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Barbra Streisand Blasts New GOP Voting Laws as ‘Attempts to Silence People of Color’
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thewrap.comin 1968. She’s also long been a queer icon, partly because she was an outspoken critic of California’s now-defunct Proposition 8 bill, which would have taken rights away from LGBTQ residents.“I got involved in the fight for civil rights back in the 1960s, so I can’t tell you how disheartening it is to see attempts to silence people of color at the polls 60 years later,” she wrote. “The tactics Republicans are using today to restrict access to voting may have different names, but it’s the same old strategy: Keep anyone who disagrees with you – or who might look different than you – from expressing themselves in the political sphere.
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