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Proposition 8 passed. I'm over the grief, the betrayal, and the hurt; now it's time to get to work fighting it.
As we found out Wednesday night at the rally here in Hillcrest, the ACLU, NCLR, Lambda Lega, Equality CA, and Munger, Tolles, and Olson are going to fight it. It's going to be a tough battle, and will take even more donations to cover the legal fees.
I can't afford a lot of money at once, but I CAN afford to send about $25 a pay-check to the EQ CA fund. And if i eat dinner out 2 times less a month, then that will totally be easy to afford.
Once I realized that, I got an idea of how we, as a community, can really help— by having dinner parties!
Instead of going out to eat, we'll gather at somebody's house for a potluck. Instead of spending $20 - $30 for dinner at a restaurant, we instead MAKE something, bring it to the dinner, and put the $20 we would have spent at the restaurant into a donation jar.
I see this along the lines of our Economy DVD night, It should be informal, and fun, and not a burden on the host. Perhaps we can combine the two - dinner, and games / movies / conversation / whatever.
It doesn't matter if you can't cook. Make Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches! Or buy a bag of noodles and a jar of pasta sauce... a bag of salad and dressing. It doesn't have to be fancy. The point is to use the money we would have spent anyway on dinner, pool it together, and send it to a vitally important cause. If 5 people get together twice a month, that's $200 a month to donate!
And also, it's an excuse to get together for a dinner party and socialize!
I really think that if small groups of us do a "Potluck for Equality" twice a month, we can, as a community, raise a lot of money for our cause, and have an enjoyable evening at the same time.
So... Who's with me?
... I'll make the pasta!
As we found out Wednesday night at the rally here in Hillcrest, the ACLU, NCLR, Lambda Lega, Equality CA, and Munger, Tolles, and Olson are going to fight it. It's going to be a tough battle, and will take even more donations to cover the legal fees.
I can't afford a lot of money at once, but I CAN afford to send about $25 a pay-check to the EQ CA fund. And if i eat dinner out 2 times less a month, then that will totally be easy to afford.
Once I realized that, I got an idea of how we, as a community, can really help— by having dinner parties!
Instead of going out to eat, we'll gather at somebody's house for a potluck. Instead of spending $20 - $30 for dinner at a restaurant, we instead MAKE something, bring it to the dinner, and put the $20 we would have spent at the restaurant into a donation jar.
I see this along the lines of our Economy DVD night, It should be informal, and fun, and not a burden on the host. Perhaps we can combine the two - dinner, and games / movies / conversation / whatever.
It doesn't matter if you can't cook. Make Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches! Or buy a bag of noodles and a jar of pasta sauce... a bag of salad and dressing. It doesn't have to be fancy. The point is to use the money we would have spent anyway on dinner, pool it together, and send it to a vitally important cause. If 5 people get together twice a month, that's $200 a month to donate!
And also, it's an excuse to get together for a dinner party and socialize!
I really think that if small groups of us do a "Potluck for Equality" twice a month, we can, as a community, raise a lot of money for our cause, and have an enjoyable evening at the same time.
So... Who's with me?
... I'll make the pasta!
