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Title: Where Are Our Lunch Counters?
Post by: Butterfly on November 23, 2010, 05:30:40 PM
Post by: Butterfly on November 23, 2010, 05:30:40 PM
Where Are Our Lunch Counters?
Pam's House Blend
by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue Nov 23, 2010 at 08:00:00 AM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18051/where-are-our-lunch-counters (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18051/where-are-our-lunch-counters)
Where does the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community have equivalents to lunch counters? Where are we, as a people belonging to a community, exposed to an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality?
With regards to US Code Title 10, Subtitle G, Section 654: Policy Concerning Homosexuality in the Armed Forces {the federal Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) code}, the LGBT equivalents lunch counters are military recruiting offices. Just as lunch counters were visible locations that symbolized segregation and discrimination for African-American community members, so too are military recruiting offices visible locations that symbolize discrimination.
Pam's House Blend
by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue Nov 23, 2010 at 08:00:00 AM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18051/where-are-our-lunch-counters (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18051/where-are-our-lunch-counters)
Where does the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community have equivalents to lunch counters? Where are we, as a people belonging to a community, exposed to an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality?
With regards to US Code Title 10, Subtitle G, Section 654: Policy Concerning Homosexuality in the Armed Forces {the federal Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) code}, the LGBT equivalents lunch counters are military recruiting offices. Just as lunch counters were visible locations that symbolized segregation and discrimination for African-American community members, so too are military recruiting offices visible locations that symbolize discrimination.