My thoughts on this historic day...
It has been one of the most extraordinary days in my lifetime, tough to think of anything else except the California Supreme Court ruling overturning the same-sex marriage ban.
My joy has built with each passing hour since learning the news this morning. It's deeply life-affirming.
I've been under the weather all week and homebound. But I've shared this day with friends - straight and gay - on the phone, via e-mail and on Facebook where it was just thrilling to read the reactions in real time. I've followed events on TV and on the Internet just absorbing - trying to absorb that this has really happened. I didn't expect it to.
Me? Get married? My heart has a few broken pieces and many frogs have been kissed. But ya know, I'd still like to get married someday, I hope it happens. The possibility makes me feel deeply happy - to the core really. But the most beautiful thing is all those loving and committed couples of the same gender who can marry and have the same rights as straight people in this country. Many have been together for decades, have children together. They are families.
Tomorrow is a day to write about the fight ahead, The battle to preserve this ruling will be bruising because gay marriage foes are primed. But gay people (and our allies) are strong and we've had to really work hard to make ourselves heard and to be accepted on our own terms. I think we are never more remarkable than when are fighting for what is right.
- Greg Hernandez
- 5/15/08
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Greg Hernandez authored Out In Hollywood for the Daily News from June 2006 to February 2009. He can now be found at Greg In Hollywood: www.greginhollywood.com
Congratulations to you all, the good people. Gays and straights –and everything in between- that fought or supported the cause for equality. For real equality. Hope it seeds the change for the others States to follow.
I’ve been with my partner for fourteen years and we have the Buenos Aires civil union, but it’s nothing like the real marriage –or whatever name some day they allow to call it-, so everytime somewhere in the world that that right is gained I feel it like a small step to get our own, cause it means that general consciousness is changing, bit by bit.
And don’t let the haters to spoil the moment. They will always be there to spill venom. That’s what unhappy people have left to do, they need others to step over to feel that their misery is something lesser.