Why help a kid get into AMDA when you can pay for Jamie McGonnigal’s wedding? — Page 5

"We champion Engagement Organizing"

Ahhh ... he's just being a team player.

Unfortunately it rounds up. I tried to donate 69 cents.

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I'm amazed at the amount of money they've already raised.

This really pushes all the wrong buttons.

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I have a feeling this may have been done without Jamie's knowledge. The page was set up by the fiance and refers to JM in the third person. If JM had set it up I think it may have been worded differently. I have seen break-ups over things like this where one person does not know what the other is writing in their name...

I may be wrong, of course. It has been known to happen.

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I do think this is tacky, and maybe it'll work out for them, but what will they do when they want a house or a new car, etc?

Out of curiosity I googled 'average wedding budget'--it's around $27,000. JEEZ!

Updated On: 12/7/12 at 04:54 PM

The 47 people who donated are listed under the tab at the top that says "Funders."

Jordan Roth gave $100.

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@PJoey: I saw that a few days ago. It was a surprise name, but then again Jordan and his husband have offered to may all donations to Freedom To Marry up to $100,000, thru Dec 31st. A generous offer on their part. In my opinion however, Jamie and his partner's self-interested plea wouldn't warrant support form that non-profit on its merits, or any for that matter. I'm a supporter of anyone wishing to marry but it did irk me to see that Jordan, and all those other suckers, would support this shameless tactic.

Wow, did not know I submitted that sentence fragment. Downfall of smartphone posting.

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Broadway Loves the 80s totally was.

"This biographical article needs additional citations for verification, as it includes attribution to IMDb. IMDb may not be a reliable source for biographical information."

MAY not be?! I guess just any loser can go in and start their own Wiki page?

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Well. Well. Well.

You land on HuffPost after following a link to their coverage of the Supremes and Prop 8 and DOMA and you end up in the Gay Voices section and then the Gay Marriage subsection and what do you stumble over? If you're me, you stumble over Jamie McGonnigal's blog post telling his tale of how important his marriage to Sean is going to be and how tortured he has been his entire life by the little voice in his head that has continually told him that no matter how good things are in his life, he can't get married like a princess in a Disney movie and therefore he is not fully valued and therefore he is less than and he has been hearing this voice since he was TEN YEARS OLD.

Instead of rejecting that model, the only thing that will apparently assist in taking care of this psychic damage is to completely buy into the heteronormative structure and finally be free (!?). I just, I just, I can't quite believe it.

I'm beginning to think if gay marriage bans are overturned by the Supremes, he and Sean should spearhead the American Reparation Act for Homosexuals Previous Inability to Wed and the Post-Traumatic Stress it Caused class action lawsuit, or something. No WONDER the poor thing couldn't work to get the wedding he wants to have.

I'm a little bit flabbergasted.

My assumptions were challenged that he was not a part of the composition that accompanies the fundraising appeal, because much of the same language is in the Huffpo piece, along with, wouldn't you know it, a link to that page.


This time for me... for me... for me... for me... FORRRR MEEEEEE!

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Updated On: 12/7/12 at 10:21 PM

Yeahhhhh. I'm really baffled by this. How can somebody who has worked sooooooo maaaaaaany years on a whole manner of gay rights issues so buy into the traditional marriage structure as *the* thing that will validate him and make him fully human?

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