PFLAG Goes to The National Equality March

National Equality March October 11, 2009

PFLAG Baltimore County formed earlier this year in January when several people decided to work together to develop a Baltimore Area chapter. We held our first meeting in a Towson bookstore over coffee. The second and subsequent meetings have met at Towson Unitarian Universalist Church. The group of parents and supportive allies has grown in size from three people at that first meeting to twenty-five people in September when Darryl Hunter spoke about Bullying in Baltimore County Schools.

At the September meeting it was announced that the chapter had decided to sponsor a bus to the National Equality March in Washington DC on October 11, 2009. During the next six weeks all the seats on the first bus were sold. Early in the week before the March & Rally requests for tickets were still pouring in. A second bus was ordered and ticket sales continued up to the moment the bus departed for Washington DC on Sunday.

We were happy to include two groups of students along for the ride. One group was from Baltimore City College, and another group from Notre Dame College. Donations were made by several members of PFLAG and several others by friends in our allied community. A very generous donation was made by PFLAG Columbia/Howard County. This donation enabled us to subsidize the high school student seats. We are still working to develop fund raising plans and to gather donations to reimburse one college student who paid for fifteen seats for her fellow students. This was a gracious gesture on her part. But, we as a grateful community should respond with individual donations to assure she is repaid for her dedicated effort.

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