DontAmend Tampa Bay Annual Valentines Day of Action
Rally has become a tradition for the Tampa Bay area, this is the 3rd year
we will be holding it. Our Valentines Day of Action Rally
has coincided with 'Freedom to Marry Week' of Action, rallies
and related events to be held
nationwide. This years rally will be
the official kick-off of Winter Pride activities and events
and a prelude to Equality Florida's Town Hall
Meeting the Inaugural Winter Pride Tampa Bay 2006, and the AIDS Walk as well
as
several other pride related events and
activities.
With the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners new policy
abstaining from acknowledging, recognizing, promoting or participating in any
gay pride displays or events. To honor our Right to Celebrate Our Pride and the
Inaugural Winter Pride Tampa Bay 2006 and this years rally will
be renamed, DATB's Annual Valentines Day "Pride" Rally.
The Valentines Day "Pride" Rally will be a
time for us to come together in a display of diversity, unity and
a public celebration of GLBT pride. The Hillsborough County Board of
Commissioners may believe that they can simply Ban Gay Pride in
72 seconds. Well we adamantly refuse to give up our right to express the
pride we feel in ourselves and our community. The Valentines Day
"Pride" Rally is a positive way for the
Tampa Bay community to join together in strong opposition to this new
policy.
