A Curious Eye

I also wanted to post this because Davis hits on something I’m afraid of: that after the election gay people are going to think their work is done. Assuming voters pass same-sex marriage on the ballot—knock on wood with a rabbit’s foot—many may see it as the finish line for LGBT rights in Washington State. It’s time to be fully coopted into mainstream society! Don’t get me wrong, I’m a faggot and would love to find myself a nice man and settle down in a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence rent an excruciatingly small apartment in the East Village.

But this isn’t the finish line.

Not for gays who have a national DOMA law to repeal—and definitely not for transgender men and women (and queergender people) who both want to repeal DOMA and overcome a pervasive culture of intense hostility, intimidation, and discrimination.

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