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Gay American Heroes, the traveling monument that memorializes gay men and women who have been killed due to homophobic violence, is scheduled to be displayed in the Florida Capitol Rotunda April 28.

According to organizers, the exhibit marks the first time a gay-friendly display will be exhibited inside the hall that overlooks the entrance to the chambers of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate. The date of the exhibit, April 28, also marks the birthday of Ryan Skipper, a gay college student who was murdered last year in Polk County, Fla., in what police described as an anti-gay hate crime. Skipper would have turned 28 on the date of the exhibit.

Malls to Churches?

With 5000 One-Year leather Bibles in hand, forty-three members of First Baptist Church @ The Mall
in Lakeland, Florida were on mission, this time to the staff members of the United States House of
Representatives. In 2002 we handed out study Bibles to the members of the U.S. House, Supreme
Court Justices, Cabinet, Vice-President, and President. In 2005 we delivered One-Year Bibles to the
members of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This time, however, a
growing burden for the staff members of the representatives compelled us to return on February 28,
2007. There are 435 offices in three separate buildings. Our mission, named Project Light was to
visit each one of them in one day.