http://thenewgay.net/2008/11/join-dc-committee-for-marriage-equality_19.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://thenewgay.net/2008/11/join-dc-committee-for-marriage-equality_19.html#comment-7710 John Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:51:00 +0000 http://tngmichael.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/join-the-dc-committee-for-marriage-equality/#comment-7710 Yes! This is exactly the sort of thing we all need to engage in. I saw Milk last night thanks to a friend who works at Center for American Progress that was able to get me in to an advanced screening. It was amazing to appreciate the parallels between the movement for gay rights in the 70s and now. Back then, it was Anita Bryant and all of these terrible initiatives that were aimed at keeping gays from being school teachers and other sorts of injustice that we still face (employment discrimination and the like). The lessons of Harvey Milk's work in San Francisco have been forgotten in the HRC era of the gay rights movement. We need to take back our movement and empower ourselves. Thank you, Travis, for bringing this to our attention. Yes! This is exactly the sort of thing we all need to engage in. I saw Milk last night thanks to a friend who works at Center for American Progress that was able to get me in to an advanced screening. It was amazing to appreciate the parallels between the movement for gay rights in the 70s and now. Back then, it was Anita Bryant and all of these terrible initiatives that were aimed at keeping gays from being school teachers and other sorts of injustice that we still face (employment discrimination and the like). The lessons of Harvey Milk’s work in San Francisco have been forgotten in the HRC era of the gay rights movement. We need to take back our movement and empower ourselves. Thank you, Travis, for bringing this to our attention.

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