I figured now was a good time to start blogging, what with it being such a historic day and all. I was up at 7 a.m. voting, and it's been pretty chill at work but it's going to be a looooong night.
I guess you'd like some background on this whole blog thing, huh?
Well, I have a unique job. I'm straight, but because of my job, my life revolves around LGBT issues. It's an interesting perspective to have on things. Every day, I read about and report on gay issues in this state and around the country and world.
Some people, like my 86-year-old grandma who hails originally from West Virginia, ask me "If you're not gay, why do you care so much?"
Others may say "You can't understand or be as passionate about gay issues as LGBT people are because they don't affect you."
But they DO affect me, not just because some of my closest friends are gay, but because LGBT rights are HUMAN rights, and we can all agree that human rights are important, yeah?
I care a lot.
That's why I started this blog: Because my personality and my views don't come through in the news stories I write (if it did, they wouldn't be news stories, duh). Here is where you get to hear what I'm thinking about the issues I write about, and what it's like to be a minority within a minority. A straight girl in the gay world.
So we begin with Election Night. I'll be at Affirmations tonight, interviewing and photographing and videotaping and blogging as the results come in! Check here for updates today and tomorrow about how things went down.
Enjoy!
You wanna know?
- Jess
- 24. Acts like 17. Rock music lover. Sometimes avid runner. Clothing- and shoe-obsessed. Beer enthusiast. Writer. Karaoke queen. Often ridiculous and intermittently nonsensical. Grammar snob. LGBT ally. Politics lover. Cat lady. Thesaurus whore.
3 comments:
Awesome, Jess!
I'll for sure be keeping up with your posts. :)
"Minority within a minority." I like it. ;)
Be aware of your privilege in society at large, don't talk over the voices of the people directly affected, blah blah blah, you know all the shit that allies need to hear. I think this will be an interesting and delightful blog! And the authoress is not too hard on the eyes, either! I was going to leave on a strangely familiar yet cryptic note so you could be all, "What the...HEY, IT'S CARLY!" but this website ALREADY KNOWS MY NAME!!??
Yo gabba gabba rules!!!!
Remember halloween....too much candy's gonna make you sick...to much candy's gonna make you so sick.
KeepuptheGOODworkJess....There...I cruched all the letters together...ha ha.
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