Six days…
Me, getting ready to march in Boston’s Pride parade. Photo taken by Chris Mason.
Ten years!
That’s how long the people of Massachusetts have been allowed to marry the person they love.
Yes, that’s right.
This year, 2014, we’re celebrating ten years of equal marriage in Massachusetts.
(This December, Jules and Robin will be celebrating their seventh anniversary! We must do something then, too, to celebrate…)
But this month, MassEquality, the group that I worked with — the organization to which I gave all of my earnings from ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, the story of Jules and Robin’s Boston wedding — is having a big celebration, on February 27, 2014, in Boston, and I’m gonna be there.
Ed and Jason and me
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 Dartmouth St, Boston, MA, 02116
For more information visit MassEquality’s website at http://www.massequality.org/events/icons-2014
For tickets: https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/event.aspx?Y=FrZ0S4jyDpVRH4ofKBGDvF4BpDPHdhayiIy5mlTGzevdgzIkPWF1Eg%3d%3d
If you’re in the Boston area, and planning to attend, drop me an email at SuzanneBrockmann @ aol.com so I’ll know to find you in the crowd and say hello!
Ed and I are part of a rather large group of activists who are being honored at this event as “Marriage Champions.” It’s going to be fun to see and catch up with the many people that we worked with (the years we were most involved date from around 2005 through 2008), who’ve gone on to continuing the fight for equality in other parts of the country, with organizations like Freedom to Marry and the Human Rights Campaign.
In 2008, Ed and I moved down to Florida, where we became members of Equality Florida. At first, it was like stepping back into the 1970s. We’d just won equal marriage rights in Massachusetts, but at the first EQFL meeting we went to, the group was celebrating hard-won community ordinances that kept LGBTQ citizens from being evicted or losing their jobs because of their sexual orientation.
Since 2008, Equality Florida has come a long way. In fact, Florida is approaching a tipping point in terms of shaking free from archaic, hateful and exclusionary “values” and beliefs about what a “typical” American family should be or look like.
ICYMI, (in case you missed it) I’ve been blogging for Huffington Posts Gay Voices, in part about my experience of living in Florida, as the mother of a gay son, and about my parents’ appropriate response to the harsh, but sadly true news that their (now former!) church was anti-gay.
Here’re links to my blog at Huffington Post’s Gay Voices (most recent posts at the top):
- The Perfect Wedding: Coming to a church near you
- Silent Night, Homophobic Night . . .
- Dedicated to the One I Love
- Three Beautiful Little Words
- Really Good Sh*t My Mom Says (About Her Gay Grandson)
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