The blogs here @DD: They are not all hysterics venting their negatives. If we look over the past numbers of our blog topics we find a great number are recognitions of good, progressive, and humanistic ideals. The immediate history of the changes in our world are chronicled on a most human level here. We hear the hopes, fears, angers, and joys over minor successes and failures that all came together to produce an equality few of us thought we would ever see in our lifetimes. We are all part of the ‘Gay Community.’ Now we are ‘in fact’ part of a larger community of citizens. That is, at least we in the US and other countries where the lack of equal protection under the law had to be recognized and changed to give legitimacy to the countries’ credo of equitability.
I am now looking forward to a time when this period of change will be an interesting read in history books like the ‘Civil Rights Acts’, the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’, Woman’s voting rights, the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and others like the decision of ‘Roe v. Wade.’ However, just like the ‘Right to Choose.’ decisions can and are being whittled down from a strong rooted tree to a toothpick. Therefore we must look upon ourselves as equal within a world of differences. We must independently fight for those things that are generally correct for a democratic society to follow. We will never stop being gay, and therefore, we must never give up our guard to protect both our sociological sub-set and the countless other groups of difference. It is, after-all, all the differences that make us all the same.
However, with the Supreme Court ruling, I think we are now *much* closer to the end point for overt discrimination against gay people as a matter of law. And considering that not all that long ago, it was illegal for us to even have sex in some states, that is a very big thing.
And we can't forget about gay people in places like Africa, the Middle East and Russia, where just being gay can mean prison or even death.