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Title: Staffs snub 'Soup' event
Post by: LostInTime on February 20, 2007, 08:38:57 AM
Post by: LostInTime on February 20, 2007, 08:38:57 AM
Link (http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2007/02/20/70837)
Organizers of the 15th annual Alphabet Soup Conference - named for the ever-changing array of acronyms assigned to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied groups - expected a snub from the state's socially conservative senior Sen. Norm Coleman, a Republican, said co-director Mike Grewe.
However, some queer supporters of Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a self-declared ally, expressed disappointment at her office's refusal to extend the typically generic, mostly symbolic salutation to visitors from across the nation.
Organizers of the 15th annual Alphabet Soup Conference - named for the ever-changing array of acronyms assigned to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied groups - expected a snub from the state's socially conservative senior Sen. Norm Coleman, a Republican, said co-director Mike Grewe.
However, some queer supporters of Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a self-declared ally, expressed disappointment at her office's refusal to extend the typically generic, mostly symbolic salutation to visitors from across the nation.