A lesbian couple with a 3-year-old daughter took Michael and Shelly to dinner in Dupont Circle. Walking around the gay neighborhood, Michael was in awe. "It was like being around family," he said. "Seeing all those successful people, that could be me." . . . "Men were holding hands with men, women were holding hands with women, and no one was yelling at them," Shelly said....then a family discovers a larger community, when their town stands up to bigotry and allows themselves to think. (Thanks, G!)
The story reminded me of another town that stood up, when Ibrahim Parlak, a restaurant owner in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was retroactively accused of terrorism. (By strange coincidence, these two old stories are dated one day apart.)
I've been following Parlak's story (second item in that post); his supporters' website is here.
3 comments:
Hey LG!
Thanks for posting those stories. They're the human trials that people should find out about. We need to be aware of such things. These are the real stories the news should be covering.
Thank you for doing your part to enlighten us all to such shameful human tragedies which are occuring in "the land of the free".
Thanks for the great links. The first story was really amazing...that poor boy, having to do something so difficult in the first place, and then to be thrust in the spotlight like that.
Wow, thanks for the great feedback, Julia B and Sassy. These thanks get passed on to our friend the Library Bitch.
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