You can still help the fight for marriage equality in Maine. If you are a Maine resident, you need to vote. In fact, if there is a local election in your area today, please be sure to vote. These elections tend to have very low turn-out and its how extremists get weird referendums passed and anti-science people onto school boards. It's always good to vote.
What makes an American? Or, let's watch people be anti-immigrant racists about the guy who just won the New York City Marathon.
I tend to assume if they say partner they mean gay until proven otherwise. Apparently, it's a code word in my mind. Obviously, this means I'm pretty often wrong, but it's kind of comforting to be breaking the default occasionally. And, at least partner beats gay lover or "husband" in passive-aggressive inverted commas.
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Date: 2009-11-03 06:57 pm (UTC)