The bitterest pill of all though comes from African Americans who voted overwhelmingly for these bans. One op-ed written by a self-described black lesbian contended it was, after all, just a white gay male issue and not a civil rights issue at all. She argued that gay white males didn’t reach out to her community to show why they should vote no on 8 (our proposition here in California).
Heard an
interview on TOTN today with someone matching this description. Another point she raised was that AA's did not at all appreciate the
WeHo Halloween effigy that so strongly invoked lynching imagery.
