Petrelis Files

Pam's House Blend:
Wrong on SF's Prop 8 Forums, Lack Thereof?

Over at Pam Spaulding's House Blend site, a posting was made yesterday from Autumn Sandeen, a transgender advocate and writer from San Diego. Sandeen was at the Equality Summit in Los Angeles and she made a claim that shocked me. She says there have public forums with Prop 8 leaders in San Francisco, and this is simply false. There have been nosuch forums here.

We have not had a chance to vent directly at Prop 8 leaders, in particular Goof Kors and Kate Kendell, at public forums.

If Sandeen can produce a single article from either the SF Chronicle, the Bay Area Reporter, the Bay Times, or any online media, documenting when such forums have taken place, I'd like to read the articles, and will then, of course, issue an apology to her.

But until such time, I believe a correction should be prominently mentioned by Sandeen and maybe also the site's terrific hostess, Pam Spaulding, that a mistake was reported and is being corrected.

Here is what Sandeen alleged, emphasis mine:

During the q&a period, tempers seemed high. One of the grassroots organizers from San Diego explained to me that one of the reasons for the palpable anger in the room was due to how Los Angeles had not had a debrief. In San Diego and San Francisco, for example, there were public sessions where LGBT community members could vent at the No On Prop 8 campaign for the perceived failures of the campaign. That didn't happen in Los Angeles, so apparently many of the Los Angeles folk never had a chance to vent their anger.