Actor and activist Wilson Cruz will be attending the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's "Creating Change 2012" conference this week in Baltimore. Cruz has a long history in LGBT activism and is featured in a short new video discussing what attracted him to the Task Force.
"The Task Force is doing all of the heavy lifting," says the star of Noah's Arc and Grey's Anatomy. "And through the years I always felt that was what they were doing. Other organizations [are] very good at visibility and get our message out. But as far as the nuts and bolts work to advance our cause, that's what the Task Force is doing."
Cruz adds: "I have lived in a world that the Task Force created so I have to give back."
Cruz will close out the conference with "Love, Child...", a musical performance. The actor talks with MetroWeekly's Chris Geidner about the intersection of music, politics and activism:
I'm going to take people on a journey about love, what I've learned about love in the past 10 years. I think it's a great thing to talk to the Creating Change folks about because I've done a lot of this work. I've been a field organizer for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, I've worked on the Obama campaign, I'm a pretty political person. What I've realized is that, in doing my work as an activist and an organizer and such, we lose sight of what it is that we're actually fighting for.
I'm in the process of picking music that is going to help me tell that story. It's the story of falling in love, and what we do to sabotage that, and how we find ourselves ready to be open to loving again.
Creating Change 2012 begins Wednesday in Baltimore. The three day conference will bring together the nation's leading LGBT movement activists.
Read the interview HERE. Watch the video AFTER THE JUMP ...
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