I will start:
My name is Tiana and I am a full time college student and a single mom. The best part about being an ally is knowing that I am helping to secure a future for those LGBT now and future. I am very excited to see all the positive change in how our society views LGBT rights.
Pamela
Secondary admin for GLBT & Str8
Follower of LGBT News and LGBT Pride!
Bisexual
Fighting for equality across all obstacles is very important to me!!
My name is Kim! In society I am a happily married, stay at home mom of 6. My 2 oldest have already moved out. I have 1 son that is autistic. Hubby is Catholic, I am Wiccan. I am proud to be an ally! Love knows no boundaries!
My name is Jennifer and I am a manager at the local Pizza Hut but I am also a wife and mother. I support marriage equality and the LGBT community wholeheartedly. I've had relationships with men and women and I know that the feelings and trials are the same either way! Except when it comes to the public eye, that is. I dated a girl in high school and we weren't allowed to go to dances together, we got in trouble for holding hands while straight couples kissed in the halls.
1) Alex
2) Drug/GM clerk at Kroger
3) I'm very proud to be an ally. I feel us allies can provide crucial support to our LGBT friends, which will help bolden their rights movement. As for changes, I'd like to see more straight people, especially where it counts, show their support for the LGBT community.
My name is Miranda, I am a college student at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, OR. I am a proud LGBT ally and a member of the Gay-Straight Alliance at EOU. I believe every ally and every person that speaks out for the rights of the LGBT community makes the community stronger with our support. I hope that one day, being an ally will help make changes. I hope to see people of the LGBT community be treated fairly and like the rest of us. Marriage, jobs, and benefits are rights for every person, no matter what they're sexual orientation.
Hi there, I am David, the founder of Marriage Equality for Pennsylvania, or ME4PA. I am 43, a high school teacher, and I live in northwest Pennsylvania. I feel if I can make a difference in even one student's life, and help that student not be a hateful person, I will have changed the world. I teach German, and as part of my curriculum, we cover the Holocaust. I do not shy away from the part about LGBT people being locked in the camps, tortured and killed. I take students to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC every year. I have some students who are gay who know I am too. They have confided in me when no one else would listen. I hope I can be as helpful to the community, as I try to be at school. Anyway, that's my story, and I hope it helps.
Hi There! My name is Stacy and I am the founder of One Million Intelligent People Against One Million Moms on Facebook (www.facebook.com/OMIPAOMM). I am a straight, married woman with 2 children. I am a Senior Applications Specialist at a medical software company, and have been there almost 17 years. I formed my page, because I honestly do not understand breeding hate, and I have children who I would NEVER want to raise to discriminate against anyone. I also live in MA, where gay marriage is legal. I didn't have much of a concept of the struggles LGBT face until I created my page and really started paying attention to what goes on elsewhere. We are all equal. Period. LGBT deserve the same American Rights as everyone else. Someone's right to marry should not be squashed because of others religious beliefs. They are not screaming to get married in a church, they just want to get married. I was not married in a church, but my marriage is certainly recognized legally and that's all that matters. I think as straight allies, we need to be more involved. This year I attended my first gay pride parade in Boston. I loved it so much, I'll never miss another, and am even considering bringing my children next year, because it was such a happy, fun family friendly event. We need to express to our friends and family why we feel like we do. We need to encourage our friends and families to come out and that we support them.
Hello my name is Cheyenne Brewer, i just finished my associates degree in medical assisting. I feel kind of ashamed of our community and our nation because we are still having to fight for marriage equality and equal rights in general. its shameful that in 2012 people are still fighting for equal rights. I am a huge supporter, my brother is gay, and i have many gay friends. I love being an ally. I am very opinionated and say what i am thinking at all times, and there has been friends and family that i no longer talk to because i am such a huge supporter. Love is love and I believe that everyone should have the right to marry anyone they choose. I feel like by just saying that i am a supporter and sharing my story of growing up with a gay brother, and gay friends is just a small step. if i can change at least one persons thought on it, than i have done something good for the cause. I will never stop fighting for this right, and i will continue all i can to change the ways this world sees marriage. One day, and i hope in my life time, that everyone will have the right to marry the person of their dreams, straight or not.
A) Bob
(B) Retired and independent.
(B) Civic activist and Lay Minister for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Tupelo, MS
(C) The attitude of the public at large in Mississippi is one of change resistance, uneasy peace between whites and all people of color. My liberal friends and associates are very much in the minority here.
(B) Retired and independent.
(B) Civic activist and Lay Minister for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Tupelo, MS
(C) The attitude of the public at large in Mississippi is one of change resistance, uneasy peace between whites and all people of color. My liberal friends and associates are very much in the minority here.
Accordingly, I am an ally of all those who seek equality and fair access to the benefits of life in this country. I am a vocal advocate of Civil and Human Rights for all people.I am the organizer of Occupy Tupelo, pressing for fairness in government actions at all levels for all people. Trying to build enthusiasm for repeal of the Citizen United decision of the SCOTUS which has severely degraded the fairness of our elections.I am a member and supporter of PFLAG, a member of HRC and contribute monthly, I'm the organizer of the first LGBTQ public rally ever held in Tupelo. I am the person behind "Give Hate a Holiday" and have a presence of that name on a Facebook Group and a page. I support any and all LGBTQ activities in this region. I know that Marriage Equality will come to Mississippi only when SCOTUS orders it so. The "biblical marriage" bigots reign here, incited by the American Family Association which is headquartered in Tupelo.I'm fortunate that my income does not come from this area, for of my many allies the vast majority are afraid job loss, economic attack/boycott by the bigots. Changes needed: I believe we are gaining momentum as the cause proceeds. As people in the saner regions of the country continue to develop a feeling of empathy and as that empathy evolves to become compassion, victory will come. The people of this country are compassionate. We need to continue to press the issue with enthusiasm and expectation of victory, while maintaining our dignity and decorum. Every time an individual commits lewd, obscene or repulsive public acts for the cause of equality, we loose. The bigots love to be able to tar us all, LGBTQ and allies alike, as decadent sinners not worthy of being called human. We must not fall into their trap; they can already imagine the worst, let's not give them proof. We could use more national bonding and coordination. HRC is wonderful, but they are not responsive to smaller group efforts and needs. Better sharing of events and planning would give us far better leverage. The regional groupings are slowly emerging as well as state-wide focal points. It is hard sometimes to simply allow somebody to be the leader but we do need that. Leader not Dictator I will do anything I can to help this effort. LGBTQ Equality is my Crusade, my last Hurrah as I begin my 74th year. To quote Martin Luther King, Jr. "I may not get there with you, but I can see the Promised Land."
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