The pro-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) organization Equality California has extended an invitation to Miss California, Carrie Prejean, to join members of the LGBT community for dinner!
Geoff Kors, the executive director of EQCA is hoping to sit down with Miss Cali at a dinner hosted by a same-sex couple and several LGBT students in an attempt to share their stories with the pageant queen.
“Miss California probably doesn’t realize how hurtful her statements are, especially to the LGBT youth,” Kors explained on Tuesday.
He continued, “But this is about something much bigger than the issue of marriage alone, and I have to believe that if she meets us, she will come to see our humanity, and at the very least, I hope she will understand that what she says as Miss California can either hurt people or bring them together.”
That’s exactly what we’ve been saying!
Says Kors in his letter to Miss California:
As the executive director of EQCA, I’m writing to you in an effort to begin an open, honest dialogue. As such, I’d like to invite you to meet with me, LGBT students as well as a family headed by a same-sex couple so you may learn more about our families, our aspirations and our lives. I’m especially interest in introducing you to LGBT youth who can share with you their heartfelt stories about how the prejudice they face on a sometimes daily basis at school and in their local communities impacts them.
It is our hope that by meeting with us you’ll come to see our humanity and one day support our unequivocal equality.
With your position as Miss California, you have an incredible opportunity to help bring people together and to make a difference. I hope you will seize that opportunity and accept this invitation.
Will Prejean accept EQCA’s invitation to dinner???
We’re praying!
[Photo via AP Images.]