"I cried today
for the first time in a long time after I heard about the Supreme Court’s
ruling on DOMA. Not because of how they ruled, but what Kennedy said in
his ruling.
For the first time in my life my own government considers me a human being! For years, even though I love my country, I NEVER trusted my government. I remember all the pain, all the lies, all the disinterest, and now, after all the struggles we are recognized as human.
I remember back in the 1970's being arrested three times, twice in Jackson, Mi., and once in Hillsdale, Mi., because I was cross dressing. It was against the law in Michigan even though I was under a doctor’s prescription.
I remember when I first got out to California in 1976 and getting robbed. I remember meeting a guy named Tom Hayden who was a clerk at the Travel Lodge on the Wharf and him calling Grady at the Civic Center Hotel and him giving me a job cleaning rooms for 50 cents a room and cleaning hallways for my room rent.
I remember Grady and Tom being there for me when I had to sign those adoption papers. I remember Harvey Milk putting his arms around me and holding me while I was crying my heart out.
I remember sitting in my office in shock on the day that little prick Dan White killed Harvey because he was gay and then killed George (Moscone) because George wouldn't condemn Harvey publicly. White was kill Diane (Feinstein) as well but she wasn't in her office and the police tackled him before he had a chance to!
Harvey was the reason I ran for the U.S. House in 1980.
I remember Mike Brady, Tom (a different one), Paul, another Mike, Jim, and the list goes on, who all died of aids in the early 80's, along with Grady and Tom Hayden, while our President, Ronald Reagan, did nothing. I remember holding Mike Brady’s hand while he was dying even though the nurses and doctors would touch him.
I remember the day in 1978 when Grady was attacked by 6 "good Christian boys" who wanted to beat up a faggot because he was the evil that was destroying our country. I remember lying on the street bleeding to death because I stepped in to help Grady and I remember the police doing nothing.
I remember losing all my former friends to aids including my loving Stuart, while Jerry Falwell and his immoral majority were screaming at the top of their lungs that aids was Gods judgment of gays!
These are only a few of the things I remember about the last 40 years. I remember my friend Paul Broussard who was beaten to death with a tire iron in the Montrose district of Houston by "4 good Christian boys" from Humble.
Even with all this pain and suffering over the years, progress has been made and today all the death and suffering has been worth it because the Supreme Court recognized GLBT's as human beings.
The children will not have to go through what I and many others have gone through to reach this milestone. The children will be able to be free to love and marry the person they love without the vile hatred of the religious right because they have finally lost the war.
There will still be battles ahead but they'll be able to win them slowly, but win them they will.
The religious right will still thump on their Bibles and proclaim how righteous they are and how evil we are, but they will not stop the children’s love for each other.
They might still convince some with their hateful speech and dark hearts but they will never overcome love!!!"
For the first time in my life my own government considers me a human being! For years, even though I love my country, I NEVER trusted my government. I remember all the pain, all the lies, all the disinterest, and now, after all the struggles we are recognized as human.
I remember back in the 1970's being arrested three times, twice in Jackson, Mi., and once in Hillsdale, Mi., because I was cross dressing. It was against the law in Michigan even though I was under a doctor’s prescription.
I remember when I first got out to California in 1976 and getting robbed. I remember meeting a guy named Tom Hayden who was a clerk at the Travel Lodge on the Wharf and him calling Grady at the Civic Center Hotel and him giving me a job cleaning rooms for 50 cents a room and cleaning hallways for my room rent.
I remember Grady and Tom being there for me when I had to sign those adoption papers. I remember Harvey Milk putting his arms around me and holding me while I was crying my heart out.
I remember sitting in my office in shock on the day that little prick Dan White killed Harvey because he was gay and then killed George (Moscone) because George wouldn't condemn Harvey publicly. White was kill Diane (Feinstein) as well but she wasn't in her office and the police tackled him before he had a chance to!
Harvey was the reason I ran for the U.S. House in 1980.
I remember Mike Brady, Tom (a different one), Paul, another Mike, Jim, and the list goes on, who all died of aids in the early 80's, along with Grady and Tom Hayden, while our President, Ronald Reagan, did nothing. I remember holding Mike Brady’s hand while he was dying even though the nurses and doctors would touch him.
I remember the day in 1978 when Grady was attacked by 6 "good Christian boys" who wanted to beat up a faggot because he was the evil that was destroying our country. I remember lying on the street bleeding to death because I stepped in to help Grady and I remember the police doing nothing.
I remember losing all my former friends to aids including my loving Stuart, while Jerry Falwell and his immoral majority were screaming at the top of their lungs that aids was Gods judgment of gays!
These are only a few of the things I remember about the last 40 years. I remember my friend Paul Broussard who was beaten to death with a tire iron in the Montrose district of Houston by "4 good Christian boys" from Humble.
Even with all this pain and suffering over the years, progress has been made and today all the death and suffering has been worth it because the Supreme Court recognized GLBT's as human beings.
The children will not have to go through what I and many others have gone through to reach this milestone. The children will be able to be free to love and marry the person they love without the vile hatred of the religious right because they have finally lost the war.
There will still be battles ahead but they'll be able to win them slowly, but win them they will.
The religious right will still thump on their Bibles and proclaim how righteous they are and how evil we are, but they will not stop the children’s love for each other.
They might still convince some with their hateful speech and dark hearts but they will never overcome love!!!"
One injustice ended today and another which we thought was fought and won nearly 50 years ago was struck down. The voting rights act was taken back in states where the right to vote could not be changed without going to the Federal Government. We all (all who lived through this so many years ago) know what will happen. They are lining up in their state houses now to make voting difficult if not impossible for people of color, or women or gays or you name it. How is this still free America? It isn't. So don't tell me our military are bravely dying in some foreign land for our freedom while the government here slowly contracts every freedom we have left!!!
Are you with me?
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