[lavender] Fwd: We Need Your Stories

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: MassEquality Update Team <Info at Massequality.org>
To: abolishpoverty at aol.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:37:46 -0400
Subject: We Need Your Stories
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*Please Read, Take Action and Forward

*

Dear Lisa,

Your story can make the difference!
www.MassEquality.org/May17/share/<http://www.mebuilder.com/12/lt/t_go.php?i=124&e=MTQyNzgw&l=http://www.massequality.org/May17/share/>

August 19th is the deadline to participate in a very important undertaking: 
the MassEquality �One Year of Marriage Equality� testimony book.

We want to use August 24th -- the date of the next constitutional convention 
-- as an opportunity to share with legislators the stories of married 
couples, their families, friends and all supporters of marriage equality 
(the discriminatory amendment will not be considered at this convention). 

*You have a unique story to share with our lawmakers. You have a personal 
story to share about why marriage equality matters to you. In our 
experience, nothing has been more effective in getting legislators to 
rethink their positions than hearing from same-sex couples and supporters of 
marriage equality about what a difference marriage has made in their lives. 
You have lived through this momentous time and your legislators need to know 
how your life has changed and why we can not go back.*

MassEquality is compiling a book of personal stories from same-sex couples, 
their parents, children, clergy, friends, and allies that we will put 
together and hand-deliver to legislators. It will help them appreciate and 
recognize the struggles and challenges that committed gay and lesbian 
couples have faced in the past, the importance of marriage equality in so 
many different ways, and the myriad of reasons why people from all walks of 
life support equal marriage rights. 

We need YOU to participate. Would you please write a short personal 
testimonial explaining why you support marriage equality and what the first 
year of marriage equality has meant for you? Gay or non-gay, young or old, 
everybody has a story to tell.

Submit your story by August 19th, along with up to three high-resolution 
digital photos through our website by visiting 
www.MassEquality.org/May17/share/<http://www.mebuilder.com/12/lt/t_go.php?i=124&e=MTQyNzgw&l=http://www.massequality.org/May17/share/>or
emailing
JonMarker at MassEquality.org. 

If you have any questions, please contact field organizer Jon Marker: 
JonMarker at MassEquality.org or 617-878-2313.

Thank you, 

Marc Solomon
Political Director

P.S. Please ask a few friends to write their stories as well. We especially 
could use stories from non-gay allies, clergy, and family members of gays 
and lesbians who have married.

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