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Nothing can ruin this

posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 09:51am on 25/07/2011 under ,
The pictures coming out of New York this week are amazing. I keep doing that thing where I'm grinning like a lunatic while tears crowd my eyelashes. So much love and happiness, coming at a time when there is so much hatred and sadness in the world.

My two favourite pictures so far are these:


Niagra Falls lit up with rainbow lights. (from approximately everywhere on the internet)


Myron Levine and Phillip Linderman finally married after 51 years together. FIFTY-ONE YEARS. (from the Guardian here)

I have so much to say about all this, but it's way too much to say right now, just a jumble of words caught in my chest. Fifty-one years. I just...
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mistresscurvy: (Gay New York)

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posted by [personal profile] mistresscurvy at 04:56pm on 25/07/2011
So so so so great. It's really a fabulous time here. And it's such a great thing to see that we're moving forward, and we're on the right side of history regarding this issue, you know? ♥
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rivers_bend: (rainbow falls)

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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 05:08pm on 26/07/2011
I just keep thinking about how it shouldn't matter what society says about the relationships we have with the people whom we love, but it does, and what must it be like to have weathered fifty-one years of very probable bullying and secrets and hiding and struggle, and being told that your love isn't okay, isn't right, isn't rights-worthy, and then, then you get that certificate.

Somehow New York makes it really feel like I'm not only going to be alive to see this through on a nation-wide level, but to weather the next fight, too.
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saavikam77: (Sam&Dean Seance)

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posted by [personal profile] saavikam77 at 05:15pm on 25/07/2011
I am SO with you, sweetie! Tears and all.

This is about the only happy I've got going on right now, and it's SO MUCH HAPPY. ^_______^

*snugs you tight*
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rivers_bend: (rainbow falls)

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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 05:13pm on 26/07/2011
I am sorry there is not more happy happening for you. I've been doing a lot of focusing on the things I can find that are good, lately, too. ♥
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vodou_blue: kokeshi green (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] vodou_blue at 05:44pm on 25/07/2011
Yeah, me too. Whenever I try to find words, I just gasp in air and smile, teary-eyed.
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rivers_bend: (j2: toe love)

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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 05:14pm on 26/07/2011
that is exactly it! THE LOVE.
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vae: silhouetted jump for joy (gen: jump for joy)

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posted by [personal profile] vae at 07:14pm on 25/07/2011
I hadn't actually seen that Niagara Falls picture, that's amazing! And I'm so, so happy for people in New York today.
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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 05:15pm on 26/07/2011
Isn't it amazing! I just keep getting all alksdjfhd that they LIT UP THE BIGGEST WATERFALL IN NORTH AMERICA. WITH CELEBRATORY RAINBOW LIGHTS. ALKSJDFHSD
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posted by [personal profile] valress at 10:51pm on 25/07/2011
That picture actually made me cry... Wow... I am speechless... so happy
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rivers_bend: (rainbow falls)

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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 05:15pm on 26/07/2011
I cry every time I look at it. i just. ALL OF THAT.
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posted by [personal profile] vlredreign at 03:02am on 26/07/2011
I'm trying to decide which picture is more beautiful to me. I was thinking Niagra Falls was visually beautiful, while the couple was emotionally beautiful...but then I thought...actually, both pics are both of those things.

And 51 years...JFC. I can't EVEN.
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rivers_bend: (rainbow falls)

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posted by [personal profile] rivers_bend at 05:16pm on 26/07/2011
They are both beautiful in all ways. :D :D

I know. right? ♥
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