June is gay pride month. I am so proud to be a Married Lesbian. I look forward to my other Gay brothers and sisters around the country and the world having that civil right any day now.
Diversity celebrations begin and rainbow parades are paramount from San Francisco to Amsterdam and many other cities and countries in between. Unfortunately there are those who would rain on our parade. Yesterday, In Croatia an angry mob of 10,000 descended on tiny pride parade of 200.
In Ontario Canada, A Catholic School has banned rainbows in opposition to students celebrating diversity at their school. No scary rainbows. Rainbows can make you gay.
I know it’s absurd, but people are very frightened of Gay. Tracy Morgan of 30 Rock Fame joked in Tennessee over the weekend that If his child were gay he would kill him.
There’s the vast amounts of vitriolic banter from the right wing fundamentalists, like Mike Huckabee, that suggest it is also acceptable to kill homosexuals.
Gay teenagers are in terrible danger and we lost some beautiful kids this past year because of bullying and homophobic disease. They claim that our desire to attain the same civil rights and protection status as heterosexuals is ridiculous and shameful. Tennessee has passed a law outlawing even saying the word "Gay" in public school.
At least seven countries in have the death penalty for homosexuality including, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Afghanistan.
We are fighting for the right to stay alive, serve our country, love and marry. We want the right to come out of the closet and feel safe to love, dress, protest, sing, dance and be fabulous. I cannot fathom why that makes people hate us so much or why they think us marrying will affect their lives in anyway?
We are told that marriage is sacred to the heterosexuals. Marriage is between one man and a one woman says the Defense Of Marriage Act signed into law 1996 by Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton? So the bastards that make the laws that discriminate against gay, lesbian and transgender people violate their own laws that marriage is between a man and a woman, not a man a woman and his prostitute, his secret affair, his staffer, etc, etc, etc. Do you see the injustice? Do you see the insanity? These men who violate the marriage contract of decency, fidelity and trust between a husband and wife are in the business of defining marriage for us.
Let me go on to reference the examples of heterosexual marital behavior we have been subject to just in the last week. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s weiner has been dominating the headlines for the last ten days. We have the sick behavior of Dominick Straus Kahn, Arnold Schwarznegger, John Edwards. They are all just a bunch of weiners. Yes, they who are privileged and able to marry at the drop of a hat, scorn this sacred institution and go impregnate, tweet, grope, fondle, rape and screw with impunity. Lying to our faces. Is that a crime? To me it is.
These men are elected to political office in order to represent the people’s interests. How is it possible for lying, horny, predatory scum like this to make decisions about our rights, our protections when they have absolutely no respect for what they themselves describe as the holiest of institutions.
Marriage is between two people who love each other enough to join their lives together spiritually, physically, financially, emotionally even when the odds against love lasting are astronomical, gay or straight or different races. Marriage is a delicate, balance of giving and receiving, trust and communication. Marriage is about love. If you can find it, you’re one of the lucky ones.
Yesterday, June 12, was Loving Day. It honors the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which ended interracial marriage bans in 16 states. I’m so happy that happened during Gay Pride month and that Richard Loving won and was able to marry Mildred Jeter.
There will come a time when the Supreme court will decide that Homosexuals are equal under the law. Tell then, no matter what the hateful, closeted, latent, homophobic religious leaders, celebrities, politicians do to destroy, oppress, threaten, deny us our lives and happiness we will continue live, thrive, entertain and decorate this world with all the style, flair, optimism, flamboyance we can muster with Rainbows, lots of rainbows.
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