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Issue Position: Human and Civil Rights

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012

In 1989, after other efforts had failed for 17 years, Mike led a difficult but ultimately successful fight in a then-resistant State Senate for passage of Massachusetts' first law barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Marking the victory, the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts hailed Mike's "great courage and independence" and "enormous political skill."


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