I keep reblogging this, but it was a small thing that shattered me.
Marriage is such a stupid, squicky issue for us to pin our hopes on, and my optimism — as foolish as Blaine’s — that the legality of same-sex partners marrying will somehow make people like us seem human in the eyes of bigots is, frankly, just ridiculous. Look at the rates of the disapproval for interracial marriage. They’re still fucked up today, and they were infinitely more appalling in my childhood. The marriage thing will give us some legal protections, but it won’t solve the hate.
But something will be different when marriage equality is the law in all 50 states. The optimism, while foolish, will exist.
There’s a reason I wrote Kurt and Blaine (okay, that was mainly Kurt) saying Blaine wasn’t allowed to propose until there were equal marriage rights nationally. So seeing it voiced in the show tickled the fuck out of me.
It was also, I note, voiced, not for straight people (i.e., “gay marriage”) but from and to politically-minded queer people — we call it equal marriage. We don’t want something special. We want what you have.
This small stupid thing made me choke up. In part because Blaine, who we know has had some dark times, has pinned his desire for the future on something fragile, that may be a long time coming, and voices it not in terms of his own desires and relationship, but in terms of the world he wants to live in.
He was one fantastic, foolish, fabulous 16/17-year-old kid to me in this moment.
me, too, blaine…me, too ♥
(via nrodovsky)
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