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That's why the (PSP) Penn Square Partners' choice for Public Relations firm is surprising and fly's in the face of those that would claim Lancaster County is backward with regard to "inclusivity"!
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Gay Marriage Meets Convention Center
At 5thEstate.com we like to cover the offbeat or often missed subject. This story is the convergence of two major Lancaster County subjects in an offbeat way! The subjects? Same sex marriage and the convention center project!
Pennsylvania State Representative Scott Boyd has made headlines recently with the introduction of a law banning same sex marriage. In conservative Lancaster County, Boyd's constituents are for the most part going to support such a law. That's why the (PSP) Penn Square Partners' choice for Public Relations firm is surprising and flies in the face of those that would claim Lancaster County is backward with regard to "inclusivity"!
Dave Kirk is a regular reader on Lancaster Newspaper's "talkback" section where users can post comments on articles written in the newspaper. His 23 total posts are spaced out over time. The friendly poster has been pushing the "private" hotel (we have that in quote since the public is putting the vast majority of money for the project and the PSP get credit for such non-long-term-investment items as the room's alarm clocks, pillows etc.!) since March of 2002 and claims to have 183 documents such has letters, presentations etc. in a recent post. Penn Square Partners' Public letters and presentations show Kirk's handiwork.
Kirk calls himself as "The PR Guy" and has the website
ThePRguy.com. He also call himself,
TheCrisisGuy.com
(crisis management),
TheWriterGuy.com
and the
TheIRguy.com (investor relations). What is NOT on David Kirk's website is that he is also ½ of
TheGayGuys.com!
Kirk says this about his almost 15 year commitment to Randy:
We met on an RSVP Cruise on February 18, 1989, while standing on the dock in New Orleans. Word spread through the line that if you didn't select your own dinner-table partners, they'd seat with you with just anyone! So I, David, turned around to the sweet young thing behind me and invited him to join my table.
I (David again!) chased Randy around the ship, having fallen in love at first site. Randy, on the other hand, was looking for Tom Selick (sic) and, as you can see, I don't fit that description. Nonetheless, I somehow wormed my way into his heart by the end of the cruise.
(…)
We began a long distance love affair, first by phone (until my then business partner complained about the $500 monthly phone bills on the company tab) and later by flying back and forth between Chicago, where Randy lived, and Philadelphia, where I lived. By Labor Day, Randy got a transfer to Philadelphia and he moved into the tiny row-house that I had rehabbed in South Philly.
Two years after the first cruise, we went back to the same ship (a really sad old tub) and were married somewhere in international waters. (Does that count, Mr. Bush?) And to make sure it really "took," we did it a second time on yet another cruise, some years later.
Kirk's other familiar clients listed are Lancaster General Hospital and Gilbert Architects.
While Rep. Boyd is fighting same-sex marriage, Kirk is pushing gay nuptials in between pushing the convention center project! It's surely an interesting factoid that you will only find written about on 5thEstate.com!
Maybe Kirk, the Phoenixville PA resident, will hold the first Lancaster County Gay Pride event at the new Hotel/Convention center!
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In a picture from their site Kirk (left), who turn 54 this year, and Randy Stopher (right), who turns 44 this year, were married in 1991 somewhere "out on the sea" and renewed their vows in September 2005 in Montreal, Canada. While Kirk has been "out" over 3 decades, his business websites do not list the
The fun-loving Kirk lists a link on his site for