If you'll recall, last year was a major election year. We elected the first Black president (He's mulatto, damn it). Okay, I didn't personally, but as a people we sure made our preference known in a landslide election. Pot was decriminalized in Massachusetts and chickens in California got bigger cages. It was an exciting day.

But that November 3rd, that long year ago, was also horrifying for those of us in the LGBT community (and our straight supporters). Prop 8 passed in California while Florida and Arizona passed legislation banning gay marriage. And Arkansas banned same-sex couples from adopting children. So it was an exciting day that took a quick and unexpected turn towards the traumatic.

Then when put to the state courts in May, California upheld Prop 8.

And though I'm focusing on negative out of anxiousness, good stuff happened too. Same-sex marriage was legalized in a few states, but now we've got Question 1 up in Maine. Our Yes On One Opponent Asshats hired the same consulting firm who worked Prop 8 and they're using the same tactics they did in California. They're going to teach fagdom in school and indoctrinate your children against their will! Scary! Lookout for teh gays!

So, I've gone with Mass Equality to give the No On One campaign a hand over the past two weeks and will be going again tomorrow for the Big Day. It's been a lot of fun. I met a lot of sweetheart dogs (some of them nicer than their owners) and some really lovely supporters. I was even fortunate enough to meet Gary Connor, one of the representatives that co-sponsored Maine's original marriage equality bill, and his family.

But amidst all the good times and lulz, it was easy to convince myself that we had this thing in the bag which is just not the truth. Things are far from certain and I'm palm sweating scared. Most of us are and I awoke to three messages in my inbox asking for $25K for more ads just this morning. I got one this afternoon asking for 50K more.

This is anything but a sure bet and win or lose we'll keep fighting, but wouldn't it be a beautiful boost for the movement if we could win this? If we win it will be the first time same-sex rights will have been upheld by majority rule. That would be amazing.

Though canvasing painted me a brighter picture, it also reminded me exactly what I'm fighting for. Instead of knocking on door and introducing myself as Liz Davis, yes I'm gay and yes, I deserve equal rights, I want to walk down the street, any street, and know that my equality is implied.

See you on the other side, let's hope this goes our way.

Last night Jon Stewart addressed Obama's lack of action on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I haven't been this pleased with the Daily Show since last week (BEAR with CHAINSAWS for paws?!?)

Watch the clip, it will result in spontaneous giggles (and/or orgasms). "The Gay After Tomorrow".

President (yo' Mama) Obama and his administration are defending DOMA in federal court. I haven't finished reading the official document yet because it started making me nauseous, but the quotes drawing a lot of airtime in this clusterfuck draw connections between incestuous and underaged marriages and same-sex marriage. Yeah, fantastic.

I'm surprised, not because I'd expected Obama to be a "fierce advocate" for LGBT rights, but I also didn't expect to get fucked over. I thought the LGBT community would just fade into the background and he'd leave us alone to push his own agenda while we pushed ours. Instead he's trampling us with DOMA, and Don't Ask Don't Tell. I'm scared of what's coming next.

So, help a movement out:
E-mail the White House here.
Or call at 202-456-1111

Obama defends DOMA, we defend our families (Source: Join the Impact)
Justice Defends DOMA (Source: The Advocate)

Yeah, you know I can totally see why KABC TV would think those promos are to provocative to air, what with all those crazy deviants playing hide the pickle, especially during the inauguration. Too many families watching.

But in all seriousness, this campaign is a gorgeous idea. I admire the participants and hope that when prop 8 next comes up for the vote it's things like this that will have tipped the balance in our favor.

This was amazing. It was a mass of gays and their straight supporters standing beneath the threat of rain, and against the wind to show that we're still here and that we're standing up. The LGBT community isn't taking the loss/lack of our rights lying down.



Stay tuned bitches, we're not done in yet.

Holy-mother-fucking-jesus-sucking-cunt-licking-shit. We have a new president. When the polls finally came in those number on the screen were fucking gorgeous. President Barack (yo momma) Obama has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

The idea that our generations is going to make fucking history for something we did right boggled my mind.

Then the silly CNN commentaries completely ruined it with some shit about blacks, equal rights and our slave brethren of yesteryears. Totally killed the mood.

Pot's been decriminalized in Massachusetts, the income tax is still in place and as of now, roughly 1:30 in the morning, gay marriage is coming up all shoots with no ladder. I still hold out hope for the defeat of Prop 8 in California since so far only 29% of precincts are reporting, but it looks like come morning Arizona and Florida will have constitutional amendments banning gay marriage and Arkansas will have a ban on gay parents adopting children. But I'm going to cross my finger and hope that we haven't hit our quota for miracles yet.

"This is a tough campaign," McCain told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an exclusive interview. "I'm the underdog. I've always been the underdog from the beginning."

Note to McCain; caucasian males of upper class means coming from upstanding neighborhoods, two parent households and exceptional academic backgrounds with no history of mental illness are not underdogs.

I don't think McCain is a bad guy. I think he's like many of his generation and is doing what he thinks is necessary to make the changes he sees as necessary, which is exactly the same thing Obama's doing. Every politician is about the same thing, realizing their own vision. That doesn't have to make them evil, maybe just a bit misguided in the overwhelming majority of cases. And when push comes to shove I can't really blame him for his stance of gay rights either. The man is a product of his time, through and through.

And if he wins this election I think I'm going to go study abroad.