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Chip Arndt is an Amerin gay activist who won The Amazg Race 4 wh former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl 2003. He was an vtment banker

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HAVE YOU ADOPTED A GAY AMERIN HERO YET?

Gay Amerin Hero Foundatn (GAHF) is an anizatn that honors people killed anti-LGBTQ hate crim * gay american heroes foundation *

It’s part of the Gay Amerin Hero Foundatn, which is creatg the Rabow Memorial, a “travelg memorial to celebrate the liv of LGBT persons who have been murred bee of their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty.

A group of LGBT activists (cludg Stt Hall, Frank Kameny, US Reprentative Barney Frank and Amazg Race wner Chip Arndt) are workg towards the creatn of a memorial to victims of anti-gay hate crim.

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I've wrten a few posts about the natnal travelg memorial and exhibn, Gay Amerin Hero, that is the procs of g together. I'm pleased to prent a vio featurg the project's founr Stt Hall, which is gog to be shown at a benef for the foundatn happeng this Saturday at Therapy NYC om 5:30 to 8. Proceeds of the event will be ed to build the travelg, tnal memorial exhibn. This is the first time the above vio has been shown. Hall and the project's founrs expla the philosophy behd the project's name: "The Gay Amerin Hero Foundatn believ that all people who live hontly about their sexual orientatn or genr inty are heroic, as tak great strength and urage to face the daily stggl for personal eedom the face of enormo opposn; to ultimately lose their life for said eedom mak them hero." Elke Kennedy, mother of Sean William Kennedy (picture, lower right — I've posted que a few tim about his ath and her dignified and brave rponse to ) is the ma speaker at the New York event. Also speakg will be Alan Cummg, Romae Patterson (iend of Matthew Shepard), Chip Arndt, and Stt Hall. Also attendg this weekend New York will be Survivor wners Ethan Zohn and Jenna Moras. Sce s formatn, many big nam have stepped up to lend their help to the project, cludg Cyndi Lper. Says the sger: "Gay Amerin Hero is an important and movg tribute to the liv lost to hate and vlence." Servg on the Honorary Board: actor Chad Allen (om Dr. Qun, Medice Woman), Sgt. Eric Alva, former profsnal baseball player Billy Bean, Uny Coaln of Miami Da Executive Directors Ron Brenky and Herb Sosa, actor Alan Cummg, Executive Director of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force Matt Foreman, US Rep. Barney Frank, Queer as Folk’s Robert Gant, Ana Gasteyer, Iman, Reichen Lehmkuhl, lumnist Billy Masters, activist/polician David Mixner, Christopher Rice, Daniella Sea, media director at GLAAD Moni Taher, and myself. Full tails on event AFTER THE JUMP... Gay Amerin Hero [official se] (warng: AUDIO) * gay american heroes foundation *

The effort, Gay Amerin Hero, aims to "honor and remember LGBT victims of hate crim" while also seekg to crease awarens about vlent crim agast LGBT people.

Includ will be the recently murred Michael Sandy pictured exhib is meant to travel and be displayed llege mp, gay pri events and other muni. By hearg stori of the Hero, straed claims that addg LGBT people to hate crime protectns will stifle the ee speech of anti-gay activists lose their power. , January 2012Gay Amerin Hero Foundatn (GAHF) is an anizatn that honors people killed anti-LGBTQ hate crim.

” GAHF also honors those who may not have been LGBTQ, but were perceived as such and were attacked for that webse,, acts as a virtual memorial and a source for the latt news about attacks on Gay people. In addn, the Foundatn has created a memorial--miature that is the mol for a larger portable memorial that will be displayed plac where hate crim agast Gay people are mted.

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Siar arguments were ed to downplay other attacks agast Gay people, such as the torture and murr of Matthew Shepard Wyomg attendg a dner for volunteers who worked for the Miami Wter Party (an annual Circu event held March), Hall asked atten if they had heard about the murr, and the overwhelmg majory did not know about .

ELKE KENNEDY, MOTHER OF HATE CRIME VICTIM TO SPEAK AT NYC BENEF FOR ‘GAY AMERIN HERO’ FOUNDATN

” Hall asked, and ntacted Gay activist in Frank Kameny to see if a memorial had been set up honor of victims of LGBTQ hate crim. There was no such memorial the USA, so Hall formed the GAHF, which was rporated late summer that same Bce Prley (, January 2012)The purpose of the memorial would be to publicly memorate the ath of a Gay person, both natnally and lolly where the murr occurred. Brandon Teena, transman murred on New Year’s Eve, 1993 Humboldt, Nebraska by two men who had raped him on December 24 (, January 2012)A sle mol of the Memorial was unveiled at Geie’s Alibi Gay bar Wilton Manors, Florida.

The mol was also displayed at a number of fundraisers and public events 2008 and 2009, cludg the premier of the movie Milk about the life and assassatn of Gay polician and activist Harvey Milk at the Castro Theatre San Francis. The fatal juri were om an attempt by his father to toughen Ronnie up bee his father feared ltle Ronnie might be Gay (, January 2012)From Victim to HeroThe exhib has not been whout ntroversy. Others have praised the memorial for humanizg the discsn about hate crim legislatn, creasg awarens of vlence agast LGBTQ people, and brgg the issu to the attentn of a wir dience outsi of the Gay muny.

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