love is love

Sunday, June 8 in sunny West Hollywood a married couple a son a daughter all mingling and enjoying the cloudless day at a festival. A special bonus, the daughter and her best friend are part of the showcase of entertainers; so the married couple and the son get to ‘kvell’ watching the duo perform. An American dream comes true this particular Sunday, and no one can deny this day in America was full of promise and purpose.

Sunday, June 8 in sunny West Hollywood the married couple are two men, two husbands to be exact. The son and daughter are the children of one of the men, and the proud step children of the other fellow. The festival is the LA Gay Pride event. Teammate is the name of the group created by the daughter and her best friend and they are proudly entertaining an audience of heterosexual/homosexual Americans who decided to spend this Sunday ‘kvelling’ about freedom and equality.

Sunday, June 8 in sunny West Hollywood while the married couple the son and the daughter share quality time together, somewhere in the darker recesses of bigotry and bull shit madmen and women are hell bent angry that in a place like America equality for all may be finding a home. Religious zealots pretending to act as God are damning the so called lifestyles of same-sex couple and families. Polarizing politicians with self serving ambitions are demanding injustice be served to anyone they deem different. Well paid pundents luxuriate in hate and lies creating false stories about supposed agendas, treason and socialism. Men and women who lack self esteem, who have been taught that the foul smell of racism/homophobia is the only kind of oxygen to inhale, who feel their life can become better if they destroy the lives of others; are ringing their fingers, clutching their abridged Bibles, ignoring the true US Constitution and demanding that end times will soon be upon America because the Gays are celebrating Pride.

On Sunday, June 8 in sunny West Hollywood, I along with my husband Joe my son Adam, my daughter Dani and our best friend Scott celebrated Pride. Although this was Gay Pride, my family was able to include in that celebration the creative accomplishments of one another, the insight and sensitivity of inclusion and the knowledge that our family can communicate, learn and grow form one another. On Sunday, June 8 in sunny West Hollywood my family lived the American dream and not the nightmare so many on the Christian right try to promote, create and envision. As my daughter’s group Teammate sing about, ‘Love is Love’!