This Wednesday April 15 is more than just tax day! The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling for protests at local post offices to raise awareness on unfair taxes for gay individuals who cannot marry or have their marriages recognized on a federal level.
Not sure what the post office has to do with it? Well, if you've been waiting for an opportunity to dust off ye olde colonial period costume, perhaps you can go to the Boston Tea Party (2.0). The events, which won't just be taking place in Boston, will bring the phrase "no taxation without representation" into an LGBT perspective.
And if that's not enough activism for one day, head to New York's Stonewall Inn. This Wednesday, the bar will be pouring their stock of Red Stripe beer and Myer's Rum into a gutter on Christopher Street. The act is in protest of the treatment of gay individuals in Jamaica. Surely a good cause, but wouldn't you prefer that they pour all that booze down your throat?
– Dewitt
Not really, no.
But it is fairly ridiculous. To pour something in the gutter, you have to have it first, and unless they are stealing it, they must be buying it and SUPPORTING the economy of the country they purport to be protesting.