DavidMixner.com: Observations from Turkey Hollow on the LGBT Civil Rights Movement: Part Two: Learning from History.

I've become a fan of David Mixner's over the last several weeks as I've read more of his blog. He is currently in the middle of a series of articles that discuss the gay civil rights movement as a whole, comparing it to previous civil rights struggles, and talking about ways that gays can follow those strategies, and ways they can create their own strategies. A particularly powerful passage in Part 3 of the series resonates strongly for me, especially because Alex and I don't have decades to wait, at least not from within the US:

We can't line up our issues like planes over Chicago's O'Hare airport, calmly allowing the easy smaller planes to land first and then saving for last the bigger more complex jumbo jets. That strategy could take decades. Can any of you imagine the civil rights leaders cheering President Kennedy if he told them in 1962 at a White House reception to trust him and they would be happy in eight years? As a group, they would have walked out, appalled at the suggestion that their freedom had to be stretched out nearly a decade in some nice plan. They simply would have not tolerated it.

You can read the full article at David Mixner's blog.

-Andy