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To: scottjewell

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/03/Anthony%20and%20Waymon.JPG

Bilerico’s own Waymon Hudson, Anthony’s husband, on becoming First Lady of Oakland Park, Florida

Anthony Niedwiecki, (born March 18, 1967) is an American politician, who was elected to the city commission of Oakland Park, Florida in March 2009. As the city’s top vote-getter for any position in the 2009 election, he automatically assumed the office of vice-mayor in 2010 and would have become mayor in 2011, but resigned effective June 1, 2010 to take a position in Chicago.

A law professor and administrator at Broward County’s Shepard Broad law school, Niedwiecki and his husband Waymon Hudson were co-founders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobby group Fight OUT Loud, and led an activist campaign against former Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle after Naugle made a number of anti-gay statements. The couple also lobbied the Florida State Senate to overturn the state’s ban on gay adoption, after taking in a foster child who had been abandoned as “unadoptable” by the state because of the child’s HIV status. The couple wed in California in before Proposition 8 passed in June 2008 and remain legally married as one of 18,000 couples still wed after the anti-gay marriage proposition passed.

During his first year in office, Vice-Mayor Niedwiecki pushed for expanded protections for transgender residents and workers by adding “gender identity and expression” to the city’s non-discrimination policies and vendor contracts. Niedwiecki also directed the city to review all of its policies and ordinances to be sure that the language included and recognized LGBT families and relationships as well. Oakland Park, Florida also celebrated gay pride in the city for the first time with a proclamation celebrating the contributions of the LGBT community.

His campaign was endorsed by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, the Metro Broward Professional Firefighters Union, Equality Florida, the Broward County AFL-CIO and the American Black Caucus.

In the summer of 2010, Niedwiecki left Florida to accept a job at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois as a law professor and Director of The John Marshall Law School’s Lawyering Skills Program


17 posted on 08/15/2012 1:06:51 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
...after taking in a foster child who had been abandoned as “unadoptable” by the state because of the child’s HIV status.

I wonder how many times they tag teamed/gang raped this poor boy?

34 posted on 08/15/2012 2:46:55 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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