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Tuesday, September 23, 2008The cutest, most wonderful thingThis is from last Saturday at the Far West West in Point Reyes, CA. My bass player's daughter, who is clearly a natural musician, joined us to sing "Two Hands." There's nothing better to choke you up than seeing a five year old sing that she is not afraid to use her own hands to make a positive difference in this world. Go Izzie!
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008A great day at city hall... Yesterday I showed up at San Francisco City Hall to support all of the same sex couples who can finally get married by simply witnessing as well as giving away a copy of my song "I Do." Instead of a huge line of people waiting, like it was in 2004, couples made appointments and came in about ten minutes apart all day long. I was amazed to see no protesters outside, only a crowd of extremely supportive people.
The couples got married in stations that had been created all over the balconies of the building, which reminded me of a place you would visit in Paris, huge columns, relief sculptures everywhere, a giant, ornately decorated dome overhead. Each newly married couple would descend the enormous stairway into the lobby to the sound of cheers from the people awaiting them below. I, the sappy one who cries at any wedding, even a stranger's, was glad I wore waterproof mascara that day.
My personal highlight was handing my CD with "I DO" on it to Gavin Newsom, the mayor himself, and thanking him for inspiring the song in 2004 when he let gay couples get married the first time. The bonus highlight was when his advisors and office mates around him said they had been listening to and loving the song already in the office... Pretty cool. One of them even said he wanted to use it as his wedding song when he marries his partner next month. I am so so so so lucky and so are all of the people with the new right to get married, a right that we straight people take for granted every day. What a day!
LG
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Friday, June 20, 2008Yours Truly on CBS Eyewitness News Saturday 6/21 If you want to see my first TV appearance ever (TV is a very foreign thing to me, but I hear a lot of people watch it pretty regularly) then tune into CBS, channel 5 (KPIX), San Francisco for the Saturday Eyewitness news. I'll be interviewed and will play a song at about 9:20. Wish me luck!
LG
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008Where "I Do" Came From When I was young, I used to go between my mom's house in Marin County, and my father's house in the Castro District in San Francisco. It was there that I was naturally exposed to the gay community, whether through friends of my dad's or through meeting the wonderful people who lived in that neighborhood. I have never understood the arguments keeping same sex couples from getting married. The whole idea that it "dilutes the idea of marriage" is absolutely ridiculous to me. What difference does it make to anyone else if a couple is married or not? I used to hear horror stories while doing hospice care about people on their deathbeds being denied the company of their partners just because they were not married. Sometimes it was the hospital's policy and sometimes it was the decision of the family who had their judgments about the partnership in the first place. I found it so sad, brutally sad really, that someone could not be near their true love in the last of their days.
I've always said that if I had to fight for one cause it would be this one, so I guess my way of "fighting" is through the gift of this song. I wrote it in light of Gavin Newsom's (SF Mayor) decision to open up the City Hall in 2004 to same sex couples. I literally imagined them coming in two by two to the little wedding room on that day and the days that followed. Today, I am going down to SF City Hall to give away the song to the gay community, but it is actually aimed at the people who have had a hard time accepting different manifestations of love. I hope "I Do" is not only known as a "gay wedding song" but as a song that promoted love and acceptance in a time that needed it it desperately.
LG
to download song for free: www.larkingayl.com
...and a couple of people have made youtube slideshows of the song already (thanks!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUWpTv6U28
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