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I just received this from a friend:

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Hey Everyone,

Please read the e-mail below. It originated in San Diego but the more participation we can get the more effective it will be. I know I will be staying home that day, maybe having a mid day BBQ with some friends. What you do with the information is up to you, if it is not something you can participate in (and I do understand with the economy the way it is, not all of us have vacation/sick days to use) pass it on to everyone people that may be interested.

A Day Without Gays is a political statement that must be made in response to the millions of voters who helped pass Proposition 8 in California. Apparently those over 5 million voters forgot on election day that we are their family, their friends, their colleagues and most importantly their customers! Starting this year and hopefully every year from now on, we as the gay and straight \supporters of No on Prop 8, are going to take one day off a year in solidarity and support of being equal in our lives.
We need to show those Yes on 8 supporters that we are a force to be reckoned with and we will not be subservient and sit idle just waiting for the next election to get our day of equality for all! So December 10, 2008 please call in GAY (since they think it's an illness anyways) take the day off of work, save your errands for another day and get together with your friends and your family in support on No on Prop 8, No on Hate and EQUALITY for all!

***As a side note, if you can't take the day off we understand! Just please please please, shop at gay supportive/friendly stores and make sure you promote this to everyone you know... bulliten, blog, email, text.... The whole point is to show the rest of the world that we will not support you or your business, if you do not support equality! We are also working with gay friendly companies in SD to "hire a gay for a day" If you can not afford to take the day off, local businesses will let you come and work for them for the day to make up that lost cash.
a full list will be posted soon"***

Interesting, and much more practical than the Pink Holiday effort to spread the economic hardship over an entire consumer-spending season.

This one, if widely participated in, is bite-size enuf to attract media attention.

I like it.

If it catches on, I'm in.

The problem is ... there's something like 50 gay rights groups in the state, with more cropping up every day ... and precious little coordination or even communication between them.

Until we get some organizational cohesion going, we are never going to make a dent in public opinion ... and we are never going to be able to battle the entrenched and effective church structure in passing a ballot initiative to restore gay marriage rights in California.

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Originally Posted by Snowflake (Post 252858)

Anyone going to be in SF on Saturday?
I will be at Civic Center, of course, I do not expect to find anyone in the crowd.

You could coordinate a meeting place before and hope for the best. I wish I could be the person you meet! I would much prefer to be there, but since I have other plans Saturday evening I have to stay in the valley. Sacramento for me.

And I certainly understand Not Afraid needing to attend to a party for, heheh, all of us ... later in the day.

Can €uro come out and play?

And all you OCers who can attend a rally in OC ... I wish you would consider coming to L.A. and singing Kumbaya with us.

Please at least send GusGus so I have someone to make out with. Being around all the gays all the time all week long is messing with my libido, and I need a pleasure outlet. GusGus is a GalGal and all, but she's an awesome kisser! I'm a semi-equal opportunist anyway.

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 252927)

And I certainly understand Not Afraid needing to attend to a party for, heheh, all of us ... later in the day.

Can €uro come out and play?

I do hope this is a joke, as we are all aware that any party at their place includes help from both husband and wife.

Still unsure which rally I will attend.

I don't know how I feel about that. Isn't this basically saying, "We'll go hide so you can't see us"?!?!? Isn't that backwards?

Let's pretend that gay people are oh I don't know, purple-skinned. and for some reason, the non-purple people don't like purple people. If the purple people said, "OK we want to show you how much impact we make to society, so on this one day, we are going to stay indoors!"

Well for people who are purple-averse, wouldn't that be, "Well, that's a relief, I don't have to look at purple people today."

Wouldn't it be better if the purple-aversion people saw when they stepped outside that the world was full of purple, pink, red, green, and orange people, all getting along together?

Um, no. They hate us loving each other, they love our money. They love our industry. They love our artistry, creativity, and company.

TAKE THAT ALL AWAY FROM THEM for a day and let them imagine a world without us forever. Not only without our money (but boy that will hit them hardest), but every other contribution that we make. They will never notice us NOT having sex in front of them ... but they will notice their less bountiful and less beautiful world.

Ok, they won't. A$$hats ... but they'll notice the $$.

(and, yeah, I don't expect €uro to be available on the day of a big party at his place. I just wanted to give the boys another chance to drool over him.) :p

I'm pretty sure we're going to be in Irvine. As much as I am bummed that we haven't been able to join the LoT-at-large for one of these, and as much as I'm uncharacteristically feeling drawn towards what will be a huge showing in L.A., I've lived in OC for over a decade and really do consider this stupid county home, and this is an opportunity to do something to try to improve it.

Yes, even L.A. ended up voting for Prop 8 (pretty much every county that isn't S.F. or adjacent to did), but OC is in far greater need of "fixing" in this area. So I want to stand as a resident of OC in OC and fight for what's right.

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Originally Posted by Deebs (Post 252924)

Well, I'm dragging my guest from NJ along for the ride! ;)
She's never been to SF before, might as well have a trial by fire and get arrested! ;)

I'll miss trying to find you in the crowd Deebs!

So, do some of the LA folks want to plan a time for us to all take the Blue Line together from Long Beach?