Frank and I are very fortunate to have many mother figures in our lives. Five years ago on Mother’s day weekend, I lost one of them. She was a music teacher, a very close friend, and to many of us students, she was like a mom. Her name was Lynette K. Mulder and she was so beautiful. She died due to complications from LUPUS at the young age of 36, she would have been 41 today. We will always remember her as young, beautiful, and a teacher who did whatever she could, and even broke the rules because it was the right thing to do in the best interest of the students. We know we have an angel who watches over us and still tells us to go the distance, cope and deal, and live every day as your last. I was so happy that she met my husband Frank before she died, we miss you Lynette. The following is from when she directed me and my friends in the Eisenhower Express showchoir. If you look close enough behind the ‘Eisenhower Express’ backdrop you can see her directing the band.
Openly Lesbian, Illinois State Representative Deborah Mell will marry her fiance (Christin Baker) in Iowa. Mell announced her engagement on Chicago Public television last night. We wish them the absolute best!
We met Deb Mell one day in March 2004, when we all marched for equal marriage rights (photo above left was taken of us in the protest in March of 2004 and right is Deb Mell’s photo taken that same day). Mell, who was little known then, was arrested that day as we all did a sit-ins in Chicago’s city hall and Washington Avenue down the street from city hall and Daley Plaza. It was a small surprise to the police when they realize the woman they arrested is the daughter of a Chicago Alderman, sister of the First Lady of Illinois, at the time, Patricia Mell Blagojevich and of course sister-in-law of the infamous Governor Rod Blagojevich (now impeached).
According to Mell, she said she would use a point of personal privilege Wednesday on the state house floor in Springfield to spark conversation about marriage equality among her colleagues and the public. “I’m going to talk about Christin, and I’m going to talk about how we have built this life together, and how just being with her has made me a better person, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her, and I want to get married in Illinois”
Here is just a short clip from when Marcos was in the Eisenhower Express showchoir. He gets a close up 0:24 seconds in. Hope you enjoy, and enjoy Glee tonight!
