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Article: Army stint helps gay-rights defender.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 1, 2002
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Despite a few obstacles, Timothy Higdon is up to the formidable challenge of leading the campaign to preserve Miami-Dade County's gay-rights ordinance.
"The pressure I feel is, `Can I reach out to all the different communities that live here in Miami,' " said Higdon, the new executive director and campaign manager for SAVE Dade, the gay-rights group that lobbied for the ordinance in 1998. "I'm not a local guy, I'm not Cuban and I'm not bilingual."
Higdon says he brings his own strength to the campaign: a cool demeanor learned from 15 years in the U.S. Army.
This is Higdon's first time running a political campaign. "I've run military campaigns ...