After 200 daily posts, I missed a day yesterday because I forgot to “publish.” I wrote a piece about the Wall Street Journal’s expose’ on Facebook but I didn’t published it because I wanted to proof it one more time. I got so involved with a party Eliot and I hosted last night, that I forgot to check in on WordPress. By the time I remembered, it was past midnight, the time when WordPress takes all of the blog posts for the day and starts blasting them to subscribers.

The topic I wrote about is a very sensitive one, so I wanted to read it a few times. I will publish it on Monday.

Today is all about celebration. Last night Eliot and I hosted a “Freedom To Marry” party at our Miami condo. Jeff Ronci and Juan Talavera, produced, organized, and directed the entire event.

“Freedom To Marry” is all about same sex marriage. Approximately 80 people showed up. Steve Rothaus, the outstanding Gay Issues Writer from the Miami Herald, attended and covered the event. Click here to read it.

Good Morning America’s Sam Champion, and his fiancé, Miami fine-arts photographer, Rubem Robierb, also showed. There is a good chance that Sam and Rubem will use the newly-produced song “Any Once Upon A Time,” at their wedding. Ron Abel and Chuck Steffan debuted the song last night to a cheering crowd.

Other notables in attendance were: Miami International Film Festival executive director Jaie Laplante, South Miami Mayor Philip K. Stoddard, and “Freedom to Marry” Federal Director Jo Ellen Deutsch, who grew up in Miami-Dade County. Her parents were there as well.

Steve recaps the story better than I did so read it here:

To find out more about Freedom to Marry, visit http://www.freedomtomarry.org/nep or
click here.

Please click here to hear Any Once Upon A Time

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME
c. Abel/Steffan Music

Music by Ron Abel

Lyric by Chuck Steffan

Sung by Von Smith

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME CAN START A TALE OR NURSERY RHYME

STORIES PASSED TO YOUNG ONES STILL

OF DICK AND JANE, AND JACK AND JILL

BUT THERE ARE TALES SO SELDOM TOLD

OF SUBJECTS EVERY BIT AS OLD

AND THOSE AFRAID TO SPEAK THE WORD

PREFER THOSE STORIES GO UNHEARD.

NO WONDER WE GROW UP IN DOUBT

NOT KNOWING WHAT OUR LOVE’S ABOUT.

AND CHANGE FOR US WON’T COME UNTIL

DICK LOVES JACK, AND JANE LOVES JILL.

MAYBE THEN THE WORLD WILL SEE

THAT WE DON’T LOVE SO DIFFERENTLY

OUR STORIES SOUND ALIKE IT SEEMS

ALL OF US SHARING THE SAME HOPES AND DREAMS

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME CAN START A TALE OF LOVE LIKE YOURS, LIKE MINE.

THERE ARE THOSE THAT SAY THEY KNOW BETTER

AND THEY’LL TRY TO KEEP US APART

NO ONE CAN SAY WHO WE FALL IN LOVE WITH

THAT’S A MATTER FOR THE HEART.

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME CAN START A TALE OF LOVE LIKE YOURS, LIKE MINE.

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME

ANY ONCE UPON A TIME CAN START A TALE OF LOVE LIKE YOURS, LIKE MINE

LIKE MINE.