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Topic: Lobbying efforts take off
for airport name change |
Lobbying efforts take off
for airport name change
San Francisco Chronicle, by Heather Knight
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/24/2013 1:01:27 PM
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| Like so many San Francisco firsts, the effort to make our airport the first in the world to be named after a gay person has become a national and international cause celebre. A new Change.org petition calling for San Francisco International Airport to be named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk has gathered about 20,000 signatures - many of them coming from outside California and even the United States. High-profile gay rights organizations including the Human Rights Campaign, the Courage Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force have also added their names to the effort.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross, 2/24/2013 1:05:41 PM (No. 9193676)
As a part of the proposal, men´s restrooms will be redesigned as gay bathhouses, and a $10 surcharge will be added to each airline ticket for AIDS research. Meanwhile the lobby decor will be a gigantic mosaic of a gay rights parade.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 2/24/2013 1:09:30 PM (No. 9193681)
If THIS doesn´t make SFO a target for Al-Qaeda I don´t know what will.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/24/2013 1:13:39 PM (No. 9193686)
This is such a fraud. Beyond the beyond....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 2/24/2013 1:15:05 PM (No. 9193687)
Sounds like only a small and vocal group of activists are pushing for the name change. And then there is this:
I think it´s a great idea, but I don´t want it to come out of the city´s budget
Typical liberal.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 2/24/2013 1:20:04 PM (No. 9193695)
If I remember Milk was not killed because he was gay.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono, 2/24/2013 1:20:30 PM (No. 9193697)
Why don´t they just name the city Santa Leche and get the charade over with. This incremental gay-ification of world identity and world history is demoralizing when it becomes clear that the non-gay world´s opinions no longer carry any political clout.
The list of San Franciscans making a much larger (and broader) contribution to history than Harvey Milk is too long to justify any proposal to simply pick the prominent gay guy for fear of politically-correct backlash.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 2/24/2013 1:29:59 PM (No. 9193718)
How about Ron Jeremy Airport - - or Long Dong Silver Airport?
I mean - - if we´re going to honor sexual perversity - - let´s pick someone who was really good at it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Emerson, 2/24/2013 1:39:28 PM (No. 9193732)
NO.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 2/24/2013 2:27:32 PM (No. 9193778)
Pelosi Transcontinental Airport.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kayjaymac, 2/24/2013 2:48:26 PM (No. 9193807)
Next thing you know, the passengers will be forced to board the plane through the back door.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
vesicant, 2/24/2013 2:50:22 PM (No. 9193810)
The new airport code will be LGBT.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
readitfirst, 2/24/2013 3:01:29 PM (No. 9193820)
As usual a zealous minority flaps it´s collective wrists and screams to get it´s way. Harvey milk was a probable criminal who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...hardly hero material.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 2/24/2013 3:46:11 PM (No. 9193867)
The Oakland & San Jose airports better start their expansions now.... Not many will feel safe flyng thru Homo Int´l.; The LGBTers think Chritians are unfair Wait until Sharia Law gets ahold of them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Theeo, 2/24/2013 3:53:15 PM (No. 9193871)
And the Bohica masses will once again grasp their ankles for the FaGnatics.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 2/24/2013 7:37:27 PM (No. 9194085)
All of these activist demands could be attempts to recruit new gays and Lesbians If they were not constantly insisting they are born not made.
If born is a factor then all the active push will not increase their percent of the population.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
realrep, 2/24/2013 7:52:29 PM (No. 9194099)
The TSA´s will do their best to make sure that every passenger has a thorough body search. Extra fee if they use leather handcuffs.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 2/24/2013 9:12:44 PM (No. 9194165)
Welcome to Queer Nation.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/25/2013 1:34:12 AM (No. 9194360)
Seems to me the name of the airport should be Gay & Naked Airport.
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