"Are you the type who says you won't get married till your gay friends can get married, too?
No. I think the likelihood is that they'll get married before I do."
-Your new favorite state senator talks to the folks at New York.
Friday, December 4, 2009
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Hold it - she's single?
Seriously. With those bazooms?
I really, really like this person.
I rather want to give her a hug, which is not an impulse I have very often.
i want to invite her to my house and drink gin with her.
Oh and - I'm getting National Organization for Marriage ads on the left. Which is cool, wasted money is wasted money.
I'm getting an ad for an online nursing program, which is also wasted money, but somehow less satisfying.
I'm getting an ad for BJ's which seems just right for this site.
The Stefanie Miller show must book her now.
Oscar Wilde is looking down from heaven, beaming, hopeful for the future.
Times like these I wish I had an older sister, and that she was thus.
Honest question: Is no one a little uncomfortable by the fact that because one of the most effective proponents of marriage equality in NY is a single straight woman she is automatically assumed to be some kind of diva/gay icon (e.g., "Do you go out and drink margaritas and do karaoke with your gay friends?" "Do you sing show tunes together around the piano?" and some of the coverage elsewhere)? Maybe my feelings are just still too raw from this to start revelling in the camp yet.
You are not wrong.
I thought it was inappropriate.
Kind of Deborah Solomon, only with an extra dose of fabulous.
Those questions offended me as a gay, but she is still awesome.
4rd. Even if he does just really want to be besties with her, sit down and write her a love letter about how you want to run through the Village with her. Stay on topic for this moment!
I love her.
Also! Fun Diane Savino story (for those just being introduced to her): Few years ago, windbag Steve Harrison was running for the Congressional seat that overlays her district and tried to pass some bullshit answer along at some forum about how choice isn't a health care issue, and she had to be almost physically restrained by staff and other electeds. She. Is. Fantastic.
It sends shivers up and down me bony spine that she simply says exactly what's on her mind. And can complete sentences without coming off boorish or pedantic.
Politics can't handle that shit, which is why I'm so all for it.
Word. I can't believe she is actually in elected office. She's like the politician we all dreamed we would be in grade school, except that no one is ever like that by the time they actually get into office.
She's like Obama made people think he was! Omagah! Savino 2012!
BTW: In the meantime, please invite her to be a guest columnist on the Awl.
She reminds me of the babysitter (my parents could not leave me unattended at 13, I was a wild child) who used to buy me beer in exchange for me getting her stoned.
She also happened to be my mother's student-teacher at the time.
THAT is a great story. And explains so much.