Like so many of us, Simon Doonan — the legendary creative director for Barneys New York and California-wed husband of design icon of Jonathan Adler — has taken to the streets in the wake of Proposition 8. And this time, it’s personal:

This is a new feeling for me. In the past, I’ve never quite managed to fully embrace an irate activist identity. At the ultra-feisty ACT UP demos in the 1980s, I always felt sad rather than mad, the deaths of so many of my pals producing despair rather than rage. Now that my civil rights are being dangled in front of me by a bunch of straight drears with bad shoes, I am starting to get cranky. Watch out. Beware the fury of a patient window dresser.