BRB: I'm Headed To The DMV

What's this? In Indiana? The state's first specialty license plate that benefits LGBT causes is now available for purchase.
Oh, but it is. Bureau of Motor Vehicles [BMV] spokesman Graig Lubsen said the Indiana Youth Group plate has been available since last month; the plate bears a logo with hands in rainbow colors reaching up.Twenty-five dollars from the sale of each $40 plate goes to the group serving LGBTQ youth. The Indiana Youth Group operates an activity center, helps develop Gay Straight Alliances in high schools and assists communities in forming youth services; the group serves some 1,400 youths and young adults ages 12 to 21.
Youth Group director Mary Byrne says every nickel raised by the sale of these specialty plates "will go directly for services to these young people."
Indiana is only the second state in the nation with a specialty plate benefiting gay youths. Maryland was the first.
But it took a lawsuit to have the plate made available.
The Youth Group sued the state in 2010 after the BMV turned down its request for a specialty plate in 2008 and 2009, alleging the BMV used arbitrary and unconstitutional standards in deciding whether to approve plates for nonprofit groups. Both sides later reached an agreement and the lawsuit was dismissed. The Youth Group applied again and the plate was approved.
Makes me wanna pack up my bags and move to, of all places, Indiana, except........

Down here in South Carolina, we can now purchase an SC Equality license plate.Now, the license plate doesn't have a rainbow flag, or rainbow colors, or pink triangles, or RuPaul, on it, but it's an LGBT supportive plate.
It was created as a way of allowing residents of South Carolina to publicly display their support of community, culture and policy that encourages and advocates for equal treatment for all South Carolinians, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
And the license plates comes in 2012, which is the tenth anniversary of the founding of SC Equality. In effing South Carolina.
After hanging my head that a serial adulterer and racist wingnut won the GOP Primary, hearing this news allowed me to hold my head up again.
Way to go, SC! Way to go!


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Good News For South Carolina

Christine Johnson is a Lesbian living in Utah. Talk about being outside the Gay Ghetto.

And she's a Democrat in Utah. And a member of Congress.

How scary is that? A Democratic lesbian who is a member of Congress in Utah. Oh, did I mention that she is carrying a child for two of her gay friends who can't legally adopt in Utah?

Yeah. She's a tough one.

Which leads me to the good news.

Johnson will not be seeking reelection in Utah when her term expires. Instead, she will be moving to South Carolina to head up South Carolina Equality. Utah's loss is our gain.

See, I've discovered that there are quite a few gay men and women here in South Carolina. And we have quite the gay community in Smallville, seeing that we are a town of just 8,000. But we need a voice, and a backbone,. Someone who knows the ins and outs of politics to motivate the gay community in this state.

So, welcome Christine, to South Carolina. We need you. Get this community moving.