Bookstore orgy

[owlmoose]

Actually, I feel I was rather restrained. My favorite used bookstore was having its semi-annual 25%-off sale, and I walked out with only $60 worth of books. And two of them were also for T (A Cook's Tour and The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain -- T read Kitchen Confidential and enjoyed it immensely, so picking those up was a no-brainer), and one was for the library. So really I could have done so much more damage to my pocketbook, and to my lack of bookshelf space.

One of the books I got for myself was We Do, a collection of photographs from the brief, shining moment during which same-sex marriages were legal in San Francisco. I've flipped through this book before, and I can't remember another collection of images that does such a good job of capturing pure joy. I still get chills when I remember that weekend, driving past City Hall and seeing the line that stretched around the block. That really happened. It was real; I saw it. And no state's passing any proposition can ever take that piece of history away.

Comments

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.

My old girlfriend and her wife had that book out in the living room during their wedding reception last year (Yay Massachussetts). It really is a marvellous collection of pictures-- gay, straight, whatever, it's just fun to see images of people who are so happy and content with one another, young, old, all walks of life. :)

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

My Aunt Lisa and her partner could have gotten married then, but chose not to... I remember that being all over the news :)

[xerne.livejournal.com]

Mmm, books.

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

I remember those images of joy. They were such a contrast to the sour faces of those who want to restrict freedom rather than expand it. It was impossible not to look at the Internet and newspaper photographs of those beaming faces outside City Hall and not sit there grinning like an idiot. I still get a glow in my chest, a feeling of rightness, when I remember. ;)