Salon.com > TOM GUALTIERI http://www.salon.com Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 DOMA isn’t dead yet http://www.salon.com/2013/06/30/doma_sort_of_died_but_my_political_pessimism_didnt_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/30/doma_sort_of_died_but_my_political_pessimism_didnt_partner/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13340209 The WeeklingsHEADLINES AND FACEBOOK statuses have been declaring “DOMA is dead!” and other such hyperbole since Wednesday’s two U.S. Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality. Naturally, the LGBT community was overjoyed at the news with a rally outside The Stonewall Inn bringing gays and politicos together. An historic moment in LGBT rights warrants some celebration, even if the decisions are less than what gays hoped and less than the Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia, the case most resembling the Prop 8 battle.

I went to the rally, camera in hand, expecting to see the joyous faces of those who had been so worried while the SCOTUS decisions were being awaited. What I saw and heard was not a photo op: men and women, cautiously joyful, wandering through occasional bursts of enthusiasm. There was introspection, wonder, maybe even shell-shock. I went to the rally with a need for solidarity, feeling relief more than anything but the mood at the New York “victory” rally was like the tenuous ripples of a child stepping into a still lake. The water feels good, but what lies beneath? Was it trepidation or the cynicism often attributed to New Yorkers? Realism or pessimism?

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