White House Egg Roll 2007

[Rick336]

Family Pride's success for the inclusion of gay families in last year's White House Easter Egg Roll has energized them to do it again this year. Families intrested in the 2007 egg roll event for Monday, April 9th can click on the link below for more information:

http://www.familypride.org/eggroll/

[NathanATX]

Awesome!!!!

[nmwolfboy]

During last year's White House Egg Roll an artist friend of mine was in the White House at the invitation of Laura Bush. He met her alongside his partner and his partner's parents. So Laura had glbt family out on the lawn and right in her face at the same time!

:weee:

[Joe Allen]

Gay families need to be out the public arena as much as possible just like the ones with the heterosexual parents.

[u-dog]

...and infuriating to me was in the article from the NYTimes. The conservatives complaining that "family pride" was turning a lovely tradition into a "Political statement" and using children to "make a political statement".

I began to think, "what is it that defines a "political statement? All of a sudden it dawned on me. A political statement is any time we refuse to be ashamed, or anytime we refuse to hide who we are. Having the audacity to take our families out in public and claim to be families is a political statement. Having the audacity to demand what is ours by right, is a political statement.

And then I thought... "they're right" Living out loud IS political. It threatens the world they are so afraid of losing. It undermines their reality. It shakes the foundations. It pulls down the pillars that hold up the sky. Whenever we exist as anything other than pathetic perverts lurking in the shadows it is a foreshadowing of Armegeddon to them.

No wonder they lie to themselves and to others about us. No wonder they twist the research. No wonder they hate gay people so much! No wonder that their response to us is so out of proportion to our numbers in the population. We are the four horseman of the apocalypse! Gays, Lesbians, Bi-sexual, and Transgendered.

Whew! its exhilerating to be so powerful! I had no idea.

[andrewlittle]

...and infuriating to me was in the article from the NYTimes. The conservatives complaining that "family pride" was turning a lovely tradition into a "Political statement" and using children to "make a political statement".

I agree, GD, that all public statements are, by their very nature, political.

What the public many times fails to see, however, is that while political statements are perfectly acceptable, the tendency of some people (read: conservatives, in this case) to state that something makes a "political statement" is, in and of itself, a heavily politicized statement.

The difference, as I have no doubt you know, is tremendous - the latter is replete with all kinds of bias and negative attitude, while the former is a positive statement about a social inclusion.

In the article you cited the conservative faction is politicizing the event's inclusion of GLBT families, and their action is the one that is unacceptible.

[tpdncr4christ]

There is a reason they aren't allowed at the table.

I say let them think we're political, we can realize we are people. No need for a big argument, let them think what they wish, and we'll enjoy rolling our eggs. :D