On October 11th at noon, (this Friday), history will continue to be made in the ever increasing struggle on gay marriage rights in America. A march on Washington has been in the works for a very long time, as the historic Cleve Jones made it known on June 7th of this past summer. He reiterated to his Canadian neighbors, not only the plan but the importance of the movement during his visit at Vancouver Pride, and I have not forgotten.
Equality Across America explains it in lamen’s terms:
We are guaranteed equal protection by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Free and equal people do not bargain for or prioritize our rights, so we are coming to DC this October 10-11th to demand equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states. Now.
“Now” really is the key.
Earlier in the year I wrote a Saturday Submission into Homorazzi on my opinion of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival housing their movies in a Cinemark theatre. In that article I quoted a line from Mr. Cleve Jones that I heard him say on stage at the Sunset Beach Festival during pride that has rang true to me every day since then.
“The days of settling for a fraction of equality are over.”
And this is what everybody in the U.S. has been fighting for for so long. The hopes and dreams of aspiring equality between gay and straight couples alike was dashed to pieces with Proposition 8, but the queer community is truly banding together on October 11th to demand equal rights. Get fired up! We are sure to see marches like this echoed across major cities in the states as well, and the potential turn out for this event is exciting.
Stories and personal experiences are shared on the blog at EqualityAcrossAmerica.org to help find your fire, and under the obvious ‘Donate’ category, money can be given to help “build a grassroots network…help organize the National Equality March, and to continue our work beyond October”. Demanding equal rights is not an unrealistic goal, and regardless of the result after this Friday, there is still much fighting to be done in order to help human beings peacefully live out a lifestyle that, by now, should not only not be the brunt of hateful intolerance, but celebrated and accepted as a completely equal way of life. This could mean donating towards some major education to a lot of communities and groups, clearly ignorant and uninformed of the basic equalities of human rights for all people whether gay or straight, across America, across our own country, and across the world. This problem is global.
Right now, let’s stay positive, send great thoughts and great funds towards the organization and get angry that all across the world people are STILL fighting to stay alive living an LGBT life. It’s truly unacceptable now and:
“The days of settling for a fraction of equality are over.”
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