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I was following the NOH 8 Campaign for about two years on Twitter when I read their tweet that they would be in Provincetown, MA , on August 22, 2011 for a photo shoot. I got excited. That would be during our stay in P'town; my boyfriend and I planned to spend our annual vacation in America . So, when I packed my bag for the States I made sure to have two white t-shirts for

I heard about the NOH 8 shoot the morning of the event. I was bound and determined to make it in for a picture. I was always bullied for being gay throughout elementary school, junior high and part of high school. I don't understand the hate that people are raised with and why they continue on that sort of behavior. Being gay does not define me as a person , it's simply

I posed for the NOH8 Campaign because I believe in equal rights for everyone. I am straight and it breaks my heart that people in my life that I love are treated as second class citizens because of whom they love. After the passage of Prop 8 I got involved with several grass root efforts to overturn the proposition. I will continue to stand up for equal rights and fight for the right to marry for all people until we are victorious.

I posed for NOH 8 for equality for all people. Me and my husband had to go to another state just to get married. While our marriage is valid in another state, it is invalid in Texas . We should all be able to get married to the person we love, no matter what the gender or sexual orientation. We are not second class!!! -Hal W. Dallas Open Photo Shoot

My brother is gay and about gazillion of my friends are gay. I wanted to be a part of this shoot because of all the amazing people in my life who deserve to have the SAME rights, not different or special , as I have. And the same opportunity to fail at marriage, like I have.  I will never understand the bigotry heaped on love . I play in the Oak Lawn Band here in Dallas , which