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Phone: (813) 930-9841
Email: info@RainbowLaw.com
The Get all Your Ducks in a Row Campaign
An Online Service For The LGBT
Community --- It’s Just Ducky!
By Carrie & Elisia Ross-Stone
Buffalo, NY -- January, 2003
Home of the Get All Your Ducks In A Row campaign, GAYducks.org is designed as a simple resource and referral site where gays and lesbians can easily access groups and organizations that provide the following:
- Information about laws and legislation affecting the LGBT community
- Voting records and contact information for local, state and national politicians and candidates
- Information about how gay and lesbian partners can protect their relationships and rights
- A Lawyer referral service
- Suggestions about how individuals can work to change the system
- Sample letter to send to elected officials
- Links to local and national LGBT organizations
Why the name "GAYducks?"
When we decided to launch a national campaign to educate and activate the LGBT
community, we knew it was important that we make a noticeable first impression.
Most folks know the phrase "get all your ducks in a row" refers to getting your
affairs in order. Since rainbow colors are symbolic for all things gay and
lesbian, we created a logo of cute little rainbow ducks to facilitate a
conversation about the otherwise dry and intimidating topic of estate and
relationship planning.
Only later did we notice that the first letters in the first three words spell
out GAY, so we called the web site GAYducks.org. Because the logo is fun and the
name unique, we think it will be easy to remember.
Who are "we?"
We are Carrie Ross-Stone, JD & Elisia Ross-Stone, RN, life partners committed to
educating the LGBT community about empowering themselves and protecting their
relationships. For the last three years, we have been working together to bring
estate planning information to the LGBT community in our workshops and on
RainbowLaw.com, an estate planning
information web site.
To publicize GAYducks.org and the Get All Your Ducks In A Row campaign, we are
taking the show on the road!
Beginning on May 1st, 2004, we will embark again on our second annual coast to
coast bicycle ride from San Francisco to Rehoboth Beach, DE. We are scheduled to
speak at various gay and lesbian community centers along the way. For the
duration of the ride (about 3 months), we will post weekly updates on
GAYducks.org. We hope the ride will become a coast to coast Rainbow Parade when
others join us on their bikes, cars and RV’s, as we ride through their cities
and towns.
For more information about the campaign and the bike ride, log onto
GAYducks.org.
Carrie Ross-Stone, J.D. and Elisia Ross-Stone, R.N., are LGBT civil rights activists. They own and operate Rainbow Law, an Estate Planning education and information service designed for the LGBT community. After the passage of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) the couple organized the Get All Your Ducks in a Row Campaign to promote LGBT equality. Carrie & Elisia are recipients of OUT Magazine’s OUT 100 award for their contribution to the LGBT community and they were recently named Incredible Parents by And Baby Magazine.
