Equal Rights should not be a luxury where only certain people benefit or represent it. In this video you see the beauty of support in coming home to love ones that share the same common thing. Love. Love has no gender, no gender should decide who to love. Homecoming, Courtesy of mikebuonaiuto. Thank ...
John Lyron Burnside Inventor, Activist, Pioneer.
... through-out Seattle. By his teenage years he enrolls himself into the Navy and served until he decides to call Los Angeles home. For many, many years John L. Burnside was paid royalties from any company that sold a optically correct Darkfield Kaleidoscope in the United States (since he was the one that re-discovered the math behind the Teleidoscope). In the early 1960′s he meets Harry Hay and they form a gay rights group named the Circle Of Loving Companions that promoted love and equal rights. During 1966 they were in the front line of one of the first protest/march [...]
Queer Rising Stops Traffic in Manhattan Pushing for Equal Rights to Marry
Eight activist (from Queer Rising: Kevin Beauchamp, Nora Camp, Natasha Dillon, Frostie Flakes aka Adam Siciliano, Jake Goodman, Honey LaBronx aka Ben Strothmann, Eugene Lovendusky, Kitten Withuwip aka Caldwell) for gay marriage were arrested this morning in Manhattan on 42nd Street & Sixth Avenue for carrying a yellow banner (NY Demands Marriage Equality Now!) across 42nd st. and bringing traffic to a holt. Here we have a small video courtesy of channel 11 news WPIX in New York City of the event in Manhattan. ...
Our Agenda, Love, Equality, Pride 1970
... West hosting the first L.A. pride event in celebration of Stonewall. 1978 A.D. San Francisco, Ca: Harvey Milk the first openly gay person elected to the Board of Supervisors (City Council) in San Francisco, California. 1980 A.D. Washington D.C.: HRC founded the Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest Civil Rights Organization working to achieve GLBT equality by inspiring and engaging all Americans. 1996 A.D. Washington D.C.: President Clinton speaks out in support for Gay marriage and equal rights at HRC event. 1996 A.D. Washington D.C.: President Clinton signs the DOMA Bill which defines marriage between a man and a [...]
Gay Marriage Is Not About Equal Rights. It Is About Love.
... have such a bond. It is special. It is love. When a man and a woman get married, no one blinks an eye. If two men or two women do the same, then many people do not approve. They claim that it is not right or that it soils the real meaning of marriage. What is the real meaning of marriage? The answer to that question is in line one of this article. It is because they love each other. Does it matter if the couple is gay or straight? Should it matter? No! After all, why should it. [...]
I Was Counted! 1993
... original “Keep Your Promise Bill!” button and still has the sticker “I Was Counted!” from the March on Washington on the other side, dated April 25th, 1993 (The year we met 17 years ago). Sticker says “I Was COUNTED! April 25, 1993 – March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and BI (missing Transgender, which also need equal rights & liberation) equal rights and liberation. Button was contributed to backinthegays.com by my friend/lover/partner/extended family member Rob, Thank you baby. Contributed to backinthegays.com by Robert, Thank you. Rob’s 1993 “I Was Counted!” sticker from March In Washington, contributed to ...
April 25th 1993 I Can’t Even March Straight
... the television series Bewitched. Melissa Etheridge, singer, songwriter, activist and musician. Judith Light, Actress (Who’s the Boss, Ugly Betty), speaker and gay rights activist. Ulvashi Vaid, Gay Rights Activist. Rupaul, Drag performer,singer, songwriter, actor. Martina Navratilova, Tennis player, gay rights activist. Sir Ian McKellen, Actor, gay rights activist. Cybill Shepherd, Actor, gay rights activist. Below is the Platform of the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation Action Statement Preamble to the Platform. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender movement recognizes that our quest for social justice fundamentally links us to the struggles [...]