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Adrian Acosta & Valerie Wagner: Race and Proposition 8

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2008-11-17 Adrian Acosta, Valerie Wagner

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Prop 8 Black ManLatino and Black LGBT activists talk with Manuel Criollo about the racial fallout of Proposition 8, California's ban on Gay marriage. Does laying blame with the Black and Latino communities for the passage of Prop 8 play into right-wing wedge politics? Did the No on 8 campaign neglect these communities, reflecting broader failures within the mainstream LGBT movement on questions of race? What challenges still exist inside Black and Latino communities around homosexuality and gay marriage? Adrian Acosta worked in East LA with the No on 8 Campaign and is formerly with Lambda Legal Defense. Valerie Wagner works with the Jordan/Rustin Coalition, an LA-based African-American LGBT advocacy organization.