A miserable summer cold ( allergies) stretched into its tenth day today, so I didn’t make it to Conway’s PRIDE event, though I heard good things. I also heard 18 gay and lesbian couples showed up in Eureka to register their partnerships Friday, with good coverage in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette today.
I did take some time today to see the featured film at Arkansas’ 3rd Annual LGBTQ Film Festival. I saw Bob & Jack’s 52-year Adventure. It was a documentary of two gay men who’ve been together 52 years. A YouTube clip below:
The DVD will be for sale Monday at Twisted Entertainment on 7th street in Little Rock. I don’t want to give some inadequate review, except to say I’ll make the extra effort to own a copy of this to show my own family and friends. Eventually, it'll be available on the internet. Their website is: http://www.bobandjack.org/
Michael’s been in Utah for just over a week at a family reunion. I’ve missed him, and look forward to his return tomorrow.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Eureka Springs, Arkansas' Domestic Partner Registry Begins TODAY!
The Eureka Springs, Arkansas , Domestic Partnership Registry will begin Friday, June 22.
Applicants must appear in person with proof of age and the $35 registration fee in cash. Application forms are available click here .
Certificates of Registry will not be mailed to applicants.
The City Clerk's office is in the City Hall, lower level of the Western Carroll County Courthouse, 44 S. Main. Office hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Application forms for Termination of Domestic Partnership Registry are available click here. The fee for registration of a termination of a registered partnership is $20 in cash.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
I Miss Them Terribly: An Activist's Scrapbook
Not too long after the stroke and seizures placed my brain and memory in a fog, I found myself weeding through old files and videotapes. The little archival footprints of my life, loves, losses, and passions from what now seems a previous life were overwhelming.
As I began to use available equipment and software to train my brain to focus on projects, I created this video. It's an imperfect and horribly incomplete glimpse into one activist's very personal and sometimes public struggle. The four-part footage includes two deceased partners and many dear friends who sacrificed their final precious moments of life educating, and displays the seemingly endless cycles of grief while struggling to survive and help some folks along the way.
I Miss Them Terribly: An Activist's Scrapbook, with all its faults and flaws, follows in four parts (if I can get it embedded):
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
As I began to use available equipment and software to train my brain to focus on projects, I created this video. It's an imperfect and horribly incomplete glimpse into one activist's very personal and sometimes public struggle. The four-part footage includes two deceased partners and many dear friends who sacrificed their final precious moments of life educating, and displays the seemingly endless cycles of grief while struggling to survive and help some folks along the way.
I Miss Them Terribly: An Activist's Scrapbook, with all its faults and flaws, follows in four parts (if I can get it embedded):
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Arkansas Gays & Lesbians Step Up to the Plate; Family Council Passes It
A letter sent to the Arkansas-Democrat-Gazette (to be published in the next few days):
More than 1 in 20 adopted Arkansas children are now living with gay or lesbian parents, the ninth highest percentage in the U.S., according to a 2007 study of Census data by the UCLA School of Law & The Urban Institute.*
Our foster care system has serious problems while hundreds of Arkansas children remain waiting not so much for "perfect" parents, but for well-screened loving responsible parents. At the same time, a 7-year fundraiser/crusade by the Family Council of Arkansas continues an effort to eliminate an entire pool of potential parents using mere myths and stereotypes to battle the credible scientific consensus that kids raised by gay parents turn out just fine.
Meanwhile, gay and lesbian Arkansas families have already stepped up to the plate, proudly adopting and parenting over 1,000 children in Arkansas, according to the study. Nearly all other states see no need to ban gays and lesbians serving as foster or adoptive parents. Where are the daily headlines of homo-horror faced by these kids in Arkansas or across America? Perhaps I missed them reading of the atrocities against children committed by heterosexual parents.
Before the Family Council petition gets passed down your pew with a collection plate, go to YouTube.com and watch the testimony from both sides of the issue. Read the findings of fact made by the Arkansas Supreme Court in DHS vs. Howard. Empower yourself to overcome these fear-based fundraisers, and put the brakes on this petition drive. Do it for the kids.
--Eric Camp
Little Rock
* Adoption and Foster Care by Gay and Lesbian Parents in the United States is available online at: :http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/publications/FinalAdoptionReport.pdf .
More than 1 in 20 adopted Arkansas children are now living with gay or lesbian parents, the ninth highest percentage in the U.S., according to a 2007 study of Census data by the UCLA School of Law & The Urban Institute.*
Our foster care system has serious problems while hundreds of Arkansas children remain waiting not so much for "perfect" parents, but for well-screened loving responsible parents. At the same time, a 7-year fundraiser/crusade by the Family Council of Arkansas continues an effort to eliminate an entire pool of potential parents using mere myths and stereotypes to battle the credible scientific consensus that kids raised by gay parents turn out just fine.
Meanwhile, gay and lesbian Arkansas families have already stepped up to the plate, proudly adopting and parenting over 1,000 children in Arkansas, according to the study. Nearly all other states see no need to ban gays and lesbians serving as foster or adoptive parents. Where are the daily headlines of homo-horror faced by these kids in Arkansas or across America? Perhaps I missed them reading of the atrocities against children committed by heterosexual parents.
Before the Family Council petition gets passed down your pew with a collection plate, go to YouTube.com and watch the testimony from both sides of the issue. Read the findings of fact made by the Arkansas Supreme Court in DHS vs. Howard. Empower yourself to overcome these fear-based fundraisers, and put the brakes on this petition drive. Do it for the kids.
--Eric Camp
Little Rock
* Adoption and Foster Care by Gay and Lesbian Parents in the United States is available online at: :http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/publications/FinalAdoptionReport.pdf .
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