Braving the rain and a 6:30am alarm, Kate, Jeff, Shannon, Dave, Al, myself and several hundred sharply dressed New Yorkers descended on City Hall to ask Mayor Mike to follow the lead of San Francisco, Portland, New Paltz, Nyack, and Ithaca. To assist rain-drenched protesters preparing for TV interviews and photographs, Kyan from Queer Eye was on hand for emergency makeovers. Stay tuned...the City Clerk told one couple to "come back next week."
For further reading/action, visit:
Dear Mary - Send a postcard to Mary Cheney asking her to take her Dad to task for flip-flopping and now supporting a constitutional amendment.
Andrew Sullivan - Smart, quick, in depth analysis of the marriage debate from the world's gayest Catholic conservative. Be careful...you'll get hooked fast.
Understanding Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples - Talking points for debating this issue with less enlightened co-workers, friends, and family from HRC
1,138 Reasons Marriage Is Cool by our very own John Cloud in this week's Time Magazine.
Nice blog Pat!!! Just when I think you couldn't rock any harder, you come up with this. FYI, I just read about straight couples putting donations to http://www.freedomtomarry.org/ on their wedding registries. So if you know any straight people who are getting married...
Posted by: Gretchen | March 04, 2004 at 01:21 PM
This is now officially my favorite blog! Thanks Patmix!
Posted by: John Cloud | March 09, 2004 at 03:00 PM