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Hillsborough county keeps gay pride ban.(NEWS FRONTS)(Florida)(Brief Article)
With minimal discussion, county commissioners voted July 20 to "receive and file" a request from the Tampa-Hillsborough County (Fla.) Public Library Friends group to rescind its policy prohibiting the promotion of gay pride events (AL, Aug., p. 14-15). Friends President Karen McClure had put the request in writing so that it could be placed on the agenda for the public meeting.
Commission Chairman Jim Norman took up the issue out of agenda order to avoid having too many people in the room. "I did not want any at-risk situations to occur," he said in the July 21 St. Petersburg Times. Kathy Castor, the only member to vote against the ban in June, said at the meeting that the ban …
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