Letter to the editor sent last night:

Hello! I'm 51, white, female, straight, married. All of my life I have believed in equality for all. I have voted in every election since I was 18. For myself, as a young, female phone company worker, I worked to change the idea that women could work in areas that conventional wisdom didn't believe a woman belonged/a woman could do. I am thrilled that Barack Obama is our 44th President (yeah, a President that believes in Science! woo HOO! ) At the same time I am disgusted that Prop 8 passed in California. I am infuriated that all GLBT people once again have had their Civil Rights denied. I think that it is immoral to deny people their human rights. So what can I do to be the change? Sincerely, Marge E.

Thanks for writing, Marge. You're clearly a first-rate human being. To answer your question, "What can I do to be the change?," I can offer a bunch of nebulous prescriptions for the months and perhaps years of fighting to come—Keep writing tremendously heartening letters like these! Talk to your friends and co-workers about the immorality of denying people basic rights! Keep on truckin'!—and one concrete instruction for tomorrow: Take part in the National Day of Protest Against Prop 8.

Full details on the Seattle protest here. (In short, rally at Volunteer Park at noon, then march down to Westlake Center for a 2pm rally there.)

Lovely pro-marriage equality image from Shepard Fairey (he of the iconic Obama) below. (Thanks, Towleroad.)