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The urt later <a href=" target="_blank">cleared the way for new maps</a> Louisiana, which uld also clu a send district that state where Black voters have a good chance of electg their ndidate of choice.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The urt’s actns land the heart of the Amerin South, where stat recent years have implemented <a href=" target="_blank">signifint chang</a> votg laws. Des ago, they also followed a foundatnal se the former pal of the Conferacy that praged today’s vote-dilutn battl — and transformed a majory-Black cy for good.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">How Whe fears of ‘Negro domatn’ kept D.C. disenanchised for s</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the 1960s, Richmond was plagued by a sufferg enomy, rottg astcture and wispread poverty, promptg the cy to beg a years-long mpaign to win s boundari. On Jan. 1, 1970, annexed nearly 23 square of borrg Chterfield County. Forty-seven thoand people beme Richmond rints overnight, 45,700 of them Whe.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image-group"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Many Richmond activists at the time claimed the redrawg of borrs had an sid motive, part of a large-sle effort to crimp the power of Ain Amerins at the polls and keep them out of office. Attorneys for the cy later acknowledged the annexatn may have been racially motivated. But they mataed that, even so, the effect wasn’t unnstutnal.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“What that did one fell swoop was to shift the mographic of the cy,” Thomas Coat, III, a longtime Richmond lawyer, said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Some ll votg rtrictns upheld by Supreme Court ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’ Here’s the ugly history behd that phrase.</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Years of subsequent lawsus, appeals, allegatns of secret Wh-only meetgs and electn junctns morphed to<b> </b>the Supreme Court se of<b> </b><a href=" target=_blank><i>Cy of Richmond v. Uned Stat</i></a><i>. </i>It beme one of the Votg Rights Act’s earlit tts of geography and equy.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the years before Print Lyndon B. Johnson signed the VRA, gettg voters of lor to the polls was dangero bs, pecially the South. Civil rights activists who fought to register Black voters faced <a href=" target=_blank>beatgs</a>, jail time and, Selma, Ala., <a href=" target=_blank>police tear gas</a>. The VRA outlawed racial discrimatn votg, outlg that stat uld not lim voters’ rights based on their race.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The redrawg of municipal borrs, cludg the annexatn of neighborg areas, isn’t herently racist nor sister; often, ’s how ci grow. Brooklyn and Queens, for stance, didn’t bee part of New York Cy until 1898, 245 years after the cy was chartered.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But civil rights historians say Richmond’s annexatn of Chterfield County was different, a moment steeped the particular brand of racism that was then characteristic of the former Conferate pal: pole, sugarated and rooted a fear of Black power. It was “racism wh a velvet glove,” Rutledge Dennis, a profsor of soclogy at Gee Mason Universy, said, who was teachg at Virgia Commonwealth Universy at the time of the se. Dennis and his lleague John Moer spent several years the 1970s nductg <a href=" target=_blank>a tailed study</a> on the annexatn.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Richmond had long served<b> </b>as a hub for the South’s slave tra, and by the mid-20th century, old money still ran the cy and much of Virgia. Wh wanted to keep that way.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“After all, Richmond was the Queen of the Conferacy,” Dennis said. “Richmond was special. And, for many Wh, that specialns did not clu havg Blacks atta polil power.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">A Black WWII veteran voted Geia 1946. He was lynched for .</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Throughout the 1960s, as attorney Cabell Venable later claimed,<b> </b>Whe Richmond officials held <a href=" target=_blank>secret meetgs</a> to strategize on creasg the cy’s Whe populatn. Philip J. Bagley Jr., the cy’s mayor om 1968 to 1970, had participated those meetgs, Venable said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The entire discsn om the very begng was ‘We need Whe people,’” Venable alleged. “To quote the mayor who head up the negotiatns, ‘As long as I am the mayor of the cy of Richmond, quote, the n------ won’t take over this town.’”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Bagley, who <a href=" target=_blank>died</a> 1996, nied makg such ments at the time. But Frerick Dietsch, a Chterfield County reprentative, told Dennis’s team that the mayor had ma siar ments a meetg, g the same slur. “We need 44,000 Whe bodi,” Dietsch relled Bagley sayg.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Curtis Holt Sr., a Black lol activist, quickly latched on to the annexatn dispute.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Holt had a history of fightg the cy. He had sued the <a href=" target="_blank">Richmond Revelopment and Hog Authory</a> to lay evictns om public hog. He had anized the tenants of his public hog plex. In 1970, he ma one of multiple failed bids for cy uncil, and he pegged his loss on the Chterfield annexatn, which he asserted had diluted the Black vote.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The activist began his mpaign to sue the cy for vlatg the Votg Rights Act 1971, but lol civil rights lawyers and branch of the NAACP “all turned him down,” Dennis said, or gave him the naround. “He was Curtis Holt. He was known to be an agator of sorts,” Dennis said. </p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class=""><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:0.5625;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark ml-gutter mr-gutter" data-qa="vio-ptn">Listen to Supreme Court Jtice Byron R. Whe qutn Richmond lawyers on the cy's motivatns for redrawg cy borrs. (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Holt thumbed the phone book, llg one law firm at a time and llectg rejectns. By the time he reached<b> </b>the G’s,<b> </b>multiple firms had suggted he ll Venable, a young Richmond lawyer eager to make a name for himself. Venable agreed to reprent him at no st. Coat,<b> </b>h out of the Army, worked wh Venable at the time and was stck by Holt’s termatn.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">The time Clarence Thomas said affirmative actn was ‘cril’ for society</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“He says, ‘I haven’t got a penny to my name, and you boys obvly don’t have any money eher, and this su is gog to be an expensive su to pursue,’” Coat, now 79, reunted.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Coat had e om a Whe, well-off Richmond fay, and an terview he pared mid-century Richmond to apartheid South Ai. By jog Holt’s se, Coat was facg down that racial hierarchy which he’d grown up. He rells nng<b> </b>to one of the senr attorneys reprentg the cy the hallway of Richmond’s feral urthoe.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image-group"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“He says, ‘You know you all n’t possibly w this se. It’s jt not possible,’” Coat said. “And I said, ‘Me and my lleagu, we are so wet behd the ears and so legally ignorant, we are too young and dumb to unrstand that we nnot w this se. That is what is gog to allow to actually prevail one day this se: the fact that we n’t hear you guys.’”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In Febary 1971, Holt filed the lawsu, but Venable uldn’t nvce the district urt judge that race was part of the annexatn equatn. Holt’s team lost but quickly appealed.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The accatn that the annexatn was racially motivated, and the shuffle between urtroom nials and appeals, shook Richmond polics. By orr of the <a href=" target=_blank>Department of Jtice</a>, Richmond ceased cy uncil electns between 1972 and 1976. Durg that time, <a href=" target=_blank>the cy’s first Black woman</a>, Willie Dell, was appoted to a uncil seat.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The annexatn se ma to the Supreme Court April 1975. By then, Coat remembers loggg close to 2,000 hours on .</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At the center of the Supreme Court’s arguments, asssg whether Richmond had vlated the Votg Rights Act, the attorneys and jtic dissected two key factors: whether the absorptn of Chterfield County had the purpose of discrimatg agast Black voters, and whether had that effect.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That June, spe the evince that the annexatn fundamentally shifted Richmond’s mographics, and spe posns atttg to cy lears’ racism,<b> </b>the urt led 5-3 favor of the cy. Jtice Lewis Powell, of Richmond, reced himself.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“We do not agree wh the District Court that the annexatn, as fely nceived, had the effect of nyg the right to vote,” Jtice Byron Whe said announcg the urt’s opn. “We are also sufficiently unsure that had such a purpose.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-vio" data-ttid="article-vio" class=""><div><figure class="mb-md mr-to-ns ml-to-ns hi-for-prt ml-neg-gutter mr-neg-gutter"><div class="w-100 aspect-ctom" style="background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-lor:rgb(245, 245, 245);background-image:url();background-size:nta;--aspect-height:0.5625;--aspect-width:1"></div><figptn><div class="mt-xs mr-to-ns ml-to-ns left font--subhead font-xxxs gray-dark ml-gutter mr-gutter" data-qa="vio-ptn">Listen to lawyer Armand Derfner argue to the Supreme Court that "Whe cizens have never been discrimated agast on acunt of race" the state of Virg (Vio: The Washgton Post)</div></figptn></figure></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The urt acknowledged the annexatn “enhance[d] the power of the Whe majory to exclu Negro,” but said that excln would be alleviated by implementg a ward system. That system, still effect Richmond, led to the 1977<b> </b>electn of s first Black-majory cy uncil — which then elected the <a href=" target=_blank>cy’s first Black mayor</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Voters this old Conferate pal elected Blacks to a majory of Cy Council seats Tuday, otg an entrenched power stcture of whe bs and fancial lears who had erned Richmond, one form or another, for nearly 30 years,” <a href=" target=_blank>The Washgton Post wrote</a> at the time.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Today, the <a href=" target=_blank>area Richmond annexed 1970 </a>still<b> </b>ntas some of the cy’s <a href=" target=_blank>wealthit</a> — and <a href=" target=_blank>Wht</a> — neighborhoods.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Across the South, as elsewhere, votg rights s rage on.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I lived unr the illn for a number of years that that was pretty much behd ,” Coat said. “But ’s not. 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Celebrate Pri Month wh the spiratnal LGBTQ quot. Fd msag about hope and love om celebri, activists and gay rights trailblazers. * gay quoted *

" — Tammy Baldw"The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them, 'A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be. " — David Carter, "Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn""Every sgle Amerin — gay, straight, lbian, bisexual, transgenr — every sgle Amerin serv to be treated equally the ey of the law and the ey of our society.

June 28 marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, when members of the LGBTQ muny fought back when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York's Greenwich Village, 1969. "—From the say "The Gay Athlete, " published Sports Illtrated, 2013"If a bullet should enter my bra, let that bullet stroy every closet door. Savenok/Strger/Getty Imag"In light of Jamey's ath, beme clear to me an stant that livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly.

Our society needs to regnize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivol civil equaly for every gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr cizen of this untry.

THE 83 BT GAY PRI QUOT

Enjoy our gay quot llectn by famo thors, actors and sgers. Bt gay quot selected by thoands of our ers! * gay quoted *

"—From In Search of Our Mothers' Garns: Womanist Prose, 1983"I'd like to see the gay revolutn get started, but there hasn't been any monstratn or anythg recently. If a transvte don't say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvte for them. "—From an terview Out of the Closets: Voic of Gay Liberatn, 1972"Our strategy is how we pe—how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom, daily cidg/riskg who is we n ll an ally, ll a iend (whatever that person's sk, sex, or sexualy).

"—From a CNN terview wh Anrson Cooper, 2013"Every gay and lbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growg up is a survivor.

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35 QUOT ABOUT GAY PRI, PRO LGBT, HOMOPHOBIA AND MARRIAGE

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“ Make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe God and I don’t believe he mak mistak, so I believe that beg gay is not a s and fact ’s how you’re ma. “ At some pot our lifetime, gay marriage won’t be an issue, and everyone who stood agast this civil right will look as outdated as Gee Wallace standg on the school steps keepg Jam Hood om enterg the Universy of Alabama bee he was black.

“ There are people who’ve said I’m beg brave for beg openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoptn… wh all due rpect, I humbly dissent.

60 PRI MONTH QUOT, GAY AND LGBT QUOT

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Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growg up to awome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Let's make a law that gay people n have birthdays, but straight people get more ke--you know, to send the right msage to kids. It tak some telligence and sight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendo amount of balls to live and live proudly.

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When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power.

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„In self, homosexualy is as limg as heterosexualy: the ial should be to be pable of lovg a woman or a man; eher, a human beg, whout feelg fear, rtrat, or obligatn. ” —AnonymoPri Month Quot for AlliFG Tra//Getty Imag“I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one nng out of the closet. ” — Alice Walker‍On Rights & Takg Actn“Every gay and lbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growg up is a survivor.

” — Bob Paris“The more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and genr equy and racial equaly, the more that all tersects.

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” — Coretta Stt Kg“I still hear people say that I should not be talkg about the rights of lbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial jtice. ’” — Coretta Stt KgYou might also like: The Bt Coretta Stt Kg Quot‍From Policians“All of who are openly gay are livg and wrg the history of our movement. ” 17 Bob ParisWoman's Day/Getty Imag"Every gay and lbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growg up is a survivor.

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18 Megan RapoeDanielle CarsonThe more I’ve been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and genr equy and racial equaly, the more that all tersects. –Harvey Milk, an Amerin polician and the first openly gay elected official the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors.

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3) “It tak some telligence and sight to figure out you’re gay and then a tremendo amount of balls to live and live proudly. –Anthony Venn Brown, a former Atralian evangelist the Assembli of God and an thor whose book, A Life of Unlearng, scrib his experience Atralia’s first ex-gay program.

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Below you will fd our llectn of spiratnal, wise, and humoro gay quot, gay pri quot, and gay rights quot, llected over the years om a variety of sourc. Homosexuals are every relign, ste, and muny and are like normal people, they also have the same needs as a normal male or female but our society, they are still neglected, mocked, and spised. At the same time, many people do not know Pri Month's orig, which honors the 1969 Stonewall rts--a monstratn which blazed the trail for activists across the 1970, the first Gay Pri march took place New York, Los Angel and San Francis.

"--Man Freeman"I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a reer we love and livg our liv wh thenticy and tegry"--Out & Equal Executive Director Selisse Berry"It tak some telligence and sight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendo amount of balls to live and live proudly.

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Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

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Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Silver challenged the book on the grounds that clud “graphic acunts” of vlence and rape, executg gay people and women, discsn of genr and sexualy issu and antisemic passag, among other issu. "However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter.

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We’ll share some well-known Gay Quot for Love QuotWords n be lovely, poetic, or wty while exprsg the love between two people, regardls of whether they are of the same sex or not.

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”LADY GAGA“All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mockg or cursg their own child. ”ANONYMOUS“Not allowg gay marriage isn’t gonna stop people om beg gay…wh that said, why not let people who are gay be happier their liv?

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It was OK back then for most people to discrimate agast Jews and Ain-Amerins, and now unfortunately, Republins believe that ’s OK to erase gay people and their liv and their livelihoods and their qualy of life. This procs is tend for our muni to advote for projects that have the hight impact, and this move by Republins is blatant homophobia signed to attack some of our most vulnerable senrs.

"In light of Jamey's ath, beme clear to me an stant that livg a gay life whout publicly acknowledgg is simply not enough to make any signifint ntributn to the immense work that li ahead on the road to plete equaly. In fact, ’s downright mon for someone who has never red about the Bible to pull out the moment they need to expla why they’re homophobic. June is LGBT Pri Month, so celebrate and memorate the tremendo stris that LGBTQIA+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng), tersex, asexual, and everyone else) people have ma history wh our llectn of the very bt Pri Month is held every June to memorate the Stonewall Rts of 1969, and while celebrat the progrs the LGBTQIA+ muny has ma, also serv to memorate the muny's tragic loss and far too many hate Month serv as a remr that everyone should be equal no matter their sexualy or genr.

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' ---"Dear Abby" rponds to a rear who plaed that a gay uple was movg across the street and wanted to know what he uld do to improve the qualy of the neighborhood. “The ncept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the ia that really sps their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifyg of all human notns, one n love another of the same genr, that is what the homophobe really nnot stand. On the other hand, sce most heterosexual men are homophobic and sexist, most straight guys figure gay men will treat them the way they themselv treat women- that is, like sex objects.

“The roots of sexism and homophobia are found the same enomic and polil stutns that serve as the foundatn of racism this untry and, more often than not, the same extremist circl that flict vlence on people of lor are rponsible for the eptns of vlence spired by sexist and homophobic bias. “Social nservativ seem to see a bigger threat to marriage om mted gay upl who want on than om straight on who opt out of . Compared to the Amerin public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, bee of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, ls ightened of them.

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