So today was sort of a bummer and I'll tell you why.
Apart from my standard exhaustion (It was Thursday, after all, and last night was spent downing tequila shots, smoking too many cigarettes (One is too many), and dancing to Klaxons remixes (What?), all in commemoration of the births of two of my best friends), the likely unfavorable outcome of the California Supreme Court hearing on Prop 8 put a stone of despair in my gut. I then pulled two hundred dollars from my checking account hoping to bring a used road bike home and while Harv of the Bike Oven had two wonderfully restored bikes for me to test ride, neither of them felt quite right.
My only consolation was the package awaiting me on my doorstep - my Planet Bike Superflash tail light. Installing it within minutes, I am pleased to finally have my own instead of constantly lusting after those of friends. They aren't kidding when they call it "Superflash."
My father and I have been shooting each other frantic emails with links to new bikes and links to Craigslist ads, links to bike specs, and links to Wikipedia articles, accompanied by lengthy diatribes on the pleasures of riding. My parents are so much fun when I don't live with them!
Last weekend I met up with a long time friend with whom my visits are intermittent. I was one of two women at a night at the Eagle Bar in Silver Lake called Meat Rack. Use your imagination. My friend, who is male, was once a bit of a womanizer, but is now dating a young man he loves. We talked at length on the queer experience, as our positions on the spectrum are quite fluid. We concluded that nature is to blame because if we could just decide and spare ourselves the trouble of sexual uncertainty and the accompanying discrimination then we would! But in the end we fell to discussing love and what it is like to be in love and how difficult it is to be in love and how do you do it? How do you know?
Regardless of our preferences, we are only humans bound by our eternal desire for companionship. To those who support Prop 8...what about this don't you understand? Are you not human too?
And you're invited! (Click on the flier for details!)
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The Prop 8 advocates fully understand humankind's search for companionship to ward off the evil of loneliness. They understand it, but fear it in gays and lesbians (and other non-traditonal relationships) because it threatens the world view in which they have been raised. People fear (and sometimes hate) that which threatens them.
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