September 25, 2007
Anti-Gay Wingnut Inspires Couple to Take On Anti-Gay Wingnut
Now, isn’t this something: The guys who heard the anti-gay garbage over the Ft. Lauderdale airport PA system have turned into major activists — and are taking on Jim Naugle. Well done, gentlemen!
The Miami Herald tells us about the quiet couple called to action:
Waymon Hudson and Anthony Niedwiecki used to lead a private life in Oakland Park. Now they’re leading the campaign against Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle. Hudson and Niedwiecki, a couple for nearly six years, say their lives changed May 1 when a skycap broadcast an anti-gay Bible message over an airport loudspeaker.
“We heard over the PA system that a man who lies with a man as he would a woman will be subject to death,” said Niedwiecki, 40, a Nova Southeastern University associate law professor who was returning with Hudson from a trip to Chicago.
“It frightened me,” said Hudson, 28, a JetBlue flight attendant and personal trainer. “When someone says you should be put to death at 1 a.m. in a deserted airport, it perks your ears up.” A contractor quickly fired the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport skycap.
Four months later, Hudson has become one of Broward’s most vocal gay activists and Niedwiecki is mulling a 2009 run for Oakland Park city commission. They came forward after Naugle said he wants to stop gay men from having sex in public places, like restrooms.
“The mayor likes to refer to Anthony and me as militant homosexual activists,” Hudson said. “I don’t like the homosexual part, but I’m not offended by that. When it comes to defending my rights and fighting back from bigotry, I am militant, as we all should be.”
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Anti-Gay Message Heard On Airport PA System
Filed under: Florida, Radical Religious Right
