i was standing at the counter of kinko's tonight, waiting for the copy-guy to finish folding my newsletter (the one i mentioned where i'm the editor for the Gay Democratic group here in san francisco) and i suddenly had a flashback

it was 1990, i had just formed the new group on campus, the Gay & Lesbian Student Alliance (GLSA) at UMKC. i had gone to the university copy-shop and asked to have some copies made. the woman behind the counter looked at the flyer, looked at me, and then said she wouldn't make the copies because she was a 'christian.'


whoa.

she eventually made our copies, and from then on did so as well, because we complained and her bosses made her do her job. and that's all we wanted-- copies. pretty simple. copies. and yet i was initially denied copies because of whatever she seemed to think about me as a person.

flash back to today. i'm standing at the counter at kinko's in san francisco, an openly gay man in an openly gay town, and realizing how far i'd come and we'd come.
but then again, i live in san francisco because i don't have to think about this kind of crap as much anymore

but i definitely will remember