cool user name too! I wish some gay people..like some democrats...would grow a backbone and stand up for what is right! IF you, as an ally, can do the right thing, why can't my brethren do the same?! I appreciate your help in the 'cause!'

[Brian_Expat]

4. You haven't heard the last of Ms. Jacques

And she'll still be around long after Hilary Rosen and the Republican lobbyist co-chairs of HRC are part of history.

[SnowBack]

5. Finally! A leader who gets it....

If she sets up an organization, it'll get my $$$$....