A reader writes:
In 1993, I went to the LGBT March on Washington, which, as it happened, was just after Colorado passed the first of its anti-gay laws. There were multiple contingents in the parade, as with any other pride event. I had a vantage point such that each contingent, with its banner, rounded a corner on the avenue. I will always remember seeing the Colorado contingent come into view, with its banner: COLORADO – GROUND ZERO.
"Ground zero" meant something else back then. But I wept. As I pulled into a restaurant parking space with my mother this afternoon, I heard Obama on the radio, and I wept again.
I carried water for Bush until I, like you, realized that I'd come up with a better strategy and rationale for the war in Iraq than he and his administration had. It's a sad commentary – as if my commentary means anything – on American politics that my immediate thought upon hearing this president, after my initial emotional reaction, was: if this is a strategy, if this is triangulation, if you don't mean this…
I couldn't even finish the thought.
I hate that I so distrust our leadership. If nothing comes of this … my god, I can't bear it.
(Photo: Two unidentified men kiss outside the White House gates during a gay pride march on April 25, 1993. Via Getty Images.)
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