Beautiful gem for this morning!
I live in Washington state, where one week ago the voters passed the initiative supporting marriage equality.
This morning I received an invitation to the wedding of my boss, a local lady lawyer, and her partner, a local geriatric physician, in December, at our Unitarian fellowship!
Both these women are fairly high profile in our medium-sized (conservative!) town. They have been together for 20 or more years. Moved here from out of state a few years ago. They are trying to adopt, but having difficulty.
Some of the scariest stories I recall from my own youth, were stories of homosexuals (the vernacular of the time) who were blackmailed or otherwise threatened to be outed because of their sexuality. I know there were - and still are - suicides, because of this gender identity.
I am so proud and gratified that in my lifetime these stories are becoming only tragic relics of a previous mindset, gone and going the way of other useless, extinct, modes.
*Side note: and now I just heard on MSNBC the first Unitarian has been elected to Congress! Sheesh...didn't know we were considered so non-mainstream!
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