I support equal rights for every US citizen as guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I have lost family members who gave their life so that all citizens may freely exercise their rights. Veterans only get one day of remembrance, so until that changes, I only celebrate one day for Pride, Black History, Asian History, Presidents, Indigenous, etc.
And thank you to you too - for paving the way! I really wish I could have experienced London in the 1980s. It's one of the periods of recent history that fascinates me the most, perhaps because I only missed it by a couple of decades. In the early 2000s I lived in a lesbian commune in Brixton - and only discovered much later that I was coming in right at the end of a golden era of LGBTQ+ communal living in that area. I worked behind the bar in Southopia (and waitressed at one of the very first civil partnership receptions), and didn't realise that within ten years there'd be basically no lesbian bars left in London. Everything I read and hear about lesbian London in the 80s and 90s makes me wish I had been a bit older, and got started sooner. It's a shame I've inadvertently portrayed it as a terrible time (thanks for pointing that out) - perhaps I should try and redress the balance a bit...
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I support equal rights for every US citizen as guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I have lost family members who gave their life so that all citizens may freely exercise their rights. Veterans only get one day of remembrance, so until that changes, I only celebrate one day for Pride, Black History, Asian History, Presidents, Indigenous, etc.
And thank you to you too - for paving the way! I really wish I could have experienced London in the 1980s. It's one of the periods of recent history that fascinates me the most, perhaps because I only missed it by a couple of decades. In the early 2000s I lived in a lesbian commune in Brixton - and only discovered much later that I was coming in right at the end of a golden era of LGBTQ+ communal living in that area. I worked behind the bar in Southopia (and waitressed at one of the very first civil partnership receptions), and didn't realise that within ten years there'd be basically no lesbian bars left in London. Everything I read and hear about lesbian London in the 80s and 90s makes me wish I had been a bit older, and got started sooner. It's a shame I've inadvertently portrayed it as a terrible time (thanks for pointing that out) - perhaps I should try and redress the balance a bit...