A shining symbol

[smiley_kiley]

Last night, I decided to walk home to try to clear my head from the events of the past week.

As I walked past U.N. Plaza, I stopped in my tracks. It wasn’t the pervasive stench of Homeless Person that stopped me; it was the sight of City Hall.

I detoured down the plaza and took a seat at the James Lick monument. I sat and stared at City Hall, awash

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[luckykid13]

I am going to preface this with the fact that I support everyone's right to marry. I am pissed about prop 8 and am not taking it lying down

[likethecandybar]

I can't speak for Ed but being one of the 18,000 couples that did get married since June I can tell you from my prespective. When the state passed the domestic partnership law, jeffla and I very quickly moved to be domestic parnters. If you're not familiar with what that involves - it involved us walking into a Mail Boxes Etc and having some random person at the counter notarize our signatures on a form we printed from the internet and then mailing that form into the state. Then a few months later we got a certificate in the mail from the state saying that we were legally recognized domestic partners. To have your relationship status validated in some clerk's office and treated as no more special then any other piece of paperwork that went across that person's desk is not only the epitome of unromantic...it's demoralizing. When Jeff and I got married we did so on the first full day it was legal - which happened to be our 8th anniversay. We didn't invite friends of family - we just wanted to do it on that day because of the fact that

[smiley_kiley]

I'm SO glad you asked

[musicbearmn]

Well said. If I was there, I would have joined you, and cried with you, for another reason.

Tonight on MPR there was a story about Harvey Milk, and how the younger generation doesn't have clue one. Part of the clip included when-then senior supervisor Nancy Pelosi had to announce the deaths of Milk and Moscone. You could hear the pandemonium break out instantly.

They interviewed a young (24) lesbian who said "I have plenty of other politicians to look up to." Do you not realize its because of Harvey that there are these other politicians!!!!

It's time to roll up our sleeves and UNITE together and fight. No more pointing fingers at________________(fill in the blank). You're right. A straight man did stand up for ALL of us.

[smiley_kiley]

That does make me crazy. The good thing is that the protests here in SF have been mostly youngsters! tons of 20-somethings. I love seeing that.

(by the way, it was Dianne Feinstein who was Prez of the Board of Supes, not Nancy :-) )

[musicbearmn]

Sorry....I was driving and thought they said Nancy. :)

[smiley_kiley]

You should see the archival footage of the scene. It's like anarchy at City Hall with DiFi standing in a huddle with the media and announcing the death of Moscone and Milk... wow.