Finally, A Step in the Right Direction
Last weekend was a special Pride celebration this year in SF, starting with the warmup party on Wednesday in the Castro after the Supreme Court rulings that brought Prop 8 and DOMA to an end. The celebration started in the early evening, with Castro Street filling up before long. Among the crowd were supporters, families with children, and countless couples, including at least one couple who had been together over 26 years. It was an amazing moment to witness, and I’m thankful that I could be in SF to see it. There’s still a long way to go for equality, but to look around the crowd and realize that someday (hopefully sooner rather than later) children will grow up in a time when the equality being fought for today is a thing that has always been. Having not lived through the major civil rights struggles of the past, I remember learning about them in school, but it all seemed so distant and backward that such discrimination could be tolerated by society. I hope that future children will soon feel the same about today’s events.
