october is lgbt history month!
my mom always told me that she wished i was gay, because then she wouldn’t have to worry about me getting pregnant. i thought it was funny.
and i always hear my friends (myself included) saying “i just wish i was gay” when things are not going well for them and a person of the opposite sex.
but who would wish upon themselves a life of contempt, misunderstanding, prejudice, hate, and blatant government disapproval of marriage?
no one.
the national equality march in DC was two weeks ago, and i didn’t think twice about it. i felt as if the media has been inundated with messages about gay rights recently, and that may be true. with a new sitcom (modern family) that includes a gay couple raising an adopted child, the movie “milk,” perez hilton being all the rage, lindsay lohan dating samantha ronson…and so on…lgbt issues have been in the spotlight.
but today i saw a video that has been slowly going viral on the internet that made me remember: PEOPLE ARE STILL STRUGGLING. they still, right now, the minute you are reading this, are considered unequal in the eyes of the american government.
this video made me cry. this lovely, amazing old man is standing up for his son, while others (like these religious fanatics) are spending time spreading messages of hate. “The bible says Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”
and just this week, president obama appointed the first openly gay u.s. marshal. he also declared june the national lgbt month, in memory of the stonewall riots. he will not, however, approve of gay marriage.
i guess the idea of a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person being “different” is strange to me because i grew up in an apparently extremely liberal environment. babysat by two lesbian couples as a child, my sister and i didn’t think twice about an all female couple or an all male couple. i also live in lakewood, ohio…which has an extremely large gay population. you can’t walk down a street without seeing at least one rainbow flag adorned over a porch.
there is so much more i could write. not only do i personally know several gay men and women and happen to obsessed with drag culture, i happen to be anti all forms of racism, sexism and gender classification. i mean really…america just ratified the 15th amendment in 1870. that is not so long ago. apartheid is STILL going on in south africa, and jim crow laws were in place until the sixties. THAT IS ONLY 50 YEARS AGO we were legally discriminating against black people. you’d think americans would learn their lesson, and remember what philip said: people fought and died so this country could be free. free to love…free to be at peace. all men were created equal…right?
so if you don’t believe in gay marriage– don’t get one.
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