For decades, the GLBTQ rights movement has advanced a very simple idea. If you know someone who is gay you’re far less likely to be intolerant. Operates on the basic principle that it’s easy to discriminate against “the other” but it’s a lot harder to embrace hate when it’s your friend, your sister, your mom.

This woman, this lovely woman, is the embodiment of that. She won’t stomach hate because it would hurt people she loves. Just watch, it will make you hopeful, I assure you.

Oh, and when Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann try to lay claim to older female voters, remember this fine, free-thinking woman.