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Carrie Ross-Stone , J.D. (WVU women’s studies certificate recipient, WVU College of Law graduate) and Elisia Ross-Stone, R.N., are LGBT civil rights activists. They own and operate Rainbow Law, an estate planning education and information service for the LGBT community. This movie is an out-of-this-world story about a down-to-earth lesbian couple who got on their bicycles and rode 3,800 miles across America to rally support for same-sex marriage. From San Francisco to New York City, Elisia and Carrie, two lesbian grandmothers (from Mars, Pennsylvania!), rode across mountain ranges, through deserts and across prairies, struggled through the mud-slinging of election year politics, hateful protests and even death threats. Tired of all the regressive hate-mongering, and motivated by the threat of a federal anti-marriage amendment, the “Rainbow Grannies” set out to prove that they are not alien life forms who wreak havoc on society and destroy "traditional families." Using their own family as an example, they met face-to-face with politicians and regular folks living in the heartland to show that their life is not so different from the lives of other American families. Their mission: to raise awareness about equal civil marriage rights. Download the flyer (pdf, 256 Kb--Right click and select "Save Target As"!--or jpeg, 1 MB) for this event. Sponsored by: WVU Center for Women’s Studies, Morgantown chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), WVU Female Equality Movement (FEM), Bisexual Gay Lesbian & Transgender Mountaineers (BiGLTM), WVU Council for Women’s Concerns, WVU Division of Social Work, Community Coalition for Social Justice (CCSJ), WVU College of Law ACLU, WV Foundation for Equality, Rainbow Law, Rainbow Community Center, WVU Council on Sexual Orientation (COSO), WVU Division of Family and Consumer Sciences, WVU College of Law Gay, Lesbian, Alternative & Straight Students (GLASS), Monongalia Friends Meeting. For more information, contact the Center for Women’s Studies at 304-293-2339, or Jessi at hagdinvincible@yahoo.com, or go to http://www.wall-eye.com/lgfmabout.html.
Selected Sponsor Contact Info: Morgantown N.O.W.: Jessi Kalvitis, hagdinvincible@yahoo.com |
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