“I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.” Kurt Cobain
Three days after Kurt Cobain would have been forty-five years old, the state of Maryland passed a same-sex marriage bill. It awaits Governor Martin O’Malley (who co-sponsored the bill and celebrated it’s passing) signature. That makes eight states that will have some type of legal gay marriage. This comes on the heels of Cobain’s home state, Washington, passing their same-sex marriage bill on Valentine’s Day, February 14th. It will go into effect in June.
This may be an abomination to the far right folks in our country. But to many, this signifies that gay is indeed the new black.
Societal evolution is a tricky mistress. To get Adele, we endure Nickelback. We suffer through The Jersey Shore but have Walking Dead. To get people to understand they can’t own each other or push their religious beliefs on others, you have to make laws.
One thing will become reality, soon in eight states. Same-sex couples will get to bitch about their joint tax returns, skyrocketing family plan health insurance rates, and rude ass hospital employees just like hetero-couples have gotten to do for decades.
One has to wonder if the current President, a left-leaning Barack Obama, will act on an equal rights amendment for homosexuals or a marriage amendment for same-sex couple? He’s rescinded don’t ask don’t tell. Will he get this country on track toward, Who Cares If You Get Married, What The Hell?
To my same-sex friends in, Maryland, Washington, and the other six states that have decided that societal evolution is cool to have now, rather than later; I offer this, as a man in a “happy” marriage to a woman:
Personally, I hope this movement is some states toward legal same-sex marriage and thus, equal right for all, regardless of sexually orientation will cause people to accept others and for people who accept themselves. Like Kurt Cobain said in Nirvana’s All Apologies, “what else should I say, everyone is gay”.
CWK
02/24/2012
I wonder, though, if the Gay Rights movement will turn into something like the Civil Rights movement.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow…But if needs are not met, I could see yet another uprising in our country for this. It’s bigger than most politicians believe, especially in the South. I hope we don’t have something as big as the Civil Rights movement again, and I hope it can be resolved and passed quickly…But with the hate crimes running rampant, I wonder….
Lance
02/25/2012
I think the gay rights movement will learn from others. This is societal evolution in a textbook way.
My kids generation will look back ours and be shocked and saddened by our sociological lollygagging.