Word: gay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Levi said the gay community is outraged at the possibility of writing discrimination in the Massachusetts constitution...
...Other gay-rights advocates agree, saying the bill's ineffectiveness actually adds to its offensiveness...
...targets discrimination on an already vulnerable community," said Jennifer Levi, a staff attorney with the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), a legal advocacy group for gays...
...This bill doesn't say anything. It doesn't even exclude us from anything. If anything, it excludes us from something we don't have," said Sue Hyde, the New England coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, centered in Cambridge...
Opponents are also concerned that despite its lack of practical effect, the bill's repercussions could include instigating anti-gay sentiment...