A GLBT Center of Their Own

A combination of public and private funds, Chicago's new GLBT community center enjoys broad political support and is the first of its kind in the country

By Laura S. Washington

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 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    “While the Center is on the city

    United States Posted by wolf on Jun 21, 2007 at 11:53 AM

    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

    United States Posted by mustaphahali on Jul 24, 2007 at 3:22 PM
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