Marriage: It's Not Just For The "Sexy" States Anymore
by: theantidesi101
Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 22:59:49 PM EST

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I'm still adjusting to life outside of a "sexy" state. I grew up in the electoral wet dream of Florida. That state is such a tease for progressives. It's always just around the corner for change, with an influx of new yorkers, new generation of cubans and booming urban bastions.

I was also raised in the Empire State, a land often assumed to be more progressive than it actually is, but nevertheless a blue wonderland in comparison to others. It's electoral votes, though diminishing, is still nothing to sneeze at. We're the land of New York Friggin City for cryin' out loud. The birthplace of the NAACP and Stonewall. We're the state that has the U.S.'s first blind governor, not to mention 1 of only 3 black governors in U.S. history.

Now, in my finals years of college, I find myself dating the constantly used and abused "non sexy" land of Washington D.C. My district is very close to marriage equality, with a vote expected to come up in our D.C. council in as little as 2 months. There are other places, states not named California or New Jersey, where the progress on marriage equality is not yet near critical mass like in D.C., but rather there is a slow, uphill, yet steady climb to equality.