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July 22, 2004
The nation's largest lgbt civil rights organization, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has announced they have disinvited Margaret Cho at an lgbt convention gathering.
Cho's representatives expressed disappointment to the NY Daily News today saying HRC is giving in to a political atmosphere of fear following Whoopie Goldberg's poltical comments at a Democratic fundraiser.
UNITY 2004 is described as an event hosted by 10 lgbt groups to "celebrate GLBT strength and unity" around the Democratic National Convention. The event is scheduled for July 26, 2004 at the Avalon.
"We want this event to be about the unity of the gay community," said group spokesman Mark Shields. "Margaret's people made very clear that they had material that was not in that vein and we didn't want to censor her, so we just made other plans."
In response to Cho being disinvited, NGLTF, a co-sponsor of Unity 2004, has withdrawn their co-sponsorship. "We are dismayed that Margaret Cho has been disinvited to perform at the LGBT Unity 2004 event scheduled for Monday, July 26 in Boston," said Executive Director of NGLTF, Matt Foreman.
Margaret Cho used the opportunity to launch a "STATE OF EMERGENCY" tour, promoting her latest CD, through the swing states this fall delivering what Cho describes as a "raw interpretation of what's happening daily in our ever-evolving or devolving state of the union."
John Marble, spokesperson for UNITY 2004 coalition member National Stonewall Democrats (NSD), told 365gay.com that Cho is donating to NSD half of the sales of her DVD sold through NSD's website. Marble says NSD will also register voters on campuses across the country in concert with Cho's tour.
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