<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's (October 27, 2013) Spokesman-Review.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; overflow: visible !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 28px; font-family: Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Lesbian couple from Macklemore show attends Ephrata High dance</h1><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the final notes of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” died in the Spokane Arena on Wednesday night, a high school senior pulled her girlfriend onto the stage.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I knew I liked girls since I was the age of 4, but you were the first girl I ever fell in love with,” Ephrata High School senior McKyna Jacobson told Chelsie Price before asking her to Saturday’s homecoming dance. The two were the first openly gay couple ever to attend the dance.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crowd erupted into cheers as the couple embraced.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I started crying onstage,” said Price, a freshman at Eastern Washington University. “It was really heartwarming.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jacobson tried to contact Macklemore about a month before the concert to set the moment up, but gave up when she didn’t hear anything. But on a whim, Jacobson’s mother, Dorothy Harris, contacted Macklemore’s media representative the day of the concert.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“McKyna and her dad and I were on the way over to the concert, and one of the producers called us and said, ‘Hey, we want to make this happen,’ ” Harris said. “It literally happened that day.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jacobson kept the call a secret from Price, presenting her with a pair of backstage passes. Price thought the two were just going to hang out there and listen to a few songs. Then Macklemore called them onstage after performing “Same Love,” his platinum-selling song about marriage equality.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It was really amazing and humbling,” Jacobson said. “When we walked out on the stage, it was instant support.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The moment “was really genuine,” Harris said.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“They’ll remember this for the rest of their lives,” Harris said. “It was a really great affirming moment.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The two have been dating for 10 months. They met when they were playing on opposing high school basketball teams. Price is a graduate of Prosser High School.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their relationship started in secret, Price said. The two dated for six months without telling anyone, then Price moved in with Jacobson and her family last summer before she started college.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We’ve come a long way,” Price said.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saturday was a whirlwind for the couple: They got their hair and nails done, then snapped a few quick photos before the ride with six of their friends in a limo to Leavenworth for dinner before the dance at Ephrata.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But it’s not the glamorous details Jacobson said she’ll remember about the night. It’s the step toward equality the couple is taking, she said.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I want to remember making that statement and helping other kids realize it’s OK,” Jacobson said.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Video of song and Homecoming invite</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHfuyq-P74">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHfuyq-P74</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ephrata High School senior McKyna Jacobson, left, asked her girlfriend, Chelsie Price, to the school’s homecoming dance onstage at the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert in Spokane on Wednesday.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:AE06CC75-D03D-44CA-9666-3B3B571EB3EC" alt="cit_27macklemore_t620.jpg" id="AE06CC75-D03D-44CA-9666-3B3B571EB3EC" width="620" height="872"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Same_Love.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Same_Love.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="lyrics-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"When I was in the 3rd grade<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I thought that I was gay<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cause I could draw, my uncle was<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I kept my room straight<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I told my mom, tears rushing down my face<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">She's like, "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-K"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Trippin', yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A bunch of stereotypes all in my head<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I remember doing the math like<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Yeah, I'm good in little league"</span></p><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">For those who like the same sex had the characteristics<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And you can be cured with some treatment and religion<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Playing God<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ahh nah, here we go<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">America the brave<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Still fears what we don't know<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And God loves all His children<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And somehow forgotten<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">But we paraphrase a book written<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">3,500 hundred years ago<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I don't know</span></p><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I can't change<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Even if I tried<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Even if I wanted to<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I can't change<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Even if I tried<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Even if I wanted to<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">My love, my love, my love<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If I was gay<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I would think hip-hop hates me<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Have you read the YouTube comments lately<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Man that's gay"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gets dropped on the daily<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We've become so numb to what we're sayin'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our culture founded from oppression<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yeah, we don't have acceptance for 'em<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Call each other faggots<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Behind the keys of a message board<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A word rooted in hate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet our genre still ignores it<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gay is anonymous with the lesser<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gender to skin color<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Complexion of your pigment<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The same fight that lead people to walk-outs and sit-ins<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Human rights for everybody<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is no difference<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Live on! And be yourself!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">When I was in church<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">They taught me something else<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you preach hate at the service<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Those words aren't anointed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And that Holy Water<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">That you soak in<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Has been poisoned<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">When everyone else<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is more comfortable<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remaining voiceless<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rather than fighting for humans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">That have had their rights stolen<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I might not be the same<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">But that's not important<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">No freedom 'til we're equal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Damn right I support it</span></p><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I don't know</span></p><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We press play<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don't press pause<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Progress, march on!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">With a veil over our eyes<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We turn our back on the cause<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">'Till the day<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">That my uncles can be united by law<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kids are walkin' around the hallway<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Plagued by pain in their heart<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A world so hateful<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Someone would rather die<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Than be who they are<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And a certificate on paper<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Isn't gonna solve it all<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">But it's a damn good place to start<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">No law's gonna change us<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We have to change us<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whatever god you believe in<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">We come from the same one<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Strip away the fear<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Underneath it's all the same love<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">About time that we raised up</span></p><p class="verse" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love is patient, love is kind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love is patient (not cryin' on Sundays)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Love is kind (not cryin' on Sundays)"</span></p></div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>