A Moment in History
Apr. 26th, 2007 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevekensonSomeday, when I’m really old (maybe after I’ve copied my mind into a new clone or something), I will take pleasure in telling some yung’un about how, when I was a child, people attracted to the same sex were expected to hide, for fear of persecution and violence. I’ll tell them how gay people were treated as objects of ridicule and it was considered not only fair, but morally required to discriminate against us.
Then I’ll explain that I was born the same month as the Stonewall Riots. How I remember when same-sex marriage first became legal anywhere in the United States, and how I remember civil unions passing the House and the Senate in New Hampshire, all things I once wondered if I would see in my lifetime. Heck, maybe by then I’ll just dig through the terabytes of files in my personal datanet and show them this post from my LJ!
Civil Unions Passed in New Hampshire! ... another reason to look forward to 2008!
Then I’ll explain that I was born the same month as the Stonewall Riots. How I remember when same-sex marriage first became legal anywhere in the United States, and how I remember civil unions passing the House and the Senate in New Hampshire, all things I once wondered if I would see in my lifetime. Heck, maybe by then I’ll just dig through the terabytes of files in my personal datanet and show them this post from my LJ!
Civil Unions Passed in New Hampshire! ... another reason to look forward to 2008!
