Words Mean Something – And So Do Letters
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/08/words-mean-something-and-so-do-letters.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/08/words-mean-something-and-so-do-letters.html)
Monica Roberts
8/28/09
ed Kennedy's leadership in defense of the civil rights and aspirations of LGBT Americans has been remarkable, and his death leaves us without our fiercest champion in the United States Senate. The value of one strong advocate in the Senate — someone who will use every parliamentary, personal and political lever to preserve, protect and defend an issue — cannot be overstated, and Senator Kennedy was the LGBT community's lion-hearted advocate.
Whether working with Republican Senator Lowell Weicker to secure the first funding to care for people with AIDS, or standing up to the incessant, vile attacks on gay Americans and people with HIV/AIDS from Jesse Helms, or ensuring that all people with HIV are covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Ted Kennedy was the "go-to" Senator for LGBT Americans for over 20 years.
It could be decades before someone similar to kennedy turns up in the senate again