Lesbian Super PAC Will Champion Gay And Women’s Rights

[Zorra]

Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:15 AM - Edit history (1)

This is so positive and encouraging! An intersectional women's PAC promoting pro-women candidates.

LPAC spokewoman Sarah Schmidt talked to the Huffington Post about the importance of a lesbian-specific fundraising effort:

SCHMIDT: Women’s voices get lost a lot and get overshadowed in almost all settings. So I think there’s a real opportunity here to engage women who haven’t been engaged before — for lesbians, in particular, to speak for ourselves about the issues that are important to us and to define those issues in our own words. It’s a chance to really have a seat at the table when these critical issues are being discussed and the policy is being developed. We want to be there. We want to be in the middle of the conversation.[...]

Part of the reason why we’re mobilizing right now is because of what’s been going on in the political conversation and what we’ve been hearing coming from the Republican Party around these issues that’s been so disheartening. We would really hope that we can find some Republican candidates to support. I’m not sure that’s going to happen this cycle.

Why was LPAC created?

Women’s equality and well-being is under attack in a way this country has not seen in decades;
As a result, a dramatic window of opportunity exists to counter this onslaught by electing strong pro-women candidates running for office;
We believe that a strong lesbian PAC will influence the political and social landscape generating results.

This looks like the perfect PAC for me to contribute to. It appears to target/serve my political interests/needs as a feminist, as a liberal Democrat, and as an LGBTIQ woman.

YAY!