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Well gee, if you have to look for a silver lining in a dark cloud, I think I’ve sort of found one.
It has always been a personal belief of mine that the LGBTQIA community can be too fragmented. We’ve accepted so much diversity; you’ve got Bears, Latinos, Leather, Black, Men, Women, Parents, Twinks, Muscle Daddies, Daddies, Sons, the Drag community, etc. etc. all of these subsets while very important, can really slow a movement down. It is through consolidation of our voices, are our demands heard. It is through working together will our strength be shown.
With the passage of Proposition 8, the barriers have come down. We’re all working together, again. Not since Stonewall and the early days of the LGBT Movement, and the early days of the AIDS crisis have I seen such solidarity in the LGBTQIA community. I firmly believe working as a whole, we can show our strength, and make our voices heard.
I firmly believe that the Yes on 8 people were counting on our fragmented groups, when they poked us with a stick. It is now that they’re going to see there mistake.
So it’s the day after the Election day, and we now have our first African-American president. But right there, that’s the rub, he’s an American, but somewhere along the lines, we decided to put the African first. I’ve done it myself, I’m Irish-American, and while I am of Irish descent, I’ve never been to Ireland, but I put that before being American.
Being an American, I enjoy freedoms that a lot of other people do not. In fact I enjoy them so much, I honestly don’t know all of them that are available to me, but then I grew up with those rights, and I’ve always had them. You want to know who knows those rights better than anyone. Talk to someone that just past their nationalization test, these men and women are way more up on the rights of Americans, because they struggled to come here and partake in those rights.
This election I saw a lot of people putting their Faith, before being an American. So doing they’ve stripped their fellow American’s of certain, as Thomas Jefferson put it ‘Inalienable Rights’, especially those rights that fall under the category of “Pursuit of Happiness”. The right to marry the person you love, should be a right available to all American citizens, whether they avail themselves of that right or not. By taking that right away just because you personally disagree with whom they chosen to marry, makes us all slightly less-american.
I remember way back in history, the 1970’s, the Shah of Iran’s exile. Here was a man that modernized his country, supported equal rights for the women of his country, and did a lot to bring Iran into the modern world. Sure he got a bit carried away, but since the 70’s what has happened in Iran? Ayatollah Khomeini came to power, and sent women, and the whole country back years, if not decades. Could this be our future?
California will be the first state in the union that writes the ability to discriminate into their constitution, they should all be so proud, of becoming less American.
Ashley Matte
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The only sad part is that his Husband is even more handsome and sweet. They're a devastating duo.
So about 5 months ago, I was dealing with some awful shoulder pain. Well it was longer ago than that, that it started. Last fall I almost fell in the shower, and I was able to stop myself by grabbing onto the shower curtain. Look I never said I was graceful. Anyway, it took me a couple of months of going to the Primary Care Physician, then Orthopedic physician, then physical therapy, finally failed PT. So 5 months ago I got a cortisone shot in my shoulder. Everything was fine until the ride home from the 'So You Think You Can Dance' finale party. It only took me a moment to realize I had not done anything to my shoulder, for it to start hurting again. So back to making the rounds again I guess... so sad
