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Originally Posted by Rockinonahigh
ALH..great idea,we should do all we can to guard our community and rights we have and want in the future.
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Thanks!
I wonder if any member is going to run for a local office. School boards, city or county councils, whatever. Or, higher office. And if out, how are they presenting this?
Has anyone been at the center of developing a proposition for a ballot (or what ever system in the state you live in calls this) and been part of the election strategies used? Most of the time I have done "go-for" tasks and phone bank stuff, not had a development role and would like to hear from folks that have.
How can we somehow help bring our part of the entire range of LGBTIQ people and find common ground and put together a LARGE queer base that we can use to deal with non-queer people in our towns and cities? Enough of splintering!
Other stuff I am wondering about is about how we can overcome issues of butch, trans, etc. femme- however we identify (or not) and stop allowing those differences to keep us apart even in threads so that we remain a not only a voting block, but stop knee-jerk personal affronts so that we can work together. Sometimes this involves working with people you don’t care for. Nothing new, there, people have done this for a long time in political and social movements.
Who knows about crossing boundaries in voter populations? If you have ever walked precincts for more controversial LGBTIQ stances or candidates- what do we need to know about how we present to those outside of queerdom? Have you been on panel discussions during elections?
There are a lot of folks here that have some of these experiences and I want to pick their brains! I refuse to sit back and see what happened last Tuesday again! Because I am fully retired now, I do have more time to give to political elections. There are a lot of our members that have been hit hard with the recession and trying stay above water that do need to stay afloat. So, some do have to try to take up some slack. But, that can be hard if you don't feel cohesion behind you (not total agreement on everything, just cohesion in effort/goals).
Bringing the younger voter into the process as well as establishing good relationships between all races and ethnicities is critical- again, look at our membership and the need to understand POC/E issues.