Showing posts with label Christopher Hubble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Hubble. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

OP/ED: The trouble with civil unions


Received a comment from a friend today trumpeting the incrementalism in Washington that purportedly led to the passage of full marriage equality (vis a vis the passage of civil unions six years earlier). The argument made by some is that civil unions paved the way for full marriage equality.
The fundamental fallacy of statements of this sort is that they are reductive, and in truth can't be proven empirically. Had activists in Washington adopted a synergistic strategy employing a sophisticated balance of both conventional AND unconventional methods of advocacy, they might not have waited as long as they did.

The lack of grass roots enthusiasm for civil unions in Colorado's LGBT community ought to be instructive, but privileged power brokers have never been attuned to the grass roots for as long as I can remember.

One can certainly make a coherent argument for civil unions as an expression of second wave human rights (that is, socioeconomic rather than political)--but we continue to exhibit astonishing and arrogant myopia in refusing to have a conversation about how pursuing a separate and unequal solution to our grievances undermines the struggles for equality of OTHER marginalized populations in Colorado. For many in the local LGBT community it is an inconvenient (and easily ignored) truth that Brown v. Board of Education remains the law of the land.
Christopher Hubble a concerned citizen with a long history of nonviolent activism in the LGBT community.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Pictures from Ethan's gay marriage rally


Third grader Ethan organized the rally


Christopher Hubble of Colorado Soulforce speaks at rally


Carlos Martinez, Executive Director, The GLBT Community Center of Colorado, speaks at rally


Rep. Mark Ferrandino speaks at rally