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Hey everybody!
(audience cheers wildly)
It's beautiful out, isn't it?
(audience cheers)
Yeah! I'm so proud when I look around. It, like, makes me wanna cry. Ya know?
Um, I'm gonna keep it really short and sweet.
It's just, when I was uh, five years old and my dad came out of the closet,
um, we, I went to a lot of gay pride marches and I always just felt a lot of, a lot of the joy about being *** I guess.
And, and, being from Los Angeles, I (stutters) I feel really shocked
and horrified um, having grown up there that the state that I'm from would,
would vote the majority against, um, equal rights.
It's horrifying to me but I also know that
with this, um, energy that we (stutters) we've created with this grassroots election
that we won in the White House. And with all of this, I know we're going to make rapid changes.
So I'm seeing that, maybe no on Prop 8 will
I mean, yes on Prop 8, that it, that it passed will actually work in our favor
and we'll be able to have all the rights we deserve right away.
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And now that I know and I can imagine the possibility of having equal rights
whether or not, when I was younger I didn't even think that I would ever
wanna get married or think it was an option for me but now that I've imagined it
and I've seen friends of mine in Europe, and, and, also in, in California getting married
I, I realized like, I don't wanna live without that as at least a possibility
and, and we're not going to.
So, I'm so glad we're all out here and um, yeah, I'm really proud of us so, thanks.
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