Let’s put some fun in our own fundamentalism! Use your imagination! Tell us some of the witty, gay civil protests you’ve done, here in the HA (Humor Activism) Corner!
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April 1, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
65 yr old working in recovery after retiring from hospital administration 3 yrs ago. Love what i am now doing. came out at 28 and never looked back. Last Sept my partner died and when my 37 year old son called to offer condolences he mentioned that Carol was my 3rd partner to die. I acknowledged that fact and told him I was thinking of “going straight” to which he replied “Don’t fuck me up now”.
April 27, 2009 @ 11:02 am
Back in the early 60’s, after reading The Grapevine, I was ready to join my first lesbian group (DOB). They were located in an alley way where the Fashion Institute of Technology now stands. There was almost no literature and no “how to” books. I didn’t know how a group of lesbians would dress so I figured a man tailered shirt, men’s pants and a very short haircut would be just right. I got to the meeting to find woman dressed just like my co-workers…except for Shirley Willer, I felt almost out of place.
April 27, 2009 @ 11:25 am
Minor activism humor story: I’m getting marrried to my gal in 1 week — relatives not invited. Took my lady to meet my mother. Mother’s first comment, “oh my god! How can I still play the organ at the church?” My answer, “Mom, you’ll be the first mother in town that admits having a gay daughter. Popularity comes with success. Your social calendar just improved by 150%, thanks to me and my gal.”
April 27, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
please help publizie the campainge to end dont ask dont tell—-join and support–knights out org.—–rachel maddow does
July 2, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
We didn’t mean it to be funny. Dan Choi and I have been friends since we started Knights Out (GLBT West Point grads) in March. After Rachel Maddow interviewed him, it got crazy, and I volunteered to help manage his schedule in my free time. Tuesday he went to his discharge board in Syracuse – other than his attorney, there was me (50 year old dyke, West Point ’80 grad, 200 lbs but i’m big-boned); my partner Penny (much smaller, in a scooter due to MS) and our friend Margaret (West Point ’89). We got on post behind Dan because Margaret was in uniform. We got to the building and unloaded the scooter. Suddenly consternation. A sergeant runs out of the building. “Ma’am, are you on the witness list? No? then you have to leave!” I continued helping Penny get the scooter turned around and said, “We’re just here to support Dan.” “No, ma’am, you don’t have official business here.” Margaret comes up in uniform, and says softly, “The board isn’t official business?” A crowd of soldiers gathers. One or two of those in uniform seem concerned, but many are clearly bemused. “We’re just gonna hang out here, okay?” says Margaret. Penny in her scooter looks determined. Now there’s about a dozen soldiers… then in rolls the SECURITY GUARDS. Two squad cars! With lights flashing! Mr. Beefy McNightstick approaches us, “YOU NEED TO LEAVE NOW!” “Can’t we just stand out here?” asks Margaret. “DO YOU WANT TROUBLE?” roars Mr. B.M. Now there is both eye-rolling and embarrassment among most of the uniformed guys. After a bit more conversation, we brought over the van, unrolled the ramp, loaded Penny back on, and were escorted by a military policeman back out of the gate… right into the arms of Channel 10! (I swear I saw the MP wink when he left us!).
Margaret emailed the goings-on to her friend in Iraq, who quickly responded, “So THAT’S why we went to ThreatCon 3!” Three middle-aged women on a National Guard base in Syracuse clearly constitute a homeland security threat…
February 16, 2010 @ 12:40 am
My favorite piece of activism is to get all born-again gay when the Jehovah’s Witnesses and others come calling. I gleefully admit to the sin of homosexuality and testify about how much closer I feel to god since I stopped lying to myself and to others, that god doesn’t want me to lie does he? If you can do this with an unhealthy level of earnestness and a born-again glint in your eye it is extremely effective and I’ve never found a door-to-door god salesperson able to argue with my passion and enthusiasm, plus it scares the hell out of them.
February 16, 2010 @ 1:25 am
The day before the latest March on Washington in October, (and you looked fabulous, Kate!) my partner and I were doing a bit of sightseeing when we came upon a group of religious fanatics with their bullhorn and huge sign condemning homosexuality. Right on Constitution Avenue. There were a few hundred mostly young people across the street, catcalling and the like.
We stepped right in front of them into the middle of Constitution Avenue – completely stopping traffic – and gave each other a lip-lock, tonsil-tickle the likes of which haven’t been seen since doing the same thing years before in front of Phred Phelps and his video camera crew in San Francisco.
The crowd went ballistic, completely drowning out the morons with the bullhorn.
Finally coming up for air, we smiled and waved at the dumbfounded dummies before turning our backs on them and heading arm-in-arm into the cheering crowd.
Street Theatre is a lot of fun.
February 16, 2010 @ 3:24 am
My mother’s a**hole pastor tells her she is going to hell because I am gay. I was about to get into a fist o’ cuffs with him, when my mother turned to him and said, “Don’t you wish you were as blessed.”
June 24, 2013 @ 11:18 pm
Love it! Your mom is awesome.
May 25, 2010 @ 3:24 pm
George Allen–he of the macaca–and the anti-marriage amendment were fought at the same time in Va. In little old Harrisonburg, George and the state version of Focus on the Family invited folks to a rally to “support” marriage. We accepted their kind invitation, and supported marriage by having a wedding right there in the middle of Court Square. As we had our sweet little ceremony, all of the press covered us, and George et al. could speak of nothing else. My partner, an 80 year-old former P.E. teacher and every baby dyke’s dream woman, wore a white velour warm-up suit. What else? I, a failed Southern lady, wore black silk. Flowers from the local grocery store were tied with rainbow ribbons. The bride’s maid [bride’s woman? partner’s woman?], perhaps the last living femme, bought a pink flowered skirt and pink heels for the occasion. The best man, an old coot of a straight man whom we have adopted as an Honorary Lesbian, held the umbrella. Perhaps the best part for us was that six of the leaders of the Dems in the area called us the night before the wedding and begged us not to do it. They feared a backlash, feared a loss by Webb, and believed we would destroy the local Democratic Party. What power! But as many straight people as LGBTQ’s came to support us, and we all had a wonderful time as we made our commitments to one another. Mad vow disease indeed! We are a couple of old feminists who know that the only purpose of marriage is to oppress women–hardly the issue of choice for our entire “movement.” To have a “movement,” doesn’t someone or something have to be MOVING? I’ve been told that we are in the post-feminist era, but whatever happened to changing the world? I guess we are content if we can get married and send “our” men to maim and kill half of the third world. Thus, the story of our most fun little bit of activism.
February 16, 2011 @ 2:29 am
What a great story! Keep fighting the good fight, and don’t buy that “post-feminist era” BS! The younger women of today will swallow that sort of thing because it absolves them of having to fight for anything -especially equality because they’ve been trash-talked into believing such tripe about their gender & women’s contributions to our society. Don’t believe me? Go to the US Chamber’s website and look at the crap they spew about women there. It’s appalling!
Dems have let so many of us down by waffling & basically taking it up the arse from the perceived powers that be. Don’t buy into it, keep moving forward & help remove that satanic assumption that all things progressive are BAD. Who came up with that one anyway??
November 10, 2012 @ 12:25 am
I have a lot of faith in the young women I know. They are a bit ignorant of the fights we fought, but they are brave, cheerful and strong, and a lot of them are bravely, cheerfully, casually bi or at least gay friendly. That even goes for a lot of the young men I know. Give ’em a chance.
June 29, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
We live in a small town in central WI and building on Kate’s idea of going to straight weddings (no relations) and standing up to say “No one should be free to marry until we are all free to marry!”, we have decided to go to all of the little parish festivals in our area and drink beer and play bingo while holding hands the whole time. We are waiting to see how long it takes to get kicked out but mostly we get stares and hushed stage whispers. i encourage everyone to do the same. Visibility at all costs as Harvey F. would say.
July 11, 2010 @ 4:39 pm
Some years ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I was looking through threads at JohnnyCash.com when one caught my eye. It was only 3 posts long then, and it had to do with whom the original poster thought would be appropriate members for the website = among the reprobates “queers not needed nor wanted” or something to that effect.
Without thinking, I hit reply and came out to over 10,000 people, “So, you don’t want me here? Johnny didn’t have a problem with gay people, so what’s up with your attitude?”
FOUR days later, the thread was into its 20th-some page, and the manager of the site finally froze it. I would NOT give up, and I was delighted and truly surprised by the amount of support I was shown. Even one of Johnny’s daughters got into the fray, agreeing that her dad even had gay people on his staff, and would not have appreciated homophobia from his fans, especially on ‘his’ website, where the world could read this thread that did not reflect his views.
After the brew-ha-ha died down, my mailbox was still overflowing. I came to realize just how many people were involved: I ended up receiving mail from all over the world (Japan; Norway; Australia; Florida) (hehehe…).
I think I’m covered for “Coming Out Day” through 2032.
July 16, 2010 @ 1:32 am
I went to my state representative to discuss the gay marriage topic. He actually looked at me and said “My concern is that is gays get married, they will adopt children and FORCE them to be gay.” Well, silly me tried to reason with this statement……where upon he advised me sarcastically that “maybe I should move to some place more enlightened”. Well, bully for him…perhaps I should.
February 16, 2011 @ 2:21 am
LOL, I would’ve looked him straight in the eye and without blinking stated very firmly, in an unwavering voice, that no, moving was out of the question, but that I would stay & support the election of more enlightened representatives.
November 20, 2010 @ 4:52 am
I’m a white ally to people of color, and I often do subway activism. A few days ago, I was in the subway here in NYC during rush hour. We emerged from underground – there are stations above-ground in my neighborhood – and some guy started talking on his cell phone, very loudly, spewing racial epithets about the Chinese folks who surrounded him. I couldn’t see him from where I was sitting b/c it was so crowded. Another white woman and I exchanged a glance, and she looked at me like, “oh well, what can you do?” and gave a tiny shrug. I was all, HELL no! There is PLENTY I can do! So I grabbed my bag and worked my way through the crowd. When I found the guy, I said softly, inches from his face, “The racist language stops now.” He was startled and confused. I repeated, softly and calmly, “The racist language stops now.” And you know what? It did.
As they tell us on the subway, over and over again, “If you see something, say something.”
November 20, 2010 @ 7:10 am
Here’s my bit of humourous activism – made my very first video for youtube – hope you like it Kate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkD3Slx023A
December 10, 2010 @ 12:19 am
I have a few on my blog but I like
this series of three on schmatas. The Ocean Grove, NJ area was told that
gays can’t “marry” there where others have on this quaint boardwalk area
in site of the ocean:
http://thedailyneurotic.com/27/schmatas-a-case-for-same-sex-marriage-part-1-of-3/
http://thedailyneurotic.com/30/schmatas-a-case-for-same-sex-marriage-23/
http://thedailyneurotic.com/?s=schmata
But I also have this, I am a Ghost – both, if you knew me, stem from my
mother – her love of schmatas and then in I am a ghost, she’s in there
too:
http://thedailyneurotic.com/64/i-am-a-ghost/
December 22, 2010 @ 3:15 am
Many years ago, during gay pride, I was crossing the main intersection with a friend where 2 people on boxes were damning us all to hell. I walked up to them and told them and told them I was a minister. I was promptly told I was damned to hell twice, then moved along by a police officer.
February 10, 2011 @ 3:56 am
Hubby and I say the “husband” word everywhere everyday everyhow, since it’s the only honest word to describe us, having married in Canada in 2003.
We’re Americans so we’re legal strangers across our homeland USA. This is our 35th anniversary year, together in love since 1976.
The looks we get when the ‘husband’ word rolls off our tongue(s) sooooo matter-of-factly in every situation every day every hour every second (just like heterosexuals flaunt that word and the ‘wife’ word)…. well, the looks are usually truly hilarious!
February 10, 2011 @ 4:41 am
Kate I always think back to the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans that you were a reporter for Gay Cable Network and I was a director. Working for Lou Maletta and covering the hypocrisy of the convention was too funny! You made it even funnier! It was one of the best times of my young activist life!! I smile every time I think of how we made those dark times bearable by pointing out how funny those bigots were with saying things like “It just doesn’t fit” and then seeing so many supposed “straight”guys out cruising Bourbon St. when the day was done! Ah those were the days! {;-) }
February 16, 2011 @ 2:17 am
This IS a great memory! We really only survive because we laugh at the absurdity of it all….thanks!
February 10, 2011 @ 5:21 am
Whenever the Jehovah’s Witnesses come knockin’, I ask them what’s the bigger sin -that I’m a lesbian, or that I’m Catholic? ba-dum-bump….this almost always dispatches them without me ever having to crack a bible!
My best friend, who passed away in 2008, was a pre-op TG (m/f) atheist. She got so tired of the JW’s knocking at her door that one day she greeted them in her very short & slinky robe. When they asked her if she’d heard the word of God, she slowly untied the sash on her robe to reveal body parts which I’m sure were extremely alarming & confusing to the evangelists! Needless to say, my friend said they never bothered her again.
She also performed at a local club, and both men and women -whether straight or gay- found her fascinating. In the process of flirting, the subject of straight and gay invariably came up, to which my friend always replied, “I just assume everybody’s gay until they tell me different!”
RIP, Nicole. I miss you and your craziness. This life isn’t as much fun without you. Keep the motor running on that heavenly yacht, and I’ll look forward to laughing & cruising with you again one day…..
February 15, 2011 @ 3:54 am
My partner was born and raised as a member of the LDS (mormon) church. When we lived in Seattle the missionaries would come visitng us on her birthday every year. I would love to greet these pimple faced boys, young enough to be our children with somethign that woulkd make them turn and rapidly leave- like we can’t be in your church because we have woman on woman sex.
April 1, 2011 @ 3:49 am
Not sure if this counts as it’s not a solely queer cause but here in the UK there’s been lots of actions lately about the cuts to public spending etc and anger over the way they are disproportionately affecting women and the less well off. UKuncut have been occupying bank buildings and setting up temporary libraries, galleries, clinics, nurseries etc in their branches for as many hours as they’re able – as these are the type of thing being threatened by cuts. At the recent national demo I went along as a card-carrying lesbian-mum-public sector working-libarian and busked a few songs to the hundreds of thousands that were there – here’s one I made video to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfbxPu5mQMc
April 1, 2011 @ 9:52 am
We scared off some Jehovah’s recently in a unique way. We have two large dogs (Great Pyrenees)who bark like mad whenever anyone comes to the door. Of course they are really just wanting to greet folks and get the usual treats. One of us can barely hold them both back. My partner held the dogs by their collars while I opened the door and said “I’m sorry but our dogs are trained to attack people who don’t like lesbians.” As I opened the door wide I said “So are you feeling lucky!” They were gone fast.
May 8, 2011 @ 3:40 am
i work in an elementary school with the third grade. at the beginning of the school year we had a “code of conduct” meeting. the principal talked with the students about bullying, and how people may be different than us, but that doesn’t mean we should tease or call them names. she asked the students to share if they could think of any scenarios that may be examples of this. one student said people of different skin colors might get teased. another said sometimes someone who uses a wheelchair might be made fun of. another shared maybe if people are from different countries. it was at this point that i decided to come out to the third grade. i said “sometimes people say ‘that’s so gay’ or ‘you’re gay’ and that’s not ok. there is nothing wrong with being gay or lesbian, i’m a lesbian and being gay or lesbian is just normal. my kids have two moms, and they shouldn’t get teased.”
well, that was in september, spring forward to april. i sat with two third graders and a second grader at lunch. the third graders whispered something, and the second grader said “i heard what they said! they said GAY!” one third grader responded “no i didn’t! besides, what’s so bad about being gay? it’s just two men that love each other.” the second grader’s eyes widened. then the third grader went on to say, “besides, ms. bg is a lesbian.” the second grader’s eyes widened more, and his jaw dropped as he turned to look at me. “it’s true.” i said. *smile* i love my job.
May 8, 2011 @ 5:55 am
On the anniversary of Roe V. Wade, we have a slumber party in an abortion clinic to prevent it from being vandalized or bombed. We have pizza delivered, rent some movies and invite the press. It’s all good and we have a lot of fun. Still, we are putting our lives on the line for reproductive rights. Remember, if they can tell one kind of woman what she can do with her body, they can tell all women what they can do with their bodies.
June 30, 2011 @ 2:10 am
My wife and I went to a gay pride parade event with our tee shirts that read, “Proud Dad of Gay Son” and “Proud Mom of Gay Son.” We were walking hand in hand passed the people with the hateful signs such as “God Hates Homosexuals and Matthew Shepart now Burning in HELL!” As we got close to them this one guy stepped out in front of us and with his finger pointing at me he said, “Your a Pervert!” I was shocked so I had to ask him… have you been talking to my wife? Ad we turned to leave he said, “Your son is a Sodomite!” I responded, no… he lives in Chicago… so I think that would make him a Chicagoite… or is it Chicagoan… I’m not sure… I don’t think he has ever been to your town… but have a nice day. Now that is part of my stand-up comedy routine.
June 30, 2011 @ 2:16 am
I was in Oregon visiting the folks. A man yelled at me and said “I know what that rainbow flag sticker means, you’re a queer.” I said “Yeah, and that gay car the sticker is on cost more than your mobile home, asshole!” It was probably true too.
November 22, 2011 @ 10:10 pm
One of my favorite memories from the olden days of Act-Up demonstrations in Chicago: When the uniformed cops showed up to drag folks away from a “Die-in” at government offices, they were wearing bright pastel rubber gloves – so as not to touch the AIDS demonstrators as they hauled them away. The SING-SONG chant THAT rose from the group being hauled off was “YOU’RE ON THE EVENING NEWS AND YOUR GLOVES DON’T MATCH YOUR SHOES!”
May 31, 2012 @ 3:35 am
My wife and I, who are 4 years legally married and yet somehow the sky hasn’t fallen, were living in Houston and would have to drive her son’s girl to work. Every Saturday there were these assholes on the corner outside Starbucks with bullhorns and pictures of aborted babies and big signs saying All queers will burn in hell etc and the usual selected quotes from Leviticus. The first time we saw them I was practically crawling out the sunroof I was so incensed and my wife was telling me to calm down, that I wasn’t in NH anymore, this was TX and someone was gonna kill me. So I was fuming about it all day. We went to pick up the kid later that afternoon and they were still there, so my wife pulls over into a lot across the street, traffic was very heavy as we were in the shopping district, I figure she was just going to give them an earful, she waves her arms to get their attention and they wave back thinking we support them. Then my wonderful wife bends me over backwards just like in the movies and gives me a long long long juicy smooch. Now we are no hot young things, we’re both big ole stocky butch gals in our late forties, so no one wants to see this for thrills. There were a couple honks and a whole lot of yelling from the “Christians” but no one tried to kill us or even seemed to care and her sons gf was laughing her arse off. The next time we drove by I had studied my Leviticus and told them that if they wanted to lend any credence to their quotes they’d have to observe all of Leviticus and in that case Jesus really wanted to talk to him about that Walmart cotton-poly blend! A few other times I had my own signs ready, but it got dull quick after all where’s the fun in engaging in a battle of wits with an unarmed man?
May 31, 2012 @ 3:48 am
Two stories: Back in 1976, my older sister & I were vacationing back here in the USA, staying with my grandmother in Phoenix. Early one Saturday morning, the Jehovah’s Witnesses decided to knock on my grandmother’s front door & awaken us. We had been out late the night before, saw the movie, “The Omen” about the anti-christ, no less. As the JWs launched into their “Have you heard the word of the Lord today?” spiel, I rather excitedly began telling them about the movie, how cool it was, etc. As I continued, the JWs began to slowly back out the front door, never to return again. Guess it scared them that I found the concept of the anti-christ so exciting!
Fast-forward to just about oh, 2003. My best friend, now deceased (RIP) was pre-op transgendered (M2F) and a popular perfomer at a local drag club. She was vivacious, sexy, and men & women, straight or gay, found her attractive. She had an athletic build, and one of the best breast-implant jobs I’d ever seen.
She had just gotten up when the JWs knocked on her front door. She wasn’t dressed, was commando under her rather short house robe. As the JWs launched into their routine, she politely stated she did not believe in god, nor the bible for that matter. Instead of being deterred, this only served to enliven the JWs, who continued preaching.
My friend tried once again to politely dismiss them, but they wouldn’t leave. So, just to make her point crystal clear, she let her robe slowly slip open, revealing something I’m sure the JWs were not expecting to see on a woman!
August 13, 2012 @ 2:48 am
Boy Scouts of America
1325 Walnut Hill Lane
P.O. Box 152079
Irving, Texas 75015-2079
To the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America:
Please remove my name from your records as a recipient of the Eagle Scout award, an award I received forty (40) years ago as a member of Troop 502 in Hamburg, New York. I can no longer stand with the National Council and the way it perverts the meanings of the Scout Oath and Law, particularly the words “clean,” “reverent,” and “morally straight.”
I realize that the policy that I am protesting has only been an issue while I have been an adult. I also realize that the policy still reflects of the moral and religious views of some religious denominations whose assistance is important to the organization. I find it curious that those same denominations still face irrational prejudice just for being what they are, yet are blind to the circumstances of another minority population that suffers from irrational prejudice just for being who they are. This year, for instance, a candidate for national office is running through a gauntlet of religious bigots who question whether he can be truly reverent because of his faith, which is a core component of who he is, but is, I would submit, something more mutable than someone’s sexual orientation.
This year we have also seen that pedophilia can be found in the locker rooms of storied college athletic programs. We also know, as if we needed reminding, that pedophilia can be found in the pulpits in churches, some of whom undoubtedly also sponsor scout troops. Yet, it is a stubborn fact that people are not pedophiles because they are homosexual, just as people are not pedophiles because they are assistant football coaches or priests.
I can only guess how difficult it must be to be a gay teenager. One of the most admirable parts of scouting is the fact that it provides an opportunity for a young man to be appreciated simply because of virtue and hard work. A boy who is not particularly athletic, intelligent, or socially adept, and who may even be a victim of bullying in the adolescent world at large, can find a place in scouting where he will be accepted and can excel. It seems particularly unfriendly, discourteous, and unkind to deny the benefits of scouting to a group of young men who may need them most, for a reason unrelated to their character.
As an adult, I have gotten to know a number of gay men. Some of them have accomplished great things and have led exemplary lives. They could be great teachers and leaders for young men, straight and gay, in scouting if scouting’s policy were different.
I know that I am one of many who is returning his badge at this time. We know that we are asking you to make a difficult decision. We ask you to think long and hard about who we are, put yourselves in our shoes and then think about how difficult this decision must have been for us.
For the last time,
Yours in scouting,
David R. Durfee Jr.
cc: Rev. Fred Muir
David R. Durfee Sr.
Dr. Dean MacKinnon
George Johnston, Esq.
Kate Clinton
May 23, 2013 @ 9:27 am
Back when Fred Phelps was only a KC terrorist, I marched with friends supporting equality. As we rounded a corner, Fred and company were there protesting about going to hell. We broke into a rousing chorus of Jesus Loves Me. The look of horror on his face brought me closer to God. Priceless.
June 24, 2013 @ 11:12 pm
I identify as a person capable of being attracting to all genders. I was partnered with a female when I joined The Connecticut Stonewall Speakers, a 501(c)3 dedicated to educating the public about the experiences of LGBT people, and my mother had trouble swallowing this fact. “Oh, so now that you’re living with a woman, you have to be in gay clubs too?”
A few years after my partner and I separated, I started dating a man; when I broke the news to my mother she asked with excitement, “Oh! Does that mean you can’t be the leader of that gay group anymore?”
I said, “No mom, they will let me stay as long as I am cheating on him with a woman.”
“Oh.”
*pause*
“Can’t you just quit so you don’t have to do that?”
June 24, 2013 @ 11:15 pm
*capable of being ATTRACTED.
July 19, 2013 @ 8:54 am
FIGHTING FOR TH RIGHT TO ENTER A GAY BAR AND NOT BE A FAG HAG…THEY KEPT US OUT BECAUSE WE DIDN’T HAVE DRESSES ON, SO WE PUT ON NEWSPAPER SKIRTS, WALKED IN, JUMPED ON THE TABLE AND DID A NORMA RAY…….MANY OF THE MEN WERE OUR FRIENDS AND WE POINTED THIS OUT TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM…..THIS WAS IN THE LATE 70’S EARLY 80’S. THE MEN DID NOT WANT US IN THEIR BARS AND WE HAD NO WHERE TO GO, SO WE SHAMED THEM!!!!!!!!
February 28, 2014 @ 11:14 pm
My favorite activism was in 1988. Operation Rescue was protesting planned parenthood clinics that gave women the right to determine what happens to their own bodies. Some one found out that they had a prayer meeting before their protests. So we all met at 6AM and carpooled to their church prayer meeting. We then rescued them, using a bike lock to lock them into their parking lot and blockading cars from leaving who were parked on the street. One of the church’s neighbors came to help us and told us which people actually lived there. We would let those people through so we didn’t inconvenience them just because they lived next to a right wing church. I have a picture of me being carried off for doing Civil Disobedience with the biggest smile ever on my face.
May 1, 2015 @ 8:27 am
I marched and wrote letters urging the government to allow gays to serve openly in the millinery. (I mean we were practically running the place anyway.)
August 15, 2016 @ 9:28 pm
2008, No on Prop 8. My now wife and I took 2 of our 5 kids to a protest on a busy corner in town. The religious nuts were on the opposite corner. Then 2 of them came over to our corner.One stood right in front of me, basically totally in my way. He wouldnt say a thing. I kept asking him what was he so afraid of and basically being loud as he stood there without saying anything. Our girla had been several feet away getting signs. They looked over and heard me arguing with thia guy. “geez mom, i can’t belive you did that”. well I did and after more time marriage equality became permanent in CA
August 15, 2016 @ 9:59 pm
I loudly berated a protester at a pride festival for only having male figures on his anti-gay signs. I demanded to know where the lesbians are and announced to the gathering crowd that we lesbians have as much right to go to hell as the boys. As my girlfriend dragged me away, I shouted I want to see some lesbians on those signs next year!! Got cheers from the crowd. Left him speechless with his mouth open.
February 17, 2017 @ 7:26 pm
I was working as a supervisor at a post office and was talking to a new supervisor who asked about my husband. I grinned and told him I was gay. He was embarrassed and apologized. It was funny. Later I was my boss came out and I told her what happened. We both were enjoying Rich’s embarrassment when my boss brought up a carrier- her hair was always piled up high and she was really overdressed to carry mail- telling him that Shawnetta used to be a Shawn. He kept saying “No! No!”, while we laughed. She wasn’t, but his reaction was hilarious.
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