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The nation is ready for marriage equality. For Edie and Thea and loving families everywhere, rally with us outside the Supreme Court on March 26th.
Visit http://glaad.org/marriage for more info.
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BREAKING: Illinois Senate passes marriage equality bill 34-21! Happy Valentine’s Day, Illinois!!!
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Of the powers that are reserved for the states, marriage seems a reasonable one, until/unless you consider whether the ability to marry as one chooses is a comment on the humanity of some classes of people vs. other classes of people. In which case, it seems absurd (ethically, if not legally) because of the implication that some people are only fully human or fully citizens in some states. Then it just sort of makes me apoplectic.
Meanwhile, watching Obama’s contortions on this (which have been frustrating, but very, very deft, and I do approve) is fascinating. And is making March and this summer all the more terrifying because the stakes and the scale keep seeming to expand.
A while ago someone sent me email and said, “What was it like hearing Stonewall” mentioned in the inaugural. I still owe her a response, but the short answer is that I don’t know. For there was a roaring in my ears, and the need to sit down, and an inability to understand its meaning. I imagine it will be 100 times worse when all this Supreme Court stuff happens, no matter which way any of the cases fall. I actually worry about how to be the day the decisions come out. Maybe I should stay home, lest I faint or cry, or, maybe all the gods forbid, find it necessary to experience despair in public.
For the many lawyers that follow me, the above paragraphs likely seem some combination of irrelevant, inaccurate, and hyperbolic, which is the necessary nature of your professional functions.
But in college my student LGBT group passed out little maps with the sodomy laws (this was over a decade before Lawrence v. Texas), and we kept them in our wallets as everything from a challenge to a dirty joke to a constant reminder that in the eyes of the law we were not, and perhaps would never be, people. I think everyone I knew for years could, without pausing to think, tell you exactly how many states they had broken sodomy laws in. That we often chatted about this like the weather, only seems peculiar in retrospect.
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I know nothing of this Football everyone is all excited about. I’m only rooting for the San Francisco 49’ers because the city they represent is pretty damned respectful of all of us LGBT folks.
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New blog announcement!
The other day on twitter, I announced a new project/idea I was working on, for the LGBT fans. Even the non-fans… Anyone who needs help/advice/support, really. I just got the idea when I found myself helping out those fans while taking a break from everything and thought maybe it’d be a good way to help others in need.
So, I made an LGBTQ advice/support blog!
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Maine’s new marriage equality law went into effect today (December 29th) at midnight. Because the law goes into effect on a weekend, several city and town halls throughout Maine had special office hours, opening their doors at midnight to allow same-sex couples to get marriage licenses as soon as they are legally able. I was there tonight when the first legally married same-sex couple walked out the front doors of Portland City Hall at about half past midnight, marriage license in-hand.
This is my (very much less than quality) video of the event. There were tears frozen to my cheeks.
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Four for four. All for love. Congratulations, America. Let’s go get married.
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