Just in case the other news wasn't bad enough - Sonoma County officials...

[catherineldf]

separated an elderly gay couple, imprisoned one of them in a nursing home and sold all of their possessions while denying visitation. And this is in California, one of the more supposedly progressive states. Am wearily horrified at yet another example of why LGBTQ people actually need legal rights.

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/sonoma_county_ca_separates_elderly_gay_couple_and.php

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[haddayr.livejournal.com]

. . . and old people, and disabled people.

Horrifying.

This is why, even just for selfish reasons, we need to band together.