Below is an interview with GSA Network's National Program Manager, Danielle Askini -- another interview conducted at the Equality Summit. She wasn't speaking as a spokesperson for the GSA Network in this interview, but as an activist who worked in the No On Prop 8 campaign.
Danielle publicly identifies as transgender. She, like Sara Beth Brooks, is also in her mid-twenties.
Issues discussed in the interview include California's Proposition 8, grassroots participation in the marriage equality movement, and transgender participation in the marriage equality movement. The interview is about 10 minutes long.
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Related:
* A Look At The Grassroots: Interview Of San Diego Equality Campaign's Sara Beth Brooks
Do you remember in days gone by when gay men were were almost always portrayed as fruity, effeminate men in high heels? -- apparently this is still the image of LGBT people within Randy Thomasson's mind...
The homosexual activists never stop claiming to be victims, even when they have an iron stiletto heel upon your neck. They will claim that they are being victimized by you. They're intolerant, and now they're pushing even more legislation in the California government."
--Randy Thomasson, founder and president of California's Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), as quoted at OneNewsNow
If folk like Thomasson don't want to be called intolerant, homophobic, or bigoted, then perhaps they shouldn't use the language of intolerance, homophobia, or bigotry.
And, the LGBT community has "an iron stiletto heel upon [their] neck[s]"? Oh please. 
As I said prior to attending the Equality Summit, I was going to cover the event from a different perspective than the mainstream perspective. So, I looked for a couple of voices that we wouldn't likely see in the front of the room.
So, below is an interview with Sara Beth Brooks of the San Diego Equality Campaign. In her role as the Executive Chair for this grass roots organization, she was the lead organizer of the 20,000 participant Join The Impact march in San Diego. She's in her mid-twenties, and publicly identifies as a B within the LGBT community.
The interview is about seven-and-a-half minutes long.
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Related:
* Another Look At The Grassroots: An Interview Of Danielle Askini
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