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Contents:
- CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
CONSERVATIVE NEIGHBOR TOSS AD RAT ON PROPERTY OF GAY UPLE’S RTRANT AMID FD
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Conservative neighbors were ught on secury mera tossg a ad rat onto the property of a gay uple’s ral Virgia rtrant amid an latn of a years-long spat. The ad verm was found near the trash bs behd the rtrant, which fli a gay pri flag, last Augt.
Gay uple William Waybourn and Craig Spldg operate the Front Porch Market and Grill The Plas, Virgia. They first hoisted a pri flag on the rtrant pat 2016 the wake of shootg at an Orlando gay nightclub that killed 49 people.
Waybourn has been an LGBTQ rights activist for s, risg to promence as print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi proper re for AIDS patients. He served as managg director of now-natnal Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, and has owned newspapers for the gay muny New York, Washgton, Atlanta and Hoton.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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Mike Washer ni the cint, sayg he has gay iends and fay members. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.
(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.
He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
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