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LGBT: WE DEMAND EQUALITY!!!
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Next steps for Western Mass. Equality Across America
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Monday * April 5 * 6PM
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Hampshire College * Franklin Patterson Hall Room 101
Join us if you want to get involved in the struggle for full federal equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. We should bring our thoughts from the conference, share those with people who didn't get a chance to go, and talk about our next steps locally and in general.
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There is a lot going on: Northampton Pride, the Trans United march, the Harvey Milk Week of Action...it's an exciting time to be involved in this civil rights movements!
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LGBT people and allies are welcome!!!
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=136130896264&ref=ts
Friday, April 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
First-hand Account of San Diego Marriage Equality Sit-in
Wednesday * March 10 * 7PM
Smith College, Seelye 102
ON MAY 27, 2009--the day after the California Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold Proposition 8, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman--activists staged a five-hour sit-in at the San Diego County Administration Building after Brian Baumgardner and Michael Anderson, a same-sex couple, were denied a marriage license.
The sit-in in San Diego, which looked to the sit-ins of the African American civil rights movement for inspiration, was part of a wave of protests around the country that involved tens of thousands, showing that the resurgence in LGBT equality activism following the passage of Prop 8 was alive and well.
In October, the National Equality March brought 250,000 people to DC to demand full equality now!
Activists in Western Mass., as Western Mass. Equality Across America, are organizing to go to the LGBT Rights Making an Impact Northeast Regional Conference on March 26-8 to plan the next steps for our struggle with allies from across the region.
Join us for a presentation by Kelsey Hoffman, a Smith student who is a member of the San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality and Western Mass. Equality Across America, who participated in the sit-in on May 27 and will share her experience, followed by a planning meeting for the conference.
Smith College, Seelye 102
ON MAY 27, 2009--the day after the California Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold Proposition 8, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman--activists staged a five-hour sit-in at the San Diego County Administration Building after Brian Baumgardner and Michael Anderson, a same-sex couple, were denied a marriage license.
The sit-in in San Diego, which looked to the sit-ins of the African American civil rights movement for inspiration, was part of a wave of protests around the country that involved tens of thousands, showing that the resurgence in LGBT equality activism following the passage of Prop 8 was alive and well.
In October, the National Equality March brought 250,000 people to DC to demand full equality now!
Activists in Western Mass., as Western Mass. Equality Across America, are organizing to go to the LGBT Rights Making an Impact Northeast Regional Conference on March 26-8 to plan the next steps for our struggle with allies from across the region.
Join us for a presentation by Kelsey Hoffman, a Smith student who is a member of the San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality and Western Mass. Equality Across America, who participated in the sit-in on May 27 and will share her experience, followed by a planning meeting for the conference.
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