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National LGBT Civil Rights Group Getting Flack From Homegrown LGBT Arkansas Organizers

Jacqueline Froelich

A little over a year ago, the Human Rights Campaign,the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C., announced it would spend $8.5 million dollars to expand LGBT equality in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. While many southern LGBT activists look up to HRC as a powerful ally, a growing number of activists see HRC very differently.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.