Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Yesterday was...interesting. The rally my aunt and I went to was to vote on an amendment for gay marriage to be legal in Massachusetts. We were in front of the State House for about 3 hours just chanting. We met some really nice people. There was one guy who had a sign that said: "We love you even though you're BIGOTS." His boyfriend was a little more rowdy and kept screaming across the road at the opposition, which were mostly old, white-haired narrow-minded people. Some kids and teenagers were there and I was like: "wtf? They can't even vote yet! What's marriage got to do with them anyway?" This one guy that walked by us asked what this was about and then said: "Why is it their business who marries at all?" and we were like: "Yeah, that's what we'd like to know."

Apparently most of the bigots were Christian (hahahahaha). They actually had nuns with them. I was like: "COME ON! I'm Catholic but look what side I'm on! LOVE THY NEIGHBOR!!" This toad like guy came up to us and insulted one of the gay guys and then walked away giving us the finger. One woman was all: "Oh yeah, that's really Christian of you!" I honestly never thought people could hate so much. And the bigots couldn't even come to Boston on their own, they had to come in "Bigot Buses" as one of the gay man affectionately called them. A lot of people honked their horns at us for support and we started a chant that went like this: "They're honking at us, 'cuz our cause is just!" We had a lot of good chants. "What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? Now!"; "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Discrimination has got to go!"; "18 votes you've had your turn, enough already, let's adjourn!"; "Two Women, Two Men, Massachusetts says we can!"; "Not our state, not our nation, we don't want discrimination!"; "Gay, Straight, Black, White! Same Struggle, Same Fight!" And the OTHER people just kept chanting: "Let the people vote!" so we turned it into: "Let the people MARRY!" =P We eventually got into the State House to watch the actual voting take place. This was around 1:30ish. The voting was to begin at 2pm, but it didn't start until like 2:15. The vote didn't look good for us, so they voted on taking a 1 hour recess. So we sat there until about 3:40. This gay couple sat beside me as we watched the screen nervously. One of the guys and I were so confused about what was going on. He turned to me and was like: "Do you know what they're saying?" I just shook my head and said: "Nope. It's legislature talk." Eventually, my aunt and I had to leave after the second vote, because we had reservations at the Science Museum for the Body World exhibit.

So we left and then found the T (Boston's version of a subway) and found our stop to get off. This was around 5pm I think. We found the museum, got our tickets and waited to go up to the exhibit. It was PACKED. There were so many people in the exhibit, but man was it interesting. They had EVERYTHING about the human body that you could ever want to know about. It was a little creepy to know that everything in there was once alive. There was an exploded man, and his body parts were all kind of repositioned by wires to show his insides and everything. They had a camel that had been cut in half to show its insides as well. There was a diver woman that had been cut in half as well to show her internal organs. Creepy, but incredibly interesting.

That lasted til about 6:45ish. We tried finding this Mexican place to have dinner but my aunt kind of forgot where it was, so we just went back to her car to get on the turnpike and head home. Unfortunately, we got lost in Boston and we spent about a half hour tryinging to find our way to the turnpike. My aunt was so upset and I couldn't blame her. She'd been to Boston a lot but she still got lost. Eventually, we found the turnpike and said that at the closest rest area, we'd eat dinner. So we did. Then we drove home, completely exhausted and in pain. Our feet were killing us! Mine still hurt and I had one of those calf cramps last night that woke me up. I can barely walk now cuz of that. And my throat hurts from shouting and chanting yesterday. I never shout, so yeah.

But despite the disappointment of the amendment not passing for gay marriage, I had a pretty fun time. It was windy and cold, but that's life, you know? At least it hasn't snowed yet. So yeah, that was my day. We didn't get home 'til about...10pm...well, I didn't. My aunt still had to drive home. I'm sooo tired. Blah. I'm probably gonna be so useless today. Anyway, bye for now.
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