Join the Impact MA, the Anti-Violence Project of Massachusetts, and Truth Wins Out are teaming up to protest the July 18th Boston appearance of gospel singer and notorious homophobe, Donnie McClurkin. McClurkin is perhaps America’s best known and outspoken ex-gay crusader. His scheduled appearance at an Obama Presidential Campaign event in 2008 ignited a firestorm of criticism from the LGBT community. He will be appearing, at public expense, at “Gospelfest” on City Hall Plaza.
Activists will protest McClurkin’s signature defamations of the LGBT community. He has attributed homosexuality to childhood sexual abuse, claiming that “God did not call young people to such perversion.” He has sought to stigmatize gay male youth as “broken and feminine.” He has compared homosexuality to diabetes, and claims that same-sex desire wanes with abstinence. He lashed out at gospel singer Tonex when he came out as gay, and he has called gays and lesbians “vampires.”
Protest organizer Don Gorton indicated that protestors will gather at City Hall Plaza at 5 PM on Sunday, July 18, 2010 and carry signs challenging McClurkin’s defamations of the LGBT community. “We will not be disruptive, but we will be emphatic that the lies and hatred about LGBT people McClurkin peddles are not welcome in the Cradle of Liberty. He wants to impart his homosexual self-loathing to vulnerable teenagers. We will counteract his intolerance by affirming the worth, dignity and equality of all, including lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgenders.”
For more information, contact info@jointheimpactma.com or check out the press release at http://www.truthwinsout.org/pr…
Maybe when Bram Stoker was writing.
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p>Today, vampires are annoyingly heterosexual. As well as werewolves. And human girls.
… clarify “at public expense”?