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Creative Activism
The San Diego LGBT community is freaking rad, have I said that before? Constantly, there are new and interesting ways to promote equality popping up left and right.
My latest favorite is Guerrilla Queer Bar. The idea behind this is that instead of gathering for solidarity at a local queer bar in Hillcrest, North Park, or University Heights (gay “home turf”) there will be a day scheduled where the gay community takes over a straight bar in another San Diego neighborhood. The main idea of this is of course is to increase visibility among the communities where a strong presence isn’t located already. The first target is the Pearl Hotel in Point Loma. I LOVE this.
The other was an awesome marriage equality idea where everyone took out advertisements in the San Diego newspapers for one day that promoted gay marriage in some subtle way to take over the newspaper. An example was “Lost - my right to marry the person I love. Last seen on November 4th, 2008. If seen, please return to law abiding, taxpaying citizen. It is dearly missed.” and things like that. What a neat way to get the message out in a positive and fun way.
Keep being creative and fighting the fight people!
