Procrastination

It has been so long. I could try to blame it on a million things , but what it really comes down to is that I am a procrastinator and I have prioritized so many other things. What an amazing past month and a half. Barrack Obama and Prop 8. Amazing history has been made. Hope and Change.They could not have come at a better time.

And then there is Gay Marriage. Of course, I think we lesbian and gay people must have equal rights under the law, not only in California, but in the Nation. We gays and lesbians have been willing to accept that we need to wait for our time. We have been told that America just is not ready for Gay Marriage. Just wait. Hold on. Some day America will be ready. But will it be in our lifetime? One thing the passage of Prop 8 has demonstrated is the Queer Community cannot afford to be apathetic. I think too many of us thought there was no way Prop 8 would pass. I was one of them. After all, isn’t California home of “steers and queers”?

Most of us waited until it was too late to act. I commend all those who have participated in the rallies and vigils, but next go around we need to get out there before election day. We can no longer blend in. Pass. We must be visible, vocal, and active. We must become revolutionaries. We must be willing to define our “selves”. Find our “selves”. Be willing to love our selves and our fellow Queer.

~ by Paula on December 17, 2008.