Invite Us to Speak

Invite Us to Speak

Invite Us to Speak!

• We can travel to your event to present to your group in person, or

• You can schedule an interactive online webinar a web-based seminar that is transmitted over the Internet and which allows for participants to interact with us in real time for individuals or groups.

• In addition to or instead of a lecture or workshop, you can schedule a showing of the documentary 'Lesbian Grandmothers from MARS: One Couple's Journey for Marriage Equality', which was filmed during our 2004bicycle ride across America to advocate for marriage equality.

Our Lectures:

1. Get All Your Ducks in a Row! An LGBT Estate Planning Workshop where we present vital information about the legal documents needed to create specific legal rights, protections, obligations and benefits. Even if you feel intimidated by legal jargon, our presentation is easy to understand.  Using visual aids, props and skits, our estate planning workshop is interesting, dynamic and fun.  Participants come away from this workshop with the information necessary to protect and care for loved ones who are not legally recognized family members and each participant will receive free advance directives for their home state.

Topics covered in 'Get All Your Ducks in a Row!' Workshop:

• Estate Planning Basics -- Protecting Rights
• Humorous Introduction to Relevant Legal Terms
• Trusts and Wills -- why we need them
• The Problem with Probate
• Protecting Property
• Advance Directives
• Planning for and Protecting Children
• How you can bring Marriage Equality to your State

Our fee for the "in person" presentation of the "Get All Your Ducks in a Row!" Workshop is $500.00 plus travel and lodging.  We offer a reduced fee on a sliding scale to non-profit organizations.

Our fee for the webinar version of the "Get All Your Ducks in a Row!" Workshop is $25.00 for individualsone household, or $75.00 for a presentation to a group of 5 or more people.

For inquiries please contact Carrie-Ross-Stone

2. The Long Road to Equality.  Carrie & Elisia Ross-Stone (aka 'the Rainbow Grannies') are the mothers of three grown children and grandmothers of two.  Married in Canada in 2003, we are now full-time civil rights activists advocating for LGBTQ equality by raising awareness of the issues through public speaking and community action. 'The Long Road to Equality' lecture weaves past and current stories from our own lives -- coming out and being outed, raising our children in a homophobic society and without legal rights and recognitions, riding our bicycles coast-to-coast to advocate for marriage equality, growing older, becoming grandmothers, working together as business partners and activists, building a house, and more -- as we make an honest and heartfelt presentation of the difficulties we've faced as a lesbian couple struggling for justice and equality.

Topics covered in 'The Long Road to Equality' lecture:

• Introducing Ourselves
• How We Met
• Raising Children (dealing with their school friends, their parents, pediatritions and teachers)
• Horror Stories - life without decision making and other rights
• Outings
• Becoming Advocates
• The Rainbow Rides Across America
• Rainbow Law
• Building a House from Trash
• Throughout it All... Keeping our Love Alive

3. It's Not About S-E-X! When defending their anti-equality position, opponents of  "gay" marriage often cite their belief in Judeo/Christian "values" and/or their understanding that, throughout history, marriage has been defined as a sacred union between one man and one woman.  However, when we look closely at these arguments it is clear that they are actually based upon a personal bias against the thought or idea of two men or two women making love.  In other words, what is really standing in the way of LGBT equality is the "ick-factor." In this lecture, we analyze the opposition's words and deeds to expose the true reasons they so vehemently push for legal discrimination against gay men and lesbians.

Topics covered in It's Not About S-E-X!' lecture:

• The Marriage Debate: 'Gay' Marriage vs. 'Heterosexual' Marriage
• It's NOT about S-E-X!
• Life without Legal Protections
• The Negative Effects on Our Children
• Why Civil Unions Are Not Enough
• The Importance of Being Visible
• Becoming Activists
• Winning Hearts & Minds
• Changing Law & Policy

Our fee for the "in person" presentation of the 'It's Not about S-E-X!'  Lecture is $500.00 plus travel and lodging.  We offer a reduced fee on a sliding scale to  non-profit organizations.