The woman who brought us the detachable vagina (*want*) and taught us to think before we speak, has once again warmed the cockles of where my heart used to be.
Archive for the 'LGBTQI' Category
17
Nov
Wanda Sykes–Full of Win
07
Nov
A Quote for Today
This is not a culture war, it is a civil rights movement. This is not about our lifestyle, it is about our lives.
~Robin Tyler, one half of the first same sex couple to be married in California, at a press conference announcing the filing of their suit to challenge Tuesday’s passing of Prop 8.
(This picture is for you, California)
Election Edition!
Tip of the Hat:
To PRESIDENT ELECT Barack Obama on winning a landslide victory to become the 44th President of the United States. While it was a difficult decision for me to come to wrought w/ intense emotion and moral conflict on my part, I feel good about my vote. I do. I feel the need to say for the umpteenth time that I do not believe him to be perfect nor infallible, but I do think that this is an opportunity that our country needs.
Indeed.
Maybe now I won’t mind seeing him in every damned movie ever.
NO ON 8!
and let it know I love it.
Apple Rocks. Thanks for being awesome, Steve Jobs and friends!
A special h/t to Google as well.
And also to AKAEloise in comments at Shakes.
Tip of the Hat:
To Joe Biden, for publicly and proudly proclaiming that Proposition 8 is a fucked up idea. Well, he was a little less sailor like in his vernacular.
Biden, meanwhile, said during an appearance Monday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that if he lived in California he would vote against a ballot measure that seeks to ban gay marriage. DeGeneres, who is gay and newly wed to actress Portia de Rossi, has urged Californians to reject Proposition 8.
“I think it’s regressive,” the Delaware senator said. “I think it’s unfair, and so I vote ‘no.’”
Even though Biden personally is against same sex marriage, he (and Obama), is all for equal rights for same sex partner. Thanks, Joe, b/c that is encouraging. More than you know. Continue reading ‘Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger’
11
Oct
Blubworthy Pop Culture
A Randomly Ongoing Series.
You know me by now. I am a bit of a pop culture junkie. It’s my true vice. But in my love of modern tv, movies, music and other things I often find things that are relevant to the way my brain is ticking these days.
Today is National Coming Out Day.
I watched ABC’s Pushing Daisies online.
How do these connect?
Well I had read RQ’s blog about accepting the sexuality of our children as easily as we accept their favorite color.
At the end of this week’s episode, Emmerson Cod, the PI, was watching a mother (who had hired him) reunite w/ her estranged daughter. The daughter had been on a sort of adventure to find herself (to make a long story short). The mother looked at her daughter and said “I don’t even know who she is anymore!”, to which Emmerson replied “Love what you have, go on, LOVE!”
Love what you have.
We as parents need to keep in our minds that we need to love our children the way they come, as they are, and as they choose to be. We need to be the ones giving them support to be themselves, and be that example by which they measure love. We should give it to them unconditionally. B/c we love who they are and what we see.
Not what we want to see.
11
Oct
I am an ally…
Today is National Coming Out Day. I am reserving this space to state loud and proud my desire to be an ally to the LGBTQI community. I wish to work along side them to fight for equality and to march along side them on that road.
As difficult as it was and scary as it was for me to come out to my friends and family as a Pagan and as a Progressive/Liberal I can not begin to imagine how difficult it is for someone to come out to their families as gay, lesbian, trans*, queer, or any other way that fits under the gamut of humanity. I can not fathom the fear of rejection, abuse, persecution, or possible violent death that my dearly loved friends and family must have felt. Every day in the news I read about the difficulties that they face just trying to exist. I read about the violence they face. I read about children cast from their homes and families by those who are supposed to love them but then decide that love comes w/ conditions. I see friends and family who just want to be families w/ the people they love and can’t even visit each other in the hospital w/o lying. I can not imagine how hard it must be. But I can do my damnedest to make sure I stand beside them.
When Republicans and other fundamentalists talk about family values and protecting families they are never thinking about those families built of two moms, two dads, and every variety in between. Somehow a family can not exist outside of their narrow view and it shoves countless people into the margins. ”Family” does not mean what they think it does…
And when these Republicans and fundamentalists push for laws to “preserve the sanctity of marriage”, or prevent homosexual couples or even single folk from adopting a child and use their religious views to infringe on the rights of some people to simply exist it hurts and I realize they don’t care about people. Their god can not be the same one I used to worship, b/c that god would want them to love and accept people for who they are.
B/c this is what the fight for equality is about. It is about people. The march for human rights for the LGBTQI community isn’t about laws and party politics. It isn’t about Prop 8 or marriage rights. It isn’t about who’s right and who’s wrong. It is about people’s lives.
These are people’s lives we are playing w/. These are the lives of human beings who have the right to live just like any one else. They have a right to exist in these spaces and have happiness and even heartaches just like any one else. The fervor to deny them rights isn’t about religion or laws or the Bible or anything like that, it is about denying human beings the right to exist. It is about saying “I’m better than you so I deserve to exist and you don’t”. It’s about control. Control of the lives different from your own.
And that is why I am an ally. I believe that people have a right to exist. They have a right to be here and love and have families if they wish to and to be left alone w/ their decisions if they don’t. They deserve to be loved and not prayed over for healing of their “sins”. They deserve to not be othered.
B/c these are people’s lives.
They deserve to be part of a “we” and not part of a “they”.
B/c we all deserve these things.
I am an ally.
10
Oct
Yay! Connecticut!
And because it was ruled based on the State’s Constitution it can not be reviewed by the US Supreme Court. Current civil union laws in Connecticut failed to provide the equal protection that marriage gives couples.
Tip of the hat:
To Christian musician Ray Boltz, whose music I enjoyed during that chapter of my life now closed, for coming out happily gay. It gives me great joy to see that someone can both be comfortable w/ themselves and love themselves and still find a closeness to their chosen deity. Continue reading ‘Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger’
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