NAACP Reaching Out to LGBT Community
When Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), visited Manhattan’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center last week, he also made history. It was the first time in history that the organization’s sitting presidents visited an LGBT center.
It’s part of an outreach effort to promote the “One Nation Working Together” march in Washington D.C. on October 2. Last year, the NAACP advocated against Proposition 8 and, in July, rolled out an LGBT Equality Taskforce at its annual convention.
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