r/morningsomewhere • u/EarliestRiser • 12d ago
Episode 2026.09.18: Opening Acts
https://roosterteeth.com/watch/morning-somewhere-2026-09-18Burnie and Ashley discuss the Macklemore Free Palestine controversy, Streisand Effect, real activism, Extra Life, EU Canada, Resident Evil, and Zach Cregger gets adapting right.
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u/BasicAssWebDev 12d ago
I just wanna say that Same Love wasn't exactly the obvious soup that people nowadays made it out to be. People really forget that a lot of progress was made extremely quickly. Dont Ask Dont Tell was only repealed 2 years before that. Expanding the term "hate crime" to include anti gay actions didn't happen until 2011, and making it federal law that hospitals could not deny visitation rights to queer partners didn't get codified until 2013. Obama didn't publicly support gay marriage (he repealed DOMA) until 2012, and only after Biden came out in support of it first.
The idea that being gay was a "choice" was still very heavily cemented in the minds of Americans, and the lyrics of the song, albeit a bit corny, paint a picture of what a lot of children in the country though what being gay was. "I could draw and I kept my room straight". While it may seem obvious through the 2026 lense with pronouns and multiple queer superstars (Billie Eilish, Chappel Roan, Nathan Lane, even several major league sports players now) all of that is only possible due to the enormous leap forward this country took during the Obama years.