watermelon – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:14:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 June 26 https://orangette.net/2015/06/june-26/ https://orangette.net/2015/06/june-26/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:47:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/june-26 I am feeling profoundly (or, as my fingers tried to put it, “feely profounding”) inarticulate today in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. I keep thinking of my uncle Jerry, the first gay person I ever knew, whose death to AIDS in 1988 spurred me to activism as a young kid with moussed bangs and a Silence=Death sweatshirt, and in whose memory June carries one of her middle names. I wonder what he would say today. I’m grateful, relieved, elated, and beyond, that June will grow up in a world that’s very different from what I knew in 1980s Oklahoma. It also feels like a fitting time to reread John Birdsall’s whip-smart Lucky Peach piece, “America, Your Food…

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