When I woke up and went to my computer, I received the bad news from my Aunt Lori who is living in between California and Virginia. California’s anti-marriage equality bill, proposition 8, won in the polls by a slim margin and equal marriage in California has been successfully compromised. Now, the California constitution is amended so that marriage equality is denied to couples of the same sex. The sad fact of the matter is that we need to get California on board because it has historically been the state that helps other states garner equality in their laws and thus, would have helped us obtain equal marriage. I have decided to wear black all day to show distress about the new inequality amendments in California and I am also planning to do something about it. I am going to dedicate more of my time to being an activist in the LGBT community and work with fellow Coloradans to help battle homophobia and transphobia. Continue reading ‘Prop 8 Won and We All Lost’
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Will I Ever Be Governor, or Will This Blog Ruin It?
I would like to be the next Governor of Colorado. Seriously, I really would like to help people out and the only way I could see doing that is getting into one of the highest offices in my own home state. Now, given the fact that I am an atheist Unitarian Universalist male-to-female transsexual, I could probably fit my constituency into a Toyota Prius and running Libertarian would help a few people get out of the back seat. But I could run for governor if I was really wanting to or was the legal age to. Now, does that mean I will win? Probably not, but it would be fun to try to run for governor and see what the opposition could possibly come up with to say against me. That is of course, considering that this blog won’t even ruin my chances of running for office, which it probably will. Continue reading ‘Will I Ever Be Governor, or Will This Blog Ruin It?’