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Knew, or should have known

mythago — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:41:32 +0000

Since it’s Pride weekend -

When did you know you were queer? Or when, looking back, should you have figured it out?

Some people say they always knew; others figured it out later in life, very suddenly; some of us took a little while to get it all sorted.

I should have known one night when we were at home, for reasons I can’t recall watching the Grammies; I think that my grandmother wanted to see them, and we watched a lot more TV back before the Internets were around.

And then there was this video.

I vaguely remember my family arguing about whether it was a man or a woman – this was the Rust Belt in the 1980s, people, not exactly a hotbed of genderqueer awareness – but I wasn’t paying them any attention. I knew that I was enraptured by the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, even if it took me a long time and a lot of wasted effort to figure out exactly what that meant.

You?

One More

mythago — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:52:12 +0000

Now that Vermont has legalized same-sex marriage by overriding a gubernatorial veto, the bigot squad is going to back off, right? After all, their real beef was with imaginary activist judges, and this was a decision made by elected officials.

Oh, wait, the National Organization for Marriage begs to differ:

But we take heart in knowing that this vote was not representative of what Vermonters understand marriage to be. We know that the Vermont Legislature did everything in its power to avoid allowing Vermonters to vote directly on the future of marriage.

No doubt, if Vermont had legalized same-sex marriage through a straight up popular vote of the people, these relics would bemoan how it wasn’t really the will of the people, because, oh, I dunno, homosexual lobby brainwashing satellite rays from beyond the stars? Certainly it can’t be that NOM and their ilk are losing the culture war.

They’re right about concern for their grandchildren, though. It must be a terrible thought to know, somewhere in your cramped, reptilian brain, that the kindest thing your grandkids might say about you is “they couldn’t help being like that, it was the times they grew up in”.

(h/t, Diana Peterfreund)

And About Time

mythago — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:23:21 +0000

The California Supreme Court overturned the statutory ban on same-sex marriage. (Large PDF of the opinion here.)

The forces of evil will be right back at it, though. Today we party elegantly–tomorrow back in the trenches.

Edit: Lynn points out that all three branches of government are in agreement on this. Take that, pseudo-originalist whinebots!