And away they go! After the back-and-forth backlash from May’s Meet in the Middle “leadership summit,” California’s marriage equality leaders are preparing the Get Engaged Tour. It’s the state-wide effort with 80 planned gatherings to share the data from Poll 4 Equality and “obtain community insight and feedback on how to proceed in the next campaign.” So what’s this all about? To the soundbite!
Pamela Brown, Marriage Equality USA Policy Director: “This poll was created by a broad coalition of organizations representing communities of faith, people of color, labor, LGBT groups and straight allies and the Get Engaged Tour is intended to not only share this information but to obtain feedback from our grassroots community on our next initiative campaign. In today’s economy, our greatest strength is our people. Only through engaging a broad coalition of organizations and incorporating community feedback into how we move ahead can we ensure the next campaign will honor our families, represent our faith and reflect our diversity.”
Talking to the community see how to proceed! Ensuring it’s not a whitewashed, top-down approach to messaging and mobilizing! Involving the religious and secular worlds! If all this is starting to make your palms sweat with anticipation, there’s a whole Get Engaged Tour social network you can sign up with — which we’re sure is great for hooking up, too. But you better hurry: Tour dates are already taking place!
Orpheus_lost
I may just be too drunk to see it, but can someone tell me what this post has to do with Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Bros? Maybe I’m just missing something very obvious due to my inebriated state.
Teh Fail
@Orpheus_Lost
I knew as I read the first sentence that this would have nothing to do with miley cyrus or the jonas brothers. Queerty is notorious for shitty titles that have little to nothing to do with the story.
TANK
NO JONAS BROS! NO JONAS BROS! I’m twattering this right now. Goddamn jonas bros…they make everything seem chastity pledge fresh. LIke that first deep breath of mountain air in florida…that first sip of clean cool water after a long hike through detroit in december.
marius
Headline be damned, it’s nice to see Miley and Nick are back together.
OK, on to the Get Engaged Tour, I guess.
Duh
@Orpheus_lost:
That’s because you’re reading a Gay Tabloid Site.
edgyguy1426
But not that this confuses the headline but Miley Cyrus has supported gay marriage (and it make me shrivel a bit just to know that I know this)
Quinn
@edgyguy1426: That was what confused me, too. I inferred from the headline that Queerty was trying to suggest both Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers were anti-GLBT, but I remembered Miley Cyrus speaking up about gay marriage a while back.