Equality Loudoun looks to defeat constitutional amendment and support Loudoun youth.
Loudoun Connection
April 5, 2006
By Erika Jacobson
What the leaders of Equality Loudoun would like is an open and honest conversation with the people of Loudoun County.
“We would be willing, name the time and place, to have a town-hall meeting to discuss what our community is really about and all of the issues,” Equality Loudoun president and founder, David Weintraub, said.
But, so far, no one has taken the group up on its standing invitation.
Equality Loudoun is a community advocacy group that works to support and improve the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Loudoun County. Weintraub founded the group in the summer of 2003.
He moved to Loudoun in 1998 with his partner and he realized that there were people within the community who were not going to be welcoming.
“I knew there were all these people from our community living here and yet there was a feeling that I was an outsider,” he said. “I realized something had to be done and that nobody was going to do it if I don’t.”
Now, almost three years later, many things have changed for Loudoun’s gay and lesbian community, while other things still remain the same.
Wow! Good article. Good quotes. I agree, people should stop bearing false witness. The Bible says so.