It's just cressy!

So...things have been maddeningly hectic for the past several days. My work with API Equality has finally picked up! I've been conducting individual one-on-ones with our steering committee and committee chairs...listening to their stories and appreciating their respective positionalities have been incredibly affirming. We have quite a few 'straight' allies who are incredibly active in the organization and it's been one humbling experience after another to learn about them and their motivations for being so involved in the struggle for marriage equality. In many ways, they remind me of my little sister Liz...who's a rockstar in her own little way. Certainly an ally herself, she has interned with Equality Pennsylvania (marriage equality advocacy) as well as the Human Rights Campaign (big yellow equal sign -anyone who's seen my purple volvo knows all about that). Such a ferocious, sassy little girl -and one of my greatest inspirations. Such allies underscore the fact that marriage equality (despite being a misnomer) isn't so much a 'lesbian' or 'gay' issue, but rather an issue that points to and highlights the gross inequities (manifesting as discrimination) that continue to operate today in various forms for various communities. In light of the fucked-up Hawaii decision (homophobic governor vetoes civil union bill -that's right, CIVIL UNION bill), the distance that we'll need to traverse in order to break into the hearts and minds of those around us has been made abundantly clear. Lots of work still left to do.




So much for the rainbow state, eh?!

P.S. The prop 8 decision (Perry v. the terminator) should come down anytime now. We'll see what that does.