The Over-Under on The Number of People Who Both Helped Ramrod Gay Marriage Through in New York AND Who Will Now Lift Even a Finger To Pass GENDA?

In your heart, you know what the answer is – and you’ve known it since December of 2002.

I wonder if Tom Duane will be able to be bothered to show up for all of the partying tonight?

In your heart, you know what the answer is to that – and you’ve known it for 54 weeks or so.

Now…

Seen recently on Facebook:

I wonder if Tom Duane will be able to be bothered to show up for all of the partying tonight?

Seen recently on the NY TImes website:

Just one lawmaker rose to speak against the measure: Rubén Díaz, Sr. of the Bronx, the only Democratic senator to cast a no vote.

“God, not Albany, has settled the definition of marriage, a long time ago,” Mr. Diaz said.

And Gay, Inc. settled the definition of equality a long time ago – you know, roughly 8 1/2 years ago – and that means gays being able to get married while having legal superiority over trans people in employment, housing and public accommodations.

The legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States is a relatively recent goal of the gay-rights movement, but over the last few years, gay-rights organizers have placed it at the center of their agenda, steering money and muscle into dozens of state capitals in an often uphill effort to persuade lawmakers.

Of course.

Anything to avoid actually lowering themselves to being equal to trans people.

Supporters of the measure described the victory in New York as especially symbolic — and poignant — because of its rich place in the history of gay rights: the movement’s foundational moment, in June of 1969, was a riot against police inside the Stonewall Inn, a bar in the West Village.

Funny thing, though…

Some of the people who were at Stonewall in 1969 gained substantive economic equality from the government of New York in 2002.

While others….

On the streets where police beat gay men in 1969, on Friday crowds cheered, as police quietly stood watch.

…see history revise them out of existence.

And, of course, if you don’t exist, why would you need things like anti-discrimination protections?

I wonder if Tom Duane will be able to be bothered to show up for all of the partying tonight?

We’ve all been on the losing side too many times. Winning is way, way, way more fun.

I hope I’m not the only one that notices that Joe Sudbay‘s ejaculation sounds eerily like what Richard Nixon had to say at a press conference shortly after winning the 1968 presidential election. (Sorry, I couldn’t find a link; but I saw a clip of it once.)

I trust New York’s marriage-endowed gays of 2011 to rectify the anti-trans hate crime of 2002 (sometimes referred to as SONDA) about as much as…

well, about as much as I trusted New York’s SONDA-endowed gays of 2002 to do so.

 

I wonder if Tom Duane will be able to be bothered to show up for all of the partying tonight?

Cross-posted at ENDABlog.