It’s “not your average GLBT Center” declared the April 24 edition of The Advocate, the national GLBT newsmagazine. Indeed. The Center on Halsted, billed as the nation’s most comprehensive GLBT community center, was unveiled last month in a flurry of local and national press. More than a decade of perspicacious planning and frenetic fundraising culminated in a 175,000-square-foot complex on North… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pages“While the Center is on the city’s north side, where most “out” GLBTs live, its mission is to serve a wider constituency. “
They why have a “special” GLBT center? A center that serves *everyone* would be, well, in everyone’s interest.
“Unlike its peers around the nation, the non-profit community center will offer a dizzying array of programs and amenities: youth and mental health counseling, violence intervention, an HIV/AIDS hotline, culinary training, mentoring, legal assistance, a cyber center, a 175-seat theater and a basketball court.”
Yeah, straights definitely don’t need these services and entertainment. . .
At least it is only partially funded by taxpayers. Perhaps it can eventually be entirely funded by its users?
Posted by wolf on Jun 21, 2007 at 6:53 PM If anyone hears of Oprah’s guests for her Obama fundraiser post the names on any one of the Imus websites, and keep posting them as they come up. Oprah has made a fortune pandering to the rappers, actors, writers, producers moguls, CEOs and comics who use “Ho”, the “N” word, pimp, pimp slap, violence, murder, bitches, etc. in their movies, albums, comedy tours, and any other media, including tagging. Going through a recent list of guests and “Oprah friends” from her shows we estimate that there may be as many as 233,000 references (so far) to these words her guests and “Oprah friends” have uttered publicly (In their global distribution of movies, videos, video games, albums, concerts, club appearances, and tours, MTV, TV, BET, Radio, magazine articles, books, poems, speeches, You Tube, My Space). Imus made an innocent mistake based on the Americanization of these words by the late (murdered) Pac and B.I.G, two paragons of chivalry. Two dead patsies, used by the white man to make him richer and stronger, to give him the cash to buy another Gulf Stream. Oprah blamed Imus for this language, but she, more than Imus, fostered this through her pandering of the perpetrators of rap filth and through her silence. Oprah is beholden to Murdoch and his fellow media titan, John C. Malone, CATO Institute Board members and owners of these pipelines of death and degradation, along with that Jug eared old fool from Texas and his AT&T death ray from space (Dish Network) that distribute this pain and hatred, this hopelessness to the poor ghettoized black kids trapped in the dangerous squalor of our inner cities this summer. These white men distribute this depiction of Black America to the honky offspring of the “New Middle Class”. These privileged white kids drink up this rap and its race hatred in their white suburbs with their manicured lawns and in their trendy gentrified whites only urban neighborhoods. The exploitative media Ofay include Geffin, Clive Davis, Jobs, Sumner Redstone, Mike Eisner, Jeff Immelt, and that silly bastard from Virgin records (whatever his name is) all the way down to Puff Daddy Cooms and Snoop Doggy Dog, a name only his mama can adore. It includes Russell Simmons, the Elmer Fudd ring master of exploiting the horror of urban life and corporate sponsored female degradation. They all made billions off the suffering of kids from our American cities. Once we get the stats compiled, fact checked and verified we are getting donations and taking full page ads in the New York Times, The WSJ and Variety asking Oprah and Obama to explain the presence of these people that have benefited from the murder, poverty and drug holocost perpetrated on our city kids. When they fly in to “Oprahstock” their numberless utterances of rap coda will be there, in print, to greet them. The ads will run on the day of “Oprahstock”. “Why did you invite this long list of perpetrators of rap language, Ms. Winfrey?” Is money that important? Oprah won’t sway the Obama vote. Blacks and women are voting for Clinton. They know, and I know, its all about the BenjaOprahs. Just post the names of potential attendees. Please.
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