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Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

June 30, 2009 - 07:02 pm
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Eichelberger Faces His Critics

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

(H/t to Think Progress)

Here's the entire clip:

Think Progress has a transcript:SPEAKER: So are you going to apologize to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Pennsylvania — and all the people in Pennsylvania for those comments about allowing to exist and calling them dysfunctional.

EICHELBERGER: No, I think you know my answer to that. Thank you very much. And Sue Kerr gets a shout out at Think Progress:Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, an LGBT blog in Pennsylvania, writes, “It is one thing to disapprove of my identity or believe it is a choice, but quite another thing to suggest that I am permitted to exist in spite of my identity. Should I be grateful to Senator Eichelberger for not condoning someone taking away my existence?”Congratulations to Sue!

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May 6, 2009 - 06:39 am
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Around the Burgosphere

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)
  • The Reformation is making a comeback with the re-launch of City Councilman Bill Peduto's Reform Pittsburgh Now site (he even nails his theses to the virtual door).
  • Progress Pittsburgh notes a need for election workers in Pittsburgh's 7th and 8th Wards for the May 19th primary.
  • Progress Pittsburgh (again) and The Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society report on yard sign thuggery against Natalia Rudiak and Susan Banahasky (I also hear that Georgia Blotzer supporters are facing intimidation when putting up her signs in their own yards and it sure as hell is not coming from the Rob Frank camp).
  • Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents gives a queer perspective on the City Council District 6 race.

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