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The 40-Year March to Today's Marriage Bill Signing
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Why are our laws signed in a room that looks like five different people with radically different dietary habits have been sick all over it?
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I hope that water bottle hasn't been unattended for too long.
40 years! Thanks for demonstrating the gravity of this in such a crystal way.
40 years! Thanks for demonstrating the gravity of this in such a crystal way.
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And what fnarf said. If you kind of relax your eyes and stare "through" the image, after a few seconds you can see a panda.
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Historic day with a wonderful history.
I remember reading materials with Faygele benMiriam's signature on it from the old days... historic documents for our community, in the basement of the old LGBT Center on Pike. Actual documents from the era, news article clippings, deeds, etc. Gay Community Social Services entrusted the Center to care for those precious documents. I wonder where those are now since the Center closed all those years ago.
I remember reading materials with Faygele benMiriam's signature on it from the old days... historic documents for our community, in the basement of the old LGBT Center on Pike. Actual documents from the era, news article clippings, deeds, etc. Gay Community Social Services entrusted the Center to care for those precious documents. I wonder where those are now since the Center closed all those years ago.
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@1 I know, the native marble used in the capitol building would be perfect for a second-rate resort or a Russian oligarch's mansion.
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Someone changed his name to Faygele? That's quite possibly the gayest thing I've ever heard.
@2: There was an eyewash bottle in my high-school chemistry classroom with an ancient label declaring it to be "Fresh Water". Someone had crossed out "Fresh" and written "stale" instead.
@2: There was an eyewash bottle in my high-school chemistry classroom with an ancient label declaring it to be "Fresh Water". Someone had crossed out "Fresh" and written "stale" instead.
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"Someone changed his name to Faygele? That's quite possibly the gayest thing I've ever heard."
That's exactly why he did it. Back in the 1970's straight America would do most anything to acknowledge that there were a sizable number of queer folks who lived among them. Faygele's father was one of those people, so he changed his name, in English it means "Faggot, son of Miriam". He, and I, wanted to make sure that everyone we met would know that at least once in their life they had interacted with a gay person.
That's exactly why he did it. Back in the 1970's straight America would do most anything to acknowledge that there were a sizable number of queer folks who lived among them. Faygele's father was one of those people, so he changed his name, in English it means "Faggot, son of Miriam". He, and I, wanted to make sure that everyone we met would know that at least once in their life they had interacted with a gay person.
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Thank you for the history lesson. I, too, am impressed and amazed, and 100% amused, that someone changed his name to Faygele. Fabulous.
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@10 Glad to be of help, and I am sure that you and other readers know that I meant "do most anything not to acknowledge..." in comment #9.
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