You wrote this two weeks ago: “Hello, straight people? . . . Most of you seem content to rubberneck while gay people have the shit kicked out of us, and while that’s maddening, I suppose it’s understandable: it’s not your fight. But what explains your passivity when your own rights are being attacked?”
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“We live in a time when privacy is under attack, and sexual privacy is a prime target,” Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, told me to tell you. “Politicians use billions of taxpayer dollars to withhold vital sexual-health information from teens, the FDA keeps emergency contraception under lock and key, and lawmakers sanction pharmacies’ refusal to fill birth control prescriptions. It’s time to pull out all the stops and push back.”
How? Well, you could become a card-carrying member of the ACLU (www.aclu.org), along with People for the American Way (www.pfaw.org) or Americans United for Separation of Church and State (www.au.org). To specifically protect your reproductive freedoms, you could join Planned Parenthood (www.plannedparenthood.org) and NARAL Pro-Choice America (www.naral.org).
