The Milk Man Cometh
We went to see Milk last night and Sean Penn was awesome. It was incredible to be watching this movie based on a true life story of a man who fought for gay rights in the late 70s – can this be true? That in 1978, politicians were trying to outlaw gays working in schools? It sounds so bizarre – almost like Civil Rights (1964) had to be fought for for a black person to enter the same doorway or sit in the same seating with a white – or that woman be allowed to vote (1919)?
Do you realize that this is 2008, almost 2009, and not but a few decades ago this was happening?
Okay, then maybe if all of this sounds so passé and we have come so far, what would you say about Proposition 8 and the right for gays to marry? Remember this, no matter who you are and what you believe, very soon, gays will have the right to marry and we will look back on this time (2008) with disbelief.