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So about that SCOTUS decision...
10 years ago
Do forgive any typos in this journal, as I am rather intoxicated while writing this. I'm celebrating something that's been a long time coming.
Let's quickly get the sobering reality out of the way first: no, the fight is not over yet. 29 out of 50 states still lack explicit sexual-orientation nondiscrimination protections, and convincing people to give a shit about that is only going to be harder now that we've passed this milestone. 32 out of 50 states still lack explicit gender-identity nondiscrimination protections, and those still face a similarly daunting task.
Legally sanctioned, institutionalized homophobia is still alive and well in the United States, and there are many other parts of the world where things are actually significantly worse.
BUT!
Millions of people in America just gained the legal right to marry the person they love; to emigrate there for the sake of that love, and become US citizens; to get social security, medicare, disability benefits, veteran and military benefits, insurance benefits, testimonial immunity, tuition discounts and crime victim recovery benefits for those loved ones: to visit them in the ICU, or in jail; to inherit their estate, or to file for joint adoption, child support or joint foster care rights.
I, for one, am fucking happy for them.
This has been a hard-won victory, and while it won't be our last, we deserve to take a second and celebrate today. This is big, people. It's about as big a fuck-yeah moment as we are gonna have in our lifetime, and while we can and should continue to fight the good fight, we shouldn't let that invalidate the magnitude of what happened here today.
The Supreme Court of United States has ruled gay marriage is legally valid throughout the entirety of the USA, and that individual states cannot pass or enforce any laws that would undermine or interfere with that right. And it's ABOUT.FUCKING.TIME.
- Seskra.
Let's quickly get the sobering reality out of the way first: no, the fight is not over yet. 29 out of 50 states still lack explicit sexual-orientation nondiscrimination protections, and convincing people to give a shit about that is only going to be harder now that we've passed this milestone. 32 out of 50 states still lack explicit gender-identity nondiscrimination protections, and those still face a similarly daunting task.
Legally sanctioned, institutionalized homophobia is still alive and well in the United States, and there are many other parts of the world where things are actually significantly worse.
BUT!
Millions of people in America just gained the legal right to marry the person they love; to emigrate there for the sake of that love, and become US citizens; to get social security, medicare, disability benefits, veteran and military benefits, insurance benefits, testimonial immunity, tuition discounts and crime victim recovery benefits for those loved ones: to visit them in the ICU, or in jail; to inherit their estate, or to file for joint adoption, child support or joint foster care rights.
I, for one, am fucking happy for them.
This has been a hard-won victory, and while it won't be our last, we deserve to take a second and celebrate today. This is big, people. It's about as big a fuck-yeah moment as we are gonna have in our lifetime, and while we can and should continue to fight the good fight, we shouldn't let that invalidate the magnitude of what happened here today.
The Supreme Court of United States has ruled gay marriage is legally valid throughout the entirety of the USA, and that individual states cannot pass or enforce any laws that would undermine or interfere with that right. And it's ABOUT.FUCKING.TIME.
- Seskra.
and it is as you said, only battle won of many still to fight. but also a victory that has been ages in the making. this is a huge step, and it's taken so long I didn't expect it to every finally come. it was enough to snap me out of a depressive funk.
yesterday I was on the verge of going back to the Crisis Stabilization Unit. today, I went and asked Neil out on a party date. that's how big and meaningful and important this is. and I'm glad to know that you get it.