Today I Am a Blathering Idiot!
Just one more thing to add to the great big pile o' politically inspired happiness that is coloring my day. When I went to throw a little extra money at Equality California today, to cheer them on in the next stage of the battle, I noticed that there are little celebration/gatherings that were set up in advance of the ruling. People planned on gathering, despite the ruling to either celebrate or hold each other up. (How awesome is that?)
But here is what got me choked up: San Luis Obispo is one of the handful of Californian cities that had planned one of these gatherings. This is my home town, folks! This is the town that my straight friend got beat up for being a "fag" back in the 80s. This is the town that once asked my friend if the pink triangle sticker on the back of her car was some sort of surfshop logo. This is a town that tried to ban Pride, because they thought it disgusting that a group of people who stick "hamsters in their rectums" might be given public access to a historical plaza for their disgusting reverie. (This is actually true, I wrote a response to the local paper in which I calmly explained, amongst other things that a.) both straight and gay men have this odd tendency to place objects in their rectum b.) placing animals in ones rectum had to do with animal cruelty and not ones sexuality and c.) the urban legend described a gerbil, not a hamster, because gerbils have tails, so they can be pulled out of ones ass... why doesn't the author of the original letter kindly pull whatever is in her ass out?)
Oh my goodness. I'm so proud of my little all-grow'd-up town! I'm down there, right now, in spirit!