The Mahoning Valley Pride Center Blog: Join the Impact/National Protest against Prop 8 Preparation

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The Mahoning Valley Pride Center aims to promote community development and a sense of security among the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender and all questioning people in the Mahoning Valley through social, educational, and support programs, and the establishment of a safe place for these programs to take place. The community center, where LGBT persons and their allies may meet on common ground and without disguise, is organized and operated exlusively to educate and reduce prejudice and discrimination between the LGBT and heterosexual communities - and to relieve the effects of such prejudice and discrimination.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Join the Impact/National Protest against Prop 8 Preparation

Family and friends gathered last night at the Mahoning Valley Pride Center to prepare for the national protest against Prop 8. The one overall feeling that I took away from last night was that we are normal people. We are NORMAL PEOPLE, last night we came together to make signs that we will use to convey our messages of equality, but intermingled among ideas for quotes and statements to put on signs were concerns about missing Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty. Intermingled among the fumes of markers and glue being used to construct signs were conversations about how our work days went, how our grandchildren are doing and how it was way past our bedtimes. We are normal people is what I got out of yesterday, we fight for equality, and we are normal people.

Here are some pictures from last night, have a look: