Just so you know,
Same-sex marriage* is now legal in New York State!
Which is tremendous.
Now to make the world a genuinely accepting and friendly place for people in under all parts of the rainbow umbrella.
Which is significantly harder and takes much longer to accomplish.
*People seem to really like calling this “gay marriage,” which I hate. Yes, most of those will be marriages between people of the same gender – but not all. No one seems to talk about it much, but same-sex marriage is also, in a lot of places, a trans issue, as many trans people – even those who are heterosexual - find it difficult or impossible to marry their partners in many places because they are incapable of changing the documents that legally establish their sex, so their parntership is considered by the state to be “gay” - and is, thus, illegal. So the progress made by allowing those who are legally the same sex even benefits “opposite gender” couples.
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(Also, non-monosexuals get married too!)
True!
So “gay marriage” is just a very silly phrase and people should stop.
Indeed! There’s some quote I’ve seen floating around about how it’s just marriage not gay marriage because ‘I parked my car, I didn’t gay park it’ or something like that.