Join the Impact - Atlanta representin'

[friendofjack]

Got back from the Join the Impact protest at the Georgia State Capitol a while ago. There are some pics on my camera, but you'll just have to imagine them because I haven't pulled them from the camera yet.

I went with dturing and we both held up handmade signs that we improvised at the event. Saw gskreet and his partner, Bob Skreet, at the rally

Comments

[ex_juandave]

That's so weird you said that - the Pride part.

We didn't go. I guessed that if we had, I would have felt the emotion that I sometimes did when I first started going to Pride, without all the debauchery that went along with it.

[weather_fan]

At the risk of being excoriated, I just wonder where all this fervor was before November 4. Not for you -- nationally, I mean. Where was it before Prop 8? I feel some frustration that these rallies and protests are railing against something that's already happened instead of before, when they might have prevented it from happening in the first place.

[davidology]

there were rallies beforehand. I was at one each day leading up to the election in the final week... just not as large of course and the media wasn't nearly as interested.

I think a lot of people just didn't think it would pass, and I think an even larger number didn't realize how angry they'd be when it did.

But, yeah, it would have been nice if we'd found this outrage when the proposition was qualified for the ballot. In the end maybe this is just the spark we needed. The debate went from California and spread it to the entire country. That might be worth the temporary setback.

[friendofjack]

Weren't there polls indicating it wouldn't pass? That's what pissed me off. It was pretty obvious from Atlanta that gays were in trouble in California.

I think it was worth the setback just to wake gay people up. We had become complacent.

[davidology]

Depended on the poll. Nonetheless they were close, and some did show it passing. In the end, I think a lot of people didn't think it would make it. Seemed unfathomable that Obama would command such a lead and Prop 8 would pass.

It was a miscalculation, of course.

But when Prop 8 first was introduced, it was VERY far behind and stayed that way. Then a bunch of out of state money came in for TV ads and turned the tide in the last few weeks. It all happened rather quickly. I saw the polls, but truthfully even though I was out at rallies up until the election, in my heart, I still thought it would fail. I was pretty crushed, as were a lot of people, when it passed.

I think don't think we believed it would happen.

We've lived in a pretty gay-friendly bubble here in California for a very long time. We sadly needed that to wake ourselves up. What's come out since has been amazing though.

speaking of which

[rshipple]

"No more Mr. Nice Gay" is now famous:

http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/atlanta/proposition-8-protest/

Re: speaking of which

[friendofjack]

Oh, that's my competition. Damn him! My sign was funnier.