Showing posts with label GLBT Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GLBT Issues. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Get your knot on!


www.whiteknot.org


Wear a White Knot to show support for Marriage Equality.
The White Knot is the symbol for marriage equality. Wear it every
day to show your support and to create conversation. Use it to tell someone
today that equal rights are important to everyone. Share the White Knot and
spread the word that all loving couples deserve the same legal rights,
benefits, and respect that civil marriage bestows.
Visibility is the goal.

Whether you are gay, straight, or otherwise, please show your support by
wearing the Knot and telling people why you are wearing it. Wear your
White Knot to work, to school, to your place of worship. Together, we will
keep the topic at the top of people's minds and keep the conversation going.

For a free White Knot, send a self-addressed
stamped envelope to:
White Knot for Equality
PO Box 691517
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Just two brothers walking home...

An innocent man was taken off life support early this morning, after a brutal beating with a baseball bat. He was attacked as he walked arm in arm with his brother and was presumed gay. His attacker shouted racial and gay slurs as he savagely struck him with the bat. This attack happened about 13 blocks from where I live, and it's very scary to know that there are people living close to me that would do such a thing. I sometimes walk hand in hand with my girlfriend, and most mornings we kiss as we part ways. Sometimes we get dirty looks, or hear the sucking of teeth, but we just ignore it.

I think people in this world are going nuts. You have to be some kind of animal to hate someone so much that you would take a bat to their head, while they scream and beg for mercy. The thought of the bat hitting his flesh and bone, the sound, the thud... I don't know how a human being could inflict that kind of pain on another human being.

Why should his parents have to grieve for their son? Why did his brother have to witness such a thing? The images surely replaying over and over in his head. Why did he have to die? It makes me so angry.