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6.27.2005

i seem to have skipped pride this year.
or at least, i was proud at a distance.
and i realized that this weekend has really become something of a joke.
it has become a great excuse for my people (read gays) to run around and get drunk and leave a really big fucking mess.
or at least for the gays who are coming up now.
the event that this weekend is supposed to commemorate has gotten lost, right along with every other holiday that is supposed to mean something to people.
christians are supposed to be celebrating the birth of their savior on christmas. now everyone celebrates christmas with humongous credit card bills, frantic shopping and really awful office gifts for people they hate.
pride was supposed to be about a bunch of supposed social deviants deciding that they would no longer take being harassed, bashed and humiliated.
while maybe we dont allow private citizens to do that to us anymore, we have turned over the job to Saturn, Chase, Ikea and every other corporate sponsor of gayness.
while pushing blindly for marriage so that they can get a registry at pottery barn.
marriage just like heteros.
have ANY of you taken a look at the state of hetero marriage in this country?!?!?
anyone?!?!?
and have you thought for one split second that maybe we should be pushing for something BETTER than exactly what heteros have?
we have been building families amongst ourselves without governmental sanction, for eons.
its not going to stop because the supreme court says they dont believe in it.
we will still make families
we will still love eachother
and we will still get on with it
and?!?!?
we can still stand up in front of our friends and families and the people we love, and who respect us and declare our deviant, uncertified, unaccepted, true, unabashed love for eachother.
and you can probably still register at pottery barn.
even if the government doesnt believe in your love,
they do believe in your money.
i know about all the legal stuff.
i know about the 'protections' that marriage affords you.
i was married remember?
and you wanna know what my FAVORITE "protection" was?!?!?
the fact that without signing ONE PIECE OF PAPER
without so much as a peep from anyone
without ANY warning
when i said "i do" i automatically signed over the 401K that i had been working my entire adult life for, to my lawfully wedded husband.
i was legally unable to make ANY decisions about it without his signature.
so much for protection.
i think i prefer no protection thank you very much.
and i (not-so-secretly) like being deviant.
i can buy my own shit and it WONT be from pottery barn
im a fag,
i have better taste than that.

.: posted by landry 2:24 PM

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