The day after

I'm not going to say all the things you think I'm going to say.

You know, about how last night was amazing because Obama won and babies laughed and puppies were saved from euthanasia and Jesus was happy and all that.

Instead, can I just say that those mofos at Affirmations can P-A-R-T-Y!!?!

For those of you who are unedumacated, Affirmations is an LGBTQAIandwhateverelseyouare community center located in ferocious Ferndale. It's not really so ferocious, but I needed some alliteration just then. In any case, Affirmations is usually the site of such things as meetings, art showings, and generally people hanging out, sitting on their laptops, hanging out with friends and such (there's probably one who's reading my blog from there right now...).

Last night? It was freakin' crazy! First, they had BOUNCERS. OK, OK so it was more like two people at the door, checking IDs, taking cover charges and putting on wristbands. But seriously - this was not a nightclub. This was Affirmations!

So people start filing in and taking seats...and busting out booze. Let me just say, I have had a few with some members of the LGBT community before, but this was an eensy bit different. We're talking people I usually interview for articles about oh, I don't know, kids' summer activities, bustin' out bottles and drinking from Styrofoam cups.

As if that wasn't enough to make me chuckle, when Obama was announced, they all went dancing in the streets. Literally. I was afraid some guy was going to get hit by a car. So there's Maureen Jones and Laura Sorensen of Affirmations, boogieing with Rachel Crandall of TransGender Michigan. In the street. Probably all slightly intoxicated, both from the recent good news and the drinks they were downing.

It was a memorable night. Though I whined a little bit about not being able to share it with my mom or my boyfriend Dan (who was, by the way, at the Detroit Free Press until 3 a.m. tallying poll results. Poor guy.), I had a pretty damn good time.

Even though I was sober.





Oh yeah, and yay to: Obama, Hathaway, Peters and Schauer and boo to: California, Arizona and Florida's same-sex marriage bans (or about to be bans in Cali), plus Arkansas' ban on same-sex adoption and those some-3,000 jerks in Hamtramck who voted against the anti-transgender ordinance. I hope you have trouble sleeping tonight.