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Unite the Fight’s video of Meet in the Middle

0 Comments Published May 30th, 2009 in APB, On marriage and commitment.

Unite the Fight is running a live video feed of events in Fresno today (I embeded this stuff above from their Qik Channel), and on their web page they also have a slideshow of still photos running.  As of 1pm, at the start of the rally, the embeded video should be transmitting the rally itself? [...]

Set yer stopwatches to 24 hrs. Plus.*

4 Comments Published May 22nd, 2009 in APB.

Richard Westall’s Sword of Damocles, 1812.
Thanks to NCLR’s crack text message to my phone, the wait for the wait is over, and now the wait is narrowed to a nice, long holiday weekend.  Glad I got some champagne for mimosas for our lesbo parents’ brunch this Sunday.  Because now we know the California Supreme Court will [...]

11th of 21

6 Comments Published May 19th, 2009 in A month o' photos, APB, Mostly a picture, School work.

[Ed. note, re: post title. I'm supposedly doing a month of photo-only posts, of which this would be the 12th. I slipped.  Again.  And the danged Supreme Court hasn't even tipped its hand yet.]

Alameda parent Karie Frasch, holding a picture of her family: partner Barbara, daughters Amelia and Charolette. 
I came home from the Alameda School Board [...]

East Bay schools in right wing crosshairs

2 Comments Published May 17th, 2009 in APB, School work.

Now that the big right wing guns have been brought in and the news has spread to local television news and  the Associated Press, it’s time I posted something on the (anti)gay storm brewing in the town of my youth.
I’m interested because it’s a battle over the presence of gay people and conversations about us in the [...]

More on Alameda’s Caring Schools Curriculum

0 Comments Published May 15th, 2009 in APB, School work.

Alrighty, so this is quite the non-photo post in the midst of my photo-only post month.  Again, forgive me.  If I could have, I would have included shots of the person wearing the devil costume speaking to the Wednesday Alameda Unified School District school board, testifying as to how all will go to perdition if [...]

Action Alert: REALLY support safe schools in Alameda*

1 Comment Published May 15th, 2009 in APB, School work.

* UPDATE: The venue for the “Carryover” Board meeting has been changed to accomodate what’s expected to be larger crowds.  The Carryover School Board meeting will be held Monday at 6:30pm at Alameda Unified School District’s Kofman Auditorium, 2200 Central Avenue, Alameda, CA.  Google map here.  Peaceful vigil beforehand from 5pm on (see next post [...]

All in God’s Family

0 Comments Published May 13th, 2009 in APB.

Yeah, yeah, I’m cheating here. Not even two weeks into a purportedly no-prose/ all-photo month and  I’m already sneaking in a few newsy posts. Forgive me. From the COLAGE (Children of Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) News Blog a few days back:
ALL IN GOD’S FAMILY: LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER FAMILY-INCLUSIVE FAITH CURRICULUM LAUNCHED, FILLS GAP 
Leading [...]

Action Alert: Support Safe Schools in Alameda*

0 Comments Published May 13th, 2009 in APB, School work.

[Update: I wasn't able to go (solo caregiver all eve; it's audition week in the beloved's theater work life).  But I did find a comment on the event, on the Alameda Journal Blog, a blog that covers life in Alameda, that discussion on the topic has been extended to next Monday, May 18, at 6:30 pm [...]

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