LGBT Families: Send the President a Holiday Card

A number of leading national and regional LGBT family rights groups have launched the “From Our Family to Yours Campaign,” urging LGBT families to send holiday cards to President Obama and his family. The goal is “to introduce the First Family to thousands of LGBT families” and to “increase visibility and awareness about the need for federal protections for the LGBT community.”

Here’s how it works:

To participate in the campaign, we encourage families to send holiday cards to the First Family, and share their photos and this message:

“Season’s Greetings, from our family to yours. May the next year bring peace and equality for all.”

Please send your holiday cards and photos to:

Family Equality Council
Attn: First Family
P.O. Box 206
Boston, MA 02133

or send a digital version to tina.walker-morin@familyequality.org by January 1, 2010. We encourage you to send your holiday cards as soon as possible so that we can compile all of the images into a holiday package to be delivered to the First Family.

Visit the partnership’s Web site for more details.

Sponsoring organizations include Center Kids: A Program of the New York LGBT Community Center; COLAGE; Equality California; Equality Federation; Family Equality Council; Family Matters: a program of the San Diego LGBT Community Center; L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Family Services Program; Lesbian and Gay Family Building Project; the Mega Family Project; National Center for Lesbian Rights; Our Family Coalition; Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG); and the San Francisco LGBT Community Center.

I say, while you’re at it, send cards to all of your state legislators and members of Congress.