No matter how things pan out, we must remember that history is made and progress is happening.

Los Angeles County has had biggest voter turnout since 1976.

Barack Obama IS THE PRESIDENT ELECT!

There are now at least 3 more fair-minded Senators.
There are now at least 9 seats picked up in the House of Reps.

(From HRC.com)
Historians will point to this election as a turning point in the long struggle for civil rights. Eight years of White House hostility toward LGBT Americans are finally over.

Here's what we know right now:

We will finally have an LGBT-friendly White House: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

Proposition 8 vote in California is still too close to call.

At this time, we helped elect new fair-minded allies in the Senate and in the House - including HRC endorsees Betsy Markey, Kay Hagan and cousins Tom and Mark Udall.

We can now pass critical LGBT equality measures like the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act and begin unraveling the damage of the last eight years.
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Progress.

It's real now. A few years ago, about 70% of voters opposed gay marriage. Now, it's at about half. Whether prop 8 lives or dies, it's progress. In the next election, a new generation of voters will emerge and help decide the fate of the state and country.

In my lifetime, I would like to see the LGBT community and allies rise up and defeat this hate and ignorance. I would like to one day be married and be in weddings...maybe not in a church, but a CIVIL/LAWFUL marriage. I hope that the future is better informed of people's rights. No, civil unions are not the same. No marriage is not taught in schools. It's SEX EDUCATION. I hope one day "Domestic Partnership" is a term of the past and is replaced by "marriage equality."

I didn't choose love. I found it...and if prop 8 passes, then love was chosen for me. Love is not only between a man and woman. It is between two hearts that cannot deny its passion. It is between two people who willingly give themselves to each other.

There is no stronger people I know than gay people. Not only do we live everyday, but we live in an oppressed world that heterosexual people will never see. As Margaret Cho once said:

"If you laugh your ass off to Will and Grace but are against same sex marriage, f*ck you. You can't take the benefits of our culture and leave behind the burden of inequaltiy. That's like when white people stole rock and roll from black people in the 50's."

Change is in the air...and I hope that one day that you change for the better of not only the LGBT community, but for all people.