Thankfully, we'll always have memes - specifically these gay rights memes that make everything a little better (or at least keep you laughing long enough to ignore that bigoted Facebook rant that your friend's mom just posted). But the tide of equally aggressive anti-gay sentiment that came with it has been less enjoyable, and recently, a bevy of state employees have even taken it upon themselves to make things even more frustrating by denying same-sex couples their legal rights under federal law. Hodges ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage, things have finally started looking up. With the Supreme Court's June 26 Obergefell v. With rapid roller coaster shifts in public policy and correlating social responses, gay rights advocates in particular have run the gamut from victorious to downtrodden and back again, albeit slightly annoyed. It's been a big year for the LGBTQ community.
