The section on the previous page about who's out and not is really sloppy and vindictive and does not belong in an encyclopedia. It really should be there only if the person has chosen to announce his/her sexuality, not to provide speculation on it. Look, all you straight people, let me tell you up front, since obviously no one else has: you mock us, harass us, fire us, beat us to death, and then act like we don't deserve any respect when self-preservation kicks in and we decide not to be out about it. Yet if we're out about it, you accuse us of trying to "convert" people, like we're on some kind of damn commission program, or as if we want anything different from you. And god forbid we push for equal rights, e.g., the right to be with the people we love in public without having to worry about some bigot coming along to beat the shit out of us and leave us to die on a post, or the right to insurance for our lifetime companions... So to all you naive well-meaning clueless people asking, "What do you people want?", here's what we, queer america, want:
- We want to be able to walk in public with our loved ones and not face harassment, just like straight people.
- We want to live our lives in peace, without being insulted or threatened every day of our lives, just like straight people.
That's it.
We're not after your children, or your pets, or your grandparents. Why is it such a big deal to you who's straight or not? Do you think queerness is contagious? Do you honestly think we could convince a straight person to be gay? Do you honestly think you'd still have David Duchovny if we could? Or, is that it--you're maybe afraid of your own occasional tendencies, and you couldn't stand it if you were to have an affair, because then you'd have to start believing all the vicious things you've said about other people about yourselves too. So you "choose" to believe that sexuality is a choice, and that you had the good sense to choose to be straight. Well do you really think any person at all would choose to put himself into a position where every day he had to prepare to leave the house because he's bound to be scorned, mocked, threatened, or beaten to death? Do you really think any person would choose to put him/herself in a position where he/she could not be with the person he/she loves, unashamed, without fear of being cut off from all "friends" and family?
So now you see we're offended and want to ask the classic naive & horrified--"Can't we all just be friends?" NO. Not until you take your goddam foot out of my back.
Interesting stuff, I guess. JamieTheFoool has a point in that it falls off at the end, though. (View other revisions if you care to see the last lines).
I removed the section this rant was originally about, but I don't think that makes the rant irrelevant. :-) --Koyaanis Qatsi
Typical BS from someone that probabally sees discrimination under every rock, every day, and everywhere. Just as bad as those that somehow manage to work religion or god into every comment, question, or utterance.
Cynical indifference is p-r-o-b-a-b-l-y best viewed as a convenience not everyone has.
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Famous gay lesbian or bisexual people/Talk:
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Perhaps a situation comparable to that in the famous dictum of Anatole France:
'The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets,
and to steal bread'."
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