Holy god-that-may-or-may-not-exist, I have not posted here in forever. I'm going to blame that on my life momentarily falling apart (and by momentarily, I mean that I'm still attempting to move on) when my now-ex-girlfriend broke up with me at the beginning of May last year.
And goodness deary me, a lot has been happening in the world while I've been spending my time crying over a pint of Ben & Jerry's and watching Lifetime movies (which did not actually happen, although I did see Prayers For Bobby...on YouTube).
We've had things like gay marriage being (temporarily) allowed in California, Connecticut's decision to let gay couples wed in the state, Proposition 8, Proposition 102, Amendment 2, that pesky Arkansas law banning adoption by unwed couples, MILK, Dustin Lance Black's acceptance speech at the Oscars, Sean Penn's acceptance speech at the Oscars...holy Moses. And MILK came out on DVD today!
The last...ten?..months have been full of both good and bad for us gays. Mostly the bad, though.
And those pesky homophobes just keep on keepin' on. Everybody's awaiting the outcome of the legal challenge to Prop. 8, but just recently a lawsuit challenging that Arkansas law has been filed. This is a good thing, of course, but what really cooks my chicken (I did not just say that) is that the conservative group behind the measure to get that law on the ballot is being allowed to present arguments in the court case.
I understand that our American legal system is supposed to be this wonderful, beautiful thing because we're all about participation in the legal system and fair trials, but... agh. I can only hope the sheer amount of idiocy and bigotry, not to mention lack of logic, in their legal arguments will sway the judge to overturn the law, but I shouldn't get my hopes up too high. It IS Arkansas.
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