We voted. Have you?

Obama for President. Please let it be. Let it be. Equal rights are too big of an issue for me to want anyone else as President. You would think that more people would believe in it, but they don’t. Sad, but true.

I don’t want to go four more years feeling like a second class citizen because of my sexual orientation. I don’t want to keep feeling sub-human for loving who I do. I want to be equal. Dammit, I am equal, but is it selfish of me to want everyone else to see me that way? I think it’s my right as a citizen of the United States. It’s my right as a human being.

I want to stand beside my girlfriend, and tell her I love her, and someday say “I Do,” and I want to do it all in my own country if we want, and I want it to be legal. I want everyone to see us as a legitimate couple. It shouldn’t matter, really, but it’s become a matter of face now – I won’t back down and let someone tell me I shouldn’t be allowed the same privileges as a heterosexual couple simply because I’m a woman in love with another woman. I deserve equality. We deserve to be equal.

Obama for President.

Please.

I don’t see this so much as “How to Elect a US President” as much as “How our Electoral Process is Dumb and Outdated.” Really. I know this is an incredibly simple way of putting it, but for those of you outside the US, you can see the flaws right away.

I really like the How-To’s in plain English. This one is probably one of the greatest (though check out the one on Twitter in Plain English – that’s downright cool, and the Zombies in Plain English is just genius). What’s your take on it?

I’m celebrating October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but I probably should be making my blog a rainbow of gay goodness.  Why?  It’s GLBT History Month as well.

I kept meaning to blog about it earlier, but it continually slipped my mind.  I’m a horrible gay person.  Today, they’re celebrating Rosie O’Donnell, but the most influential person to me on the list of 31 icons is Melissa Etheridge.  I cannot recall a time when she wasn’t in my life somehow.  So many mornings, I woke up to her voice flooding the house, or riding in the car and listening to the many tapes my parents had.  Maybe, in an odd way, I have her to thank for having such an open family.  When I came out, it wasn’t the horrible experience that so many others have had to endure.  Even before I came out, I remember my mom telling me a story about something that happened to her and my dad at a Melissa Etheridge concert.  They were riding in an elevator and two gay boys started making out and fondling each other and my mom asked them to stop.  Of course, they both became extremely defensive and immediately thought my mom was attacking them for being gay.  It wasn’t that at all, and she was quick to inform them that she didn’t mind at all that they were gay, she just didn’t want to be stuck in an elevator with a couple, straight or gay, who couldn’t keep their hands off each other.  It was uncomfortable.  The couple apologized sheepishly but nobody could really blame them – it’s kind of instinct, you know.  The rest of the ride went smoothly.

That story was, I guess you can describe it as a security blanket, when I decided to come out to my parents.  I’m not saying Melissa Etheridge opened their eyes to the gay culture, but maybe it helped.  In any case, Melissa Etheridge isn’t just an amazing singer, she’s also a GLBT activist, AND she works well into my currently WP theme because she’s a survivor of breast cancer.  She’s an all-around influential person in my life.

In celebration of GLBT History Month – who is your most influential icon in the gay culture?  And for anyone else who might stumble upon this, who is your most influential icon in any culture?

Little Kit-kitty…

Happiness. Probably the number one most watched video on my YouTube Favorites.

How can you not love it?