Gays can be proud.

Twenty years ago, Question 1 would not have made the ballot, and made it with 47 percent of the vote. It took women 144 years to get the vote and years of struggle to gain equality. It took the blacks over 180 years to be able to go into a restaurant with whites, or to get on a bus and not be told to move to the back.

Equality for all people will come in time.

Jackie Turgeon, Lewiston