Equal Roots Coalition: Organizing in the aftermath of Prop 8

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/our_fight_for_gay_rights.php
December 8, 2008 1:30 PM

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Matthew Palazzolo is the co-founder of Equal Roots Coalition, a new group formed in response to the passage of Prop 8 in California. A new LGBT activist, Palazzolo is also a video artist and an actor.

"I came out to my parents at 13.

At 16, my father tried to heal the many wounds that we had inflicted upon each other since then by giving me a rainbow flag. I rejected it. I threw it in my closet - why he wasn't giving my brother a straight flag?

I didn't know it at that moment, but those words I said were representative of the gap between both my father and I and the gap between the present-day LGBT community and equality.