Gay rights in 2008
Filed by: Guest Blogger
December 28, 2008 5:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/gay_rights_in_2008.phpEditors' Note: Guest blogger Carlos Mock, MD has published three books and is the Floricanto Press editor for its GLBT series. He was inducted in the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame in October of 2007. He grew up middle-class in the suburbs of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
carlos-mock.jpgThis year, an unprecedented turnout of voters went to the polls and elected the first African American President, however, gay rights did not advance--all but one state took away gay rights from their citizens.
We do not view these results as reason for despair. Struggles over civil rights never follow a straight trajectory, and the outcome of these ballot fights should not obscure the building momentum for full equality for gay people, including acceptance of marriage between gay men and women. But the votes remind us of how much remains to be done.
