What do you know, now even dollar bills have a sexual orientation. But if you feel threatened to loose your civil rights I guess you’d want to make a statement with every power you hold, even the monatary. Unfortunatelly, there are two ways to demonstrate your spending capacity, either you withhold your money or you spend it only on products that support your cause. In order to make a powerful statement though the gay community would have to agree on one of the above mentioned options first.

In the case of the “Day without a gay” they didn’t, which caused a very ambivalent effect during the protest on Wednesday in San Francisco. The organizers had intended to emphasize the importance of gay people in the community by boycotting shopping and their work place. Unfortunatelly, even gay people have businesses and are dependent on their income. Therefore criticism also came from their own ranks complaining about the loss of income the campaign has caused.

Nevertheless, it is good to see that the gay rights movements still finds its voice and can express its desire to be treated equivalent to heterosexuals. Although gay and lesbian people are inlcuded in ways never imagined decades ago there is still a long way to go to achieve the same legal rights regardless of their sexual orientation. For a country claiming to prohibit their congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion there are quite a lot of religious ambitions involved in banning same-sex marriages.