- Laura McFerrin
Dallas filmmaker Laura McFerrin’s award-winning documentary about the National Equality March, March On, will finally make its North Texas debut on Thursday, Feb. 24.
The film, which tells the story of the 2009 LGBT march on Washington through the lives of five families, will be screened at 7 p.m. at Studio Movie Grill, 11170 N. Central Expressway (at Royal Lane).
The screening is a fundraiser for GetEQUAL, but admission is free. Donations are welcome at the door, and merchandise will be available for purchase.
In addition to McFerrin, the screening will feature March On cast members Omar Lopez and Zoe Nicholson, who will offer a Q&A afterward, as well as GetEQUAL director and co-founder Robin McGehee.
For more info or to RSVP, got to the Facebook event page.
More fundraising for GetEqual?
Marching around making demands doesn’t change any minds. It takes real effort to have conversations and seek to enroll people to support our full equality.
We need to educate, enlighten and enroll people.
GetEqual has spent $1 million and accomplished nothing. The “It Gets Better” Campaign cost $10,000 and has accomplished a lot more than anything GetEqual has done. It isn’t about $100,000 “paid activists,” it’s about being smart and making a real, sustainable difference.
Hey Andrew,
Maybe you could drive in from Plano for the screening. You did state at the Bilerico Project on June 14, 2010: “I have a business in Plano, TX and all my online communication is done through there.”
While you are at the screening you could hand out copies of your Plan… the one you mentioned at Bilerico on June 13, 2010: “I have invested more than $450,000 acquiring research and polling data during the last 10 months. I have also acquired several ideas and have paid for the development of 7 media campaigns. It’s my money and my time. I am NOT establishing a non-profit organization, I am figuring out HOW and WHEN we can WIN. I will fund that effort.”
Also, does your offer of February 10, 2010 still stand? “I have expressed several ideas and I have offered $100 million for anyone or any organization that has a strategy to win.” Perhaps there will be a taker at the screening.
Hi David,
The people at the Screening aren’t interested in “winning,” they are interested in making people uncomfortable. They believe that we will achieve full equality by “embarrassing, humiliating or threatening people into submission.” That is counterproductive. The “demanding a Marriage License” stunt is a good example of how childish these people are. EVERYONE knows we cannot get married. These GetEqual misfits showed up at the Clerk office and “demanded” a marriage license. Many of them cursed at the Clerk. You don’t change laws by pissing on the clerk – you change laws by changing minds and votes.
My efforts continue and of course my offer still stands. I don’t think anyone at the screening has any ideas, well maybe to get “attention.” They use that attention to raise money. Money they waste on childish publicity stunts.
Nobody actually believes ANYTHING GetEqual has done (while wasting $1 million) accomplished anything. Nothing they did changed any minds or votes, it simply mad a few people angry. It’s easy to be a pest, it takes some real thought and strategy to be effective.
The next time I’m in Texas we can talk. Enjoy the film. If this screening attracts more than 12 people, it will be a new record for GetEqual.
Andrew-
You must be confused as I’ve never been to Texas and won’t be this week – but thanks for the offer.
As in our prior correspondence on different sites, I must ask that you provide your contact information so that others may have the opportunity to take you up on your generous offer. Telephone number and email address should suffice.
-Dave
Dave-
You mentioned Texas in your comment, so I thought you might be in Dallas. I’m not there very often.
People know how to contact me, (HonestAmbition@gmail.com) I have received hundreds of emails and funded 5 projects so far. Any project I support must show how it will lead to winning. As you know, it’s about changing minds and votes.
i woke up this morning thinking how grateful I am for every social justice radical who made some room for society to change. From lunch counters to walking to Selma, from fasting to chaining, from heckling to obstructing traffic and, ultimately, MARCHING ON. While moderates and people content with the status quo are disapproving, it is the ones who break unjust laws, who break convention that make room for change..
It isn’t personal, its political. It isn’t for everyone but for those few who are called to it, nothing else will do. You don’t have to join them – but history will recognize their lineage.
@ Zoe: It’s 2011 and the world has changed. Yelling at a City Clerk is not comparable to Selma. Especially in the US, people are aware of our struggle, we don’t need childish stunts to remind them. We need useful conversation to educate, enlighten and enroll them. Complaining in the streets doesn’t do that.
When people are oppressed engaging in protest and even civil disobedience are useful, but WE are NOT oppressed. One-third of America, primarily because of religious beliefs, believe we are morally wrong. That is the problem and it is solved by convincing the other two-thirds to support our full equality. Marching doesn’t convince anyone or enroll anyone. It is mostly a waste of time.
If you want to be effective in today’s new world talk to friends, neighbors, co-workers and even strangers – ASK them to support us. We need to use conversation, not confrontation. That’s why GetEqual failed. They had very few supporters/participants because we know their stunts don’t help. In fact, they are counterproductive.
Here’s a video project that makes much more sense: https://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject
10,000 videos and more than 30 million views. Plus, the whole project cost less than $20,000. If you want to make a difference, ask people to share THOSE videos.
Guys….this AndrewW person is under an anonymous name. Who gives a flying fuck what he says until he gives his true name?
I give zero respect to anyone who hides behind a computer screen to spout complaints, bitchiness and opinions.
Until he steps out with balls and joins the rest of us who step up and post, comment and critique with our REAL NAMES and likenesses, then I’ll listen.
Till then…I’ll skip over his comments and focus on the “real people who aren’t afraid.”
MY NAME IS ISRAEL LUNA. I’VE HAD BOMB THREATS, CONTROVERSY, PICKET SIGNS WITH MY NAME ON THEM, THE WORKS AND I’LL ALWAYS POST MY REAL NAME WHEN GIVING COMMENTS ON BLOGS, POSTS, ETC. ONLINE.
@ Isreal: Maybe you could try to find the ability to judge the opinions expressed and not WHO expressed them. Our equality is too important to assume that only those who are willing to attach their ‘resume” should be heard.
I am doing what i am doing because i want to WIN, not be “known.” I gather you are somewhat known and good for you – that’s not my objective.
We do not need to confront people to make progress, we need to listen to them and encourage them to listen us. That’s why I’m not at all surprised that you attacked me and failed completely to address what I actually said – that’s very much like your circus-activism.
If YOU believe marching around changes minds or votes, please tell us HOW. Plus, if you do the math on these occasional little outbursts of ‘direct action,” you will note that people – our people or “us,” do not participate or contribute. That reality should give you pause.
11 people showed up. Congratulations.
Again…skipped over. : )
You know how to reach me (I assume) if you have the nuts to do it. Till then. Blog away. No one’s listening.
@ Isreal Luna: Why would I want to “reach you?” I asked you (above) to demonstrate HOW these childish antics of GetEqual help us. Answer that. 98% of Americans KNOW about our struggle – we don’t need to get their “attention,” we need to get their SUPPORT. Crying in the streets doesn’t change any minds or hearts – conversation does.
So, were YOU suggesting WE have a CONVERSATION?
That’s p r o g r e s s.