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[dolari]

When San Francisco legalized Gay Marriage in 2004, I felt it was 20 years too early, and the backlash would actually make it HARDER to legalize it in other states.

I'm happy to say I was wrong.

(by about ten years)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-marriage-is-a-fundamental-right-for-gay-couples/

Comments

[amw.livejournal.com]

Gay marriage was always going to come first. Andrew Sullivan understood it better than anyone - allowing gays to get married is the most conservative step you could take toward "gay rights". It might have sounded wild and radical 20 years ago, but the reality is that it is just marginally expanding access to a millenia-old cultural institution. The real radical change would be to destroy gender and sexuality completely, to break the whole concept of boys and girls and husbands and wives and atomic families and all the legacy garbage that comes with it. That won't happen in our lifetimes - it's even still science-fiction in Roddenberry's utopia. What's frustrating is that the legal stepping stones to get there like equal employment opportunity and hate crime bills are still not on the cards in a lot of American states. I am over the moon that gay people now enjoy the same rights as everyone else who wants to get married, but yeah... Real cultural change, that was on the fringe 20 years ago and it still is today.