So, gay marriage is finally off and running in California, an historic turn of events that combines unequal parts of extraordinary exhilaration, a small degree of melancholy and a dose of "I told you so" smugness. The occasion has WWP amigo Lin Thompson over at Waldo Lydecker's Journal reminiscing about how gay marriage came to pass, and he muses about how he and WWP completely missed the boat:
[In 2004] Mayor Newsom in San Francisco, and a claque of nitwits in Portland, Oregon who'd never read that state's constitution, started issuing marriage licenses. More of my friends got on the road and got hitched. A friend and I joked about how things had changed -- both of us were then single --- he by death, me by email -- but had been happily settled when marriage didn't exist. "When we could, we couldn't; now we can, we can't," we joked.
Read the whole thing here.
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