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Out & Equal Reception at the Austin Convention Center
Another late, late, hurricane-harried posting: Out & Equal was here last week.
Becky Zimmerman, Melissa Mitchell of Kalamazoo, Mich.
The national group promotes workplace equality. Couldn’t be more effective. And their conference drew big names, including Internet opinion queen Ariana Huffington, makeover master Carson Kressley, Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith and Austin Area Interreligious Ministries CEO Tom Spencer.
Jerome King, Carrie Miller, he of Washington D.C., she of Cincinnati
Statesman reporter Peter Mongillo wrote a substantive article about the summit. My proposed function was to cover the social events, with the help of local co-chair Victor Martinez and O&E press rep Redge Norton.
Donna Rose, Samantha Britney
Of course, a little tempest called Hurricane Ike swept that plan away. I made exactly one Out & Equal reception that felt swallowed up by the scale of a Austin Convention Center banquet hall. We met considerate, committed folks.
Luis Vera, Morgan Green, Stanley Ellicott, Pamela Berliwitz, Christine Holcomb — all Out & Equal staffers
I debated telling the following anecdote, but what the hey? One group I photographed recoiled at the thought of appearing in a newspaper column. I bit my tongue. What part of “out” did they not get? (We deleted the images anyway.) Otherwise, I hope the Equalers had a good time in Austin. Despite Ike.
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