Beginning of Two Spirit Equality in my playbook ...

[opprimo]

To begin, I often say that my first concert was Johnny Cash when he played in St. Francis, S.D. in 1983. That pretty much shuts the hipsters the hell up.

And now, to begin with something that seems completely unrelated, but makes sense if you will read on.

Two Spirit AdvocacySince coming out at the overdue age of 21 to my family as gay, it's been

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[angie_o]

I'm too lazy to go point by point. That being said, this is one of the better samples of writing I've ever read of yours. Yay!

""Every society has had gay people since the beginning of time, observe the American Indian!"-argument for marriage equality, they will not see the importance of the work because it is too small in its scope of influence and a "niche" community.You're right...they don't pay enough attention to minorities in general. However, I've noticed that a few groups (most notably The Task Force) have gotten better. All you ever need to say is something to the effect of "We may not be a large percentage of the LBGT population, but neither is the LBGT population (10%) large in comparison to the hetero population. Do the numbers matter more than equality?" or something like that. I'm not so great at pulling talking points out of my ass yet...give me another year or so