I was happy when I read the news today! One more step towards civility and equality. Now all we have to do is convince lawmakers in Texas, Georgia, and Alabama…
Marksman2010: I was happy when I read the news today! One more step towards civility and equality. Now all we have to do is convince lawmakers in Texas, Georgia, and Alabama… Pretty damn cool news.
Congratulations, New York! I actually was not aware that this decision was just in time for Pride. What a way to celebrate 🙂
My enthusiasm for NY passing marriage legislation was somewhat killed by <a href="http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/06/genda-dies-for-fourth-time-in-ny-senate.html"the fact that the NY senate yet again failed to pass GENDA. Like, congrats NY queers who want to get married, but, like, also, can we give trans* people some damn civil rights already?
Go NY! @ Li: Agreed. I’m celebrating the victories as they come, even though the states I have lived in are still far behind. I remember 8 years ago when the victories we have so far hardly seemed possible. Waiting for civil rights is a special kind of hell, though.
GinnyC: Go NY! @ Li: Agreed. I’m celebrating the victories as they come, even though the states I have lived in are still far behind. I remember 8 years ago when the victories we have so far hardly seemed possible. Waiting for civil rights is a special kind of hell, though. Yes, it is, and it’s a particularly slow hell too. It’s interesting how we look back on the way certain groups, take African-Americans for example, struggled against rampant discrimination, and we shake our heads and wonder what in the hell people were thinking. But yet here we are doing the same thing to another group. And years from now when gays/lesbians finally win some form of equality, what’s going to be next? How long is it going to take for Americans to grasp the fact that equality should be enjoyed by ALL people? Sometimes I feel as if our country always has to have a target, some group to discriminate against: women, African-Americans, gays/lesbians, immigrants, Muslims, etc. It wouldn’t really be America if there’s nobody around to bully. Being at peace is no real fun, I suppose. But if we have somebody to push around, now THAT is a modern-day, red-white-and-blue carnival! USA! USA! USA! Hoo-rah!
So proud this week to have been born in NY 🙂 And ….yet so horrified about this state I now call home. Wake up FLORIDA!!!
GinnyC: Waiting for civil rights is a special kind of hell, though. I know that there are plenty of people out there who have it much tougher than I do, but god damnit I have just been on the verge of tears all weekend. Tears of happiness, imagining what it must have been like this weekend in New York; and tears of absolute sadness, thinking about the headlines my own governor recently made trying to stop gay visitation rights in hospitals. We’re so close, but so far away. Who the fuck am I hurting, wanting to marry my partner. I just don’t know who I’m even hurting by having a spouse who doesn’t have man parts. Who is hurt, by my visiting my partner, should she fall ill? /preaching to the choir. I know there’s a lot more to the concept than this, but my brain just isn’t even functioning on that level right now, I’m so overwhelmed.