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WGLB presents year in review.

Started by Shana A, December 19, 2009, 08:33:34 AM

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Shana A

December 19, 2009, 08:33:34 AM
WGLB presents year in review.
by GLBT and Friends at Daily Kos
Fri Dec 18, 2009 at 08:51:26 AM PST

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/18/816295/-WGLB-presents-year-in-review.

  The year President Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States was a mixed one for progress on LGBT rights.  Voters in California across all demographic lines rescinded the right of gay couples to marry, sparking a wave of protests and recriminations.  Some blamed socially conservative black voters, others Mormon voters, and others still blamed the LGBT community itself. 

  When I was younger my father compared social progress to the oscillation of a pendulum about its equilibrium point.  The pendulum swings back and forth, but the equilibrium point shifts forward.  Or, alternatively, the steady climb up a slippery ladder, taking four steps forward, two steps back.  It was this "force of history" that moved societies toward the omega point, or so my father and others like him believed.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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