I
am going to be 69 in a few days. I can say that admitting who I am was
the singular most difficult process in my life. I "figured" things out
decades ago and the trajectory of my life changed in an instant. It is
one (among many) reasons I so despise Trump and all right wing extremist
zealots who lack thought, kindness, empathy and understanding; who
refuse to offer, at minimum, help to those who so desperately need it.
It should be the mandate of government to provide it.
For
those in our generation who were homosexual suicide was then an option.
But it got better -- much better. Now for this instant in time we
secured many rights including everyone's basic right to marry whom they
love but those rights can be, in a nanosecond, taken away. Freedom from
religion not of religion should be etched in stone as our Founders knew
and it is why the separation of church/state clause is Constitutionally
mandated
.
Believe what you want but let others believe what they may; looking to
social change and not to a 5000 year old document written
in cement by those who knew nothing about a lot science has debunked and much less of human sexuality nor its variation.
I
never on planet earth thought it could get so much better for me. My
relationship of 32 years, I can unequivocally and proudly say, sets an
example and should be the envy of so many whose relationships and
marriages are/were so destructive. It was not I who had the problem it
was our culture and what it said we should be during those excruciating
Leave it to Beaver times.
Trump
and his minions are poison to those of us who are different and do not
conform -- no strike that -- CANNOT conform to what those Cretans say we
must. They want to turn back the clock to an age where we had zero
rights and suicide was the only option for so many of us who could not
live a lie. Trump's minions are ignorant and like Trump have no desire
to understand and to learn.
Howard
Zinn said to me long ago it matters not what those in power who oppose
us say. We must fight with the grass roots and never give in because
power emanates from the bottom up! If right wing extremism
wins
we
all lose in more ways than simply the right to marry. Those of us who
are not among the richest 2% will and some are now losing health care.
Worse, the possibility of nuclear war post 1960 is again in the
conversation. No one can win that. In the end if Trump and his
minions
have their way
many will die. The right we all deserve is the right to live.
RESIST AS YOU HAVE NEVER RESISTED BEFORE
