Have you sent in your postcards yet?
Do you know what November 15th made history? It made history because our community came out by the hundreds of thousands in ways this country has never seen. We brought LGBTQ visibility to a new level! Project Postcard is all about continuing this visibility. No matter where you live, whether you are in the closet, out of the closet, one foot out, or chasing rainbows, Project Postcard gives you the opportunity to be a part of this amazing movement! Help us show President Elect Barack Obama just how many of us there actually are and remind him that we listened when he promised to repeal DOMA. We listened when he said it was time for a change. And we listened like you wouldn’t believe when he said YES WE CAN!
Have you already sent your postcard? Show us your photos and tell us about it. We need to share our visibility with the nation.
I leave you with some amazing words from a new friend of mine. He has experience that we need to pay our gratitude to. He was around my age when Stonewall happened and became a huge activist when being out and visible in public were still ILLEGAL ACTIONS. How far we have come in 40 years, yet how far we still must go. It is because of people like him that we have all of the rights we have today. And it is for people like him that we must shout out for all to hear us! He and generations before mine have done so much for our community. It is now time we take the final steps for them!
When Martin Luther King Jr. led people across the Edmund Pettis bridge they were clubbed and gassed. When they retreated to the church hall they were sure they had been defeated. What they did not recognize is that TV had recorded the beatings. They had made the words concrete. They had made the beatings concrete / visible. They had made the beatings and gassings ‘visible’.The next morning the phone rang, people showed up at the airport wanting to assist, the movement, their pain made visible to the world, grew. It ‘tipped’ towards victory. They had been fought and then they won. They had been fought ‘in public’ and then they won. Their pain was ‘visible’ and then they won. For decades before they had been visible to only a few, and to a select few.Keep reminding people of what we need – visibility. The invisible are spread across the globe. These invisible ones are strung up by the score on trumped up charges of rape, in town squares all across Iran, the life mercilessly choked out of them. They are stoned in Afghanistan. They are beaten by Putin’s goons. Their heartbreaking stories are not sung in China.Nothing will change until the pain and the joy are made visible to all.
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I sure did! Some good news! Mormon Support For Prop. 8 Under Investigation
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― California officials are planning to investigate whether the Mormon church gave an accurate accounting of its role in the campaign that succeeded in getting a same-sex marriage ban approved in the state.
The action by the California Fair Political Practices Commission came in response to a complaint filed two weeks ago by a gay rights activist. Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, accuses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of failing to report the value of the work it did to support Proposition 8.
A representative from the Salt Lake City-based church could not be reached for comment.
Posted on November 25th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hi there,
Someone had posted a response to my blog entry regarding DOMA. They have the following questions.
How can we get the word out as to the size Project Postcard is making? Is there a way to track numbers at this point of postcards being sent in? Is this public record – meaning, can we callthe Presidential Transition Team to find out?
Posted on November 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I sent 3, one each day from here in Virginia. I wish I had thought to take pics, but I didnt. Thanks for keeping this website full of inspiration, ideas, information and support.
Posted on November 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
My friends and I sent 10 postcards. I deposited the postcards inside the post office on both Tuesday and Wednesday (November 25 and 26). I was always careful to get to the post office before the last mail pickup for the day. No pictures, however.
Posted on November 28th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
P8 Recalls and Eliminate Assembly
When the gay judges are recalled with Arnold and Brown, add another amendment to eliminate the Assembly and make the Senate part-time as in Nebraska. This was recommended by the little Hoover commission and the Senate is no longer based on counties. All other state legislatures are part-time. Since all of these are opposing p8 and will not enforce the law might as well give them the boot and save tax dollars. Note gay legals are correct p8 should be 2/3′s but the initial ruling (and all other state rulings Conn, Mass) was incorrect. By definition of concepts and words at 1850 there is no gay marriage implied. Gay marriage is the new thing and needs a constitutional amendment of 2/3′s.
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
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