Join the Impact - Saturday
If you're gay, in America and not living in a cave, I'm sure you've already heard about it. But JUST IN CASE, you should go to the Join the Impact protest this Saturday at 10:30am PST, 12:30 Central, 1:30 Eastern. Click here to find a location near you (they have them in every state).At some point I'm going to opine on all this rabble-rousing we're doing. It's too bad we didn't do it BEFORE the vote. Alas. Better late than never. We need to raise consciousness about this issue.
You can go to this website for poster ideas, or just print it out and blow it up at Kinko's.
So, make yourself a sign, invite all your friends, and get out there on Saturday! I'll be there. And my mom too! And please, don't make it about black people or Mormons. And don't get violent or harass anybody. That's not going to help anything.
posted by Matt at 8:43 PM
11 Comments:
Hit up a Henna place or spray on tattoo parlour. Its semi permamnent and makes a statement
not sure I see the "church/state" direct connection with Prop 8. I'd be pretty certain that nowhere near 53% of Californians attend a church.
Where were these protests BEFORE the election. I'm bi, married, and voted against Prop 8. But I was shocked at how quiet the gay community was before the election. Did you really think the Mormon Church was going to roll over and go away? The anti-8 campaign rivaled the worst of the Republican campaigns for bordering on the non-existent. Now it will be twice as much work to deal with 8 as before. Something no one talks about--it's the first time in American history a right provided by a court has been withdrawn AFTER it was granted. First time. You can check it out.
Most people are too busy drinking beer and watching reality shows to care about what's going on that might affect their lives. Before they realize it it's too late. They've been blindsided.
Guess what? The economic collapse was planned.
Ciao.
FedEx/Kinkos only scored a 55 on the HRC Buying for Equality Guide. If you're going to pay someone to print stuff for you, go somewhere that scored better:
UPS Store (100), Mailboxes Etc (100), or Staples (93).
See you there. These things make me feel better.
weirdly, i think prop 8 is going to do more to galvanize support for same-sex marriage elsewhere in the us than a quiet victory for marriage equality in california ever would have done.
this may just be me trying to find something positive in this shitshow, and obviously a win would have been better, but i'm taking what i can get.
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and cliches. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.
your blog is well well well......
You had the pointers on kissing...what about on fucking? Esp virgin ass.
Thanks, Matt ! my partner and I turned out for the march in Seattle on Saturday - great turnout and great day for us !
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