Adapted lyrics from:
Supremes No Matter What Sign You Are Lyrics
The moon shines bright above
And the courts declare it’s my night for love
Ah the beat of my heart
I feel a good vibration
Saying you and me baby
Would make a good combination
There's no need for Prop 8 to survive
Can't you see the law is defied!
I love you boy,
Now I can marry you boy
No matter what sign you are
You're gonna be mine you are
Can't let the homophobes chart our destiny
When I heard the news that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's gay-marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could eventually force the U.S. Supreme Court to confront the question of whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed, I wanted to dance and shout it to the rooftops. I did not because I was standing in my jockstrap in the locker room of a local gym. One television plays ESPN non-stop and the other plays CNN. I watched as the naked towel draped men slowly approached the television in silence. Many said nothing. It made me think where I was when I heard the Rodney King verdict or where I was when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The reporter repeated it over and over again:
"Proposition 8 singles out gays and lesbians and legitimates their unequal treatment," the judge wrote in his 136-page opinion. "Proposition 8 perpetuates the stereotype that gays and lesbians are incapable of forming long-term loving relationships and that gays and lesbians are not good parents." Walker methodically rejected every argument posed by sponsors of the ban in response to a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban, violated their civil rights.
“OKAY, OKAY already!” One guy shouted at the screen. I smiled to myself and imagined how many guys in that locker room were gay like me cheering inside. I mean come on, raise your hand and snap your fingers if you do not know at least one gay person. How many Americans know someone in their immediate family who is gay? It is generally argued that one person in ten is gay. The 2000 census report says 2-3% of the United States population live in same sex co-habitation. Gay people have existed since the beginning of recorded time. I used to say to people put a face on gay. Try to put aside religious convictions, political affiliations or stereotypical images (rumors, falsehoods, urban legends). If a gay family member or gay friend you love wants to get married - but can’t - how would it make you feel? Put their face on your image of gay marriage.
No matter what sex you are
You're gonna be married you are
The beat of the heart my love
Is stronger than the homophobes
This court order just lit my fire
Equal rights fill me with such desire
I love you boy,
Now I can marry you boy
No matter what sex you are
You're gonna be mine you are
I know the final stages of this decision will not be felt for years, but I imagine all the things that will happen as a result of gay marriage. Gay couples are able to care for each other in times of adversity rather than relying on the state. Healthy same sex marriages provide positive role models for young gay people. Recognizing those images could reduce the number of gay teen suicides. Gay sons and daughters will feel more involved in the activities of adult family life. . The need for adoptive homes of children in general would benefit from gay marriage. Gay couples seek to adopt children because they cannot conceive in the traditional sense. The result is more children get to find homes of loving families. The emergence of the gay family unit goes beyond gay teens. Gay marriage would allow same sex couples with the same basic rights heterosexual people take for granted. Gay people have children and those children need the stability and economic security provided by legal marriage. Both partners will have equal shares in legal and health decisions. Families headed by same-sex couples would then have equal access to employer-provided health and retirement benefits. Gay spouses would be entitled to the same sick and bereavement leave to care for a legal partners and non-biological/adoptive children. Equal access to pensions, workers compensation, Social Security death benefits and spousal benefits would be taken for granted. How does it feel to have a civil right denied your sister or her children from a gay union, because of her sexual orientation or lesbian relationship? Put your most beloved family member’s face in that situation.
Can't let the homophobes chart our destiny
Oh no matter what sex you are
You're gonna be mine you are
Need you beside me love
Only you can guide me love
Marriage is an important heterosexual cultural symbol and a good example of how white heterosexuals are privileged. Marriage is the last legally sanctioned discrimination in America. It was not so long ago that interracial marriage was forbidden. The Supreme Court of the United States struck down laws banning interracial marriage in 1967. That same civil right should be extended to gays today. The opponents of interracial marriage hid behind religion and “family” values to justify denying mixed couples the right to marry. Since that ban has been lifted, we see the institution of marriage has hardly crumbled. Ask a mixed race person today how they would feel if their parents had not been allowed to marry.
Lezzies, Sissies, Dykes
Trans, Bisexuals, Fem Queens
Lipsticks, Tops, Bottoms
Vers, Rough Trade, Drag Queens
I don’t care about your gender sign
All I know is when same sex lips touch mine
We can be legal boy, really legal boy
No matter what sex you are
You're gonna be mine you are
In fact, multiple marriages by celebrities make one wonder whether marital laws should limit the number of marriages for all people – gay and straight! This glorious game of “I do” and “I don’t right now” has been played out numerous times by celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor who had eight husbands and Zsa Zsa Gabor who married nine times. Lana Turner said “I do” eight times, while Billy Bob Thornton bought five wives wedding rings. Joan Collins and Geena Davis had five husbands each, while Star Trek’s William Shatner only married four times. Liza Minnelli married four men as well, but two of her husbands were gay, which is okay because the gay person married a person of the opposite sex. Jerry Lee Lewis had six wives, and one of them was his underage cousin (which is legal in some states). Sometimes the number of heterosexual marriages pales in comparison to the length of the marriages. I texted my former domestic partner:
ME: “Will you do me the honor of taking my hand in marriage?”
He responded back from Texas
HIM: “LOL You got it! I know it is unconstitutional to refuse it!
ME: The fight ain’t over yet. If I were ever to get the right to marry somebody, it would be you”
HIM: “And I’d say yes”
ME: “What? This from the same guy who did not believe in marriage when we were together?”
HIM: “LOL Well You know how that goes. If it is an equal institution, I’m cool with it”
(Yeah I know, just make sure it’s the right sized carat!)
On my bended knee…
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