Marriage Equality for ALL

Today in the US, the Supreme Court heard arguments regarding California's Proposition 8 and potentially a legal means to open the door for same-sex marriage across the entire United States. And while I personally feel that the court may side-step the issue entirely based on the tone of their questions, I'm still hopeful that a chance at achieving true marriage equality remains there.

Meanwhile on Facebook, lots of people started to change their profile photos to the image above in line with a social media blitz launched by the Human Rights Campaign in support of marriage equality. Tobie and I followed suit some time in the night (or in the middle of the day with respect to US time) to show our support from across the ocean.

I have previously blogged about why I feel gay marriage is important on a number of occasions, and it only makes to repeat that message here on Baduy Pride. This is about our right to have our love for our partners to be recognized by society as a whole after all and to attain the legal protections that come with the title of marriage.

I'm most touched by my straight friends who also took part in the social media activity. It's one thing to have members of the LGBT community discussing the importance of gay rights on social media, but to have straight friends doing the same is always a good. As we constantly state, LGBT rights are human rights after all. It's not about gender but about being afforded equal protections as fellow human beings. I can only hope that more friends join in supporting our fight for greater legal protections and rights as time passes or perhaps even join in a pride march some time.

The fight for LGBT rights cannot be won by the pink community alone. We are a minority group after all. That means that the greater majority of people out there need to practice that aspect of democracy that helps us look out for the minorities and marginalized groups out there and ensure their rights are protected. That's how the system is supposed to work.

Marriage Equality for ALL!!!

Definitely am.

There's something wonderful about having a partner who ain't afraid to say you are together.
And even more when the word relationship is always used with the word committed.

I wonder when we'd ever be able to legally formalize our union.   Here's looking forward to every single day of our lives together, my love.

Talk about Cock-ups!

Sometimes, the craziest things happen thanks to a typo.

Just had to immortalize this moment of.. uh... cockiness?
I wonder if I should immortalize the whole list of comments that followed as well.
For now, I guess I can leave this link.
(Special thanks to Dante for the screen cap)

Personal Dedication

So in case you haven't noticed, I'm a bit of a geek. And so is Tobie, which is even cooler. And so it means we get involved in some pretty geeky things.

 Case in point - last September Lifehacker legends Adam Pash and Gina Trapani offered to digitally sign copies of their book for whoever sent in a request. This consisted of everyone sending in photos of themselves with the book or your ebook reader displaying the book and waiting for it to come back.

I've been a faithful Lifehacker reader (and believer) for many years now and so I definitely wanted participate. So I "picked up" the Kindle edition of Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better and this is what we got back:

Pretty cool, right? And yes, of course I wanted Tobie to share in the dedication note.

Totally, totally AWESOME!

Tobie and Rocky = Poster Boys?

I was totally caught by surprise when fellow blogger Elmer of Elmer Loves Oreo and a few other blogs wrote a feature related to Tobie and me.

Thankfully it was a good picture, hehe

Okay, so it wasn't just "related" - in fact it was a blog post about our relationship, much like the purpose of this blog, as part of a series of blog posts Elmer is writing about what he calls The Poster Boys of Gay Relationships.

It's extremely flattering and sweet that he did this at all and in a many ways quite the honor given we're being compared to the likes of Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka. And he didn't even tell us about this feature beforehand! Gah!

So one again, thank you very much for the support Elmer. This really means a lot to both of us, especially coming from a guy who has managed to make a long distance relationship work for more than two years!

For those readers of this blog, be sure to check out Elmer's other blogs such as Bading na Kolboy, Guys in White Underwear and of course Guys in Black Underwear