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GayPatriot Chicago Dinner Wednesday May 19

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I’m pretty close to finalizing the schedule for my next cross country trip.  And much as I’d love to travel without agenda, stopping spontaneously along the way to explore a beautiful landscape or an intriguing byway, I have needed to fix a schedule so that my friends and family can keep their schedules clear when I pass through their towns.

I have been able to set the first of the dinners along the way for Chicago two weeks from today, Wednesday, May 19.  I’m working with a reader to find a place in the Halsted Street Area.  (Please let me know if you have any suggestions.)  I have also invited the guys from Hillbuzz.  Drop me an e-mail to RSVP for the dinner or suggest locations.

In addition to Chicago, I have scheduled dinners for New York (Sunday May 23), Washington, DC (between May 26 and 29), Atlanta (Wednesday, June 2), Boston (Wednesday, June 9) and Brattleboro, Vermont (Sunday, June 13).  Since I’ll also be staying in Raleigh, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Nashville, Cincinnati and St. Louis, I’m open to setting up gatherings there as well.

Comments

  2. You MUST be kidding me!!!!!

    I’m flying out of O’Hare for Dulles the MORNING of the 19th, and returning on the 24th!!!!

    I’d try to reschedule, but it is quite possibly the single most important job interview of my career. 🙂

    It would’ve been really nice to meet you, not to mention those crazy Hillbuzz boys!

  4. I need a perspective that can help me support my brother who is gay, yet still be who I am. I have been reading your blog for a year now and found a perspective that I can support fully. You know the dynamics with Left and Right Gays. Well, that dynamic is affecting families and supporters who have a different party affiliation. For 8 years I have supported my brother’s organization with a lot of time and money. My whole family has, year after year. My past with my brother is that he was Republican and I supported Democrats, I found it fascinating that he was Republican. We had great conversations back then. A few years back, in the Bush years, he changed to Democrat, I changed to supporting Republicans because of the extreme left of Obama and his administration. We no longer have respectful conversations.

    When Obama came into the picture my brother’s Organization went more left. My brother went on to other things and became even more left in his views. Here’s the problem, our family is being honored for supporting our brother and the gay community at the Gay Pride Parade. Grand Marshals they call it? The theme is families. My brother and his partner adopted a baby. She is beautiful and we are all so proud of them. We will be speaking at the luncheon the next day. I have been to the parade many times throughout the years. I went because I support the gay community, however this year is different. The divide of Left and Right is so much greater, if not greater, magnified. How do you support the gay community and be a Republican??? They are going to hand out T-shirts if we want. My brothers organization will be right behind us.

    My question for you is… Is it disrespectful to wear a GOPROUD T-shirt in the parade? What can I expect? Should I let my brother know beforehand? What is respectful????

  8. Katie,

    I think you should wear it. You’re there to support your brother, and at the same time, you’re showing that you are yourself. Maybe if your brother sees bile directed at you, he’ll understand what you mean and stand beside his sister.

    Hells, if he really appriciates being of a different orientation/view point, he should appriciate the irony.

  9. How do you support the gay community and be a Republican???

    I don’t as I don’t believe in a “gay community”. A confab of selfish teenage girls, maybe.

    My question for you is… Is it disrespectful to wear a GOPROUD T-shirt in the parade?

    The question is what do YOU want to wear and not what anybody else wants you to wear. If someone else doesn’t like it, they’re the one with the problem, not you.