<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bb4374e4-4dd0-43d1-a8c9-76fff2763ca6/C85008AF-1D8E-494A-A0F0-43F61119F00A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html" href="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/img/9881E81A-FF87-459E-9CEA-91F9304278C7" alt="A group gathered to protest at the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth, Sunday, June 28, 2009. They were demonstrating against the treatment by the police at the club Saturday." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html">In any other business environment, sexual harassment is cause for a trip to the human relations department.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html">Last weekend, it cost Chad Gibson a trip to the emergency room with an eventual stop in the intensive care unit. "Gay panic" is no excuse for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents' actions.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html">The officers' justification -- that gay bar patrons were groping them -- is also shameless. All too often, straight men who commit attacks on gay men trot out this wan defense, expecting the public to believe that gay men are so voracious and sex-obsessed that they would willingly incite violence by reaching out to sexually titillate their adversaries. This is not predicated on plausible human behavior, but on rank and humiliating stereotypes about gay men that are rarely -- if ever -- true.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/on-the-rainbow.html"><P>The Fort Worth Police department does a profound disservice to law-abiding police officers everywhere if they fail to address this grievous, profoundly criminal incident.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C85008AF-1D8E-494A-A0F0-43F61119F00A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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