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LEGISLATION
Citizens lobby elected leaders
EqualityNC holds successful
Day of Action
by Matt Comer . Q-Notes staff
RALEIGH — Statewide LGBT advocacy
group EqualityNC says this year’s Day of
Action on March 24 in Raleigji attracted a
record number of participants. More than 200
LGBT and straight ally North Carolinians
Boseman told Q-Notes that she believes
she’ll have the votes to pass the bill with the
enumerated categories protecting LGBT stu
dents and others, which were stripped out of
the bill passed by the Senate last session. She
expects the bill will come up for consideration
after the Senate has handed over the state
budget to the House.
The couple hundred Day of Action partici
pants met with elected officials through the
morning. Q-Notes was able to sit in
on a couple of those meetings.
In a meeting with constituents,
House Republican Leader, Rep. Paul
Stam (R-Wake) said he was
opposed to including enumerated
categories protecting LGBT stu
dents in the anti-bullying bill. He
said the bill should simply say all
bullying is prohibited.
gathered at the Legislative Building to
lobby elected officials on several issues
less than a month after thousands of
anti-gay activists from hundreds of
churches across the state gathered at
the site for a rally to “defend traditional
marriage.”
The statewide lobbying and educa
tion group organized the Day of Action
to push support for the anti-bullying
bill, a comprehensive sex education
bill, employment non-discrimination,
repeal of the state’s unconstitutional
Crimes Against Nature statute and a
hate crimes bill. The group’s members
and supporters also sought to per
suade officials to stand against an anti-
LGBT, anti-family marriage amendment cur
rently assigned to committees inside the
state’s Senate and House.
Top among the group’s priorities this ses
sion is the anti-bullying bill, the School
Violence Prevention Act. The legislation is
being sponsored by Sen. Julia Boseman (D-
New Hanover) in the Senate and Rep. Rick
Glazier in the House. Boseman is North
Carolina’s only openly gay or lesbian elected
official in the General Assembly.
Winston-Salem resident and 2008 N.C. House
candidate Wade Boyles (left) with his partner
Scott Waybright attended the Day of Action and
met with former electoral opponent Rep. Dale
Folwell (R-Forsyth).
Stam also said he favored the anti-gay con
stitutional marriage amendment because
same-sex relationships “threaten the well
being of children” and that those relationships
are “not a good environment in which to raise
children.”
Other media outlets and bloggers,
including Durham’s Pam Spaulding
(PamsHouseBlend.com) also participated
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