June 28, 2009

So, What Are We Doing for Stonewall Today?

Well, my lovely wife and I stayed home. Nope, we didn’t go to Pride. Perhaps we should have lent two more warm bodies (and I do mean warm — it’s hot as hell here on the Peninsula), but we’re tired, man, tired. I wouldn’t say “burnt out,” but really, really tired. I won’t speak for Buffy here, but I’m also not in the right frame of mind at all. Last year was such a joyous event, this year going seemed like… like it would just hurt. So, call me selfish — I get to be once in a while. As every one of us has, I’ve done more than my share of hurting over the past year, and… I’m tired.

I also figure I’d be doing something a lot more productive for the cause by staying home today and continuing to work on Base8. I’m trying to ferret out the last of the education-related entries out of some 27,000 “unknown” records so I can get the next section (right, “Education”) up and running. It is a slow, frustrating, lonely process. But I am committed to it.

I probably should have written something to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall today. I didn’t. But jurassicpark at Brilliant at Breakfast did, and it’s really worth your time to click and read the whole thing. There’s also a couple of great pictures of the riots:

What Have We Learned From Stonewall?

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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