Join with me Saturday at 10:30am/PT, 11:30am/MT, 12:30pm/CT, 1:30pm/ET.
The elimination of our rights last week has been a horrible blow, a punch to the gut. But, and I'm about to write this down in a blog post.. my own feelings, reactions... it has awakened something in me and in the GLBT community. I can see it and hear it and feel it among my friends and family, online and everywhere. There's one word:
ENOUGH.
Enough of the discrimination, enough of the inequality, enough of the silence (oh, you thought we were being loud? hey honey... we usually are kind of quiet, Dan Savage is right, and now that we've woken, it's going to be loud), enough of the absurd arguments, enough using religion to justify discrimination & encourage hate, enough of the excuses for there are none, enough of it all already.
I don't know where this movement is going to go, but it's starting. Saturday is the day. The day that years from now we'll look back at and say "That's when there was a pivotal change."
Please be part of it, please help us.
This Saturday, November 15th, all across the country, there will be coordinated protests against the inequalities. We, GLBT people, are not an organized group, we don't have church leaders telling us what to do, we don't have the resources of the churches to organize and get out an army of volunteers.
We only have one thing, but I believe and hope it's a much more powerful thing... our friends and our families.
We NEED you, our friends and our families. We need you to protest with us, we need you to organize with us, we need you to speak up.
I KNOW so many have, so many times, so many places.. and for THAT I am deeply deeply grateful. But can I ask you to help step it up for us? My husband and I have sat down and discussed a long-term plan. We just are NOT going to sit down. No more episodic, reactionary, occasional or accidental activism, no.. we are making it our part-time job. We've made goals and plans of action. EVERY DAY we'll be doing actions until the day OUR AGENDA, yes, we have an agenda.. there, I let out the secret, there is indeed a GAY AGENDA, and we are going to work on it, finance it and work on the goals EVERY DAY until it is complete.
The agenda:
- Equality
- See 1.
So, ENOUGH of DOMA
ENOUGH of Don't Ask Don't Tell
ENOUGH of discrimination in jobs and housing
ENOUGH of hate crimes
ENOUGH of hate and discrimination disguised as religion
ENOUGH of the excuses
I'm not asking any more. I'm demanding. I've lived a half century of discrimination and hate and inequality. I've been beaten, tortured (aversion therapy), shunned, hated and excommunicated for who I am. I have been treated as a second class, unequal citizen my entire life. I and this country have made, thanks to you and us, HUGE strides. For that I am deeply grateful and happy. But those are NOT ENOUGH. Until we stand EQUAL before the law, we will not be safe, we will not feel comfortable in this society, we will not believe that we won't be turning back to those dark days.
We need, we want, we demand, our equality.
So, PLEASE, make this first small step with us Saturday. Please.