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@georgetakei@universeodon.comIt was less than nine years ago, a day Brad and I will never forget. We must teach the history so we never go back.
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And it really was not long ago that people could not marry because their skin melanin content differed from each other.
With the way internet is moving, sometimes it feels like "history" is synonymous with "ancient history" 
@georgetakei The first wedding my daughter ever attended was a same-sex wedding, and I don't think she realized at the time that it had only been legal for a few months in the state where it happened.
@georgetakei They’re gonna save us
@mori If we raise them well.
@georgetakei Indeed, though I think they’re going to figure some things out better than we ever did.
@georgetakei I read the anecdote as suggesting that the history is irrelevant. This child isn’t any more likely to let Republicans re-outlaw same-sex marriage because she doesn’t know how recent a phenomenon it is, or how hard so many fought to make it legal. It just seems natural to her and she would be horrified if that right were taken away regardless of anything.
@georgetakei it’s slow, but it’s progress.
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In the 80s, as a young boring heterosexual woman, I loved to shock conservative people with starting discussions about marriage of gay/queer people and why it is a human right to live people's own gender orientation.
I remember a teacher's blood pressure shouting at me, when I told him that the marriage for all people will come.
When it came in Germany, I googled, he was still alive: This evening, I had a glass of Champagne!
@georgetakei My 16yo daughter had the same reaction; it made absolutely no sense to her.
@georgetakei I remember vividly — I was in a coffee shop waiting for a meeting when the alert came through. I may have hurrahed. (I had married two young men of my acquaintance a couple of years before, figuring that my status as an officiant was as irrelevant as their legal status in the state of Georgia at the time. It has been, to date, the most traditional marriage I have officiated.)
@georgetakei I've told this story a lot, but when one of my friend's kids decided to transition like 5-8 years ago, I tried to explain that when we visit, they go by $name and $pronouns now, and absolutely don't make fun or whatever.
Kids looked at me like I was an alien both because the thought to make fun never occurred to them, and second because who cares? Anyway, most “kids are alright" I've experienced.
This is *so* similar to learning about Jim Crow as a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s. Recent, awful history.
@georgetakei My wife and I married (after 19 years), while attending the 2003 WorldCon in Toronto. I like to think that knowing about us made it easier for my cousins' kids to come out. Last family event included at least two that I know of, one of whom is marrying in May.
@georgetakei Of all of the culture war issues, gay marriage has been from the start my biggest head-scratcher.
I mean, even if you're the biggest gay bigot on the planet, how does gay people getting married make your life any worse? Why would it even bother you?
@georgetakei My mom and aunts sometimes tell us stories about how they were unable to apply for their own credit cards or take out bank loans without a male co-signer back in the day. Every day I am thankful progress marches on and such old was of thinking are now considered horrific.