Stars of Stage and Screen Turn Out for Family Equality Council
The 2014 Olympic Games may be 6,887 miles away in Sochi, Russia, but the rock stars, actors and producers at the Family Equality Council Los Angeles Awards Dinner Saturday night at the Globe Theatre in Universal City felt a keen sense of camaraderie with frightened LGBT Russians being harassed and hunted on the other side of the globe.
Just before the gala, Family Equality Council launched an effort—#ToSochiWithLove—to “show our love and support for LGBT families in Russia” through photos and personal expressions on social media.
But Family Equality Council’s support for LGBT Russians and the success of its Feb. 8 awards dinner may indicate a more pronounced shift in the LGBT movement toward a greater recognition of the importance of LGBT families. And while there are a number of important family-oriented organizations, the Family Equality Council may have just catapulted from support group to the most prominent national family organization on the LGBT scene. The FEC event was sold out with 500 tickets selling for $500+, raising $571,000 from tickets, sponsors, an auction and other donations. Additionally, event co-chair producer and actor (Scandal) Dan Bucatinsky pitched an online raffle—for $10 you could win free a trip to Los Angeles, dinner with Bucatinsky and some of the cast from Scandal and a Brooks Brothers shopping spree. (Go to Omaze.com/experiences/scandal).
For many in the audience, there was a deep subliminal understanding that they represent the last psychological barricade to overcoming the myth that gay men and lesbians are not sexual predators and can be—and have the right to be—loving parents to children in a family of their own.
Read the rest, please do. Oh please do!
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"I'm gonna start an uprising of love!"~ Melissa Etheridge
Etheridge said:
Is it just me or are we everywhere now? …All that hard work we did for 20 years. ... It seems just days after [the DOMA decision], and all of a sudden reports started coming from Russia. What? Time to put on our superhero capes again.
We’ve got to go do it again, because it’s not just us—it’s a movement. It is a serious movement. I think, if we look back on it, us gays … [digression about 'gay’ versus 'LGBTQ'] … I think that for the past 20 years, we’ve just happen to be at the forefront of an amazing change in humanity. People will look back at it and go, 'Thank God the gays were so organized.' [Much laughter]
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Gotta call it a night myself.
Thank You!
the Family Equality Council in Los Angeles, she. 
Just want to kick this now.. I'm sorry I won't be able to read it all.. looking forward to it..
I can tell you that I like this very much.. it's so awesomely true..
"I think that for the past 20 years, we’ve just happen to be at the forefront of an amazing change in humanity. People will look back at it and go, 'Thank God the gays were so organized."
Gotta go myself.
I need sleep so that I can shovel snow tomorrow!
See ya later today~
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What a night last night and day today.. I'm here in my warm fleece that I got out of storage. Not complaining .. just relating. 
Hope were okay after the shoveling! 
The plow never came through until 4:45pm. It had been snowing since 8AM.
I talked to Cindy and she said they had School in upstate New York 'cause the storm didn't start until around 10am. And, she doesn't know if it will be a snow day tomorrow. Maybe a two hour delay.
The kids really don't want to miss their Valentine's Party! 
Yet the store didn't close til 5pm.
You have enough on your mind, so I will not go into details about my day.
Cha
May the kids have a sweet valentines day!
day so I don't have to think or feel mine. 
There's nothing I can do about it anyway and I'm not thinking about it.. just a over encompassing feeling that needs to go away and the sooner the better .. btw, I edited my post you replied to because I left out "hour".
Yes, here's to the Kids being able to be with their school buddies on V-Day! 
SheShe!
