Speak Up
The single most important thing you can do for LGBT equality is to talk to people: family, co-workers, friends, grocery store clerks, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, old high school buddies, any- and everyone. A survey by HRC tells us that less than 50% of us have talked with our own family members and asked for their support for our equality. The time to have that talk and ask for that support is right now. We are good decent people and we deserve better. We won't get it unless we share our stories with those we love and trust. If the people we know and love - and who know and love us - are like most, they know next to nothing about the facts of our lives. They don't know we can be fired from a job for simply being gay or lesbian. They don't know that we have no protection for our partners or children with social security, inheritance, pensions, hospital visitation, medical decisions, sick-leave, bereavement leave and so much more. They don't realize that students in public school hear LGBT slurs on average 26 times a day and that 97% of the time, no one in authority responds. They don't know the emotional and financial burden of being LGBT in South Carolina and they won't unless you tell them … and ask for their support with a NO vote on the Amendment. The time is now. The single most important thing you can do for yourself, for all LGBT people, all parents of LGBT people, and the positive growth of our larger community of South Carolina is to speak up. |
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