yes, it's here... gay pride weekend 2008 in denver is here. i am not necessarily prepared, but i will participate none-the-less. and i'm happy to do so. i cannot say how it will all play out. a friend is back from california for the weekend, but i have a full calendar and many not get to see him. i am working our booth at the festival both days, but thankfully it is only 3 hours per day. pride is traditionally a very very hot hot weekend- temperature wise. last year, i had tried to create a safe sober space for people in recovery to hang, as triggers can be a challenge at such events. i hope someone picks up that gauntlet this year.
everyone makes it out this weekend at some point. and i think it is good for the soul to become part of this pridefest mulligatawny for awhile. it's right-sizing in a way. there are so many of us in so many sizes and flavors. i forget this sometimes.
i have already done a pride post this month, however, gay pride represents something bigger for me than one post. there is much to celebrate locally, but on the national scene there is much more. i am quietly ecstatic that marriage for our culture is moving into the mainstream if only in one state. young gay men and women will now have a partnership ideal to move towards that can expand their ideas of what is possible in this life.
love certainly won't be easier, but the baggage we bring to it will perhaps be lessened. and perhaps this is a leveller of the playing field that queer folks have fought in so fervently since stonewall, and quietly dared to dream for with baited breath while loving secretly in the shadows for centuries.
i'm not prepared to marry today, this weekend, or even this year, but i definitely am happy that there is now 1 less thing gay men and women have to battle in their struggles with self esteem in our culture. life is challenging enough without running into inequality and disdain at so many turns.
now, hopefully, forever may have just been given a deeper, richer, more fortified meaning for our rainbow clan. forever can mean...forever and ever... amen.
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Excellent song selection. One of the most moving photos that I have seen ths week is of the couple in this entry. I've never married but I've always known that it was an option, a possibility. Everyone should have the option. This is a step in the right direction, let's hope that the rest of this country takes a giant step in the same direction.
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