LGBT Activist Scott Wooledge's #Pizza4Equality Raises $160,000 For Homeless Youth

So, you're watching the interwebs and you see a pizzeria in Indiana last month announced they won't cater to a gay couple on their wedding day. Short version of the story - the pizzeria plays victim, and the anti-gay haters across the country serve up over $800,000 in "support" for the pizzeria owners.

$800,000 reward for being anti-gay???

What do you do in that scenario?

Well, I wrote a little missive here on The Randy Report noting how ridiculous it was, and how that money could do something useful like help LGBT kids.

There. I did something.

I post it. I share it with some other activists online.

One, LGBT activist Scott Wooledge (the genius behind tons of internet memes) writes back, "I had a similar idea" and shoots me a link to a web site. A web site he had just built called "#Pizza4Equality."

A full freaking web site! And this website is a call to action to counter the haters with a campaign to raise money for LGBT homeless teens.

Then, Scott gets on Twitter and he WORKS this. He's tweeting everyone he can think of. Every celebrity, every activist, everyone he can think of.

Now, I don't mean raise "some" money for homeless teens. Scott Wooledge rallies thousands of individual donors to raise $160,000 for homeless teens!  In less than a month.

A few weeks later - and many, many hours of hard work - Scott Wooledge is handing pop music icon, LGBT ally and founder of the True Colors Fund, Cyndi Lauper a big, fat check for $160,000.

In the end, Wooledge said, “#Pizza4Equality was just trying to reclaim pizza’s good name by asking folks to donate the cost of a pizza to the True Colors Fund to help LGBTQ homeless youth.”

So, there you have it kids. You can sit and read about what this and that hater did. OR - you can find your own way to make a difference in the world.  Like Scott Wooledge.

You'll note I keep using his full name. Because I want his full name to be seen and read by folks. Because it should be.

I'm not saying you have to raise $160K to make a difference. The point is: something was done. Something occurred. Something.

And we can all do "something."

Congrats to Scott and #Pizza4Equality. And to the True Colors Fund.

By the way - the GoFundMe campaign for #Pizza4Equality is open for a few more days if you'd like to drop something in the bucket.  Click here to head over to the donation page.