Supporting Love…

Originally posted at www.mominreallife.com

Oh man, you people are great! As I write this, you helped me raise $230 in ONE day. That’s at least two seat on our bus for someone to be able to stand up for their rights! I would love to get to $300 before my meeting at 7 pm, but my goal today is to get the Red Eye to answer my direct message to them about the JTI Chicago planning & the fact that Cleve Jones is coming into town to speak for us. I am on the outreach committee and what better way to reach the public than the Red Eye!

Here’s what I would like from you guys. I want to get Red Eye’s attention.
Let me make this clear though, Red Eye hasn’t told me “No”, I am NOT wanting people to harass them. I want to use social media in a “humorous” way to get their attention.
So here’s what I would like;
1) are you on Twitter? Then Tweet Hey @redeyechicago! Did you answer @mominreallife’s DM yet? mominreallife.com #Rachelwantstotalktoyou

2) are you on facebook? Then head over to the RedEye page and ask them Hey RedEye! Have you answered @mominreallife’s DM yet? mominreallife.com

It’s just that easy!
I will shower you all with a thousand kisses if you help me with this!
Promise!

Oh, you want details about Cleve Jones?
I have plenty of details!

Tickets are now available for the event, An Evening With Cleve Jones: The Struggle for LGBT Civil Rights.

Cleve Jones, Harvey Milk´s closest collaborator, author, and founder of the AIDS memorial quilt, to visit Chicago August 29th to discuss the ongoing struggle for LGBT rights. As the promise from the Obama administration to be a “fierce advocate” for equality for gays and lesbians continues to go unfulfilled—with both the Defense of Marriage Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell upheld since the administration took office—Jones and other activists from across the country are planning a National Equality March as a show of mass support for LGBT rights. This meeting is sponsored by Join the Impact Chicago, Young Chicago Authors, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Public Radio WBEZ 91.5, and Haymarket Books.

• Includes performance pieces from Young Chicago Authors on the theme of LGBT rights, including the Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival winning poem, “The Pink Triangle,” which can be previewed at Chicago Public Radio

• Serve as a fundraiser to provide buses from Chicago to the upcoming National Equality March to take place in Washington, DC October 10-11th. All proceeds will go to help fund buses to send people locally to the national march on Washington. The suggested donation is $5 but on the website are several solidarity prices if you wish to donate more.

For more information or to arrange an interview with Cleve Jones, contact Sarah Macaraeg at sarah@haymarketbooks.org or 312-315-8476.

An Evening with Cleve Jones: The Struggle for LGBT Civil Rights
Saturday, August 29th 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, Red/Brown/Purple Line: Fullerton
$5 suggested donation, to benefit Join the Impact Chicago,
towards buses from Chicago to the National Equality March in DC, October 10th

For more information, visit:
www.jointheimpactchicago.com
www.equalityacrossamerica.org
www.youngchicagoauthors.org
www.haymarketbooks.org
www.chicagopublicradio.org
www.victorygardens.org

P.S. If I missed thanking you for your help yesterday let me know! I am not announcing the people that donated money…..yet. I’m trying to plan some extra fun for them!

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