I was watching NBC Nightly News, and they did the expected blurb on the one year anniversary of Gavin Newsom's opening of City Hall for same-sex unions. And there was the Golden Boy himself, Gavin Newsom. What a fuckhead.Yes, I disproval of gay marriage and yes, I think gay marriage did as much damage as a coldfish candidate during the election. What makes it worse is the elevation of Gavin Newsom as a progressive hero. Here is the classic local corrupt machine political machine's inheritor, the business interests' best boy, who is still jacking San Francisco over public utilities, affordable housing, and the general future of a marvelous city. That's what makes me so ticked, that on top of trying to gain acceptance through assimilation into the lopsided institutions of an inherently inequal society, Gays have helped gain serious political street cred for this asshole who took down a true progressive, Matt Gonzales, running to be the first major Green Party mayor. And that is why you can deeply doubt the altruism of Newsom in the queer marriageapalooza. This is how the past mayor, that sleaze, Brown kept his hold on city hall, by pre-empting social causes to cover over the wholesale gentrification of the city itself. All I am saying is that we should let the mainstream have their defunct symbolic sugarcoated practices and their two-faced self-serving politicians.
Anyway, rant over. Oh and to reiterate: Fuck Gavin Newsom.
Thank you.