Proposal on Kalamazoo, MI Ballot to Give Equal Rights to City's LGBTQ Citizens

It was hard enough for Narda Beauchamp to hear her lesbian daughter say she didn´t feel legally protected enough in the family´s hometown of Kalamazoo to continue to live in the city with her partner. But shortly after she had almost the identical conversation with her second lesbian daughter, who after graduating from the University of Michigan moved out of state as opposed to Kalamazoo. "I can´t depend on this community to be a safe place to live," Beauchamp said her younger daughter told her. Beauchamp is now president of the local chapter of Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays, a leading supporter of a ballot proposal in Kalamazoo that would enact an equal rights ordinance similar to one in Lansing and 14 other Michigan cities. Full Story from City Pulse: http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-3551-k-zoo-wrestles-with-gay-rights-ordinance.html

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