iamonetoo told me once that she didn't understand why it had to be so hard to be herself.


She could have taken the easy way. But she didn't and I admire her.

Social change is hard, long and difficult work. It will often spawn hatred by other's who are just ignorant of human differences.

That's ok; the struggle of civil rights for everyone is always worth it

"Maine's vote, much like all of the states before it, including California's vote on Prop 8 12 months ago, will do little to slow the fight over gay marriage. Not in Maine, where Tuesday's vote is only the equivalent of a veto and can be easily reversed by lawmakers when they next meet, and not in the rest of America, where the issue continues to roil courthouses and statehouses alike. "Ultimately this is going to have to have a national resolution."

While money talks in politics, it rarely has the last word