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I was going through my RSS feeds this morning when I awoke, and a post on the WordPress blog alerted me to the fact that it was National Blog Posting Month. I guess this is a little like National Novel Writing Month, only with blogs, and you have to post once a day for a month. Over the last few weeks I’ve been struggling for inspiration, and I worried that I might be getting tired of blogging, so I’m hoping this will give me the drive I need to continue…

Anyway, I digress. If you want to find out more about NaBloPoMo, click on the link above.

There doesn’t seem a theme for July yet, so for my first post of July, I’ll go with June’s theme: Heroes.

Last weekend I was at San Francisco Pride, one of the most famous and best-attended prides in the world. It was also a special year this year, as it was the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. I plan to post another time about what I got up to, but for now I’m going to tell you about my heroes.

There they are. See those signs? “George and Wayne, 29 years” “Bill and Chris, 31 years”

I don’t know these people. I’ve never seen them before, and I’ll probably never see them again. But what they’ve achieved, and what they stand for is amazing. All across America, and the world, we’re constantly being told that gay marriage will destroy the sanctity of it – and yet here’s the proof that it won’t.

These weren’t the only 3 examples in the parade, there were probably thousands and committed same-sex partners represented, many of them with healthy, happy kids. I’ll be honest, whenever I see couples like this, I get emotional. Its a sweet thing to see in world where we’re being constantly told that it can never happen, and a reminder to us all that there is some hope.

My heroes for the day: George and Wayne, Bill and Chris, and all the other same-sex couples out there proving everyone wrong.