Sen. Dick Durbin is seemingly a supporter of gay rights. He is a sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and wants “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed. But a group of local activists are not buying it–and were arrested outside of Durbin’s Chicago office Thursday after organizing a sit-in to demand equal rights to gay Americans. “I am here because we can no longer sit around and wait for our rights to be handed to us by politicians, we must demand our rights from them,” local LGBT activist Lindsey Dietzler said in a statement. “We have to be here to fight for those who are forced to remain invisible and deny who they are just to make a living. I want Senator Durbin to know that until there is full federal equality for every queer citizen, no one in this country is free.”

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