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Monday, May 17 May 17th 2004, Provincetown Mass.
Can I just take a moment here to say congratulations to Massachusetts !!!! On this great day, May 17, 2004 same sex couples are, as I write this, getting legally married in this brave state. That is has happened in my beloved Provincetown makes me all the more proud. I think today of the hundreds of couples on line at town hall, couples who come from rural areas where to hold their lover’s hand might mean the loss of their job, their safety, their family perhaps their very life.
To say “I do” after a lifetime of hiding, or wishing, or praying. In this little town that swells into a big town in the summer, my good pal in town counted representatives of 60 forms of major media. There are cameras everywhere. Interviewers everywhere. The town that so few non-gay people outside of the north-east had heard of is now on the cover of newspapers all around the country, all around the world. In a town, that cries either for the loss of our soldiers or for the fact that we are at war, or both, this is a bitter-sweet time for such a victory. But I am reminded of the era of those brave women in the early part of the last century who were beaten, jailed, abused and almost stamped out for daring to fight for the right of women in this country to vote in the time of a world war. They were told their fight for equality was in bad taste. One must never criticize the president in a time of war and they responded, we are American, we love our country, we cry for our lost soldiers, but do not seek to keep us quiet, to silence our voices and our human rights in the name of supporting our president. We ask instead for our president to stand behind us, as Americans as equal members of humanity. And here today..I say in this time of terror, war, sadness and inhumanity against humanity..let us just celebrate this one little victory for human rights..let us just rejoice for the love that for this day
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