I came across this while browsing the news and had to share it. Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd have been together 31 years. They’ve had several commitment ceremonies. On July 3rd they finally had one that was legally recognized as marriage by the state of California. Of course the RRRW still refuse to consider their relationship as valid as opposite sex relationships, and if they have their way in November other couples won’t be able to marry as Tom and Davidson did (and as Sapphocrat and I will be shortly). No, the RRRW has no room in their narrow definition of family for Tom Keegan, Davidson Lloyd and their daughter, and that’s where we all lose out.
For Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd, “I do” has become a phrase they know very well – a phrase they have proclaimed time and time again during commitment ceremonies, informal weddings and unrecognized weddings.
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No longer will Keegan and Lloyd need to conduct wedding ceremonies that are not recognized by law, such as their first wedding in 1989.
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“Things will be different,” Connor Keegan-Lloyd, the 9-year-old adopted daughter said.
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For this same-sex couple, the private wedding ceremony signified a milestone in their long and public fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights that began 31 years ago when the two first fell in love.
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An endless row of shingled houses lines the street of Indiana Avenue. In this muted Venice suburb, a red and orange house stands conspicuously as the home of Lloyd and Keegan. On this day, July 3, 30 friends and family have come inside for the couple’s wedding.
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We need to defeat the Marriage Ban, #8, in November. It’s about love and equality. It’s about telling the RRRW that they do not get to define for everyone what marriage and family are. And for couples like Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd it’s about time.
My better half produced this amazing video from a combination of her footage and some of my still shots captured at the SF Pride Parade and celebration on June 29th. Enjoy.
Diana Hsieh from NoodleFood sent in a letter to the editor concerning proposed theocratic amendments to the Colorado constitution. The letter was published in the Vail Daily.
So head on over there and check it out. You won’t be sorry.
The Gaytheist Agenda now has a moderated Haloscan comment system. Hopefully that will make things faster and more streamlined. As always click “Comment” below the story you want to comment on and follow the instructions. I’ll do the rest. Enjoy!
The San Francisco Pride Parade 2008 was fabulous, to say the least. Let’s start off with this video taken by my wife to be. It’s raw footage of the Womens’ Motorcycle Contingent, including Dykes on Bikes. Notice the wedding gowns on some of them. Yay marriage equality!
Now here is a still of the lovely ladies:
Here’s a really interesting one. Balloon seahorses created by San Francisco’s Balloon Magic.
These are just a few of the many same-sex couple headed families that marched. These are the families that the RRRW bigots ignore when they try to define family for the entire nation. They’re also the ones left out in the cold when those same bigots oppose marriage equality.
Below are Dustin Lance Black, writer of the script for Milk, and Gus Van Sant, director of Milk. You may recall that Sapphocrat and I were unpaid extras in the movie, which is due to be released later this year.
Of course it was already known that Thomas Beatie was going to have a girl, but announcing it is always fun. Thomas and Nancy’s baby was born at a hospital in Bend, OR, on Sunday.
The birth at Bend, Oregon, was natural, according to a source, who discounted earlier reports that Mr Beatie planned to have a Caesarean section.
“She’s really cute, really pretty,” the source told ABC News.
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Mr Beatie sparked an international furore in March after he announced he was pregnant. “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he later told Oprah Winfrey on US televsion.
“It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”
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We found out a few days ago that they finally assigned a number to the Marriage Ban Initiative here and it’s #8 on the ballot. In response, my better half pulled an all nighter and created some new designs. Here they are and as always they’re available on a wide variety of merchandise including clothing, hats, yard-signs, bumper stickers, buttons and more.
There’s also this one, which we wore to Pride this weekend. It got lots of attention and has been selling well the past few weeks.
So there they are. The latest designs to help beat down the hateful anti-marriage amendment. Enjoy!
As I mentioned I’ll be heading to SF this weekend for Pride. Hopefully we’ll see a few of you there. Nonetheless I’ll be sure to get plenty of pictures and fill you in on the happenings. In the meantime I invite you to vow to vote no on the California Marriage Ban. Click below to do it:
You can also join me and Sapphocrat in our boycott of Bolthouse Farms. Their Bolthouse Foundation just gave $100,000 to our enemies. The Newswire has the whole sordid story.
And remember, Equality for All is still looking for volunteers so you can sign up any time, or you can make a donation here if you don’t have the time to volunteer. The bigots are pulling out all the stops and we need all the help we can get.
Sapphocrat and I will be heading into SF this weekend to catch some of the Pride festivities, and also to volunteer for Equality for All. There is so much to be done to defeat the November Marriage Amendment Ballot Initiative. Equality for All is still looking for volunteers to help out, so if you’re available this weekend or anytime between now and November click the link and sign up.
From 3-6pm Sunday we’ll be with Equality for all. Earlier in the afternoon and later in the evening we’ll be elsewhere mingling and having fun. We’ll be wearing our CAN I VOTE ON YOUR MARRIAGE NOW? T-Shirts, and we’ll be handing out matching buttons until we run out. Hope to see you there!
It’s bad enough when the RRRW has to stick their noses in everything that goes on here, but it goes beyond the pale when they push their homophobia into the lives of our neighbors across the pond. Heinz corporation had this wonderful ad depicting family life where the parents just happened to be two men.
Apparently the folks at American Family Association have decided that even in foreign nations they get to define what a family is, and what goes into commercials. After receiving 200 complaints Heinz pulled the commercial from the air. Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out appeared on CNN to defend the ad.
The Headline News segment included Randy Sharp of the AFA, who claimed that the ad promoted a homosexual lifestyle: “What does mayonnaise have to do with homosexuals and their lifestyle?” Sharp claimed that 70,000 AFA supporters in the United States disagreed with the ad.
How is it that 70,000 American AFA supporters in the US even saw the ad to determine that they disagreed with it? I smell BS.
Business marketing analyst Dan Hill said Heinz was right to pull the ad. Hill said:
“In business you can never afford to forget that the bottom line is that ‘family values’ means ‘my family, not your family,’ and I think in the UK most households have traditional family structures.”
Well, perhaps Heinz could rely on “traditional families” to buy their products then since they’re obviously not opposed to throwing us aside to cater to them (which is par for the course really). There are plenty of other brands out there.
