We wanted to keep the post current, but we are a week late with it, sorry guys its been a bit crazy lately… Parker
Last Sunday Leah and I attended the AIDS Walk in Central Park. It was my first time ever participating in something like that. I was moving with a sea of thousands along a 6 mile route around the city. Some walked in teams, some walked in pairs. Everyone had their reasons. I walked for my uncle who I lost to AIDS when I was a child, too young to understand the severity of the disease. Although my legs hated me at the end, I would do it again in a heartbeat. I cant wait until next year.
After the AIDS walk we headed down to the Marriage Equality Rally. There were many speakers such as Governor Patterson, Mayor Bloomberg, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Audra McDonald, and David Hyde Pierce amongst many others. It was amazing seeing such a turnout for love and all the legal rights that go with that love. I am straight, I may have been one of the few in the crowd, but I feel that everyone deserves a happy ending no matter who you’re with. I want my friends to be able to wed and have it recognized by the state and government. ‘Civil Unions’ are bullshit. Marriage is real. If we as a country were able to get rid of segregation, how is this really any different?
xoxo Parker Chase
Last week I decided to up my karma points by raising money for the AIDS
Walk in memory of my uncle who passed just a couple of years ago.
Unfortunatly I started my collection rather late BUT still managed to
raise $315 in just 5 days. So on walk day...I realize "WOW people wake
up to support a cause rather early." My spirits were high enough to
lift me right out of bed and all through that long 6 mile walk.I
personally feel it was 12 miles...just me?
After a good hike I collected my t shirt and finish line
certificate, Parker and I caught our second wind at Brooklyn Diner.
YUM! Then we were off to the Marriage Equality Rally. Secretly I hopped
to meet my future ex girlfriend but I settled for quality time with my
bff and the most adorable gay boys blocking my view of the stage with
signs. Honest to god it looked like a 1970's protest but more
organaized and minus the pot (unfortunatly). Girls wearing face
painted peace signs and bell bottoms, boys looking like a Levi's
commercial, I swear the movie 'Across the Universe' threw up all over midtown. It
was gorgeous! All these beautiful people standing side by side only
hoping for the same rights as everyone else. Is it to much for me to
ask for the right to screw up marriage just as much as the next
person?
The best speaker by far was Cynthia Nixon from 'Sex and the City'. The
applause and positive energy brought chills up my spine. When it came
time to go home however the chills settled at my feet and turned to
more of a throbbing. Activism ain't easy kids! But its a good color on
me...
Leah Lexington ; )
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