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in protest of homosexuality. The Klansmen were escorted and protected by 800 members of the Houston Police Department. Though most members of the gay community purposely boycotted the demonstration, the Klansmen were jeered by roughly 2, 000 counterdemonstrators. Protection for the Klansmen cost the City of Houston 60, 000, but the authorities were successful both at preventing any violence and in protecting the civil liberties of the members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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