Here's to all of my LGBTQ friends and relatives. The ones in this world and the ones who've passed on. The ones who held out hope that one day gay marriage would be seen as equal and as real as interracial marriage between blacks and whites. No more barriers and polite civil unions. No more limitations and violations of civil and human rights.
Here's to the many amazing gay men I watched pass from this world during the early years of the AIDS holocaust. Loving couples who stood by their partners, daring to call them beloved husbands when so many others looked at them like vile freaks of nature. Love endured. And hope still burns. Here's hoping great cleansing waves of sanity, empathy and equality continue to push and spread further and further across this troubled country of ours. Washing away the hate, revealing the hope for equal justice and human rights.
Here's to the victory in New York. I think it's such a powerful coincidence that this all happened in NY close to the anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the spark of the gay rights movement. It's so fitting. And here's hoping California can finally get it right very soon.
Have a Happy Pride weekend! x0x0x
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