Hillsborough's gay dollars.
The Hillsborough County Hillsborough County is the name of two counties in the United States: - Hillsborough County, Florida, including Tampa
- Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
, Fla., commission's recent vote to ban
the use of public money for gay pride displays has sparked a national
boycott boycott, concerted economic or social ostracism of an individual, group, or nation to express disapproval or coerce change. The practice was named (1880) after Capt. of tourism in the Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. area. Now gay rights activists want
to protect those who support them.
They've launched a "buycott" to encourage purchasing
at gay-friendly companies that oppose the Hillsborough ban. "Those
of us who live and work in the Tampa Bay area need a way to register our
opposition to this bigotry Bigotry
See also Anti-Semitism.
Beaumanoir, Sir Lucas de
prejudiced ascetic; Grand Master of Templars. [Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe]
Bunker, Archie
middle-aged bigot in television series. by putting our money where our values
are," reads the buycott Web site (www.buycottfl.org), created by
the gay rights group Equality Florida.
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