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[dolari]

Tonight, I go to bed knowing that my hometown of San Antonio, which thirty years ago was one of the most violent places to live if you were LGBT, the town that legally declared transwoman Christie Lee Littleton a man fifteen years ago, issued some of the first same sex marriage licenses in Texas.

We still have a long way to go. But we are making progress.

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's been a long path, and FSM knows, there's much more to be done - but this is a moment in American history.

Egad, to think I was eagerly awaiting Hawaii back in 1995, only to find the usual chuckleheads descend and put them on hold for years more. Throughout, though, it was fairly obvious who was going to be on the losing side, in the long run. For all the money the Catholics and Mormons pumped feverishly into trying to constrain love to their specific authority, it was a futile effort, destined only to enrich the lawyers, at the expense of couples denied hospital visitation rights. And thus they sign off, in the decades to come, on their own dwindling fortunes and irrelevance, while we bear witness to so many more couples being granted recognition of the most wonderful togetherness.