Purpose of the twin enterprises:
Goals:
Through these steps, we hope to be on a collaborative journey towards self-fulfilment and social transformation.
To these ends, Harvey Meets Jack adopts the symbol of Jack Twist to represent the opening of the personal closet through self-acceptance. And it adopts Harvey Milk as a symbol of opening of the societal closet through social activism. The latter is impossible without the former.
The power of Jack’s love was strong enough to motivate him to seek the sweet life with Ennis in a day and age when it was risky. Sadly it could not be but he struggled to keep hope alive. Again Harvey’s most important message was about hope. And he strove tirelessly to eliminate the risks that gay people faced just in being who they are. Both Harvey in real life and Jack through his tragic story, spoke to the heart. They wouldn’t have reached so many minds otherwise.
- To increase acceptance of sexual diversity by reaching out to people who have doubts/questions about the issues of gender/sexual identity/orientation and who seek a safe place in which to explore/resolve those issues.
- To promote understanding at two levels - heart and mind – with the belief that acceptance from the heart opens the door to understanding by the mind.
- To identify and assist transformation of social norms where they go against acceptance of sexual diversity.
- To identify religious laws and norms that limit or oppose acceptance of sexual diversity in various global traditions; to encourage examination/reform of those laws and norms; and to assist forming alternative spiritual support communities outside established religious frameworks.
Goals:
Through these steps, we hope to be on a collaborative journey towards self-fulfilment and social transformation.
To these ends, Harvey Meets Jack adopts the symbol of Jack Twist to represent the opening of the personal closet through self-acceptance. And it adopts Harvey Milk as a symbol of opening of the societal closet through social activism. The latter is impossible without the former.
The power of Jack’s love was strong enough to motivate him to seek the sweet life with Ennis in a day and age when it was risky. Sadly it could not be but he struggled to keep hope alive. Again Harvey’s most important message was about hope. And he strove tirelessly to eliminate the risks that gay people faced just in being who they are. Both Harvey in real life and Jack through his tragic story, spoke to the heart. They wouldn’t have reached so many minds otherwise.
