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PROP 8: WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?28-MAY-09 BY PARKER TILGHMAN
Every time I think of Proposition 8 I can’t help but think about the ’70s in San Francisco. Back to the White Night Riots and the assassination of Harvey Milk. Not just because of the recent major motion picture, or seeing Dustin Lance Black’s cute ass win an Oscar. Harvey Milk was kind of big deal well before Mr. Van Sant ever came to town. Thank Maria for them, though, because mainstream America needs to see what we’re capable of when we put our minds and our hearts together. I can’t help but think that they banded together without Twitter, Facebook and the like. They fucked some major shit up on their own volition as a unit. Today, I feel the homosexual agenda is missing that desire. Since November 4th I’ve seen complacency spread like herpes in a back room on Saturday night.
I don’t really want to get married that badly. I do, however, want to be treated like a human being and have the right to choose whether or not I want to be bound to the eternal damnation of monogamy. I want to feel a little more equal to heterosexuals. I want to be a first class citizen. I would have been there sitting on Grove and Van Ness that morning of May 26 getting arrested with my brothers and sisters, but I felt that it was more important for me to stay on the side and show others what is happening. As my friend Karl Soehnlein said quite succinctly, “The problem with political protest in liberal San Francisco is that there’s no target for your anger.” Where is the outrage in the rest of America? The rest of the world? Where is the outrage?
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