Hey Kids - It's the Queer Day Mailbag!
· #1: Remember the shootings nightmare earlier this month at Puzzles Lounge? A fund has been set up for the victims. Send donations to: St. Anne's Credit Union, Puzzles Victim Fund, P.O. BOX 0 (zero), Fall River, MA 02724.
· #2: Garrett, a long time reader of Queer Day, writes: "Can you help spread the word that the GLBT-SA at the University of North Carolina is hosting the 4th annual UNITY Confernce on April 7th-9th and already over 150 students have registered!" Consider it done Garrett and it's great to see the such hardcore support from the administration.
·: #3: Hey Philo! Glad I found the site....Thank you for the time and effort you put into it - a refreshing blend of serious news with items that give me the giggles! I thought it was great that you put the spotlight on Coretta Scott King at the time of her passing - truly a woman who deserves to be honored by the Gay community.
Now that she's gone, I have real concerns about how the daughter and niece are going to twist the King legacy to suit their own homophobic agendas. I don't think it's racist to note that many of the King's supporters came from the Black, Southern Baptist Church - millions of them in fact. This
organization is NOT known for it's acceptance and tolerance of Gay folk.....
Frightening as it is to think of it, a large percentage of the King's followers are ripe for the picking and the aforementioned relatives are going to make the most of this opportunity to recruit millions of people to their homophobic way of thinking. That's just not going to help us at ALL! They may not
LIKE us now, but with a Fire and Brimstone preacher named King leading them they'll surely HATE us within a very few short years.
And then they'll go to the voting booths.....
What can we do? I know you're not a political leader or anything, but you DO have a voice that is being heard. Can you work to shine a light on the doings of these two prejudiced women, both past and present, thus helping to get our community worked up to the point where we are willing to fight to preserve the King legacy of equality for all?
Listen Honey, you are NOT the only one I'm laying this heavy ass trip on. I know I've got to do my part - Strangely, Oprah has yet to respond...... So as a journalist, and a damn fine one, I hope you'll look into this and do what you can.
Thanks again,
J. Clerkin-Whitcomb
Philo responds: I hear you loud and clear. Given the mountain of information for Queer Day to cover I regularly draw the line at stories that have a clear LGBT specific angle to them. I'll be keeping my eye out for them, and the rest of you - do keep an eye on the legacy.
Comments
Thanks! Really apperciate it.
Posted by Garrett Hall? on February 22, 2006 10:29 AM
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