So we’re in the holiday season – for some a time of joy, others a time for patiently enduring family gatherings and frigid weather.  But this year, many LGBT Americans have a ready-made New Year’s resolution: do all that we can to reach out to those who voted, or would vote, to deny us our fundamental freedoms (like happened in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas this year).  If that’s on your wish list, I’ve got a suggestion for how to get started.

Go see Milk, and take your family with you.  Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (who also worked with Republicans Against 8 to craft two of our anti-8 web ads) has created a masterpiece of a film that deserves to be seen far and wide.  With a significant focus on the fight against the anti-gay Briggs Initiative (the same initiative whose opposition gave rise to Log Cabin when our founders worked to obtain Gov. Reagan’s opposition to that discriminatory law) it couldn’t be more relevant to today’s debate.  And with many of us looking for some way to connect with our families this holiday season, it couldn’t come at a better time.

See the film, get inspired, and share this part of our collective story… a story that most people, even our best straight allies, just don’t know.  Then share your own story.  That’s how real change will be made.  Give it a try – you’ve gotta have hope.

-posted by Casey Pick

Posted: December 29th, 2008 under On the Lighter Side.
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