Taking the Struggle to Mississippi

A world away from the United Kingdom, which passed a same-sex marriage bill this week, two gay couples were refused marriage licenses in Jackson, Mississippi this week:



Which was only to be expected. But my God - making a protest for gay marriage in Jackson like this? You fellas from the big blue-state wonderland have no idea how fucking brave these couples are.

The We Do campaign is making such demonstrations all across the Magnolia State this month:

A Tale of Two Dads

From the Campaign for Southern Equality and Freedom to Marry:



My God, how times have changed in my own lifetime.  I well recall a day fifty years ago when these two guys would not have gotten out of the courthouse, for several reasons - they would have been jailed right then and there, if not shot.  So you see, it does get better.

Somewhere. Sometimes. For somebody.

We Do Campaign: Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville is a big town, but I'd advise you boys to step lively when passing through there, and not let the sun go down on you before you're way on down the road. That's why this quiet little demonstration sponsored by the Campaign for Southern Equality just takes my breath away for courage and gumption. Your Head Trucker remembers when doing something like this was near abouts worth your life down here in the Southland.

Notice how the snotty, self-righteous straight couple in line ahead of the gay gals does their best to humiliate them.

Queering the South for Equal Marriage

There's a movement now afoot to raise awareness and promote marriage equality all over the Southland by sending couples to apply for marriage licenses in places where there's just no possibility of getting them - yet. Take a look at these two boys applying to get hitched at the courthouse in Morristown, Tennesseee, population 29,000, way to hell and gone up in the Smoky Mountains. And have a kleenex handy.



My stars, fellas, I remember a time when it would have been worth your life, just about, to pull something like that in a small-town Southern courthouse. But wasn't the clerk lovely about it? Not everybody would be, even now, but the times they are a-changing even in the land of cotton. An overview of what's happening across Dixie:



Read more about the We Do campaign and find out how you can help at the Campaign for Southern Equality. Or check out more videos like these at their YouTube channel.

Meanwhile, Matt Baume of AFER updates us on marriage progress in the rest of the nation this week: