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Gore Hugs Lesbian Teen

Kunst Critiques Bush, Jr.

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Gore Hugs Lesbian Teen

gore2000.jpg - 8.71 K Los Angeles, California—Vice-president Al Gore, campaigning here at Fairfax High School, walked across a gymnasium floor to embrace a distraught seventeen-year-old lesbian senior, Jessie Funes.

Ms. Funes had broken into tears as she described ill treatment received at the hands of her classmates. As the candidate hugged the teenager, hundreds of students broke into a sustained applause.

The youthful lesbian's unhappiness had also stemmed from conservative California politicians' rejection of protections for gay and lesbian public school students.

Gore responded: ``How can anyone not be moved by such a sincere opening of her heart?… I believe that in the history of our nation we have grown in our understanding to what it is to be human,'' he said, referring to the feminist and civil rights movements. ``Now we have to expand the human circle of dignity to include lesbians and gays.''

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Bob Kunst Critiques
GOP Candidate Bush, Jr.

gwbush.jpg - 7.62 K Washington, D.C.--Texas Governor George W. Bush, Jr., who is scheduled to appear here June 22 at a Republican presidential fundraiser, will be properly heckled at 5pm, promises Miami gay activist Bob Kunst, "and Tinky Winky will help" lead the charge.

"While the Repugniks and the Christian Reich gather at $1000 per person for George W. Bush, Jr. at the Washington Hilton Hotel, we who represent the Oral Majority will be protesting outside," said the indefatigable activist.

Kunst, whose popular "Impeach the GOP" campaign got its start during impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, says that Bush, Jr. not only "looks quite a bit like televangelist Pat Robertson" but that he's a Neanderthal who thinks like Robertson too. Kunst contrasted Bush, Jr. to Gore, saying that the Republican hopeful had recently failed to support anti-gay hate crime legislation in Texas.

Oral Majority supporters will carry signs that say:

"Read Our Lips—No More Bushit—Impeach the GOP!",
"Bush is Less than Straight with America" and
"Bush is Quayle without Experience!" .

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