The passage of Proposition 8 has had one unexpected side effect. A special group within the LGBT movement—the almost 20,000 gays who were married in the few months between the Supreme Court decision that made it legal and last week’s elections that made it illegal—have reported receiving unusual amounts of pressure. Sam Brown, who married her five-year girlfriend Janet on the beach, received a letter from a former UPS colleague who had been unable to convince her own girlfriend to tie the knot on such a short deadline: “Yeah, it just said. You guys might be the only ones, so don’t mess up.” Brown said the intimidation didn’t stop there. At the capitol rally in Sacramento, she reported “getting the woogily eye” from several unmarried friends who forced her to hold the “My Vagina Is a Flower That Has the Right To Marry Like People Of Color” sign. Janet was not in attendance. Brown suggested this is not the first time Janet has avoided a rally: “She hasn’t come to Take Back the Night since college.” Sam isn’t the only one being coerced. Jonathan Coller, who got hitched to his much older trollish gentleman friend despite unanimous criticism from his young, hot friends and family, reports it is widespread, “yeah, we’re all feeling it. No one’s going to let us forget it. We literally can’t get divorced.” Basically.
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OMG. Equality for all means equality for all and the right to marry or divorce like straights. I can't imagine the pressure and terror it would introduce to a newly legally bound relationship. Its like automatically pushing the fail button. This is so wrong. Also wrong, ever having to even be near a sign that says "my vagina is a flower".
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