Friday Family Roundup (11/14/08)

Here is some GLBT family news I’ve gathered from around the web this week:

1. Visit the Family Equality Council Website and Declare Your Family Equal. Check out this video made by the Family Equality Council. Have You Declared Your Family Equal?

2. Tomorrow, November 15, 2008 is a National Day of Protest.  Join The Impact - Protest Prop 8 is organizing action all across the country.  Check out the website to find a protest near you.

3. Here is a bit of local news for us here in New York from the Albany Times Union about gay couples traveling to Canada and elsewhere to get married.  The story highlights Nora Yates and her partner Erika Lewis who traveled to Niagara Falls, Canada to get married.  Nora is the Executive Director of the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Communilty Council.

4. Check out Atticus Circle a group of straight American who are fighting for gay rights and marriage equality.

5. Another group, Mormons Stole Our Rights is looking the strip the Mormon Church of it’s tax exempt status for using it’s money to influence the Prop 8 ballot measure in California.

6. In a post titled Somethings Afoot at Daddy, Papa and Me, Trey discusses a sense that something has changed in the response of the gay community to the recent ballot losses. Is there a new activism emerging in the gay community?

This one seems different, more intense, deeper and broader. People I know who have never been ‘activists’ are now, people I know who have been ‘activists’ (from people like me who have been episodic, sometimes accidental activists to full-time activists) seem to have a deeper resolve. It’s only been just over a week, but somethings changed.

7. Guy Dads discuss their reactions to the recent elections, both the good and the bad.

8. Steve at The Hygiene Chronicles expresses his own reactions to the election with a letter to President-Elect Obama and includes a very cute video of his son.

9. Here are some more reactions to the elections; a post titled The Things We Tell Our Children from The Daddy Diaries, Days of the Dragon gives us Post Election Redux, a response to Prop 8 from Family of Choice, and Dana over at Mombian writes about LGBT Parents: The Forgotten Voices of Prop 8.

10. And finally, here is a look back to our own reaction to the elections here at Green Dads, America, Get Over Yourself.

Related posts:

1. Friday Family Roundup (10/24)
2. Family Friday Five
3. Family Week: One Family’s Perspective
4. America, Get Over Yourself
5. Spread the Cheer Challenge: Donate to the Family Equality Council