Dear Queerty,

Lesbian Soccer Mom walker here. You all are quite the queers, and I'm so proud you've kept up with me. (Ed. note: Read here and here.) Though I'm disappointed --Dan said I'd get 20 calls a day. But I get understand. You're bloggers. You get IV's for nutrition so you don't have to leave the keyboard.

One teensy thing --literally. There's a teensy little "c" between the "S" and the "h" in my last name. You're not the first to drop it.

Ok, ya'll owe me 19 calls and I only have 17 days left! Then I lead Marriage Equality USA's march across the Golden Gate bridge on June 3. Oooooooooo...now you're curious. (GO to www.marriagequalityusa.org for info on "Bridge the Gap to Marriage Equality" if you haven't already!)

Keep up the excellent blogging. (I love that word. It feels like you're saying something naughty everytime! Don't quote me on that! We single lesbian soccer moms of 4 have to get our kicks somehow!)

Seriously, thanks for keeping my story on the site!

Jennifer S "c" humaker

Typos? Us? Never. Although it's not entirely our fault; loading a page on Moveable Type takes FUCKING FOREVER, especially when you have a customized site like ours. So once it's loaded once, going back to fix something is a major undertaking. So the mistakes stay. Don't use Moveable Type, it looks good but using it is a nightmare. If you're not a tech geek you don't care about anything in this paragraph. Anyway--

We're not publishing this letter to glorify our typing inadequicies (is that how you spell that word?). We're more interested in her participation in the March For Marriage Equality, an event we support 100%. It's especially poignant in the state of California: the State Legislature voted to legalize gay marriage, but Governor Schwartzeneger (if that's spelled right it's a miracle) vetoed the bill. Jerk.

We can't believe Jennifer has made it so far on her walk, after starting her walk in San Diego. And we're so pleased her feet are still in one piece. We're also so proud of her for devising quite the interesting method of political action. Protestors can be really boring sometimes, with the parades and the signs and the angry faces. Why not put some thought into it? If you're in San Francisco, DEFINITELY sign up for the March For Marriage Equality--they're marching across both the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate, as we understand. Even if you don't want to get married, and play into the heterosexist institution etc. etc. etc., perhaps you can support the option that someone else might want to do it someday. We all need to accept the fact that our agendas will differ, but the end goal of equality is the same. Why not help out the greater good?

We posted last week about Jennifer Shumaker's one-woman journey to better the lives of gay people everywhere--hitting the pavement and walking from San Diego to San Francisco, meeting people one-by-one so she can try to convince them that love for the gays is a good thing. On her blog, she posted her phone number, and she encourages people to call. So we did.

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Folks in California may get a glimpse of self-proclaimed "lesbian soccer mom" Jennifer Schumaker, as she walks her way up from San Diego to San Francisco for her "Walk For Togetherness," to raise awareness for the LGBT struggle for equality.

Shumaker says she is walking to prove how "In many ways, it is easier to walk 500 miles than to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender in America." Perhaps there is truth to her claim, based on the fact that her soccer-mom status means at least she has the benefit of wearing sensible shoes.

Apparently you can call her at (760) 877-4396--did she really put her phone number on the internet?--and of course we will be calling her twenty times a day, although we promise we'll be really nice. We totally dig Miss Jennifer, and believe her message is quite clever. If you see her, say hi, give her a bottle of water, whatever. You can also go to her website and make donations to the walk, or read her blog.