Join the Impact? What impact?
Filed by: Guest Blogger
February 15, 2009 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/02/join_the_impact_what_impact.phpEditors' Note: Guest blogger Elián Maricón is a PhD candidate at a university in an undisclosed location. He lives in an undisclosed location with his life partner and their two chihuahuas (Dick Cheney is fortunately nowhere in sight). Before returning to academia, he was professional do-gooder in San Francisco for many years. Elián is brand new to the blogosphere, and Queers Against Obama is his first blog.
The organizers of Join the Impact missed a rare and possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on the struggle for LTBTQI liberation. pic111.jpgAs you may recall, Join the Impact was the group that impressively mobilized tens of thousands of queers to participate in simultaneous nationwide protests. They put the whole thing together barely a week after a bizarre, pathologically dishonest, tax-evading cadre of magic underwear-clad cultists (a.k.a. "Mormons") successfully purchased the passage of Prop 8 via a multimillion dollar campaign of fear-mongering and lies. These protests took place in every state in the country, even in obscure small towns in states like Arkansas and Mississippi. That was an unprecedented achievement in LGBT activism, or at least for LGBT activism during my lifetime.
