My grandmother told me to make her a Christmas list of things I want. I like to do that because then people don’t buy my things I don’t want and I’m also easy to buy for. I am looking for your input, what should I ask for for Christmas this year? This is what I have so far:
- iPod touch
- Leather jacket
- Bound DVD
- Idina Menzel sweater (www.idinamenzel.com)
- Clothing by Futch Apparel (www.myspace.com/futchapprel)
- Firewire cable (6-pin on one end, 4 pin miniature Firewire on the other). Also called i.link by Sony.
- In Her Line of Fire DVD
What else should I ask for? Let me know.
Also, I just found out that Karman Kregloe and Bridget McManus got MARRIED! Hooray for the adorable happy couple! They are perfect and so cute. Read a little more about their wedding here.
Sadly, they are another couple who’s rights may be taken away due to Prop 8. =( To sum up my feeling eloquently, read what Melissa Etheridge posted on her blog:
“Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.
Okay, cool I don’t mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We’re gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that’s not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won’t have to pay their taxes either.
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.
…Really?
When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation “eliminates the right” and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, “Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today” and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say “I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me”? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?
I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many “thems” back then. The blacks, the poor … you know, “them”. Then there was the immigrants. “Them.” Now the them is me.
I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the thems made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no “them”. We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That “judge not, lest ye yourself be judged” are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.
Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way. Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too…”
Her wife, Tammy Lynn Michaels Etheridge wrote something I liked too:
“a rose is a rose is a rose.
when the government declared the illegality of interracial marriages unconstitutional in the late 60s, it was not a unanimous decision. in fact, 80% of the country was against it. thank goodness the country led us into better perspectives, and didn’t leave it up to the humanly flawed citizens. but now… we’re going to VOTE on equality? “is this person the same value as that person? say ay or nay…”
would rosa have wanted the people to VOTE whether or not she could get on the bus? would martin have waited for a VOTE to see if everyone thought blacks should be equal? i think not.
no matter how many voters there are wrenching away MY RIGHTS into their bigoted hands…. you can’t take my family away from me. you can’t make us stop loving each other. you simply can’t.
try to vote on that.
PRESIDENT OBAMA!!! if you can finally make it to first-class citizenship, then so can i. one day”
How good with words that couple is. Anyway, if you haven’t forgotten by now, tell me what I should ask for for Christmas. (it doesn’t need to be reasonable, I can always ask for but never really expect…)
<3
renthead
capsizedlullaby
