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WaPo: White House poised to create first monument to gay rights
May 03, 2016 By: Primo Encarnación Category: Uncategorized
May God continue to shed Her ineffable, glorious grace on thee!
WaPo: White House poised to create first monument to gay rights
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
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Yes! I love Barack Obama.
1Mazel Tov to the LGBTQA community!
Thanks Obama!
Seriously thanks, sir, for being a constitutional scholar with an appreciation for the 14th Amendment.
2I can’t find the words. I’m overwhelmed.
I never thought – in my lifetime – it’s been so hard to feel strong about myself. 2012 changed that when MN had an anti LBTG constitutional amendment on the ballot. I drove down a street in my neighborhood and most of the houses on that Minnesota city street had rainbow flags flying and Vote No signs in their front yard.
It’s not an LBTG neighborhood. Probably only one of those houses was home to an LBTG family. It hit. All those straight people think being LBTG is just great. I am loved. Yes, I cried.
And now this. It’s simply stunning. Gratitude. I’m overwhelmed by gratitude.
3When I got my first manager job and moved from the qube farm to an 8×8 “office” I was amazed to find my name, properly spelled, on the glass door. I was astounded. When a facilities guy walked by, still bubbling and babbling I asked him “How long did it take to paint my ridiculous surname on the glass?” He looked at the and said “Probably just Coupla minutes. Takes longer to scrape the old name off.”
What we REALLY need here is a change of heart and of thinking. Eventually the snacilbupeR will elect a POTUS and without that changed heart “they”‘ll destroy this monument in moments.
In the meantime those of us with GLTB friends and family can’t afford to slumber. The enemy’s still at the gate.
4This is one of those stories that’s great for two reasons: because of the people it makes happy, and because of the people whose heads will explode. Both are well-deserved.
There will be backlash, as we have to the legalization of same-sex marriage, but it’s another step on the road to LGBT people being seen as… people.
— Another leftie in Greenbelt MD
5“You can’t spell Greenbelt without LGBT”
Everything Rhea said. Thank you, President Obama!
6President Obama is one class act!
7I love our president and always will! He listens, thinks, and then takes action. Some things take longer than it should, but eventually it gets done. I hope President Obama has a few more things on his “Bucket List.”
8About damn time! I lived in The Village in those days and several of my friends friends got caught up in that raid and the subsequent riots. Now the Halloween Parade won’t be the NYC’s only statement of gay rights.
9june, I think by this time Obama’s Bucket List starts with a letter four slots farther down the alphabet. (Actually that works for “list” too.)
10And it’s in my town, where Obama was an undergrad.
11Very, very happy about this.
12And RWNJ heads explode in 3…2….1
13I’m so glad to hear this; I sure will miss the President when he leaves office.
14MSB, he’s not going to just fade away into rocking chair retirement. I can guarantee that. He will still be in the D.C. area for at least two years until his youngest finishes high school. By that time I would love to see him on the Supreme Court. I think Hill would like that, too.
15Debbo, you’re loved here, too!
16Love is grand. I’m right across town from the Stonewall, and often take walks on Christopher Street.
17Debbo, what daChipster said! One big group hug and embrace of the 14th Amendment for everyone.
Laura Finley wrote an article well worth the read on “identity politics” and how it’s ok for men to be feminists, too. She titled it: “Changing the Conversation About the Woman Card.” She has a point. From “identity politics” we need to take one more step forward to the full realization of the 14th Amendment. We the people; indeed ‘we’ because what effects one of us effects all of us.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/04/changing-the-conversation-about-the-woman-card/
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Cartoon included for my Hillary supporting friends. I already promised I’d vote for her, if she is the nominee. Now it’s time to reach a mindset where I can whole hardheartedly embrace the concept. Still feeling the Bern and counting Electoral College votes. But whatever transpires in Philadelphia count on me to vote YES for the social issues. Or, as we can all agree: NO to any nacilbupeR!
18‘Bout time
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