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Reasons For Pride 2013
Because everyone has a gay, bi, or trans family member
As more people come out, straight folks realize that LGBT rights are more than just some abstract issue. It’s about their cousins, siblings, and children. This helps legitimize LGBT rights, especially for conservatives like Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts, whose lesbian cousin Jean Podrasky had a seat waiting for her during this spring’s hearings on Proposition 8. Republican U.S. senator Rob Portman, who had opposed marriage equality, now says his son Will Portman, who’s gay, led him to become the first sitting GOP senator to support equal marriage rights. And we can tell that Republican congressman Matt Salmon’s gay son, Matt R. Salmon, who endured years of reparative therapy, is working on getting his father on board.
Because HIV is no longer something to hide in the closet
Both country singer-songwriter Jimbeau Hinson (pictured left) and John Grant, formerly of the alternative band the Czars and now a solo performer, sing openly about being HIV-positive. It’s a part of life now, not death.
Because a straight ally designed our defining viral campaign
The blue-and-yellow equal sign has been the Human Rights Campaign’s logo for decades, but HRC marketing director Anastasia Khoo came up with the red-and-pink version that spread like wildfire across Facebook. Though her standing rule has been not to mess with the HRC’s famous logo, she had the instinct that changing it to the color of love would be the right way to break the rule.
Because ƒthese two Time covers were in almost every supermarket in the country for an entire week
By the way, that’s Antigone Rising’s Kristen Ellis-Henderson and her wife, Sarah Kate, who, after struggling to conceive a while back, both became pregnant at the same time and gave birth to kids they call the “wonder twins,” which they wrote about in their book Times Two. The men are Russell Hart and Eric LaBonté.
http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/05/22/reasons-pride-2013
