Bittersweet Election Results
By Kuono • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: BlogTwitter survived the election, though it was shaky at times, and this morning @violetblue summed it best: “Last night was a dream. Prop 8 is my hangover.”
Last night was a dream come true — we toasted with champagne, cried tears over Obama’s speech, went out to the streets to celebrate (in the Castro, SF [video]) crossed our fingers for a pretty close Prop K (decriminalizing prostitution), and held our breath — All Night Long — and are still waiting for results about Prop 8’s ban on Same-Sex marriage. At this moment it’s 96% reporting and papers are calling it passed.
Personally, I have hopes that the courts won’t let the constitution be re-written. There’s still a lot of work to do to help educate the state of California about what same-sex marriage means, and there’s a lot of lies and fear out there from people wanting to protect ‘traditional’ marriage. (It’s not “Yes we did”… it’s “Yes we will” — there’s much work to do.)
It’s a bittersweet victory for civil rights. With love, here’s a song for the new day.
Kuono >> Magazine Editor, Web Producer at GoodVibes.com and manager of the Good Vibrations Affiliate Program (GVAffiliates.com). Okay, back to work.
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Check it out! The Prop 8 literature might be invalid, so it wouldn’t pass even if it does end up getting all the votes!
http://aclu.org/lgbt/relationships/37706prs20081105.html