This is a picture of me doing the Aids walk in Spokane.
This picture may be historically important in the future if LGBT rights are expanded or if health care is more readily accessible in the united states. This issue is very important to me because as an Episcopalian, I am a very big supporter of lgbt rights and domestic partnership. Aids is an issue that effects every population, but the gay community is very much associated with it. I hope one day that negativity towards these issues are less prevalent, and that awareness of both issues are expanded.
I would really like to have a picture of me in front of the National Cathedral in DC, or in Aneheim, California where the 76th annual General Convention was held for the Episcopal Church. I wish I could have been there. My church is one of the first churches to openly, publicly, wholly admit that we have gay members in our clergy and congregation.
The openness of the church to accept gay and lesbian members into their community shows how far this world has come in accepting LGBT peoples. I think that though the episcopal community is small, we have made a very large statement to the world that we are ready to coexist if they are.
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