DAY WITHOUT GAYS - HELP!

I shan't be taking a day off work then, as I have to save my days to visit my family over the holidays. This kind of thing, as others have pointed out, is kind of pointless. Not buying milk or not being there to answer the phone isn't going to make any sort of impact.

And I think we should stop choosing days that have other significance.

Have you all reported the LDS to the IRS


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With all due respect to everyone here, In my opinion -- and I've been working on several different fronts trying to make several different things happen -- we need to be doing as much as we possibly can.

There was a moment last week when I thought the best thing to do would be to try to control the anger being displayed and focus it. Then i realized that there is no way this is going to be controlled and we instead have to find a way to keep this anger going.

We will win this if we stay in the media and stay as visible as possible. This takes a great deal of stamina. feelings fade and what's going on now will become old news in a matter of days - UNLESS we find other, NEW ways of protest every day and every week.

This is just my opinion, but think about it...If we are truly giving something up for our rights. If we are truly fighting and in the streets EVERY DAY, the way the Californians have been since November 4th, then we won't be ignored.

It's asking a lot of our community to stay interested in something for more than 24 hours, but I think it's what needs to happen.

Day Without Gays is one of literally HUNDREDS of protests going on in teh next few months. So PLEASE find your way of pro-actively participating...If you don't think it's going to work, participate in it that day and then get your friends together to march the next day.

This for me, is about volume...keep going. The angry people in California are 25 years old and they didn't know about Stonewall, but they did have rights one day, and have them taken away the next. It's a slippery slope, if we don't turn this around, we will all lose rights.

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I'm plenty happy to shoulder the anger for those who don't want to face theirs.

Very serious question - what do you hope to achieve with this day?

We will win this if we stay in the media and stay as visible as possible.

And that is best served by NOT showing up where people will see you? I mean, even if you go to a rally, you're going to be spending some money.

More power to you, but there are much more productive ways to direct and focus your anger.

So we should have been fighting to sit in the middle of the bus?

I agree it's not a great analogy, but I was using it in a metaphorical sense. I don't equate or compare them, nor do I mean to offend.

But what your theory shows is that getting it steps DOESN'T help things. Vermont has civil unions. Did that catch on? No. Massachusetts got marriage, and half the country amended their state constitutions.

The reality IS that if we keep waiting to appease the straight hand that feeds us, we're never going to get anywhere.

Well, if fatigue on our side sets in in a month then we're in trouble. Seriously.

Homobigotry never gets fatigue, y'all!

"Maybe something similar if they behave, if they don't cause too much trouble." -Keith Olbermann

Yeah, it's hard to read tone. I think I come off as more screamingly aggressive than I mean to sometimes. It's all good.

I know plenty of people who think we want too much too soon, but I think it's about a lot more than just marriage. Rumor has it we have a prop 8-ish type thing in the works for 2010. It's also about trying to STOP the tyrannical majority from infringing on rights some of us NEVER had.

It's really just about basic equality.

I have not known you to be nasty with your posts.

I think I just heard about 400 jaws drop. :)

No offense to my hetero brethren but I could REALLY go for a day without straights sometimes.