John Aravosis, the outspoken civil rights journalist and founder of AMERICAblog, on our cover seventeen years ago.
His 2004 interview with Sean Bugg centered around the gay marriage debate and an attempt to hold then Vice-President Dick Cheney‘s openly lesbian daughter, Mary, accountable for her silence on the vitally important social issue.“I thought it was a great idea to get the community to write public letters to Mary and post them on the web,” he said discussing his controversial and effective website, DearMary.com, adding, “anybody who underestimates how hateful Washington politicians can be to gay people is a fool.”In the ensuing years, tremendous progress has been made, though many of our battles haven’t changed all that much:.
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