Destroyed Billboard Featured Gay Marine
Late last week a Clear Channel billboard in Memphis, TN that featured gay Marine Tim Smith was vandalized. Tim served from 2001-2005 until he was discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The destroyed billboard showed Smith in uniform with the words, "I'm gay and I protected your freedom."
It was among five billboards that the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center had posted throughout the city in mid-September to recognize National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. The center will hold a rally this Sunday to protest the vandalism and plans to restore the billboard.
09-30-09 By Paul DeMiglio, Senior Communications Manager |
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