Is It Time to Break the Law?

Many gays tend to hold STONEWALL up as our "big moment", yet at the most fundamental level it was about BREAKING THE LAW (fighting back violently against the police when they try to enforce UNJUST laws).

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Today it seems the vast majority of gays get nervous and criticize anyone who even breathes of the idea of breaking the law when it comes to demanding civil rights.

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Do they think

STONEWALL would have happened

ANY other way?

Concerning Referendum 71 in Washington State, it seems that both justice and law have been jettisoned, and the LGBTQ community is left with fewer and fewer choices when it comes to standing up for ourselves. More and more transgender persons, lesbians, bisexuals, intersex persons, and yes, gays have reached the breaking point, particularly after PROP 8.

I know I have.

Anyone who has followed this blog knows how I went from well-functioning, active, contributing member of society to barely functioning with severe P.T.S.D. and the financial and emotional destitution that followed - all preventable with a domestic partnership. But miracles do happen...and I met Bob - a sweet farm boy, a retired Navy Officer, an active member of his Christian Church (a real Christian, not the "christians" like Gary, Larry, and Moe, I mean Stephen), and basically one of the finest, kindest men I've ever met. After 2 years of VERY HARD work and his support I had an over-filled studio of 24 students with a growing wait list - which happened because I am a VERY DAMN GOOD teacher of young children - but even that success wasn't enough when PROP 8 passed in California and it horribly re-triggered my P.T.S.D. Horribly. The stench of burning hatred was in the air on November 6, 2008, and it's never left.

So take a second and ponder how I feel now, as Referendum 71 continues to pollute our air.

I am

gasping for equality.