The Family Pride Coalition helped organize between one and two hundred families (the number changes depending on the news source) to wait on line all night for tickets to attend the Easter egg roll at the White House. The New York Times tends to print pieces about LGBTQ people exclusively in the context of controversy, printed a non-opinion piece with the title “The Egg Roll (Again!) Becomes a Stage for Controversy.” Is it really a controversy that a bunch of gay families wearing rainbow leis went to roll eggs and be included in a weird White House tradition?

First of all, why no one is pissed that the White House has a religious-based event as one of the few instances in which they actively engage the public is beyond me. That aside, why are the LGBTQ rights always reduced to conforming to Judeo-Christian principles? It’s great that LGBTQ families are looking for avenues by which to gain more visibility, but there’s another facet to this story that no one has explored. Why isn’t anyone speaking out and rejecting this settling for inclusion in intrinsically heterosexist institutions? If the Times, Gay City News, AP and other media who covered the egg roll were to really investigate the issue, they’d get someone from ACT UP! to add another queer opinion and that is that many queers aren’t willing to conform, normalize, and try to be the same as heterosexual families.

Tony Eastly of a local ABC news radio show talked about the protests by Christian conservatives, said that the conservatives were upset that the gay families "hijacked" the event for political purposes. Michael Rowland then said something about the battle in the "culture wars." Do people hear themsleves? Is it part of a culture war when people come to the White House with their kids to roll some eggs? This isn't even asking for equal marriage rights, equal adoption or military rights. It's asking to roll some eggs. They even went so far as to call it "Brokeback Bunny."