NYC Area DU'ers: Marriage Equality Rally on Sunday

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Please come and join us and show your support!


Host: Western Queens for Marriage Equality
Date: Sunday, May 31, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Athens Park in Astoria (take the N/W train to 30th Avenue)
Street: 30th Avenue & 30th Street

"Thanks for making the Prop 8 rally such a success- now we will be continuing NYS efforts for marriage equality with a rally this Sunday in Queens.

Come show your support for equality, meet up with fellow activists from Queens, hear music from Broadway stars (names TBA), and hear from government officials and members of our community who support marriage equality.

State Senator George Onorato, who represents much of Western Queens, currently opposes marriage equality but our work got us a meeting with him this past Thursday...so lets keep it up!

Senator Huntley, Senator Padavan, and Senator Addabbo of Queens currently oppose marriage equality. Senator Monsorrate is a supporter but not yet listed as a co-sponsor. Also, the Senate Majority Leader, Malcolm Smith, is a Queens senator. So, Let's show these Queen's Senators that there is public support for marriage equality!

This rally is sponsored by Marriage Equality New York and Western Queens for Marriage Equality (a coalition of groups including: Democracy for New York City, Long Island City Alliance, New York State Young Democrats, Queens County Young Democrats, the Jewish Alliance for Change, IntegrityNYC, Marriage Equality New York, Broadway Impact, Civil Rights Front, The Power, Civil Marriage Trail Project, OUT Astoria, Astorians United Against Hate Crimes and Astorians United for Peace and Justice).

Western Queens for Marriage Equality is a coalition group that believes marriage is a human right that should be available to all New Yorkers, regardless of sexual orientation. In the words of Mildred Loving, the woman whose courage made interracial marriage legal throughout America, marriage is about "the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. support the freedom to marry for all."

[SacredCow]

1. Give 'em hell!

:hug:

[Chovexani]

2. I'll try to make it

It's a pain in the ass getting to Astoria from my part of Brooklyn though.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. You get a KICK... and a maybe.

I'll make the rally if I can. Odd time of day and it will require some schedule juggling but the rally itself seems intelligently planned to bring maximum pressure on the following potential evil doers:

>>>Senator Huntley, Senator Padavan, and Senator Addabbo of Queens currently oppose marriage e>>>>

In other words.... bringing the pressure to the place where it will do the most good.

Also... it's mercifully short.... two hours. Thank you, organizers.