Equality California Just Doesn't Get It - You Have To Say The Words
by: Autumn Sandeen
Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 13:00:00 PM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8486Okay, I admit that I'm perhaps a little sensitive when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Whenever I hear lesbian and gay without bisexual and transgender from a lesbian or gay person, I hear "exclusion." It's not really always exclusion -- sometimes it's just people not regularly dealing with bisexual and transgender people so these folk leave out the folk they don't interact with, and sometimes it's just genuine ignorance about the diversity of our broad, alphabet soup community.
But, I didn't expect what I saw in an email I received from Equality California (EQCA) yesterday (Tuesday, December 2, 2008). After all the LGBT grassroots' expressions of displeasure regarding the No On Prop 8 Campaign's not running one single campaign commercial featuring any lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people in relationships, one of the lead organizations of the No On Prop 8 Campaign's coalition sent out an email on Prop 8 that didn't use the terms lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender in the body of their e-letter.
Instead, the e-letter signed by Geoff Kors -- the executive director of EQCA -- used the market tested language of "freedom to marry" and "equal protections of a minority". This is language that doesn't identify the actual minorities impacted by Prop 8. Take a read at the email's body and see for yourself:
