Reply #8: You are correct, there really isn't any other option other than to stay in the game... [View All]

I guess I just fell for the whole hope and optimism thing. I saw McClurkin and didn't bat an eye. I figured he was just trying to lure in the religious crowd. I saw the Warren thing, got a little uncomfortable, but wrote it off as an attempt to woo over centrist Republicans.

Then the discharges continued. Then the website was edited. Then the silence and Gibb's non-answers. Then the DOMA filing. Now the memo. And about that memo--the one that's supposed to remind me that this administration cares so very much about me and people like me, while doing absolutely nothing to help me or anyone I know...

My god, he had a press pool in the room. He could have said anything in the world about all of this. He could have denounced the language of the DOMA filing, he could have strongly advocated for us. I watched the video. They couldn't even bring any energy with them into the room. It was like they all wanted to be somewhere else.

I'm sick to my stomach. I fell for it all starting with the primaries all the way up through the inauguration. I'm smarter than this. I should have known better, and I should have known that nothing would change. Another life lesson, I guess.

I want to comment on our age differences and the much longer time that you've waited for change as compared to me. I really, sincerely hope my complaining about waiting in no way belittled your time waiting. And I want you to know, that even though I haven't talked with you before, I am grateful for all the work you've done and am sadenned by all the time you've been forced to wait. If it weren't for your activism, I wouldn't be able to walk out my front door and live in the open as who I am. Thank you for everything you've done.