And “gays” in Washington didn’t decide this position. A handful of hand-picked, middle class, white men decided this position in coalition with two gay Democratic Party hacks in the state legislature. Queers here in Washington, like everywhere else in this country, have no voice. We’re ready to be done with it and demand equality for all NOW, damn it. We have gay teenagers here committing to raising their own money (cuz the adults don’t give a shit about anything except domestic partnerships) for queer youth space. We have gay bashings all the time. Hello, the recession ain’t over and so long as we don’t have ENDA we’re still particularly vulnerabale, especially lesbians and trans folks. But our self-appointed leaderships takes its cues from polling and from the needs of the Democrats in the legislature, NOT from real live LGBT people.

God, I’m so tired of hearing the same cliches over and over and over… “win a bunch of battles?” Where have you been for the last four decades? We HAVE won a bunch of battles. We’ve made YOUR world a little more tolerable. Show some respect. That’s what makes it so outrageous when someone new person comes on the scene and says, like you do, “why are you so mad?” Because we still ain’t equal, kid, and too many fags today seem okay with that.