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SURPRISE

Gavin Newsome is the new mayor of San Francisco. He is so new and previously obscure that he has only eight photos that google. I bet this changes. See San Francisco Mayor Exults in Move on Gay Marriage in today's NYTimes. There is even a better picture in there.

It would seem that Newsome has done this thing almost single handedly. A lot of people are pissed off. Good.

The pissed off range from george and laura who weighed in yesterday to (gasp), of all people, Barney Frank! Barney feels that the radical act of marrying people who want equal rights undermines the 'more legitimate' efforts in Massachusetts. Well, that is where Barn runs for election. He used to be our Representative. Now our rep is Mary Bono and she is not for the DMA and may even be for gay marriage but she is caught twixt her very gay electorate and the right wing of the Republican Party which butters her bread. She is a libertarian. Hmmmph.

Nonetheless people are getting married up there and John and I have talked about gettin' in the car and goin' on up country to get ourselves hitched. Not now. We are, after all, registered as Certified Domestic Partners in the State of California and in 2005 will get all the goodies (if any) that our straight counterparts get. That takes care of the legal side.

As for the romantic side, I like the idea of the outlaw; the love that dare speak its name; even in the face of the bigot. Getting married might make us just another couple; part of the boring landscape of Palm Springs. This way we remain a bit exotic. Actually, there are so many long term gay relationships here that exotic is a stretch. Maybe we are not all hot to get married as we have seen what happens in a lot of marriages and don't want any. That brings us back to george and laura but we will not go there today.