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Some events warrant commemoration. Last Friday was one of those days. It was June 26th 2015. It was the historic moment where we learned that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalizing marriage for all sexual orientations.
I was lying in bed. I had just woken up. I had Wendy Williams on. I was watching the hot topics and then it went to commercial break. I opened my laptop to check my twitter, update the world on the fact that my feet felt less broken that morning, when all I see is this positive out pouring of support for the LGBT community. |
I can't tell you how happy I was. I was overwhelmed, I was so shocked, that I almost didn't feel anything. It was this numb feeling. It took me about an hour to realize that I could get married now. In every state in America.
Thank you Supreme Court for ruling in favor of love.
— Cyndi Lauper (@cyndilauper) June 26, 2015
The impact of this. This is the moment I've been waiting for in my life, what every gay American has waited for. The validation that we are equal to our heterosexual peers. I spent the better part of the morning listening to Madonna, RuPaul, Betty Who, Lady Gaga, Bette Midler, Kesha, Britney Spears. Just turn up music.
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The fight for legalizing same sex marriage has been a long arduous road. I don't think it was ever a question of if it was going to happen, but when. It's been 30 years since the AIDS epidemic and I'm so glad that we have reached this historic moment. I'm overwhelmed.
Shout out to the real MVP's in this case. Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kennedy. Without their five votes this case would not have been won. May I say of the other four dissenting Justices: get with the winning team. |
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
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Obergefell v. Hodges is going to down in history alongside Brown v. Board of Education, Marbury v. Madison, and Elle Woods vs. The State of Massachusetts. Future law students are going to learn about us. And, everything our community has fought for and the struggle that we have incurred to get where we are.
This is certainly not the end. Discrimination in the LGBT community is certainly not over. There is still plenty of things to fight for, but we deserve this celebration. We should celebrate for everyone who didn't get to make it to this day to be with us. We have earned a chance to catch our breaths.
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Some fun things we can now do include have immunity from testifying against our spouses, qualify for domestic violence intervention, file income taxes jointly, receive custodial rights of children, alimony, and apply for housing assistance if in a low income family.
Things that still need to be worked on are discrimination against gay adoption and the overwhelming homelessness and suicide rates among LGBT youth. The one thing this court decision does is validate the existence of every gay child who is in an unforgiving household. This decision will help someone who is going through a hard time in their life. God bless those Supreme Court Justices. |
#LoveWins pic.twitter.com/CqODrqVdgo
— jennylewis (@jennylewis) June 26, 2015
The only thing left for me to do is to change my birth date to June 26th 2015. I'll be nineteen years younger and with some good plastic surgery no one will know the difference. The only problem is that I'll have to change my zodiac sign.
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