My Weekend Crush: Freed BG

Wow, and thank goodness. Yesterday, after nine long, hard months, Brittney Griner is free. The Biden administration made good on their promise and brought BG home. Yes, it took swapping a despicable arms dealer to make it happen. But, uh, what exactly do you think the NRA is if not an arms dealing organization with better PRR that has an entire political party beholden to them like lapdogs? So. I won’t get into the political machinations of what made this happen. (Also, Paul Whelan’s family praised it as “the right decision,” so stop with all the “They left a (very former) Marine!” stuff.) Russia was using her – a Black, openly queer, more masculine-presenting, married gay woman – as a political cudgel to extract what it wanted. Diplomacy is hard, and not magic.

Yesterday also saw the House pass the Respect for Marriage Act, following the Senate’s successful passage last month. President Biden may be signing it as we speak. It passed 258-169, meaning only 39 Republicans voted for marriage equality while a whopping 169 of them voted against queer people being allowed to marry. In this year 2022. Tell me again that there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans. Also you thing That Orange Stain would have freed Brittney? Please.

While old-school homophobia is back in a big ugly way, we don’t have to retreat into despair. Yesterday we had two unequivocal wins on the world stage. And if a win is a win, then two wins is two wins. I’ll take it. Happy weekend, all.