put the B and T back in "LGBT," assholes

[blueflame11]

Last Sunday's Marriage Equality rally in Queens shall henceforth be remember as the birth of the Bridesmaids for Marriage Equality among my friends. It happened kind of like this (as written by Rod, who organized a pre-rally drink-down at an Astoria beer garden). It was silly, but the novelty of a gaggle of attractive, youngish, fem (and mostly

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[blueflame11]

I guess I *didn't* read that one all the way through! (I think I checked out around the breakdown of the French word for "wife"). Funny enough, I called my last long term relationship guy "my partner" for various reasons, but namely because of the depth and breadth of our relationship. Also, I thought bf/gf was slightly immature for people in their very late 20s, and it was also a subtle way to assert my queerness and solidarity with the movement. All in one word! It caught on among some of my straight friends too, which is small moral victory.

I guess I would have assumed Delancy's partner was female, but sometimes I think gender and sexuality are as arbitrary as hair color, so I was just along for the ride on that count.

More and more I think the institution of marriage will greatly benefit by letting new people into its stuff old club. By including more people from an array of backgrounds, perhaps we'll see an equalizing in the "leisure gap" and a much needed death of gender roles. Maybe salaries will also start to look the same when employers can't assume that a woman has or will/should get support from a better paid male counterpart. Could marriage equality benefit feminism? Hell yes.

I'm in a Pride parade today... I have SO many slogan ideas! The one about marriage equality is the snarkiest: "Dear Heteros, my that's quite a glass house."