Wandering around in a haze of glory.

[charlieblue]

I have three singular emotions running through my mind:


1. Joy, joy, fierce, euphoric, such indescribably violent joy I cannot even - I just - joy.

Obama.


2. One giant scream of screw you to hell.

Prop 8.

How can people be so petty, so mean, so bitterly ignorant as to deny others the happiness of a union that exists as a manifestation of human love?


3. Hope.

Do we got it?
Yah.
Can we do it?
Can do.
Will we?

There's faith, then there's hope. One is a static, unwavering fixation on the joyously unprovable. The other is all momentum, a spark pushing us onward toward something just as joyous, but something that, however blurry and ill-formed about the edges, is something conceivable, something achievable, something that is more.




So that's me. What's you?

Comments

[true-enough.livejournal.com]

I can only second your 3 emotions with an added wish that prop 8 goes down in flames the way it should. The last I checked though it didn't look good. That's a hard one to take. But Obama? Yes, there's the joy!

[charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh god, yes please, Prop 8 crashing and burning would be nice. I suppose it was naive of me, but the stats on it took me completely by suprise. I keep thinking, I suppose perhaps because of the way I think about it, that we're past that kind of blatant discrimination, but we're really not, are we? (We being the human race in general.)

Obama. I am still \o/ every few minutes. :D

[karjack.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately these measures have passed and are passing all over the United States. California's gotten a lot of attention, but this type of institutionalized bigotry is nothing new. Eleven states adopted similar measures in '04, my own included.

The answer is to refuse to stand for it. Our nation overcame Jim Crow. We can beat this. We'll do it the way we've always had to. We protest. We march. We make noise so that no one gets to rest easy until our voices are heard.

I'm disappointed about Prop 8, but the bigots are out of their minds if they think queer America is going to just hang our heads and slink back into our closets. This is a speed bump, not a dead end.

I'm confident that in our lifetime, and probably sooner than even we suspect, these bigot-laws will be a sad memory in a brighter future. They will be an embarrassing footnote, not the way we live our lives.

[charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, I really hope so*. Obama has mentioned his support for gay rights in several speeches, so I'm hoping with him at the helm a lot of damaging, backward, as you say, institutionalized bigotry will be demolished.

But hell yes. Fight and bitch and outflank 'em till we win.


(*And on a side note, am I ever again going to be able to use the word 'hope' in any vaguely politically-orientated topic without feeling like I'm somehow punning?)

[karjack.livejournal.com]

I'm a firm believer. We've come too far to give up now. We need to take that anger over things like Prop 8 and focus it in a positive direction. Obama's win is a cause to celebrate, but we've got a long road ahead of us.

[charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com]

Word. Wise word.

[mizstorge.livejournal.com]

Y'know, in some vague way I get that some people might feel that promiscuous gay sex is wrong - just because there are those who feel that all sex outside of marriage is wrong - but I just can't figure out why they would then proceed to legally prevent marriage between gay people.

It just amazes me that a majority of straight people apparently feel threatened by the very existence of gay people in love wanting the same civil rights that straight couples enjoy.

[charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com]

I know, and I can even understand certain people's religious beliefs making them uncomfortable with gay marriage, but there's a difference between having a church disallow gay marriage, and having the state do it.

That compulsive need to make sure that not only they, but everyone and everything else in the world adheres to a particular religious code, to legalize that religious code ... I just, I have no words able to describe how sick that makes me feel. Especially when it comes to gay marriage, which has everything to do with humanity, and love, and honestly has zero impact on straight people and their marriages.

In other words, I agree with what you've said. :)

[r0knr0ll.livejournal.com]

^That is me.

(:
I'm so happy!

[charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I know right? I was walking around campus today grinning up at the sky like a loon.

Obama, FTW.

*\o/*

[kentawolf.livejournal.com]

So much agreement about #2. So much. Down to my marrow.