{"article":{"id":12694,"heading":"Assembly Speaker-Designate Wesson Keynotes Freedom Banquet\r","author":"Mark Gabrish Conlan\/Zenger's Newsmagazine","created":"2001-11-06 22:34:52","modified":"2013-11-10 23:38:37","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:38:37","article":"

Assembly Speaker-Designate Wesson Keynotes Freedom Banquet

Queer Democratic Club Event Honors Volunteers, Officeholders

by MARK GABRISH CONLAN











































<\/p>\n","contact":"mgconlan@earthlink.net","link":"http:\/\/zengers.tripod.com\/","address":"P.O. Box 50134, San Diego, CA 92165","phone":"(619) 688-1886","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Herb Wesson, L.A.-area Assemblymember and designated next-in-line for Speaker, keynoted the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club\u2019s annual Freedom Banquet November 5 and provided its emotional highlight. Wesson\u2019s account of his own childhood experiences as both a victim of anti-African-American discrimination and a perpetrator of discrimination against Queers, from which he learned to see both kinds of prejudice as equally wrong, moved the Democratic Club audience.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/assembly_s.txt","filesize":"11.2 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/11\/12694.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}