Prop 8 SOUVENIRS!!!

[Rick336]

I've got a poster from the 1979 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights that to me is priceless. I also have an Advocate Magazine from 1977 during Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign that I wouldn't sell for nothing. I've got a door hanger from the 1978 California Briggs Initiative Proposition 6 that is very rare now. And I've got buttons and fliers from the 1978 St. Paul Campaign that I might donate to the Minnesota LGBT History Museum.

So now, here's y'all's chance to own a piece of history too. Proposition 8 signs, buttons, t-shirts, and souvenirs are now on sale. Not only will you have an actual piece of LGBT history from 2008 but you'll be helping to defeat Prop 8 and fight for marriage equality in California.

If Proposition 8 fails ( and there's a good chance it will ) these things will be priceless in just a few years. This stuff will be very hard to find after November 4th so don't miss out.

Buy some signs and buttons, put them away in a safe place, and in 20 years you'll really be glad you did. Trust me.

Click the link below to check out the stuff:

http://www.noonprop8store.com/eshop/10Browse.asp

Rick

[Zerbie]

Thank you for the perspective, Rick!

That's encouraging. :):D

You see, I just got home from a beautiful sunset stroll through our very peaceful, quiet neighborhood. The sun was going down in a gold-plated sky. Trees looked black against the golden clouds. Waking bats had just begun to stir. And along the way, at least ten future souvenirs from the YES! for marriage campaign sprouted out of yards, and several more on car windows. It was taking the joy out of my evening walk, to think that so many in our neighborhood are going to vote to deprive other couples of the incredible joy that my husband and I share.

But thinking of them as future souvenirs from a time way back in 2008 when gay couples were not allowed to protect their relationships? I can handle that. And imagine when I'm 90, telling the teenagers and 20-somethings, "Back when I was your age. . . ." and how those kids will hardly be able to believe that people ever lived like this.

[Rick336]

Thank you for the perspective, Rick!

That's encouraging. :):D

You see, I just got home from a beautiful sunset stroll through our very peaceful, quiet neighborhood. The sun was going down in a gold-plated sky. Trees looked black against the golden clouds. Waking bats had just begun to stir. And along the way, at least ten future souvenirs from the YES! for marriage campaign sprouted out of yards, and several more on car windows. It was taking the joy out of my evening walk, to think that so many in our neighborhood are going to vote to deprive other couples of the incredible joy that my husband and I share.

But thinking of them as future souvenirs from a time way back in 2008 when gay couples were not allowed to protect their relationships? I can handle that. And imagine when I'm 90, telling the teenagers and 20-somethings, "Back when I was your age. . . ." and how those kids will hardly be able to believe that people ever lived like this.

Wow. Zerbie. I really like the way you use words to paint a picture of your evening walk. Very nice description.

Yep. These are souvenirs from 2008. Anybody who has ever toured the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC knows how important historic memorabilia is. Imagine owning a campaign sign from President Kennedy's presidential campaign or a protest sign from the Historic 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech. These "No to Prop 8" signs and buttons and those supporting prop 102 in Arizona will hold the same value to American history.

2008 is one of those years that will probably be on the cover of Time Magazine in thirty years with the headline "The Year that Changed America". Look at what's going on around us. The very first African American man has won a presidential nomination. And if he wins on November 4th, it will be in every history book for centuries to come.

Just four weeks ago Americans were cheering Michael Phelps as he raced across the pool in Beijing and took home a record eight gold medals. His face plastered magazine covers everywhere. The following week a record crowd of 84,000 cheered Barack Obama's moving acceptance speech from a packed stadium in Denver. Then came Sarah Palin and the news media fell all over itself putting her in the spotlight.

Last week news was filled with accusations and heated rhetoric about lipstick on a pig and the investigation of a possible cover up in Sarah Palin's Alaska office.

This past week alone there's been so much history making news the news programs couldn't fit it all in. The OJ Simpson trial story had to be shoved to the back as a monster hurricane slammed into the Texas coast and the stock market plummeted almost 1,000 points. Millions lay awake worried about their 401Ks. Thousands suddenly found themselves without a job. The government rushed to fix the crack in the dam while a million in Houston were still in the dark. The stock market was in shambles, Galveston was in ruins, and 26 lay dead from a train wreck in LA.

And all over California the right-wing religious community was scrambling to stop same sex marriage as thousands of LGBT volunteers knocked on doors and thousands more staged massive demonstrations in the streets. And all across the country gays are rushing to California like never before to legally marry before November 4th.

Meanwhile, the airwaves are full of presidential campaign ads blaming and accusing and slinging the mud while millions of campaign volunteers descend on neighborhood across the country. News commentators argue back and forth while Tina Fey portrays Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live to roars of laughter.

It's like we're all on a wild roller coaster ride. One week we're cheering our heroes, the next week we're fighting among ourselves, the next week we're scared to death. I'm in my late 50s and it's been a long time since I've seen anything like this.

So grab the souvenirs and hang on tight because 2008 is a ride that we won't soon forget.

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Rick