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The LGBT Thread! Marriage is Equal, Now for Basically Everything Else
Kwoaru
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LGBT Pride Month is here! And so this is a thread for anyone and anything LGBT (and Q and U and A and I and whatever other letter is right for you)
See any cool LGBT news lately? Do you do anything fun or special during Pride Month? Are you somewhere in the QUILTBAG and want to talk about it? Do you know a cool LGBT related history fact? Are you doing something awesome for queer people in your life or community? Are you straight and have a question and promise to actually listen to the answer?
Then talk about that shit, I want to hear it all, just be fabulous to each other.
Things I am looking forward to this month: Going to way more Capital Pride stuff in DC, last year I just did the parade and it was great fun but I wished I had gone to way more events. So this year I'm gonna!
Also SCOTUS is gonna hand down a big ruling on same sex marriage this month, but the wait for that is kinda nerve wracking because there is always the chance Kennedy decides to be terrible.
Oh wait shit one other thing totally worth putting in here is that Ireland passed marriage equality by popular vote! That is totally fucking awesome!
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They've been using it as a campaigning point for at least the last election, so it's kinda interesting to see it being introduced when they are in the minority.
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But I don't really care about their motivations, as long as it gets through now.
wanna hug all of y'all
Well if it passes they can take credit, but if it fails it will severely damage the Libs' chances at being reelected.
aka the Abbott Gambit
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yeah me three it seems
I am a fraud.
A few days ago I saw two girls holding hands, giggling together, and then kissing. It was really cute.
I'm also from the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, which is kind of cool.
Which is in 9 days
my god it's in 9 days
been holding my boyfriend's hand whenever we walk anywhere for 2 years now and we've never had anyone do anything nasty or say anything
that's progress that is
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maybe not the parade. I forget if it's the 13th or 14th. My boyfriend's gonna be manning the booth for his company and I might come along with
Don't worry, we just have to walk around with a hetero partner and poof straight!
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My church sent out a letter saying "We are going to be blessing same sex marriages. The bishop said it was up to us and this is what we decided."
Also the bishop personally blessed the same sex marriage of a friend of mine, back a few years ago, while things were still being 'discussed.' For Alabama, that's all a huge deal.
I've had a significant amount of shit from strangers, a large amount of whom are older women, for holding my GF's hand. It's weird. This is the first country to legalize gay marriage, and yet, also full of quite a few silly geese.
make one! i'll come to your parade!
sorry kochi. that sucks. you can come walk with us; I guess we're too scary to get comments?
once someone on an upper balcony yelled something and threw a bunch of urine soaked paper towels at us. it missed tho so YAY GAY
I was under the impression we weren't allowed to have on because there had been too many
this is actually something I've seen happen, but hadn't yet considered being a possible thing I might have to deal with. I guess my brain just hasn't quite yet put 2 and 2 together for everything about this new development. I'm pretty contact focused in relationships, even in public, even if it's just holding hands. Actually a bit unnerving to think about the possibility of it being something that could happen
I don't even know how I'd response, and goodness knows my boyfriend is already super duper shy. I wouldn't want him to, like, freak out or anything. something to think about I guess
We went to dinner and after it was all over and we asked for the check, the waitress asked if we wanted to split it. I said yeah and gestured, very clearly, to the two girls and said, "They're together," and then to my girlfriend and me, "and we're together."
The waitress still looked really confused. She really shouldn't have, because the two girls had shared one plate between them and had explicitly said so during their order.
We ended up having to explain about three more times how to split the check while the girl from Belgium became increasingly irritated.
It was almost like it was more likely that I was the head of a polygamous group at the table than for two girls to be romantically involved and sharing the check.
In the end, they walked towards the door with their arms around each other while people stared openly at the couple, and we all waved back at them until they averted their gaze.
Rural Texas, everybody!
Capital Pride is having it's parade on the Saturday the 13th, if you make it down I'll definitely try find you guys
Capital Pride secret DC PAX?
The conservative republican governor vetoed the hell out of it and said, "Sorry you swear an oath to support and defend the state constitution you don't get an opt-out clause. Do your job or quit."
So that was kinda nice.
if I have one more person "helpfully" remind me that I need to make sure to leave room at LGBTQ events for "people who can't pass for straight, like you can" I'm just going to open my mouth and scream until the world ends
most recently was one of my bisexual friends responding to that post about how bisexual people in "straight relationships" need to not come to pride events because pride isn't for us, and she's like "well I mean there is a discussion to be had about making sure bisexual people with opposite gender partners don't take up too much space" and I'm like
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh