Changed for the better

[bill_schubert]

I love thinking of the changes I've seen in my life.  Typically they have to do with color but not always.  I love that multi racial couples walk down the street hand in hand and no one notices.  It doesn't matter to anyone much.  Increasingly the same is true for male/male, female/female couples.  It is becoming less noticeable.

And I just read an article about Mayor Pete and the VP.  Apparently their husbands are friends.  The husband of Mayor Pete, the gay cabinet member, and the husband of our Vice President, a black female, are friends and they all got together for Pete to take the oath of office.

None of that changes anything for me.  None of the above makes much difference in my life.  I never saw the White House lit in the rainbow colors either but knowing that it happened, knowing that somewhere there is a black, female Vice President who represents me to the world gave the oath to an openly gay cabinet member somehow enriches my world.  Glass shattering all over the place.

If they were all atheists I'd be even happier but one can only move so fast.

Comments

[susandennis]

100% agree. And I'll throw in that I'm even more delighted that this all stands by itself in goodness and not simply a relief from the last four years.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. It is a long bend of the justice arc, a growth of society that we will hopefully be able to continue for a long time.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Maybe in another 3 years or so we’ll get some atheists in there. I think this can happen quickly from here.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

It is interesting how social change surges and retreats then surges further. Like an incoming tide. Obama, then the wasteland for four years, and then now. I suspect a retreat at some point before the next surge but maybe the next one will be non-religious. The demographics would seem to support that.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Yes! When our last government was sworn in in November it was the LGBTQest in the world, and the highest number of women in the OECD (48%), plus Maori and Pasifika Members of Parliament in greater proportions than in the population, so it feels like we're definitely getting somewhere. I see women holding hands, but much fewer men, though, alas. We stayed in the Castro on one visit to San Francisco and it was lovely to see the guys holding hands there. They must have thought I was slightly nuts as I couldn't stop beaming at them.