Petrelis Files

SF Gay Leaders
Do Prop 8 Debrief - in Denver!

The absurdity of gay leaders that was abundantly on display, and driving the gay marriage agenda into the ditch, before the November 4 loss of Prop 8, continues today in chilling beauty. In the 12 weeks since the election, not a single public debriefing with either the scads of gay elected officials holding some sort of San Francisco seat or the San Francisco based leaders of the No on 8 campaign has been staged.

Unlike Los Angeles where public forums, some with No on 8 leaders, one or two without, have taken place, but here in boring podunk San Francisco we're still waiting for the leaders to do what they've done in so many other places across the state and nation.

Here it is four days after the big Equality California sponosered and organized Equality Summit in Los Angeles, and no notices from EQCA and San Francisco folks who went to the summit have come out, telling up of any plans for a report back to the Bay Area community. I'm beginning to wonder if Mark Leno, Tom Ammiano, Bevan Dufty and Jose Cisneros have passed a law banning public gay town halls, along the lines of the current ban on gay bathhouses, and no one told me.

I was reminded today that the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's annual Creating Change conference is happening in chily Denver, so I asked their spokesperson Inga Sorensen if Geoff Kors of EQCA and Kate Kendell of National Center for Lesbian Rights, both of whom live in Harvey Milk's city and have skillfully avoided all types of open accountability meetings on Prop 8 in the Castro, would be in Denver. Her reply:

Hi Mike,

Good morning to you.

There is a related CC workshop titled "Proposition 8 Campaign Debrief: Elections, Ballot Measures and Campaigns" that is slated for Saturday in which they are listed among the scheduled presenters.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Best,
Inga

Actually, what I need is for a gosh darn town hall debrief with Kors and Kendell to finally take place in the city formerly known as America's Gay Mecca.

I checked the program for Creating Change and learned that the Prop 8 Campaign Debrief on Saturday not only will have Kors and Kendell speaking, but also Tawal Panyacosit of the API Equality group will be on the panel. Nice of all three San Francisco leaders who were integral members of the executive committee of the No on 8 campaign to make themselves available in Denver for a debriefing.

I just would like to know why they are so allegeric to doing the same thing in the Castro.