Queerty (Free subscription) | yesterday
ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. → Cleve Jones has no idea how many Equality Across America groups are set up in the nation's federal congressional districts. Two hundred-ish? CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Brad Walsh, cleve jones, Creationism, Equality Across America, Gay Bashing, nicholas...
Petrelis Files (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
BAR: Cleve's EAA Has 200 'Fuzzy' Groups You need not be medicated on marijuana to appreciate the latest dope from Cleve Jones about the current state of his new group, Equality Across America. From the current Bay Area Reporter : From the beginning, Jones insisted that the [march] would be a scaled down affair, with the only goal of the march being full federal equality...
Petrelis Files (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Cleve's EAA Leader: Who's Pelosi? What's a Senator? For months, Cleve Jones and backers of his march on Washington tried to persuade LGBT citizens to flock to DC and get inspired by the new post-Prop 8 younger generation of activists. I was one, for many reasons, who didn't heed the call to spend hundreds of dollars to be in the capital on October 11. Today, I learned there was...
Gay Geeks.Org (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
What a perfect day to announce the collapse of Equality Across America's infrastructure. On the day we'll all be concerning ourselves with the outcomes in Maine, Washington, and Kalamazoo, the organization behind the National Equality March has collapsed — and doesn't even know if it has a future. CONTINUED » Permalink | 1 comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Activism , cleve jones ,...
Petrelis Files (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
What Happened to Cleve's CA Promises'; Is 2010 Repeal Dead? That loud noise you hear across the gay blogosphere, see here and here , over the departure of Kip Williams and Robin McGehee as co-directors of Cleve Jones' march on DC and the group that sprang from it, Equality Across America, needs to echo really loudly in California. Out here, for most of the past 10 months, we've...
Queerty (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Having put together the National Equality March in just a few months, Cleve Jones didn't have time to get around to creating bylaws or an official budget for umbrella group Equality Across America. Which means now that the march is over, and EAA's coffers have some $90,000 left over — thanks to cost reduction and [...]
QueerToday.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
1. How did you get involved in planning the National Equality March? Tell us a little bit about what the experience was like for you. Right after David Mixner called for the march, I sent him a very simple email: "Dear David, Put me to work." He let me know that Cleve Jones would be le…
AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Today: Cleve Jones, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, and one or two ballot measures you may have heard of. Decision ‘09 Rachel started off the first of the night's two shows absolutely geeked for election night. It was clear early on that Republican candidate Bob McDonnell , who in his graduate thesis argued against working women and said that governments should “protect” traditional...
365 Gay News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Today: Cleve Jones, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, and one or two ballot measures you may have heard of.
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
National Equality March co-directors Kip Williams and Robin McGehee have resigned from Equality Across America as the future of the new activism group becomes cloudy. Bil Browning at the Bilerico Project reports: EAA founder Cleve Jones confirmed that both activists had stepped down from their leadership positions. Everyone involved agreed that the parting of ways resulted from concerns...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Kip Williams and Robin McGehee, Co-Directors of the National Equality March, have left Equality Across America citing differences about the direction the new group should take. The march, held less than a month ago, attracted about 200,000 LGBT people to Washington DC to demand full federal equality under the law. EAA founder Cleve Jones confirmed that both activists had stepped down...
San Francisco FYI net (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Barry Luboviski, Joe O'Donahue, Howard Wallace, Angela Alioto, Tho Do, PR. H. Wilson deOcera, Cleve Jones, Gunnar Lundeberg, Mike Parker, Cal Winslow, Iain Boal, Greg Feere, John Hanley, Ramsey Kanaan, Warren Mar, Linda Post. 75 years ago in San Francisco the nation's first healthcare workers' union was born. Thousands of caregivers across California are continuing this legacy by...
365 Gay News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... says he was paid $9,000 for his work on the march from July 1 until Nov. 1. Tanner Efinger, Cleve Jones’ personal assistant, was elected by executive committee members (including Browning) to serve as a volunteer interim Project Director. Jones said that he wasn’t sure that Equality Across America is a viable organization, as it still doesn’t have a mission statement, bylaws...
