Join COLAGE in Celebrating Freedom to Marry Week

COLAGE is preparing for national Freedom to Marry Week and we would love for your help too! Every year for the past 11 years around Valentines Day, our movement takes a week for the opportunity to have a national conversation about why marriage equality matters for everyone. This year’s theme, 7 Conservations in 7 Days, promotes the single most important action everyone can take towards achieving marriage equality nationwide. Having conversations, even those which may be uncomfortable, with friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, and anyone who will listen is what this week is all about! Please join COLAGE in celebrating Freedom to Marry Week this year and help us continue the effort to win marriage equality.
Take the Pledge With COLAGE and Commit to 7 Actions for 7 Days!
Here are some ideas but feel free to come up with your own too-
February 8th – Email for Equality, sign the marriage resolution and e-mail it to friends and family members. Support your state’s equality organization and sign and circulate their petitions too!
February 9th – Get Married! Donate your Facebook relationship status in honor of Marriage Equality by saying that you are married. When your friends and colleagues ask you about your status, use the opportunity to talk about marriage equality and how the fact that you or your parents can or can not get married impacts you and other COLAGErs.
February 10th – Face Equality, Have a face to face conversation with as many people as you can about what marriage equality means to you. Talk to your neighbors, teachers, the person who serves you coffee in the morning…. everyone!
February 11th – Blog Equality. If you have a blog, post something regarding marriage equality. Write about how having an LGBTQ parents in a society without full marriage equality impacts you. You can post something on your facebook or myspace or other social networking page if you don’t have an official blog. Send us a link to your blog post.
February 12th – Text 4 Equality, It takes just seconds to send out text messages so take a moment to do just that! Send out a mass text to contacts in your phone proclaiming the need for marriage equality.
February 13th – Letters for Equality, We invite you to write a letter (it can be brief) about why family and marriage equality is important to you and your family. Feel free to send in a picture or draw a picture of your family too. We will hand carry your work to the California State Capitol to be put on display and delivered by some of us from the COLAGE office on California Lobby Day! Email your letter today. You can also send your letter to elected officials in your own state to make sure they know that their constituents are impacted by this issue.
February 14th -Craft Equality. In celebration of Valentines Day, make creative valentines that spread a message of love and marriage equality. You can also design a button about your family and/or marriage equality and wear it proudly from today on.
To learn more or get help with any of our Freedom to Marry Day activities, contact COLAGE or call 415-861-5437.