Last Monday Night
I went to a community concert. It was produced in association with:
the Anne Garvey Foundation, Equality Kansas, Stage One and Cabaret Oldtown.
It was called Diversity Speaks
It was Monday April 4th the night before the vote about the amendment to ban gay marriages.
These people are not all gay, but they stand with the gay people in hopes that one day the bigots will be for the most part neutralized in our world. Then we will have better lives, I'm not looking for perfect, because that doesn't exsist, but one where there is not so much fighting and hate.
Write in my blog about tonight
Write in my blog about our fight
Write in my blog about all the faces
I will write in my blog about all the
songs
The voices of all the singers was truely impressive. The singers/songs were:
Trisha Garnes - Blue Corn Moon - Pocahontas
Jeff Whitlock - It Will Come
Eric Haag - I Can't Sit Still
Barb Schoenhofer - What is a Woman
Stephen Craig Barker - Our Love is Here to Stay
Cary Hessse - Hold On(It's this day)
Dick Welsbacher - All things are connected - this wasn't a song, but a reading of one of the Great Cheifs of the First Nation
Shawn-Michael Morse - What do You Leave Your Child
Heart of America Mens Chorus - The Music of The People
There was a womens band there too and they have an amusing name it's
Women Without Purses
It brought back the early days in Minnesota to me, with the petitions and the pins and all the things that marked that a "war" was being staged between thinking people and the church sheeple. We didn't end up with marriage rights, but we did atleast have domestic partners in Minneapolis. A step, small as it may be still a step. Also very good hate crime laws that work for all the public.
Days Reminisant
How this brings back Minnesota's early days
When I wore my button for equil rights in
Saint Paul
Against those who would vote to put prejudice
into Saint Paul's laws.
How I remember
The candle light marches durring Gay Pride
in the 80's
Old faces, young faces all standing together to
make things right and to keep harm from
many doors.
And here my friends is just another small chapter in the life of this wondering, wandering poet.
the Anne Garvey Foundation, Equality Kansas, Stage One and Cabaret Oldtown.
It was called Diversity Speaks
It was Monday April 4th the night before the vote about the amendment to ban gay marriages.
These people are not all gay, but they stand with the gay people in hopes that one day the bigots will be for the most part neutralized in our world. Then we will have better lives, I'm not looking for perfect, because that doesn't exsist, but one where there is not so much fighting and hate.
Write in my blog about tonight
Write in my blog about our fight
Write in my blog about all the faces
I will write in my blog about all the
songs
The voices of all the singers was truely impressive. The singers/songs were:
Trisha Garnes - Blue Corn Moon - Pocahontas
Jeff Whitlock - It Will Come
Eric Haag - I Can't Sit Still
Barb Schoenhofer - What is a Woman
Stephen Craig Barker - Our Love is Here to Stay
Cary Hessse - Hold On(It's this day)
Dick Welsbacher - All things are connected - this wasn't a song, but a reading of one of the Great Cheifs of the First Nation
Shawn-Michael Morse - What do You Leave Your Child
Heart of America Mens Chorus - The Music of The People
There was a womens band there too and they have an amusing name it's
Women Without Purses
It brought back the early days in Minnesota to me, with the petitions and the pins and all the things that marked that a "war" was being staged between thinking people and the church sheeple. We didn't end up with marriage rights, but we did atleast have domestic partners in Minneapolis. A step, small as it may be still a step. Also very good hate crime laws that work for all the public.
Days Reminisant
How this brings back Minnesota's early days
When I wore my button for equil rights in
Saint Paul
Against those who would vote to put prejudice
into Saint Paul's laws.
How I remember
The candle light marches durring Gay Pride
in the 80's
Old faces, young faces all standing together to
make things right and to keep harm from
many doors.
And here my friends is just another small chapter in the life of this wondering, wandering poet.
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