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-Rayne-Senior Contributor
Hey, I just wanted to start a thread here in case there are others struggling with all the media crap around this postal survey. Everywhere I go in the community people are finding it really hard so I thought people here must also be.
I am.
Maybe we can just make a space to take care of each other. I feel that we really need to do that right now. This atrocity is going to continue for months.
xo
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ethSenior Contributor
@MoonGal but no legal rights for the partner if someone in a same-sex or trans marriage dies 
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MoonGalSenior Contributor
A poem that came to me as I awoke this morning. Swinging into hypomania right now, so connective thought patterns and poetry rise to the fore. I am aware of the shift. I said yesterday several times.. "Am I hypo or happy?" and the thought came back "both, yet be wise in that, grab the silver dial and turn yourself down, maintain the spark do not let it become a conflagration. That is a very new thing for me to see that I am hypo (not just happy) and to apply tools and medications to turn myself down a bit while trying to also maintain the gladness and feelings of being right in my own skin.
My gold ring I give.
To encircle our loved life.
Marriage Equality.
My heart I gift.
To strengthen our bonds.
Marriage Equality.
I will hold your hand to the last.
Stroke your brow,
Marriage Equality.
When I speak your eulogy.
May they see, love, only... love.
And the grief the same as theirs.
Marriage Equality.
I wish for all my sisters
I wish for all my brothers
I wish for all my gender fluid kin
I wish all that love.
One another,
Marriage Equality.
LOVE. WILL. WIN.
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Vanessa5Senior Contributor
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ethSenior Contributor
Beautiful @MoonGal
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-Rayne-Senior Contributor
Today I noticed rainbows starting to appear. Shops have poster in their windows. One says "this small business is big enough to support marriage equality". There's another one too. And I saw two large institutions have replaced one of their usual flags with rainbow flags.
It felt good.
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-Rayne-Senior Contributor
Today I noticed rainbows starting to appear. Shops have posters in their windows. One says "this small business is big enough to support marriage equality". There's another one too. And I saw two large institutions have replaced one of their usual flags with rainbow flags.
It felt good.
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Vanessa5Senior Contributor
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Vanessa5Senior Contributor
You know i think what might happen is...the yes side might become complacent.
These surveys will just get left lying around on kitchen benches and coffee tables and not get sent back with a Yes vote in time. In this day and age where everything is electronic, it might just be too much of a hassle to physically mail a letter for very busy people.
This could mean that "yes" voters forget to have their say.
Some young voters have done everything electronically and might not even know where a post box is to even post a letter.
I hope this isn't the case.
It will be interesting to see how it turns out anyway. 
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-Rayne-Senior Contributor
I deleted facebook from my phone today. My TV is already broken so I'm now in a luxurious black hole. I want to be a good advocate and all of that but I really can't deal with it.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
hello fellow LBGTI+ members
can i please ask a question in regards to sexuality?
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