A year ago we elected Barack Obama to office. Some of us (ugh, okay, me) thought that would make things much better than they had been before. Nearly immediately I realized that I was wrong because we lost here in California on Prop 8.
So many of us GLBT folk were raw over that. Lets face it, when you are forced to realize that a majority of your fellow citizens don't give a shit about your constitutional rights it's a bad moment on many levels. We were hurt and really really angry. Remember all the diaries of pain and anger? Remember all the comments that we should just suck it up? That it was coming? Remember how it felt like our pain was being dismissed?
But this morning when I logged on to see the bad news, I also see a bunch of recced diaries by our allies sharing our pain with us.
I'm mad and I'm hurt and I'm taking that out on people who act like it's no big deal that my constitutional rights are being marginalized by societal hatred which is fomented by the church. I'm doing it as transparently as I can do it. But I don't feel like I'm doing it alone any more.
So thank you GLBT allies of the DailyKos community. You heard our pain last year and you learned how to respond to us with support.
The haters are going down, hopefully sooner than later.