Bursting out of the Grief Curtain: I'm not Gay but I can't stop CELEBRATING!!!!!

[LaydeeBug]

Well my Daddy has been gone for a year now. I am learning to walk again, after a long, laborious crawl. I am still devastated, but well enough that I can smile at the thought of him.

But I can jump for joy at this!

I've always been a theater girl at heart, and witnessed many times how hard it was to see couples not be able to call their mate "spouse". Husband. Wife. Instead, they settled on "partner". Back in the day, even THAT was *progress*.

This is a WATERSHED!!!

I am giddy. I am playing music. I am making crabcakes. Opening some wine...

I am so grateful to all of you for helping me behind the grief curtain, and so happy that many of you will now be able to get married to the love of your life, and NO ONE can stop you. No 'civil union'. No bones about it.

I fucking love my country today.

[shenmue]

1. Hugs!!

I want to marry something today. Someone. A tree. A rock. Yay!

[randys1]

2. Awesome

[Aristus]

3. Straight and CELEBRATING!

Cheers to all LGBTQ's out there!

[Left coast liberal]

4. Me too! My hetero marriage is just THRILLED!

[janlyn]

5. I literally was doing the happy dance!!

Watching Obama make his announcement, I was laughing with glee! My family and friends can finally have peace, they don't have to worry if one of them gets ill or dies, they don't have to say my partner anymore but simply say my husband and my wife!! I am so glad to be alive when this momentous decision was announced!!!
WoooooooHooooooo!

[LaydeeBug]

6. and the grief curtain really kept me from paying attention

so it REALLY WAS like Christmas.

And New Year's.

And I can't understand why there are people so angry, when it has ZERO effect on them.

[Gloria]

7. Me, too!

I can't stop smiling, I don't know why...except...

I have told many people that I empathize with gays being in the closet because for YEARS, I had to hide a medical condition due to the stigma attached to it...I didn't file any claims because they had to go through an employer's bookkeeper, for example, too...

SO, you can be in the closet and not be gay!

I think that's why I'm smiling so much...it's like F.U. to all the crap in the world!!

I was at the doctor's today with my 93 year old mother who is under hospice care...I was tearing up from that, tearing up with joy and sadness, all rolled into one...I'm glad you are doing better!

[LaydeeBug]

8. YES!!! It's just awesome. nt