I don't think we got any print mailers on Prop 8. Sounds like there was a distribution issue (or both sides assumed they had our neighborhood).
Church outreach was crap. Still, there were faith groups campaigning against 8, including a very regular 1/3 page ad in the Merc the last few weeks.
There are black leaders and activists who don't see the connection between gay rights and the greater civil rights movement. This is no surprise; the connections made at the Stonewall riots and protests where Black Panthers sat together with lipstick lesbians from NYU didn't last very long.
Still, that's not the point.
Television ads featuring religious leaders speaking out against 8, even if they were in the minority, would expose the cracks in the supposedly monolithic faith communities, and would challenge people to think.
Television ads featuring interracial couples speaking out against 8, even if they weren't in the mainstream of racial minority community activism, would expose the cracks in those communities and challenge people to think.
Television ads featuring queer members of racial minorities would have put a personal face on the issue and possibly challenge people to relate, just as Obama's election put a new face on the US presidency.
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Date: 2008-11-11 01:15 am (UTC)Church outreach was crap. Still, there were faith groups campaigning against 8, including a very regular 1/3 page ad in the Merc the last few weeks.
There are black leaders and activists who don't see the connection between gay rights and the greater civil rights movement. This is no surprise; the connections made at the Stonewall riots and protests where Black Panthers sat together with lipstick lesbians from NYU didn't last very long.
Still, that's not the point.
Television ads featuring religious leaders speaking out against 8, even if they were in the minority, would expose the cracks in the supposedly monolithic faith communities, and would challenge people to think.
Television ads featuring interracial couples speaking out against 8, even if they weren't in the mainstream of racial minority community activism, would expose the cracks in those communities and challenge people to think.
Television ads featuring queer members of racial minorities would have put a personal face on the issue and possibly challenge people to relate, just as Obama's election put a new face on the US presidency.