It's very freaking disheartening that people seem so incapable of changing their minds at times.  I was watching The Ellen Show - an episode which was made before the USA elections (it must have travelled Africa overland) and the gorgeous Ellen Degeneres was talking to John McCain about gay marriage being overturned in California.  In his usual smooth way, he referred, more than once, to their "respectful disagreement" about gay marriage, because "I believe marriage to be a unique institution...

But why do gay people have to go on about it so much?

People say that so rationally, so calmly that it almost seems reasonable to me too.  And then I think.  I think about pink triangles and black ones in concentration camps and Michael Causer and Matthew Shepherd and the two murdered Soweto lesbians and all the victims we'll never even hear about.  That's why – that's it.  The rest of us cannot shut up until those people are safe, until kids aren't getting bullied for it in schools, until l...