... would two students have thought it appropriate to broadcast videos of their classmate kissing another boy?
If Congress wouldn't keep stalling on repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"...
... would a college student think there was shame in being seen kissing another boy?
If gays could marry...
... would a young man have been so upset by the broadcast as to jump off a bridge?
If gays and lesbians had full legal rights, acceptance would follow, slowly in some quarters, never in others, but inexorably across the nation. A generation or two hence, we might even elect our first gay or lesbian president.
In the words of Melissa Etheridge,
If not now, when?Meanwhile, my heart is broken for the family of that young man.
If not today, then...
What about tomorrow?
What about tomorrow?
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Thank you for putting it so eloquently. There is not one part of his story that doesn't bring me to tears- Megan
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