All of those hundreds of protests scheduled to take place tomorrow — protests which most our professional LGBT advocacy groups have been completely out of the loop on — are largely the brainchild of one woman in Seattle, Amy Balliett. All it took was a web site:
“You know that book, The Tipping Point?” asks the young Internet maven, referring to Malcolm Gladwell’s 2000 work exploring cultural shifts and the small things that incite them. “Well, on Sunday night, I said to myself, “Holy crap. We’re at the tipping point!”
Seattle activist Amy Balliett, founder of web-spawned phenomenon “Join ...