Equality Camp

Gettoknowusfirst.org aired these spots in most California counties during the inauguration (the kind of spots that we wish would have started 6 months before the prop 8 vote, but I guess we’re starting nice and early for the next vote). But KABC of LA serving Orang County refused to air the spots because “many families will be watching.”

Queer folks and our families and our entire movement need to make good use of the word family. 1) it gets used (as above) as away to avoid saying “watching gay people exist together makes me uncomfortable” and 2) it’s a powerful truth. We have families. We were children. We have children. It gets at the heart of connection, love and social belonging all of which are truths today. The more visible and strong our reality, the more quickly our legal equality will come.
-heather