43 LGBT activists and allies arrested at the Idaho Statehouse protesting legislative inaction

Dozens of activists feed up with the Idaho Legislatures inaction took it to the next level. by locking arms and blocking the doors of the State building and keeping lawmakers out.

The police started arresting Add the words Idaho members after the speaker was denied entrance.

(AP) Police arrested dozens of gay rights activists Monday after a protest that blocked entrances to the Idaho Senate chambers for more than two hours.

Idaho State Police said they took 43 people into custody on suspicion of misdemeanor trespassing after demonstrators stood shoulder to shoulder and prevented lawmakers from getting past.

Former state Sen. Nicole LeFavour, the Idaho Legislature's first openly gay lawmaker and an organizer of the protest, was among those arrested. Ahead of the demonstration, she had said the group would block the entrances until lawmakers agreed to take up a bill adding anti-discrimination protections for gay and transgender people or until protesters were removed by authorities.

Read more at the Boise Weekly and The Idaho Statesman.





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