Gay Rights

[verbicide]

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

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I would like to add my own comment that I chose to post this here, but don't believe that not posting it is some tacit admission of gay hatred. Since it's a meme, I don't know who started it, or who the 'we' is referring to. Or if/how statistics can be gathered on LiveJournal.

But as two of my closest friends are gay (as well as many of my good friends), I feel very politically motivated about gay rights. I like to think that I'd be this motivated even without that added incentive because watching a smug group-in-power gleefully hate-monger and spend all their energy on denying a group of people--any people--their human rights is something I find pretty fucking sickening.

As Jon Stewart so eloquently put it when he decimated Bill Bennett, it's a debate about whether you think gay people are part of the human condition, or just a random fetish.

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that statement. Honestly, that's how I feel about this meme - I can't repost it, no matter how much I agree with it, because I don't care for the tone of it. That's not a condemnation of anyone who *does* post it, just how I feel about it. Let anyone reading here know that I love gays and support gay rights.

Or, should I say, I deny the right of the cracker to hold the gay person down?

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear ya. Such a silly stance for the original writer to take!

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I would like to add my own comment that I chose to post this here, but don't believe that not posting it is some tacit admission of gay hatred.

Thank you. The strong-arm tactics of that meme pissed me right the hell off. While I support gay rights and human rights, I don't like being forced into stating someone else's opinions.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Totally with you on that.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

I do find the last line to be very chain-letter-esque, only with a nice touch of smarmy condemnation. If what I've done, said, and fought for until now isn't enough to prove I care about gay rights, I don't think an LJ meme is going to do the trick. Besides, I AM not straight; I think I get an automatic pass for that. :)

I wish that if we were to call homosexuality a random fetish, we were also allowed to label weird fundamentalist obsession with the sex lives of other people a fetish.... and ban it. See how much fun it is turned around on them. ("anyone who talks about man on dog or box turtle sex on the floor of the Senate will be summarily convicted of Crimes Against Sexuality." That'd be fun.)

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I'm not gay, but I've argued for gay rights on the floor of the Massachusetts senate chambers, so I should get a couple of points for that.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no kidding!! Good for you. (I'm impressed.)

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Well, it was part of the YMCA Youth in Government -- but I know the actual legislature was watching because apparently the actual speaker of the house sneaked in and removed my bill to enforce separation of church and state. It was a weird weekend.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I'd pay to see that, ya know. They really ought to see what the cost is of being inflicted with such narrow-minded-ness.

[trtle.livejournal.com]

I'd post it but I never update my journal so I'm keeping up that trend.

I remember talking to my students about children of gay parents and MOST of them were very open and positive...so it makes me hopeful for the future.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

That is awesome :)

[trtle.livejournal.com]

Yeah...they weren't always little trolls ;)

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you posted your comment. I probably won't repost this, but I do believe in gay rights. I agree with that first quote - I'd never seen it put that way before, and it's sort of sad but true.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I thought it was sort of a weird expansion of the complaint that violent movies eek by on PG-13 ratings, while sexual themes completely freak the MPAA (is that the right acronym, even?) out.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

But as two of my closest friends are gay (as well as many of my good friends) ...

And I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body, which is undoubtedly why you like me so much.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

And I think I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body, so maybe I just have the hots for you ;)